Has the American Dream left America?

Nicholas believes that the education escalator is broken in America. The American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. The American dream is believed to be emigrating because many other countries are doing a better job at education then United Stated. Yes I agree with Kristof’s that the American Dream is leaving America. He stated some statistics that made me believe his statement like,” As recently as 2000, the United States still ranked second in the share of the population with a college degree. Now we dropped to fifth” Being a college student in America I see for myself that this statement is true. Most of the people I graduated with or knew during high school either never went to college or started it and dropped out. I also believe people believe the education system isn’t the right path for them.