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Yes. We have one of the top education systems in the world.
Of 36 industrialized nations examined, the US ranks 18th in secondary education. Only 75% of our children actually attain a high school diploma. Ask yourself, what can you do in this country to provide shelter and food for yourself without AT LEAST a completed high school education…. Ranked number 1? South Korea, 93% graduation rate for HS. Our education system is wrecked across this country, and it's not just urban areas like NYC or San Francisco…. it's rural area's in the mid-west and sub-urban areas also. The statistics are almost universal for our country.
The question was vs China's education system. Oh, and FYI – I can run a rankings poll anywhere in the world on anything and come up with whatever results I want. It all depends on how I set my rankings criteria.
In order to answer that question, one needs to look at what it is that each country wishes to accomplish with its educational system. We are being asked to compare nuts & bolts to apples and oranges, in a manner of speaking. Communist China has an education system that is geared toward complete subservience to the Communist party, whereas in the U.S. our education system is geared toward the individuals own personal goals. There can be no comparison between the two countries educational systems due to the vast differences in political systems and national culture.
Regardless of you attempting to toss off any statistic you don't like… the point still remains. Our education level is far below China's capability.
Political and cultural differences aside. Their children are far superior in mathematics and sciences.
If you're comparing the sample size to "the world", I suppose… but the sample size is better something like "OECD country".
In which case, we usually are left in the dust.
China's not terribly higher, but this is because it has a large rural population still.
Which we do not.