f American schools - comparing test scores, based on age and grade- with that of other countries as well as with other states or even other school districts within the same state. President Bush is making an effort to pass legislation making school vouchers available nation-wide, which would give poorer families an opportunity to upgrade their children's education, even by moving them to better public, private, even parochial schools. Nevertheless, our education system has more rattles and squeaks than there is ôoilö to fix them.
Weaknesses include too large class size, which makes it difficult for teachers to provide individual help for struggling students who, not getting the attention, tend to fall farther and farther behind. There is a varying degree of competence by teachers. Often, because of salary problems, ôgoodö teachers move on to other jobs, or higher-paying high schools or even college-level teaching assignments.
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