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>>I recall seeing the stats somewhere that American students have significantly more vacation time and therefore less school days than their counterparts in Eur
by zackattack 17y ago
>>I recall seeing the stats somewhere that American students have significantly more vacation time and therefore less school days than their counterparts in Europe and Asia.
Yeah, but I think that the European counterparts are getting a significantly better education. The reason I say this is because we have a lot of emphasis on rounding out students with solid liberal arts foundations in our American undergraduate programs, whereas Europeans are able to skip straight to specialization - probably a result of a more formidable intellectual foundation.
- barry-cotter 17y agoNot really. European universities, many of them aren't that hard to get into, but the dropout rate rate is brutal. Streaming is a lot more institutionalised and certified, something the US could stand to emulate. That's a huge part of the difference right there. The top 60% are well served everywhere but the insistence in the US that everyone is potentially college material e.g. in CA the graduation standards are set on the basis of the admission standards for the UC system, set up for the top eighth of the secondary school graduates.