Education in the USA

Education in the United States of America:

The first formal schools appeared in the 1630s in New England such as the Boston Latin School and in the "Old Deluder Satan Act" required that every town in Massachussets must hire teachers to operate grammar schools. During the eighteenth century the religion gradually weakened and after the American Revolution the constitution made all states to have public schools but its attendance was obligatory only in Massachussets and Connecticut. After the court decision in Brown&Board of Education in 1954 racial segregation was banned and in the 60s, 70s and 80s state schools in the inner cities became famous for lack of discipline, ghettoisation, substance abuse and violence. The federal government supports lunch programs, research grants, loans in college students and scholarships for veterans. In all states are permitted private schools though state schools are the majority and the state regulates the curriculum, graduation requirements, standards for teacher certificates, school transportation, health services and fire protection. Education in the US is organized in three levels: elementary (pre-school and primary), secondary and post-secondary and in between both are vocational training courses. Students in high school and universities in the USA participate in a lot of sports and social events and they receive names in accordance with their year in order of entrance such as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors and attend classes from four core academic subjects such as science, mathematics, history and social studies. Recently secondary magnet schools have been introduced to attract students with an area of special interest such as arts or foreign languages. Vocational education in the US are grouped in seven areas: education, marketing, health, business and office, technical, trade, industry and occupational home economics and target the students potential for a new job or upgrade their skills.

There are thousands of degree-granting universities, two or four-year college funded by state or local governments, some have religious or privately endowed and most prestigious universities are in the Ivy League (Harvard, Yale and Columbia), the M.I.T. (Massachussetts Institute of Technology), Boston, Phoenix University, etc. Students have a SAT Reasoning Test (Standard Assessment Test) which has three sections: maths, critical reading and writing. Then students can enter three main main types of universities: two year community or junior college which offer associate´s degrees, the four-year undergraduate college offfer graduate degrees and Bachelor´s degree in Education or Arts of Science and the university. The university normally includes undergraduate as well as graduate and professional education. Two more years of advanced study and a thesis or final oral or written exam lead to masters´ degrees in many academic fields such as Master of Arts, Master of Science (M.S.) or Master of Nursing. After master´s degree students undertake two or more years of study and have proficiency in more than one foreign language and they researchin their area of specialization and complete with their doctoral dissertation they get their Doctor´s degree. There are also first-professional degrees such as dentistry, law of medicine (D.D.S., J.D. and M.D). www.mites.gob.es/mundo/consejerias/eeuu/es/formacion/requisitos-estudiar/index.html

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