formed in the second half of the 19th century and can be specifically divided into the bottom-up
structure: primary school, secondary school, and then university. "Rail" is the number of class in
American Education
15-财政2班 魏瑶 王莹 王馨怡
The United States is very strong in education and shoulders huge task of education. To discuss education in the United States is a very complicated problem, because it is a multicultural country. American education is also diverse reflecting on the education, there is no unified national education system in the United States and fifty states have 50 different education system. There is no doubt that mang people pay much attention to the system of American education. The major difference in education system between American and most other countries is that the education of the United States is for everyone in society, not only for a few people. American educational system can be best understood as a kind of social institutions that reflect the basic beliefs and fundamental principles of the nation, rather than simply a kind of skilltraining places where students are prepared to get a job.[1] All in all, the system of American education has its own special features and attract a lot of countries’ attention.
can be roughly divided into nursery school (for children aged 3 ~ 5) and the kindergarten (recruit
children aged 4 ~ 6); Elementary education is distributed into public education and private
college (community college) (tertiary), liberal arts college (four-year college), universities and.
Professional schools.
American education management implements the high degree of decentralization. In America, the education management is the responsibility of the state or local government, rather than the federal government. As early as in 1791, the 10th amendment of the constitution of America has been defined, the federal government does not have the permission to manage education and education is charged by the states. The powers of the ministry of education in American federal government are very limited, whose main responsibility is to distribute education grants to the states according to the intentions of congress, as well as offer scholarships to American domestic students. The states of America are equipped with the education minister who are in charge of drawing up the state's education policy and lead the subordinate organizations to implement these policies. While according to the state law, all states mostly give the management right of public school to the local school districts, in addition to set up the state board of education and make the basic policy of education’s development. Therefore, the management right of elementary education and secondary education actually belongs to the local school districts and the local public school management system in which the school district plays the leading role ha been established.[6] American universities all have their own characteristics and they are different from the teaching guidelines, professional Settings, test project to small probl
4 years of higher education, and graduate school, the total course of 20 years or so. There are
many different kinds of preschool education institutions in America. No matter public or private, it
The American education of all types and at all levels join each other in structure and
communicate with each other up and down. At any ratough college,
opportunity is not denied to any one of them.[4] One of the striking features, differ American
education system from other European countries’ education system, call a monorail system. It
main part is the comprehensive school and its minor part are the general education and
vocational and technical education. Besides, there are also separate secondary schools,
As one of the basic contents of social life, education has a close relationship with one nation’s growth. There were many people graduated from Oxford College and Cambridge College between the first English settlers to America in the colonial era of 17th century. It is estimated that there is a college student out of every 40 to 50 families. This immigration of higher education background made them attach great importance to education. And the early immigrants from England needed a kind of culture to help them understand The Bible by themselves because of their devotion to religion. These two factors made the education of America start.