Will America keep up?

Two Million Minutes presents three very distinct cultures and compares and contrasts the education systems that have been developed within those cultures. While I do believe the film was somewhat biased against America, it presents its argument well. This argument is that American children are losing ground more and more to the Chinese and Indians in the areas where jobs will grow the most, the science, technology, and engineering sectors because of a flawed education system. I agree with the creator of the documentary in the idea that America needs to reform the system, or else we will lose skilled jobs to almost all the foreign workers who are studying much harder than Americans.
The film does address the flaws of the American system and the effects it is having on students very well. For example, only 40% of students in America finish a science course more advanced than general biology, and math requirements are being relaxed more and more. In previous times, this may not have had that large of an effect. However, the global economy will see the greatest growth in the science, technology, and engineering sectors, and the skills of Americans in these important sectors are much weaker than the skills of Chinese or Indian students in these sectors. If America wants to keep power that we have had for so many years, we will have to reform, or we will be left in the dust.
However, it does not really address the needs of how to reform, which in a documentary like this is very important, because the documentary presents many radical ideas that most parents and students in the United States would be upset by. This really hurts the argument the creator is trying to make as well. Credibility is lost when you can't provide even some ideas on how to reform the system that you have just gone on a super long rant about. Overall, the documentary was very well done and I could really agree with what the creator was saying.