Introduction

American people have seem to always have an optimistic view of the United States’ superiority to all other nations but according to most studies within the last 5 years, the US has gone down in ranking worldwide significantly. The question is whether or not citizens are aware and chose to ignore it, or are perhaps misinformed?

People who are uneducated about current rankings of world countries creates a domino effect which begins a cycle of negligence leading to less desire to change how things in America work now. Acknowledgement of areas where the United States needs improvement, like education and other economic factors, is the first step to begin the climb back to the top of the world rankings.

Some of America’s most sought-after qualities are actually where we lack severely like education and freedom. Most Americans feel extremely confident in the education system even though it has barely changed in the last 50 years. But when you think of the change that has occurred in the past 50 years in other areas like car development, cell phone development, and city development, everything but education has transformed entirely.

The United States was ranked 47th out of 198 countries in best educational system which is partly due the the failure of the transfer and application of newer research into schools. What this means is newer research is not being integrated into schools nearly as fast as research is being published. When you look around in a current high school, you will see most of the textbooks being used to teach things were published anywhere from 2000-2010. That leaves a minimum of almost 7 years of hard work not being taught to society because of the failure to update things.