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Meh.. a bit clickbaity article. First of all, obviously 3 year old kids in here don't read newspapers and while the curriculum on paper is pretty decent our education severely lacks funding and as there's less and less children around it's not going to get any easier. Also there's been a ton of changes on curriculum, one might say just for the sake of it since someone wanted to show that they've achieved something, but effects of those changes aren't too clear and they've been too frequent.
Comparing on how my school was and how it is now with my kids I'd say it's gone downhill. Specially maths and reading skills have gone down from the 1990s. Answer to why is not simple, and obviously there's some improvements too, but in general I'd say my kids are less prepared for the world after their school career than I was.
But yeah, media literacy is an important skill regardless of the source of any given media and it's neat our schools teach that. And obviousy it's not just because of Russia.
The USA ranked fifth in the world for educational spending in 2019, while Finland spent $12,000.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country
But this doesn’t tell the whole story. The USA spending varies dramatically between states. There’s an obvious teaching-to-the-measure, and edddctively racial segregation even outside the South. Also, there’s a preoccupation with funding sport extracurriculars, instead of teachers and educational programs. When the institutions devalue the work of the educators, it drives the good teachers away from the profession, so kids aren’t taught with passion.
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