Explain what you believe is wrong with the U.S. education system. It seems okay to me. 78.2% of the U.S. population has a bachelor’s degree or higher. If education has anything to do with great wealth, the U.S. has 902 billionaires. Which is more than any other country in the world. This number includes Elon Musk who earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and was admitted to a graduate program at Stanford University, which he did not complete.
Where did you get this stat? It's spectacularly wrong. The great majority of the U.S. population does not have a bachelor's degree or higher. From the U.S. Census Bureau:
In 2021, the highest level of education of the population age 25 and older in the United States was distributed as follows:
8.9% had less than a high school diploma or equivalent.
27.9% had high school graduate as their highest level of school completed.
14.9% had completed some college but not a degree.
10.5% had an associate degree as their highest level of school completed.
23.5% had a bachelor’s degree as their highest degree.
14.4% had completed an advanced degree such as a master’s degree, professional degree or doctoral degree.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/educational-attainment.htmlAnd large sections of the education system are broken. There are numerous school districts where the majority of kids are not proficient in reading. It's a crisis.
