Frank Darko
English 21003
Professor Matyakubova
9/10/19
Journal 2
The United States
of America is recognized as one of the greatest countries in our world. This
reputation has been sustained for the past decade because of the success in industrialization,
technology and medicine. However, united lags behind other countries when it
comes to education. In the 2015 PISA assessment, “United States was ranked 19th
in science, 31st in Mathematics and 20th in reading out
of thirty-five participating countries. When the assessment is compared to
previous assessment done in previous years, there is no improvement. It seems
that students produced in the United States have reached a plateau. For
example, science results in PISA assessment for united states had an average of
489 in 2006 and 496 in 2015. That is a nine-year period and the improvement can
be neglected. This shows that as technology has advanced drastically, it seems students
in the united states have not caught up with other student from foreign
countries.
Carl Sagan states
that “science is a way of thinking" which implies science is not
information given to students, but the process of making sense of that
important. This is what students in United States are lacking. It seems student
are given information without actually process the authenticity of the
information. Carl Sagan states that the best way to do science is to
skeptically interrogate those who claim something is the truth. The data stated
by PISA shows that just listening and having the technology does necessarily
improve science rather skeptically interrogating, analyzing and evaluating the
information is what improve science.
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