Education in The United States and Great Britain: A Comparison

State schools in England must teach a range of subjects according to targets set by the National Curriculum. This was established in 1989 to ensure the same standards of teaching and learning across the country.

With the development of the modern state, education has been a decisive factor in affecting the international status and impacts of a country. People pay more attention to education quality and provide advanced study facilities so that their country can have a faster development. With many conflicting different education forms, it is necessary to compare and contrast them for getting a better understanding of the education system in the world. The education here refers to teaching quality, different education level system, the policy and the well-being from the government about education. I will explain the similarities and differences about the education in Finnish and Japan.

The LCFF today is a first of its kind, and the first great step in the right direction to provide all students the opportunity to have a valuable education. The LCFF is not designed to give every student the same education, but to bring equity to disadvantaged students who need more resources. Equity is not equality. Equity is not giving every student equal resources, because disadvantaged students need extra valuable resources to be in the same playing field as their peers in advantaged situations. Dianne Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York, depicts in her book “The Death and Life of The Great American School System” the many flaws in America’s education system and portrays a beautiful image of what a great school system should

Many people have impacted education over the course of time. In history it has taken outside thinking to change or break the mold of the current system set in place. Education is no exception to that rule. Education has changed in many different ways since it was first started. One of the ways education has evolved is how it impacts the society it is a part of. School today is seen as an institution that produces productive citizens for the society it is a part of. However, when education got its start it was simply to control unruly children and teach them how to obey the authority above them. It wasn’t until around the 1880’s and the 1920’s that things started to change. One of the key contributors to this change was John

In america, the high school education is omnibearing. It focus on development of student’s morals, intelligence, body and group.

Education is one of the most important tools a human being can possess, and it is said to be the best inheritance parents can give their children, but that is just one way of approaching the reality. That is the perspective society has, the one our parents have. What about us, youth? How do we see this subject?I was born in Panama, a small country in Central America. My country has made big improvements in many areas during the last few years, but one of them still remains troublesome. According to our Constitution education is compulsory and free to everyone under age eighteen. So far this seems to be a good statement;nonetheless, it is far from the truth. Public schools are cheap, but they are not free.In a nation with great inequality in

“Society is stratified into social classes based on wealth, income, educational attainment, occupation, and social networks.”(Boundless) As all of the essays demonstrate there are a lot of different classes in the United States. As much as we want to believe that we live in an equal country, in reality we far from it. There are people barely hanging on to be able to eat enough and to find a place to sleep with other people on the other end of the spectrum who own multiple homes and waste enough food to feed many of the families on the opposite end of the spectrum. The thing that all of the classes have in common is the push for education and higher education specifically. There is a social pressure for everyone to become educated to the same standard. Just like the range of classes show, people are not all equal and need to be educated as so. Since we have determined that people are not truly equal why should they all be responsible for the same kind of debt? The education system should be changed to fit the variety of people that we have in this country and to decrease the amount of student loans.

Schools in America and in India are very different. Schools in America are less strict about things and they have very different timings, Dress code, Lunch timings, Extracurriculars and After school activities.

It is no doubt that the U.K. use rigorous testing throughout the educational career of children's lives, with official tests and examinations beginning in secondary school. Children starting from as young as fourteen years old are required to complete GCSE's in every subject studied. The examinations taken during secondary school only end at the age of sixteen, therefore the impact of such assessment is often that of a student feeling both emotionally and physically exhausted. However, students are required to stay in education until the age of eighteen, meaning they must complete another set of official examinations for the period of their two-year study of 'A-levels'. This is surely a debilitating process for young people, which has often

In 1944, the government passed Education Act which allowed all children to receive secondary education. Children would be selected by ability for different types of school through an IQ test called the 11+ (in Scotland, the qualifying exam).Between 1964 and 1974, all secondaries re-organised into comprehensive schools instead of IQ test selection. In today’s Britain, there are state (92%) and

In this chapter, statistical results of the revenue vs. education in The USA and in The UK will be comparatively illustrated. The time period chosen lies between 2008 and 2013 (immediately after the effects of the financial crisis started to appear, and up until today); firstly, data will be presented via bar charts and statistical information, and will continue with a regression for each country which will illustrate the qualitative parameters of the chosen model, and will establish the amount of influence between the “education level” and “annual income” series. The fixed model (or the Ordinary Least Square approach) is the most suitable model for our datasets, according to the result of the Hausman test.

This essay will compare and contrast the education system in the United Kingdom and Denmark. It will focus on primary education and lower secondary, focusing on the Folkeskole, aims of this, how each country goes about doing examinations and grading, the curriculum content and how each country differs and also the teaching and learning of each country.

The national primary curriculum was started in England in 1988. Primary school spreads school years one to six. This is then separated into two sections, key stage one and key stage two. Key stage one spreads years one and two for children matured four to seven. Key stage two spreads years three to six for children matured

The number of graduates living in the UK higher education society has risen over the last few decades. Additionally, the inequality in wage becomes apparent as well as narrowly defined within a qualified group. The proportion of graduates in labour force has increased severely over the last few decades. Various studies has shown that, a significant proportion of the labour force are over educated, than it is actually required for their current job status. Cameron and Heckman (1998) identified that, a significant proportion of people in UK are over educated.

So, in England, by 2002: On average 80% of 11 year olds should be reaching the standard expected for their age in English and 75% in maths.