One difference between Chinese schools and American schools is the attitude to competition.

Chinese schools maximize competition, gameify difficult subjects, and reward the winners.

American schools go to extremes to avoid competition.

I learned how to teach in China. I was recently investigating becoming a teacher in the US, and did interviews mainly to learn their expectations. They did NOT like me. I said very inconvenient things...

I told them why autism is rising and how to mitigate it with architectural design. I told them how to raise math scores. I told them why childrens' vocabularies are smaller now than in the past, and how to fix it. I told them they should prioritize coding and design, and gave them a plan, even though I'm not a coder.

America cannot compete while schools are failing. And schools will only continue to fail while the teaching philosophy taught in teachers' training is so wildly wrong.

And the solutions can't come from within the education system. The solutions don't exist there.