The United States__ (Education)(1).ppt

1、The United States (Education),Education is “like a big window opening”. Mary Webb,How was American education system established?,Jefferson was the first American leader to suggest creating a system of free schools for all persons (universal education ) that would be publicly supported through taxes(

2、publicly funded schools ). Now all American children are offered twelve years of free public education.,Reading Activity,Page 60 The Establishment of Public Schools and Educating the individual in America,Guided Questions,When was the system of public schools established in America? What are charact

3、eristics of the system? Who was Alexis de Tocqueville? What did he think of the universal education in America? What are valued highly in American schools? How are the values reflected through education?,When was the system of public schools established in America?,Americans established their basic

4、system of public schools in 1825.,What are characteristics of the system?,making schools open to all classes of Americans financing the schools with tax money collected from all citizens,Alexis de Tocqueville,French political writer and statesman, whose work on the United States political system, De

5、mocracy in America, became a classic. Tocqueville also noted that American public education had a strong practical content.,What are valued highly in American schools?,more emphasis on developing critical thinking skills than acquiring quantities of facts social and interpersonal skills,How are the

6、values reflected through education?,by encouraging students to express their own opinions in class and think for themselves by extracurricular activities,Secondary Education,What will be taken into consideration when American high school students apply for a place in colleges or universities?,High s

7、chool diploma It is necessary to get into college. Credits Students must accumulate a minimum number of credits, which are awarded for the successful completion of each one- or half-year course.,Grades Students hoping to be admitted to the more famous universities require far more than the minimum n

8、umber of credits and must also have good grades (on the basis of course work and a written exam).,Extra-curricular Activity Extra-curricular activity (such as playing for one of the schools sports team) is also very important in the American school system and is taken into consideration by universit

9、ies.,SAT Scholastic Assessment Test The three-hour, multiple-choice exam measures verbal, math, and reasoning skills.,Higher Education,How many institutions provide American higher education?,There are about 3,000 colleges and universities, both private and public in the U.S. They are all independen

10、t, offering their own choice of studies, setting their own admission standards and deciding which students meet those standards. The greater the prestige of the university, the higher the credits and grades required.,Higher Education,What does “college” mean? How about “university”?,College College

11、is used to refer to all undergraduate education. University undergraduate and postgraduate educational institution,Higher Education,Do you know anything about Technical Training Institution, Junior College or Community College?,institutions of higher education offering two-year programs of technical

12、, vocational, professional, and adult-education programs in addition to general academic programs Associate Degree,College Grades,A, B, C, D, F,Higher Education,Do you know Ivy League?,Ivy League: 常春藤联盟 Ivy League, eight long-established colleges and universities in the United States with prestigiou

13、s academic and social reputations.,Ivy League is the leading main stream of the US Higher Education (founded in 1956). All the universities in Ivy League are in the northeast of the U. S. And all of them are private universities.,members of Ivy League: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

14、 established in 1636; Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, established in 1702; University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, established in 1740; Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, established in 1746;,Columbia University in New York City, established in 1754; Brown University in Pr

15、ovidence, Rhode Island, established in 1764; Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, established in 1769; Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, established in 1853.,Harvard University,established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States Harvard university was named for John Harvard, a Puritan minister who died in 1638 and left half of his estate to the school.,Undergraduates are required to take courses in each of five areas: literature and arts, history, social analysis and m