Assignment task: Conduct a comparison of education. Choose one country and research its public education and compare it to that of the United States. Address some of the following: • Comparing age of testing for levels of achievement • Ages for publicly mandated education • Curriculum • Average class size • Education and certification of teachers • How schools are funded • Drop-out rates What does this comparison tell you in terms of the information in the text about American schools? What does this tell you about the prevailing stereotypes of American schools?