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| While the adult education program, which is designed for adults, teaches basic remedial lessons, continuing education is for adults to further their existing education. |
| People can make much more money by earning a college degree; a person with a Bachelor's degree will earn, on average, almost twice as much as workers with a high school diploma. |
| More than half (57%) of teachers hold master's degrees; however, this teaching profession has an average national starting salary of $30,377 while computer programmers start at an average of $43,635, public accounting professionals at $44,668, and registered nurses at $45,570. |
| Per a survey results provided by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, an English professor has an average salary of $43.50 per hour while a dentist and a nuclear engineer only make $33.34 and $36.16 per hour repectively. |
| Teachers spend an average of 50 hours per week on instructional duties, including an average of 12 hours each week on non-compensated school-related activities such as grading papers, bus duty, and club advising. |
| Almost 50 percent of new teachers leave the profession during the first five years of teaching, and 37 percent of teachers who do not plan to continue teaching until retirement blame low pay for their decision to leave the profession. |
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Senator Thomas Harkin, who is responsible for oversight investigation of Federal dollars going to for-profit schools, raised the issues
about the conflict of interest of the American Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC), a national accrediting agency that accredits many for-profit colleges, accepted compensation directly from the schools receiving its accreditation awards. |
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For-profit colleges, such as University of Phoenix, Everest Institute, and Potomac College, usually draw in less educated students into the classroom.
The U.S. government is investigating the business practices of for-profit colleges, including the one that they made money from these students by helping them to obtain federal student aid, requiring their families to co-sign the loan, despite the student being adults and leave them in heavy debt with a worthless degree. |
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College degrees or training certificates obtained from unaccredited institutions are not accepted by the U.S. government and most corporations. In the U.S. these unaccredited institutions often have licenses
issued by cities/states for formal legal authorization to enroll students, help foreign students to get student visas or issue degrees, but their degrees or certificates are considered worthless.
There are hundred of unaccredited colleges, seminaries, and universities, which do not
have educational accreditation in the U.S. |
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In 2009-2010, 691,000 international students studied in the U.S., of which nearly 128,000 are Chinese students. The top five countries sending students to the U.S. – China, India, South Korea, Canada, and Taiwan – account for more than half of all
foreign students studying in the U.S. The universities hosting the largest number of foreign students (at least 7,000) are University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and New York University.
Around 40% of foreign students in the U.S. study business and management or engineering followed physical and life sciences, and math and computer science. |
| In 2008-2009, 260,327 American students studied abroad. The top destinations for U.S. students are Great Britain, Italy, and Spain.
Others popular countries hosting American students include Peru, South Korea, and Chile, China, Argentina, South Africa, Denmark, and the Czech Republic. |
| As of January 2009,
Mike Nicholson, 67, has 27 college degrees, 12 of which are from Western Michigan University. He has been either a full time or part-time student for the last 50 years. He holds 1 Doctoral degree, 20 Master's degrees,
1 Bachelor's degree, 2 Associate's degrees, and 3 Specialist's degrees. |
| The 10 most worthless college majors:
Religion,
Film,
Latin,
English Literature,
Dance,
Communications,
Music Therapy,
American Studies,
Philosophy, and
Art History. |
| There are approximate 99,000 public elementary and secondary schools with around 3.3 million teachers for
about 50 million students in the U.S.
Of these, almost 35.0 million are in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade and 14.8 million in grades 9 through 12. An additional 5.8 million students attend private schools. |
| About 3,327,000 students are expected to graduate from high school in 2009–10, including 3,005,000 from public high schools and 321,000 from private high schools. |
| The percentage of high school completers enrolling in college was 68.6 percent in 2008. The enrolling rate for females is 71.5 percent while the rate for males is 65.9 percent. |
| Most American
universities/colleges accepted more courses from the Advanced Placement Program (AP) program than
the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. |
| In Fall 2009, around 18.4 million students attended more than 4,400 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities in the U.S.
About 7.2 million students attended public 4-year institutions, 6.5 million attended public 2-year institutions, 4.4 million attended private 4-year institutions, and 0.3 million attended private 2-year colleges.
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| In the US, more than half of undergraduates (56 percent) – as well as 59 percent of graduate students – were women. |
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