George Leef's Analysis

Although our nation's education system seems to be excelling, it’s actually at risk of being overthrown by other nations that are performing at a level that the United States cannot seem to match. According to former president Ronald Reagan, “23 million American adults were functionally illiterate; the average achievement for high school students on standardized tests was lower than before the launch of Sputnik in 1957; and only one-fifth of 17-year old students had the ability to write a persuasive essay”(neatoday.org). Basically, Reagan is saying that the education system in America is struggling. As the most advanced nation across the globe, you would assume we would be leading education system. Our nation contains all of the resources that a country could need to provide an excellent education system.

One of the key reasons why that’s so is that many of their teachers are not very good themselves”(forbes.com). Leef’s point is that it’s not always the students fault when they receive a poor grade in a class, which supports my view because I can remember countless teachers that I simply can’t understand. There are multiple factors that go into a student's grade, but people seem to only see one side of the story. The education system in America is at a dangerous place at the moment. If this trend continues, the American education system is going to go crash and be taken over by other