The innovative U.S. education scene at the primary and secondary level includes not just traditional public and private schools but experimental charters and magnets, faith-based schools and home-schooling. (© AP Images)
Between 1971 and 2005, female participation in collegiate sports increased 456 percent. In the same period, female participation in high school sports increased more than 900 percent to about 3,000,000.
With voters seeming more satisfied with the American educational system than in previous election years, education is unlikely to be a dominant issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, experts tell America.gov.
U.S. secondary school graduates proceed immediately to university-level studies, but nowadays, increasingly, universities also are enrolling older students.
U.S. universities increasingly promote entrepreneurship among students and faculty members. The aim is to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and push ideas from labs to markets.
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