Education in America

Education in the United States Education in America is a very important part of human life. Going to school opens the door to promote future personal achievement and economic success. Formal education is a conscious effort by human society to convey skills and ideas that are considered essential to social function. According to the 2000 census, the total number of schools between nursery school and high school is about 57 million. Approximately 49 million of 57 million people are enrolled in public schools.

Key words: popular education, radical education, social movement education, Latin America In the 1970s, a radical adult educational campaign began in Latin America, acted abroad, became involved in so-called "group education" It was triggered. Change the interest of educators. Thus, the term "population education" has been adopted globally, revived, or increasingly used (Arnold & Burke, 1983; Crowther, Martin & Shaw, 1999; Hunter, 2010). But over the past few decades the pattern of Latin American countries has changed from dictatorship to "democracy" in particular, whether patterns of popular education should continue to be separated from states or whether they should contact with the state or the state (Gadoti & Tor Res, 1992; BrandÃ, 2002; de Souza, 2004; Quintana, 2006/2008). Similar issues are being debated in Europe, but it was not so urgent but opposed.

As shown in Figure 1, the rate of return on higher education in Latin America in the past decade is much higher than that of secondary and primary education. In the 1960s and 1970s, stable work was guaranteed in high school education in Latin America. Normally, not only in the public sector but also in the middle class, in fact it was a pretty privileged living standard. However, by the 1990s the value of high school degrees was much lower. The work of many public sectors has disappeared and the remaining work is undesirable.

After the end of the civil war, the public education in the United States really began when the government funded and managed schools superseded the early private education system. According to the US Department of Education, about 57% of 12 million Americans in school age in 1870 were enrolled in public elementary and junior high schools, but only about 60% of students enrolled in school attended school , The average academic year was 132 days. By the turn of the century, the proportion of school-aged children attending public school rose to 72%, nearly 70% of the students participated on 150 days of grade. Most public education is still in the early stages - only 2% of the student population is over ninth grade.