Education in the United States

Universities

California

• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
• University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
• UCLA
• UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)
• UC Berkeley

2024: American schools and colleges began using chatbots more often to evaluate students' work

In early April 2024, it became known that teachers in American schools and colleges began to use artificial intelligence-based chatbots more often to evaluate students' work. Students also actively use AI tools when completing tasks.

Systems like ChatGPT help educators score, CNN reports. For example, Diana Gayeski, professor of communications at Ithaca College, uses ChatGPT to process student essays. Moreover, she recommends doing the same for students themselves: in her opinion, AI tools are able to make recommendations for improving the text.

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It is noted that the emergence of AI allows you to transform the usual education process, providing real advantages, such as automation of some tasks. As a result, teachers have time for a more personalized approach to learning. According to estimates by the consulting firm Tyton Partners, in the spring of 2023, only 9% of American teachers used AI funds. However, in the fall of the same year, the figure reached 22%.

In addition to ChatGPT, teachers use AI tools such as Writable, Grammarly and EssayGrader. Such tools help in creating quizzes, polls, videos and interactive materials. On the other hand, there are concerns that the processing of student works through AI could lead to the leakage of copyright materials. The practice of using AI to write reviews or rate assignments is also controversial on ethical grounds. Critics say faculty should consider the personal characteristics of students. Due to the rapid penetration of AI into everyday life, some educational institutions are actively working on the rules for using such tools - for both teachers and students.^[1]

2023: New York schools ban ChatGPT neural network that can write poetry and respond as a person

On January 6, 2023, it became known that the Department formations New York had banned the use chat boat of the with developed artificial intelligence ChatGPT by the company in schools. OpenAI More. here

2022

Falling level of mathematics knowledge among schoolchildren

China, India and Korea lead in the number of their students in the United States

52% of all international students in the United States come from only two countries: China (290 thousand students as of 2022) and India (199 thousand)

The third place with a lag of almost 5 times from the second is occupied by South Korea: a little more than 40 thousand residents of this country at that time studied in the United States.

Only 4.8 thousand people left Russia for the United States to study, 14.4 thousand from Nigeria, 5 thousand from Thailand, 5.3 from Venezuela.

2021: 9,042 public libraries in the US

Countries- leaders by the number of public libraries. Data for 2021

2019

43 million Americans can hardly read and write - US Ministry of Education

At the end of July 2019, researchers found that the widespread belief about the universal literacy of the English-speaking population of the United States is false. According to the International Adult Competency Assessment (PIAAC) program, referred to by the US Department of Education, the literacy of one in five adults in the United States corresponds to a "low" level, that is, 43 million Americans experience difficulties in reading and writing.

PIAAC defines literacy as "the ability to understand, evaluate, and use written texts to participate in society, achieve goals, and develop one's knowledge and potential." The program divides the population into five levels - level 2 and higher are considered literate.

According to PIAAC estimates, about 26.5 million adults remained at level 1 - those who can read and write at the most basic level, but cannot read newspapers or have difficulty filling out forms in the doctor's office.

Literacy of one in five adults in the United States corresponds to a "low" level

According to other estimates, 8.4 million people are below level 1 and are considered "functionally illiterate." There are also 8.2 million people who were unable to take part in the survey due to language barrier, cognitive or physical disability, and PIAAC data classifies them as having low literacy skills.

Gina Solomon, executive director of the Adult Literacy League, based in Florida, notes that people do not realize the catastrophicity of this problem. Many people remain illiterate due to parents being unable to provide them with schooling and then having difficulty recruiting.

Various coping mechanisms are common among such people - for example, many illiterate ones refer to forgotten glasses if they are allowed to fill out a form or read a menu, and then ask friends to read them.^[2]

Americans Are Reading Less for Fun

How the interest of US students in foreign languages ​ ​ has changed over 10 years

Hype around Korean music and pop culture has led to more U.S. students learning Korean in 2019. Since 2006, the number of students studying this language has almost doubled - the largest increase among all languages. Interest in Russian, as well as in other European languages, is falling.

2018: Declared literacy rate

The average literacy rate in countries around the world is about 69%. Data at the end of 2018

2017: Education costs

Доля затрат на education GDP from countries in 2017. Blue: primary, secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education. Blue: higher (tertiary) education

2014: What snow cover is needed for classes in US schools to be canceled

In the north of the country and in Alaska, school cancellations require a snow level of 60 centimeters, and in Texas and Florida, the very fact of snow falls is enough.

1966

American scientist James Stuckey and volunteer Judy Creeden. They demonstrate the human body's ability to function as an electric current conductor during a lecture in New York organized by the Atomic Energy Commission. USA, 1966

1958

In 1958, Clennon King, who had filed papers at Mississippi State University, was forcibly placed in a madhouse. The judge who passed that sentence explained: The Negro is definitely out of his depth if he thinks he might be admitted to the University of Mississippi.

Caps from decommissioning. United States, 1950s.

1956

Stuffed Negro Before Entering School as a Protest Against Black Integration, Texas, 1956.

1951

Puppeteer Courses, Tulsa, MO, 1951.

1946

Einstein lectures to students at Lincoln University, 1946, PA

1940

1940 Testing a new school dress code with trousers for girls, Brooklyn. According to the test results, wearing trousers was prohibited.

1939

The mother teaches children numbers and letters at home. Transylvania County, United States, 1939.

1937

One-class school during the Great Depression. 1937. Alabama, USA. This is a poor rural school, a barrel in the center is a bourgeois.

1925

High school teacher John T. Scopes has appeared in court in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution, which was banned by state law. July 10, 1925

Drexel University Women's Rifle Club. Philadelphia, 1925

1915

Cincinnati Watermelon Eating Contest. Ohio State, 1915

1905

School flogging, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA, 1905

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