Math and Science Education Comparisons Between the United States and the Rest of the World

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaufui V. Wong ◽  
Baochan D. Do ◽  
William Hagen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Math And Science ◽  
Science Scores ◽  
And Mathematics

At the end of secondary education, the students of the United States are behind most advanced countries in science and mathematics. The main problem lies in the fact that the United States education system does not have a clear focus in their teaching of math and science through primary and secondary schools. According to the United States Department of Education, only 22 of the 50 states in the U.S. require that three years of math and science be taught in order to graduate from high school. This puts students of the United States at a disadvantage against the rest of the competitors on the global marketplace. This lack of uniformity in the United States is the reason that high school graduates are behind other developed countries in their math and science scores and subsequently less Americans are graduating from universities in the sciences. These facts could contribute detrimentally to the economic progress in the United States. To remedy this lack of American scientists and engineers, the United States needs to have a comprehensive system to encourage the study of math and science from primary school all the way to implementation in the economic marketplace.

Multilevel Approach to Exploring Predictors of College Readiness in Reading and Mathematics

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 364-378
Author(s):  
Bidya Raj Subedi ◽  
Clement Russell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
College Readiness ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Level ◽  
Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Reading And Mathematics

For high school graduates and non-graduates, this paper explored significant student and school level predictors of college readiness in reading and mathematics for 9,952 students from 52 schools in one of the largest school districts in the United States. This study employed a two-level Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model (HGLM) that included student level (level-1) and school level (level-2) predictors in order to predict three categories of college readiness formed in combination with high school graduates and non-graduates. The results presented the list of significant predictors and across-school variances for predicting college readiness in reading and mathematics. The results found several academic, behavioral, and demographic predictors at student and school levels producing significant effects on college readiness in reading and mathematics. The across-school variance components for predicting the probabilities of mastery in college readiness both in reading and mathematics are found significant.

Correlates of Baptist Church Membership in the States with Social Problems

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 474-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Baptist Church

In the United States, the states having higher percentages of residents with Baptist Church affiliations tended to have higher homicide, divorce, and illegitimacy rates and lower percentages of high school graduates and voter participation.

Hidden Success: Learning From the Counternarratives of High School Graduates Impacted by Student Homelessness

2019 ◽  
pp. 004208591987792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earl J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caring Teachers ◽  
Significant Barrier

The number of youth experiencing homelessness in the United States has nearly doubled over the past decade from 688,000 in 2006 to over 1.3 million as of 2017. While graduating high school is a significant barrier for many students experiencing homelessness, many youth are able to successfully graduate despite their unstable living conditions. This qualitative study used the antideficit achievement framework to analyze the counternarratives of eight youth who successfully graduated high school while experiencing homelessness. Findings showed that strong peer relationships, the support from caring teachers, and attending church served as impactful influences that helped youth experiencing homelessness graduate high school.

The Washington Consensus, liberal ideas and terms of the military-technological policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 2103-2123
Author(s):  
V.L. Gladyshevskii ◽  
E.V. Gorgola ◽  
D.V. Khudyakov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
The Military

Subject. In the twentieth century, the most developed countries formed a permanent military economy represented by military-industrial complexes, which began to perform almost a system-forming role in national economies, acting as the basis for ensuring national security, and being an independent military and political force. The United States is pursuing a pronounced militaristic policy, has almost begun to unleash a new "cold war" against Russia and to unwind the arms race, on the one hand, trying to exhaust the enemy's economy, on the other hand, to reindustrialize its own economy, relying on the military-industrial complex. Objectives. We examine the evolution, main features and operational distinctions of the military-industrial complex of the United States and that of the Russian Federation, revealing sources of their military-technological and military-economic advancement in comparison with other countries. Methods. The study uses military-economic analysis, scientific and methodological apparatus of modern institutionalism. Results. Regulating the national economy and constant monitoring of budget financing contribute to the rise of military production, especially in the context of austerity and crisis phenomena, which, in particular, justifies the irrelevance of institutionalists' conclusions about increasing transaction costs and intensifying centralization in the industrial production management with respect to to the military-industrial complex. Conclusions. Proving to be much more efficient, the domestic military-industrial complex, without having such access to finance as the U.S. military monopolies, should certainly evolve and progress, strengthening the coordination, manageability, planning, maximum cost reduction, increasing labor productivity, and implementing an internal quality system with the active involvement of the State and its resources.

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