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unusual facts about Education in the United States


Year Nine

In the United States Year 9 is 8th Grade and is the last year of Junior High (School)/ Middle School.


Consulate General of the United States, Hyderabad

The consulate has conducted activities that foster and promote education in the United States, Indo-US business ties and social causes such as renovation of a two-centuries-old tomb of Mah Laqa Bai, a Nizam-era Urdu poetess and courtesan.

Education in France

These mirrored the "laws of "compulsory education and attendance" being passed in Britain and various states of the United States. With these laws, known as Jules Ferry laws, and several others, the Third Republic repealed most of the "Falloux Laws" of 1850–1851, which gave an important role to the clergy, reducing their earlier role in the teachings in public schools.

Knowledge Is Power Program

KIPP began in 1994 after founders Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg completed their two-year commitment to Teach For America and launched a program for fifth graders in a public school in inner-city Houston, Texas.

Turkish Salahaldin International School

The school, affiliated with the movement of Fethullah Gülen, used the United States educational system and serves grades Kindergarten through 12.


see also

Carrington College

Carrington College California, an institution of higher education in the United States, specializing in training for the health care industry and formerly known as Western Career College

Robert Wilson Shufeldt

After a school education in the United States and Havana, he joined as a Captain's clerk on the US Gunboat USS Proteus which was under the command of his father.

Sohn Kyung-han

Henceforth, he pursued education in the United States; he graduated from University of Pennsylvania, School of Law (LL.M, 1985; SJD abd, 1986), passed the New York Bar in 1986, and became a member of the American Bar Association (1986–2000) and the New York State Bar Association (1998–2007).

The Boarding School

The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a 1798 commentary on female education in the United States by Hannah Webster Foster