How can we improve our schools so our children will be able to compete in a world marketplace?

Job one....two to three languages need to be taught.

In school, after care needs to be provided.

Year long school needs to be implemented.

Computer classes must be taught in first grade and every grade thereafter.

Everyone needs home economics and everyone needs shop.

Teach budgeting and appropriations.

Instill a "hands on" approach to politics.

More math, more history, more economics, more science.

Okay...that is enough to start....smiling

More and more residential schools, like the good old 'gurukul' system, is part of the answer! Also, schools should impart versatile education, all round, to make smart and capable citizens of global level, with sense of responsibility, vision and a lot of confidence and hope! Right now, currently, young parents have too much on their plates, as the values and compulsions are changing very fast, making it difficult for them to settle down well and take all round care of the younger generation! Schools do have to help out in a big way!

To improve our schools so our children will be able to compete in a world marketplace, the following is a must:

1. complete learning facilities including a library that has an internet services along with it plus a competent librarian.

2. competent instructors with corresponding competitive pay or compensation package.

3. competent school administrator who knows how to conduct continuous improvement on the curriculum content and on course delivery processes.

4. a school management that understands its mission or its purpose of being.

5. parents who are like you who pays full attention to their growing up children.

How about "Paying educated people well in the workplace"

Exactly why would I get an engineering degree to to compete with an Indian making $6 an hour or an immigrant making far less? American policymakers don't get it. We're not stupid in the USA, but we work for money. Right now, if I had a child who wanted to make money, I'd tell them to go into law or business.

FYI, I'm not bashing foreigners. It's our costs and salary structure that are out of whack. The US govt. dreads a dollar devaluation. In the short term, it would be difficult. In the long run, it may save the country.

I think the simplest thing to do would be to require a class dealing with the real world. Like how to do your taxes, set up a budget, write a resume and things like that. When we have competent young people in the world, they will know how to deal with situations and make it better for the next generation.

Make the parents responsible. Stop blaming the schools.