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I think one of the problems with the educational system in america, is that there is no national curriculum. Here in the UK, even home-schooled kids are taught exactly the same thing as every other kid in the country (with the odd exception here or there, and perhaps slightly different learning materials - the usal slight differences between counties and schools).
From what I know of the American educational system, there is no such thing. Home-schoolers in the US can pretty much teach their kids whatever they want, and each state has a different curriculum anyway.
It seems to me that if they had a national curriculum, with every child being taught the same thing, from English to Science to Art, with home-schoolers being checked up on occasionally and then every single child having to take the same exam, and it being compulsory - I feel a lot of the educational problems would be nipped in the bud.
Of course, with such a LARGE country, with so many states, it would be an awful lot of work to set this up. So I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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Charles Darwin.
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