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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
SCHOOL CHOICE
EDUCATION SYSTEM
TEACHER TRAINING
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
STRENGTHS & CHALLENGES
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
The United States of America, with a total of fifty states is a federal constitutional republic, located on the North American continent. Ranks third in the world in terms of population density. America stands at the forefront of the most culturally diverse countries globally, with the highest ethnic diversity.
Martin Luther King
an important figure of the Civil Rights Movement
The Statute of Liberty
A landmark and a symbol in America
students protesting gun violence and school shootings
Yale University
an ivy league school in the US
The idea of compulsory education gained traction in the 19th century, with Massachusetts passing the first compulsory attendance law.
The Civil Rights Movement in the mid-20th century had a profound impact on education. The landmark Supreme Court case of Education in 1954, which declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
No Child Left Behind Act: this legislation aimed to improve the quality of education by focusing on accountability, standardized testing, and closing achievement gaps among diverse student populations.
!!! DID YOU KNOW ? : The first Comparative Education Society ( rebranded as The Comparative & International Education Society) was formed in the US back in 1969. (click below to check it out)
THE IVY LEAGUE OF USA
Harvard University (Massachusetts)
Yale University (Connecticut)
Princeton University (New Jersey)
Columbia University (New York)
Brown University (Rhode Island)
Dartmouth College (New Hampshire)
University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania)
Cornell University (New York)
Out of all 37 OECD countries, only Israel, Turkey, Greece, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia scored less than the United States in the math test. Most of these countries were also the worst performers in reading and science.
THE PERFORMANCE OF US AMONG OECD COUNTRIES
THE PERFORMANCE OF US AMONG OECD COUNTRIES
Teenagers in the United States are among the top performers in reading proficiency in developed countries, while consistently underperforming the rest of the developed nations in math, according to the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results.
In science, the United States also outperformed the average for all OECD ranked countries. When it came to math skills, however, the U. S. students continued to be outperformed by peers from other developed countries.
GUN VIOLENCE IN THE US
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GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
There have been more than 630 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed. Their figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places.
For each of the last three years there have been more than 600 mass shootings - almost two a day on average.
The deadliest such attack, in Las Vegas in 2017, killed more than 50 people and left 500 wounded. The vast majority of mass shootings, however, leave fewer than 10 people dead.
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