Education in the United States

ducational institutions. In the prestige first somewhat inferior to the second. The main purpose of state universities is to educate students in their region, and for young people from other States, a competition is established, and they are charged higher tuition fees. In such high schools, the quality of education is often affected by too many groups, bureaucracy and insufficient teachers attention to students. But, despite this, many school leavers and even foreign entrants wishing to study in the United States, rush to the best universities in the States, including Michigan and Virginia, as well as the University of California at Berkeley.
Private higher education institutions include the most famous American universities, namely Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of technology, Yale, California Institute of technology (Caltech). Most private universities are of medium size, but there are also very small (for example, kaltech) and very large (for example, the University of southern California).
The level of education in the United States.
Higher education in the United States is considered one of the best in the world. In General, the level of American literacy reaches 99 percent. According to statistics from 2011, 86 percent of young people aged twenty-five years had a secondary education (school two years of College), and 30 percent - a bachelors degree (school four years of College or University).
Unlike the success of higher education institutions, secondary education in the United States is experiencing a number of difficulties. As the United States Secretary of education says, the school system is now stagnating and unable to compete with many other States. About 25 percent of American students are unable to complete t