Links:
This links to material on the
US educational system
provided by the Foundations in Area Studies for Translators (FAST) in
Finland.
There is no national regulation of tertiary institutions
in the USA. Program accreditation is also foreign to most Americans.
Some semblance of quality control is provided by the uniquely US tradition of
educational institution accreditation. This is the potted version
from an American perspective. The system is rather more complex and
imperfect than this article admits. It is also necessary to ask who
accredits the accreditors.
Links
to US education sites. (Courtesy of the Finnish Foundations in Area
Studies for Translators)
Community
Colleges - from an American perspective.
US
Educational References (courtesy of Finnish Foundations in Area Studies for
Translators).
Overselling
College - an American perspective.
NCES
Overview of US Public Schools.
US grading systems
Glossary of US educational terms
The use of titles in the USA
NCES Fast Facts - Assessment
NCES Fast Facts -
"Bilingual" Education in California - separate and unequal.
US Education: a diverse decentralised system - from an American
viewpoint. The statistics, and the conclusions based upon them, are biased
by the US definition of "tertiary" studies.
US Education - General Background.