American's kids average intructional hours in school per day is about 6.4 hours, Hongkees ,Singaporeans and Taiwanese are 5.3 hours. But the test scores are far out of expectation that, asian achieve higher scores than american's kids.
From the statistics above, Singaporean can actually achieve 580 to 600 points; while american kids only 530 to 550 point. (Six million middle and high school students are reading at levels significantly below their grade level. Half of all teenagers can't understand basic fractions; half of all nine year olds can't perform basic multiplication or division.) From
http://obamaspeeches.com/033-Teaching-Our-Kids-in-a-21st-Century-Economy-Obama-Speech.htm In US, they have higher standars of living life, $33,000 is the annual salary for high school graduate. American no more live in the world that finding a factory job that could only pay the bills and support the family while a lot of Malaysians still have to work in factory with little money. Somemore, $25,000 annual salary is consider at the poverty line, sadly a lot of degree studetns just above the line of poverty :RM25,000.
Globalisation made us facing of lossing job to foreigners those could accept lower salary. My friend's company (network system company) which hires 80 percent of Bangladesh degree holder. So, could you imagine that when many more foreigners actually graduate from University and looking job in Malaysia, how you going to survive tomorrow???
