Is the United States handling it's education the best way? America can create a better system of learning by treating students as individuals, by assuring that schools are created and funded equally by the government, and focusing conditions around what produces the most optimal learning. The sad fact is that the U. S. educational system does not rank in the world's top ten.

Educational norms in the United States require students to learn the material in the same format and at the same pace. A student’s best individual learning style, such as auditory or visual, is not addressed by most teachers because they do not go into a lesson with more than one strategy for teaching the material. “If one method fails, teachers consult with colleagues to try something else. They seem to relish the challenges. Nearly 30 percent of Finland’s children receive some kind of special help during their first nine years of school.” This quote, from a Smithsonian article, on the #1 ranked Finnish school system highlights one of the root causes for America’s educational failures. Students should be treated as individuals but schools should not. …show more content…
Schools are provided additional funding if they have a higher proportion of immigrants or students whose parents are uneducated or unemployed.” The Finnish government sets national educational guidelines which allow teachers to use their best judgment in the classroom for the students. Another important fact about the Finnish school system is that it only employs teachers with a Master’s degree who graduated in the top ten percent of their class. The combination of these two ideas has created an equality in education throughout Finland. Finland’s desire to create the best educational system in the world has pushed them to study and evaluate every aspect of the educational