2. EDUCATION IN THE UNITED ESTATES
• Education in the US is mainly provided by the public sector with
control and fundig coming from three levels: Federal, state and
local.
• Child education is compulsory and the ages can vary by state.
• The American educational system comprises 12 grades of study
over 12 calendar years of primary and secondary education before
graduating and becoming eligible for college admission. After pre-
kindergarten and kindergarten there are five years in primary
school (normally known as elementary school). After completing
five grades, the student will enter junior high or middle school and
then high school to get the high school diploma.
3. • In most public and private schools education is divided into
three levels:
Elementary school
Middle school (Junior high school)
High school ( Secondary education)
• The US uses Ordinal numbers for naming grades.
• Post-secondary education, better known as “college” in the
united states, is generally governed separately from the
elementary and high school.
Undergraduate School
Graduate School
4. BASIC CURRICULAR STRUCTURE
Generally, at the high school level, students take a broad variety
of classes without special emphasis in any particular subject.
Curricula vary widely in quality and rigidity.
• Science (usually three years minimum, normally
biology, chemistry and physics)
• Mathematics (usually four years minimum, normally including
algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, statistics, and even calculus)
• English (usually four years minimum, including
literature, humanities, composition, oral languages, etc.)
• Social sciences (usually three years minimum, including various
history, government/economics courses)
• Physical education (at least two years)
5. ELECTIVES
• Computers (word processing, programming, graphic design)
• Athletics (cross country, football, baseball, basketball, track and
field, swimming, tennis, gymnastics, water
polo, soccer, softball, wrestling, cheerleading, volleyball, ice hockey, field
hockey, crew, boxing, skiing/snowboarding, golf)
• Career and Technical Education
(Agriculture/Agriscience, Business/Marketing, Family and Consumer
Science, Health Occupations, and Technology Education, including Publishing
(journalism/student newspaper, yearbook/annual, literary magazine))
• Performing Arts/Visual
Arts, (choir, band, orchestra, drama, art, ceramics, photography, and dance)
• Foreign languages (Spanish and French are common;
Chinese, Latin, Greek, German, Italian, Arabic, and Japanese are less common)
• Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
6. LIST OF TOP 10 UNIVERSITIES OF THE
UNITED STATES
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. University of California - Berkeley
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technologies
5. California Institute of Technology
6. Columbia University
7. Princeton University
8. The University of Chicago
9. Yale University
10. Cornell University
8. THE STATE-FUNDED SCHOOL SYSTEM
• State-runs schools and colleges are financed
through national taxation and take pupils
free of charge between the ages from 3 to 18.
the schools may levy charges of activities
such as swimming, theatre visits and field
trips.
9. CURRICULUM
All the maintained schools in England are required to follow the
national curriculum, which is made up of twelve subjects. The
core subjects English, mathematics and science.
• Art and design
• Citizenship
• Design and technology
• Geography
• History
• Information and communication technology
• Modern foreign language
• Music
• Physical education
10. SCHOOL GOVERNANCE
Almost all state-funded schools in England are
maintained schools which receive their funded
from local authorities. since 1998 there have
been 4 main types of maintained schools:
• Community schools
• Voluntary controlled schools
• Voluntary aided schools
• Foundations schools
11. EDUCATION OTHERWISE THAN BY
SCHOOLING
• The education act requires parents to ensure their
children are educated either by attending school or
otherwise. Small but increasing numbers of parents
are choosing the otherwise option. This style of
education is often referred to as elective home
education.
12. HIGHER EDUCATION
• The state does not control university
syllabuses, but it does influence admission
procedures through the office for fair access
(off) which approves and monitors `access
agreements` to safeguard and promote fair
access to higher education.
