US Education system

Today I attended my daughter's Odyssey Of Mind final presentation. I was amazed by the effort put in by kids and Teachers !!! I grew up in different country with different set of rules and got a good education. Last year I have seen my daughter learn so much from her amazing teachers at school. Many have written about the broken education system in America

1. Parents are not involved enough.
2. Schools are closing left and right.
3. Our schools are overcrowded.
4. Technology comes with its downsides
5. There is a lack of diversity in gifted education.
6. School spending is stagnant, even in our improving economy
7. There is a lack of teacher education innovation.
8. 80 percent of students are graduating high school...yet less than half of these students are ready for what's next.
9. Some students are lost to the school-to-prison pipeline
10. There is a nationwide college-gender gap, and surprisingly, we are not focusing on it.
    more details
    http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_futures/2015/08/10_reasons_the_us_education_system_is_failing.html

Among all these, the number 1 factor is well #1,"Parents not getting involved"
There is so many good teachers, so much resources available in the internet and you could learn.All that is needed is willingness and encouragement!!!!
Following are excellent programs, check out
1 https://www.khanacademy.org/ (The guy should be given Nobel Prize!!)
2 Coursera.org
3 Open Culture Online Courses
4 Udemy
5 Academic Earth
6 edX
7 Stanford Online
8 Hardward Extention
9 Open Yale Courses
10 UC Berkley Class Central
11 MIT Open Courseware

Teachers are central to building the next generation,They should be rewarded more by the society!!!! I think decentralized block chain may have a role to play in education, creating great content for the community as well as rewarding the authors and teachers
and I end the post with link to
https://www.odysseyofthemind.com/p/ ,its an awesome program

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