EDUCATION | Driving tomorrow’s achievements
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The Rich Mosaic of American Schools
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)
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American Girls and Women Go for Sports
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.
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Lost Boys of Sudan Go to College in America
In the 1990s, thousands of boys fleeing war in southern Sudan ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya. A decade later, 3,800 "Lost Boys" arrived in America. Today, they some are still struggling, but many are making it.
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U.S. enrollment at two-year and four-year institutions
U.S. secondary school graduates proceed immediately to university-level studies, but nowadays, increasingly, universities also are enrolling older students.
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Education and the Election
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.