The System of American Education
Abstract: Compared with other big powers in the world, the United Sates of America is a very young country in the history of the world. Its education started too late, but who development is very rapid. In fact, American educational system plays an important role in this situation.
Keyword: American; system; education
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, becau it is a multicultural country. American education is also diver 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 倾尽天下歌曲system of American education. The major difference in education system between America
n 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 skill-training 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.
I. The History of American education
As one of the basic contents of social life, education has a clo relationship with one nation步履艰难’s growth. There were many people 羽毛球球拍graduated from Oxford College and Cambridge College between the first English ttlers to America in the 六一后台换衣服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 土豆的作用及功效作用 culture to help them understand The Bible by themlves 爆炒五花肉becau of their devotion to religion. The two fact
ors made the education of America start. Harvard College was founded as early as 1636, only fifteen years after the Pilgrim Fathers had landed in the New World.[2] William Mary university was built in 1639 and Yale university was established in 1701. Before 1776 when America declared independence from Great Britain, eight other colleges came into existence.[3] All the indicate that Americans have shown a great concern for education since early colonial times. Between 1825 and 1850, public education was established in America. All states were built basic education system which was open to all children States and without religious discrimination and the basis of economic conditions. Many public universities and colleges also appeared and they enriched the education of America along with a large number of private colleges.
II. The Structure of School System
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 rate, from elementary school through college, Americans hold the belief that everyone derves a fair and equal opportunity to
get a good education, and that part of the responsibility of the government is to make sure that such an 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 formed in the cond half of the 19th century and can be specifically divided into the bottom-up structure: primary school, condary school, and then university. "Rail" is the number of class in one grade.
The current school system of America education also reflects the feature of the combination of unity and diversity. Due to a thorough system of decentralization in education, America has no unified national educational system.The current system of America education is basically fallen into following parts : elementary education and condary education for 12 years, 4 years of higher education, and graduate school, the total cour of 20 years or so. There are many different kinds of preschool education institutions in America. No matter public or private, it can be roughly divided into nurry school (for children aged 3 ~ 5) and the kindergarten (recruit children aged 4 ~ 6); Elementary education is distributed into public education and private education, which pa
ys attention to develop the potential of children; There are mainly four years, six years to construct and three kinds of three-thirds system in secondary school in America. Its main part is the comprehensive school and its minor part are the general education and vocational and technical education. Besides, there are also parate condary schools, vocational and technical schools, says middle school and other high school; The lessons of higher education colleges and universities in America are divided into four categories: a two-year college (community college) (tertiary), liberal arts college (four-year college), universities and professional schools.[5]
III. The Education Management
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 d2个月宝宝睡眠时间oes not have the permission to manage education and education is charged by the state
s. The powers of跳球 the ministry of education in American federal government are very limited, who 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 the 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 t up the state board of education and make the basic policy of education’s development. Therefore, the management right of elementary education and condary 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 problems such as admission to the TOEFL scores and application fee and so on.
