AMERICAN EDUCATION

SUBJECT : AMERICAN CULTURE, Overview of the U.S Education System, - Most children enter the public education system around ages five or six.- Children begin with preschool, followed by kindergarten and culminating in twelfth grade.- The American educational system comprises 12 grades of study .

LOGO SUBJECT : AMERICAN CULTURE

AMERICAN EDUCATION

Overview of the U.S Education System

Presented by Ngô Thành Nam

Vocational education Ages vary

Graduate education Ages vary

Adult education Ages vary

- Most children enter the public education system around ages five or six.

by kindergarten and culminating in twelfth grade.

comprises 12 grades of study

The U.S Education System

Private schools

- Including parochial schools (affiliated with religious denominations), non-profit independent schools, and for-profit

private schools

- Having no legal obligation to accept any interested student Admission to some private schools is often highly selective

- Private schools offer the advantages of smaller classes, under twenty students in a typical elementary classroom.

- Public schools are free.

- Public schools are provided

by state and federal funding.

- Private schools are funded through tuition, donations and private grants

- Public schools are built around the

beliefs of everyone is welcome and

no child will be left behind.

- Private schools cost more than the public schools.

- Public school is not religiously

affiliated Those schools generally

accept all students assigned to

them

- Public schools are, on

average, at least twice the size

of private schools.

Public schools

Parochial schools

parish

- Parochial systems are largely supported by

donations to the parish while state schools are

funded by taxes Out-of-pocket costs to the student

attending a parochial school are usually greater

than an equivalent public school

equivalent public school.

- Most American parochial schools have been Catholic schools (often elementary schools attached to a local parish), as well as schools run by Calvinists, Orthodox Jews and Lutherans.

St Thomas High School , a Catholic high school, in Houston

Educating children with disabilities

- A number of federal laws prohibit discrimination on the children with disabilities.

- All students with disabilities are entitled to a free and appropriate public education.

- About 96% of students with disabilities attend regular schools.

- Public schools that fail to provide an appropriate placement for students with special needs can be taken to due process wherein parents may formally submit their grievances and demand appropriate services for the child.

The famous universities in the USA

Presented by Nguyễn Ngọc Thương

Harvard university

- Harvard was founded in 1636 (Massachusetts)

- Harvard has the largest endowment in the world.

- Harvard has one university and comprises of 13 other schools and institutes.

- Five most popular majors:

- Harvard is is the oldest higher education institution and the second-oldest college in the US.

Presenter: Nguyen Ngoc Thuong-8A3.

 Financial aid, Scholarship or grant award is $41,507: 60.1%.

 Paying for College knowledge center: to get advice.

Barack Obama (born 1961)-44th (1991)

Harvard University’s former students

- Business: William (Bill) H. Gates, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg,…  

- Science: J Robert Oppenheimer (Physicist – the father of the atomic bomb), …

John F Kennedy (1917–1963)-35th (1940)

- Other fields: literature-writer Louis Menand, music-composers Robert Levin and Bernard Rands, poets Wallance Stevens,

philosopher-Henry David Thoreau, conductor-Leonard Bernstein, cellist-Yo Yo Ma, comedian and writer-Conan

O’Brien, …

- Politics

 Head of state: 26 people (Eight U.S presidents), Felipe Calderón-President of Mexico, Juan Manuel

Santos-President of Columbia,…

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 Royals: Prince Frederik of Denmark, Princess Masak of Japan, Antonis Samaras-Prime Minister of Greece,…

Arnold Arboretum, Boston

The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library

and Collection in Washington, D.C

The Harvard Forest.

The Villa I Tatti, Italia.

Some contributions to the economic development

Harvard university

Presenter: Nguyen Ngoc Thuong-8A3.

Harvard Shanghai Center in China.

A walk across the Charles River

 from Cambridge Plans for sinking part of Storrow Drive

Connect the traditional Cambridge  campus with the new Allston 

campus 

Harvard Green Campus Initiative

- Princeton was founded in 1746 (New Jersey)

- All undergraduate students are required to write a senior thesis

Summary

- Tuition and fees: $38,650.

 Princeton has the fewest of graduates with debt

- Five most popular majors:

- Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the US.

Princeton campus

- Required independent work is a hallmark of undergraduate education at Princeton

Princeton university

Presenter: Nguyen Ngoc Thuong-8A3.

Woodrow Wilson School of Public (1930)

International Affairs (1948)

- Science: Jeff Bozs - Amazon CEO and

founder, Eric Schmidt - Google executive,

Lisa P Kacson - Administrator of the

Environmental Protection Agency,…

- President of the University 1902–1910: Paul Krugman, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Singer, Andrew Wiles, John

Witherspoon, Ben Bernanke, Joeshep Henry, Toni Morrison, John P Lewis and Woodrow Wilson

 Royals: Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad,

Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco, and Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud

- Albert Einstein: To deliver lectures at the Institute for

Advanced Study at Princeton

Albert Einstein

(1789-1955)

- Writers: Booth Tarkington, F Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene

O’Neill, Selden Edward, Will Stanton, John Nash,…

John Forbes Nash

(1928)

 Head of state: 4 U.S presidents, …

- Films: Jimmy Stewart, José Ferrer, Brooke Shields.

Actress/ model:

Brooke Shields (1965)

Presenter: Nguyen Ngoc Thuong-8A3.

Princeton university

Presenter: Nguyen Ngoc Thuong-8A3.

- Five most popular majors:

- It is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

- Yale is comprised of the College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and 13 professional schools

Vanderbilt Hall at Yale University

The Yale Whiffenpoofs

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• 9 U.S Supreme Court Justices: Justices Sonia

Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas,…

• Several foreign heads of state: Ernesto

Zedillo-President of Mexico, Kart President of the Federal Republic of Germany; José Paciano Laurel-Philippines President, Mario Monti-Italian Prime Minister

Carstens-• Royals: Prince Rostislav Romanov, Prince

Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo,

Yale University’s former students

- Music: Composers Charles Ives, Douglas Moore and Cole Porter,…

- Politics

- Film: Paul Newman, Vincent Price, Meryl Streep, Jolie Foster, Angela Bassett, Courtney Vance, Frances McDonal,… -

Actors, directors and producers,…

- Mathematician and chemist: Josiah Willard Gibbs,

 Head of state and Government:

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YALE university

• Five U.S presidents:

William Howard Taft

(1857-1930) - 27th

Gerald Ford (1913-2006) - 38th George H W Bush (1924) -41 st

Bill Clinton (1946) -42n d

George W Bush (1946)-43rd

- Literature: Noal Webster – Lexicographer Paul Krugman - Nobel Laureate in Economics and popular book author,…

- Economics: Irving Fisher (1867-1947) - "The Father

of Monetarism”, - Science: Ernest Lawrence (1901-1958) - Inventor of the cyclotron and Nobel Laureate in Physics,

YALE university

Yale University Press

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Green Electronics Council (GEC)

Reduce its greenhouse gas emissions

The Forests Dialogue (TFD)

Some contributions to the economic development

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The famous universities in the USA

Presented by Tất Thùy Trang

Columbia's first home: Trinity Church schoolhouse

Columbia's third home: East 49th Street and Madison Avenue

programs Business School, Teachers College, SEAS, Law School, College of

Physicians and Surgeons, School of International and Public Affairs, School of the Arts, Mailman School of Public Health

York, United StatesCampus Urban, total 299 acres (1.23 km2)

I SUMMARY

Columbia's fourth home: Morningside Heights

Technology

Medicine

Technology Ventures

Smart TV - great for catch-up TV

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

II SOME OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTE TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The cyclotron in 2006, built by John R Dunning in

1939, in the physics building basement at Columbia.

scientists test a new cancer treatment

U.S President(include current U.S President Barack Obama) 4

Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States(including

three Chief Justices) 9

Foreign Heads of State United States 15

2

Prizes Nobel owners, more than any other university 97

Owners Pulitzer Prize, more than any other university 101

Owners MacArthur Genius Award 30

Owners of National Medal of Science USA 4

3

Members Members of the Academy of American Arts and Sciences 143

Members of the group Institutes of Health National Academy of

Members of the Academy of Engineering of the United States 20

members of the Academy of Sciences of the United States 43

4

Scientists Founder of IBM Herman Hollerith

Inventor of FM radio Edwin Armstrong

Inventor of the nuclear submarine Hyman Rickover

Founder of Google China Kai-Fu Lee

Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father

of the United States, founder of the nation's financial system, the founder

of the first political party, one of the authors of The Federalist Papers, the firstUnited States Secretary of the Treasury, Kings College

Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the United States, Columbia Law School

Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the United States, Columbia Law School

Barack Obama, Current President of the United States and Nobel Laureate, Class

of 1983, Columbia College

I SUMMARY

Stanford University

Tuition and fees $56,446 (2012-13)

~ VND 1,185,366,000

Graduate programs Schools of Humanities and

Sciences and Earth Sciences ,professional schools of Business,

Education,Engineering, Law, and Medicine

(3,310 ha)

Libraries and digital resources

Stanford University

III ACHIEVEMENTS

Leland Stanford, the university's founder, as painted by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonierin

1881 and now on display at the Cantor Center

President Herbert Clark Hoover

The Googleplex, Google's original and largest corporate campus

Original Rogers Building (MIT), Back Bay, Boston, 19th century (photo by E.L Allen)

Simmons Hall was completed in 2002

 Location Cambridge, Massachusetts,United States of America

 Campus Urban, 168 acres (68.0 ha)

 Mascot Tim the Beaver

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

II SOME OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTE TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 In the lab or in the field, MIT impacts all walks of life through the technology developed at the Institute and through the people who learn, work and train here they are able to turn hands-on

research into answers for the world's most pressing problems

 Since its founding, MIT has fostered a problem-solving approach that encourages researchers to work together across departments, fields, and institutional boundaries The resulting collaborations have included thousands of fruitful partnerships with industry and other leading research institutions

 To seek to engage students, alumni, staff, faculty and others in life-changing initiatives and social entrepreneurship ventures that provide needed resources to individuals and communities around the Institute, across the U.S., and around the world

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Urban studies professor Xavier de Souza Briggs is currently the associate

director of the White House Office of Management and Budget

Biology professor Eric Lander is a co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors

on Science and Technology

Faculty member Ernest Moniz was nominated to become the new United States

Secretary of Energy

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, former MA-1

RepresentativeJohn Olver

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi

British Foreign Minister David Miliband,

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos

UN Secretary GeneralKofi Annan

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi

4

Others

More than one third of the United States' manned spaceflights have included

MIT-educated astronauts (among them Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz

American Education

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 Why do you think the system is effective?

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Some things in the past

 Before the U.S Civil War (1861-1865), Southern slaves

not only had little access to education

 But be punished for learning to read

 School reserved seperately for White and Black

Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas, 1957

a landmark in racially integrating schools

in the south

 American education reflects

the history,culture and values of ​​

a nation that transformed itself

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These are ten principles of this nation’s education

1 Encourage the contact of student and faculty

2 Develop cooperation among students

3 Value active learning

4 Encourage prompt feedback.

5 Emphasize time on task.

6 Give high expectations of student growth

7 Respect and respond to diverse talents and ways of learning.

8 Encourage a strict academic preparation

9 Require the security of a solid standards.

10 Require an extensive extra curricular program

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Strenghs of an American educational management system

 Perhaps the most typical strength of American education

• The federal government provides research and supports to ensure

equal access and excellence in education

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Strenghs of an American educational management system

 Other strength of American Eduation is large size and

clear organizational structure

• In the US - public; private, elementary; secondary, state universities

and private colleges - can be found everywhere

• The US continues to operate one of the largest universal education

systems in the world

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The efficiency of the management system

 US have a lot of states, immigrants, ethnic diversity

=> Help the educational management be more closely.

• In expertise, State boards of education

oversee local education districts,

set student and teacher standards,

approve the classroom curriculum , and often review textbook selections

• In finance, each state can be initiative in their finance

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The efficiency of the management system

 Clear organizational structure, dynamic principles help students interact with other, get solid knowledge standards for their future.

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