I doubt the problem with American education is the funding or the fact that we bomb international test scores compared to other nations. For example, it's not a

I doubt the problem with American education is the funding or the fact that we bomb international test scores compared to other nations. For example, it's not a good idea to copy South Korea because of their sheer emphasis on acing tests and pure rote memorization rather than seriously understanding concepts. Meanwhile, what we do know is that the American system of education is medicore and in some way, self-sabotaging. For example, the time we go to school and the sleeping cycle of students conflict, which reduce our ability to understand and retain knowledge. Summer vacation destroy much of the continuity in our knowledge, which must be rebuilt at the beginning of the school years. We don't use spaced repetition to study and retain knowledge.