One of the most important issue in the last 10 years to face the United States is the impending movement to revamp education. It’s not big secret that this system in place is no longer effective, with test scores nearly the bottom in comparison to fellow industrialize nations. One suggestion has been to take what works from Japan’s system, which scores routine test at or near the top of global results. It’s a great idea on paper, but with cultural differences and ideals might make a transition hard and could be met with resistance. However, taking the best elements from Japan’s system and combining those with our own might be the best solution available. A glance at the numbers make a compelling argument why adopting the Japanese way of approaching education. In a study done by the UCLA in 2008, it was revealed that of the high school students who graduate, an average of 2.4 million a year, 25% cannot read or write at the eighth-grade level. The standards being taught, which change on a year by year basis has made the system useless which allows students to be pushed through without learning the necessary skills need to advance to the next grade? Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act is even more of an issue, and is the main reason why these numbers are now a sad reality. Even more disturbing the high number of high school dropouts, which stands at a rate of 33 percent each year. What makes this number more alarming is that without any type of program to flirt these numbers in, they account for the majority of the unemployment issue which also has been on the rise recently. It’s also provides the greatest ammunition to groups who agree that an education system overhaul is required, sooner rather than later. Which brings in the movement to take ideals from one of the highest rated educational systems in the free world, Japan.