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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 ]
The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling (ISBN 0-945700-05-9, pbk. ISBN 0-945700-04-0) is a critique of the United States education system by John Taylor Gatto. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Numerade analyzed data from the OECD to see how the U.S. compares with the rest of the world in its academic performance.
The public education system does provide the classes needed to obtain a GED (General Education Development) and obtain a job or pursue higher education. [58] The largest public school system in the United States is in New York City, where more than one million students are taught in 1,200 separate public schools.
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876.
Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas is a book by economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell (hardcover 1993, paperback 2003, Kindle Edition 2010) that details Sowell's assessment of the state of education in the United States (both K-12 education and higher education).
A Nov. 14 Instagram post uses a meme with an image of former President Jimmy Carter to claim U.S. educational achievement has plummeted. “In 1979 I created the Department of Education,” reads ...