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Education in America is not working. Even though the United States spends more money per student than any other country: our students:

• Our students rank far behind most of their international peers in math and science, and well behind U.S. test scores of 20 years ago.
• Twenty-eight percent of our high school students drop out - the highest rate of any industrialized nation.
• Those students who do graduate are often ill prepared to enter the work force.
• Drug and alcohol abuse continues to undermine our nation's students and rob them of their mental clarity, motivation, self-esteem, and ability to focus.
• Juvenile violent crime has increased markedly during the past decade, especially gang and school violence using guns - American youths are 12 times more likely to die by gunfire than their peers in other nations.

Current proposals to improve education often focus on information technologies that offer larger and larger volumes of data. However, without an educational approach that can develop more than 5-10% of a student's full mental potential, no amount of information will ever produce truly educated citizens.

The Natural Law Party promotes proven educational programs that directly increase intelligence and creativity and simultaneously improve moral reasoning, self-reliance, and mental and physical health and well-being. These programs include:

• sound educational approaches to nutrition
• natural, preventive health measures
• effective drug prevention programs
• and innovative curriculum development, including programs to develop the full mental potential of students.

While focusing on dissemination of knowledge, current approaches to education ignore the most fundamental component of learning -- the consciousness or intelligence of the student, which is the basis of gaining knowledge. Today's educational approaches provide no knowledge of consciousness and no scientifically proven technology to develop it. These approaches do not comprehensively develop the brain physiology, causing incomplete cognitive and emotional development and less-than-comprehensive thinking. This fundamental failure is the ultimate source of the problems afflicting education today.