Research Proposal

Dear Professor Keaton,

            My research proposal is to explain the differences between the United States educational system and other leading education systems around the world. I would like to research the top countries and then pick the top 3 to put against the United States showing the similarities and differences. I have found that Finland, South Korea and Hong Kong are among the top in the world according to the Huffington Post. I would like to focus on the United States throughout the paper, explaining how we could possibly incorporate some of the ideas other countries have, that have been obviously successful, to restructure the United States back to the power it once was.   

            

          Last year in high school I took English 404. In this class our final project consisted of an annotated bibliography, so I have a little experience with the concept of writing one. Last year in high school I also took AP Comparative Government and AP Human Geography. Both of these classes I found very interesting and I feel like I can use the knowledge I gained from them in my annotated bibliography. Every government usually controls the way an education system runs so I plan to look into that. In AP Human Geography we learned the fundamentals of how people lived learned and carried out every day life in different places all across the world. We also learned about globalization and how the world is more connected then ever before and I hope to find some similarities through that.

           

        I plan to begin the paper by researching the US system. It will be the easiest since I have already been through it for the most part. I can use many of the selections we have reviewed in class because they relate directly to the proposal I have chosen. Then I will go through Hong Kong (ranked number 3), South Korea (ranked number 2) and then ending with Finland (ranked number 1). I plan to wrap everything up by using the first ranked last and explaining what the United States could do to restructure to make us more then just “average”.

                                                                                                            Sincerely,

Joseph Spinetto