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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. The article's lead section may need to be rewritten. Please help improve the lead and read the lead layout guide. (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Education in the United States of America National education budget (2023-24) Budget $222.1 billion (0.8% of GDP ...
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
Education is a major key in becoming a more privileged member of the American middle class. [ 45 ] [ 47 ] Overall, educational attainment is the main entrance barrier into more privileged parts of the middle class as it is not only of high value but is also the requirement for becoming a professional and earning the corresponding income. [ 45 ]
In the list below, one can find the population in each state and territory of the U.S. who has attained a specific education level (out of people 25 years or over), and the percentage of the population who has attained that education level. The list is initially sorted in Alphabetical order but one can click the table headers to sort by any column.
For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (Cornell UP, 2017) 308 pp; Dorn, Charles. American education, democracy, and the Second World War (2007) online; Geiger, Roger L. The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton UP 2014), 584pp; encyclopedic in scope online
Notable business failures include Corinthian Colleges (2015), ITT Educational Services (2016), Education Management Corporation(2017), and Education Corporation of America (2018). [125] Two large schools, Kaplan University and Ashford University were sold to public universities with for-profit online program managers and rebranded as Purdue ...
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional ...
Insular Areas of the United States and the 50 states and Washington, D.C.. Guam; Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands; Note: American Samoa (American Samoa Community College) and the Northern Mariana Islands (Northern Marianas College) have one college each.