Comparative politics

Exploration of the issue (Education ) in US and Country of choice (Japan

Education policies in US

In US it is the government which mainly provides education . The funding is usually done in three levels : local , state and the federal Attendance of school is usually a must . The setting of School policies Curriculum Development , and Funding are normally done by the Board of governors who are usually locally selected they normally have jurisdiction in districts of Schools . Usually the School district and the local Jurisdiction are usually separated with independent budgets which

are official . The standard testing and Education standards decision usually lies on the State governments . Different states have different ages for compulsory education but the range is usually five to eight and coming to an end at ages fourteen to eighteen (Berube1994

The requirement of education can be met by going to State Certified private learning institutions , Public Schools , or home school programs that has been satisfied by the government . Education is divided into the three levels all these three levels are further been divided using their ages into grades , the fast is kindergarten and the last one is the twelfth grade which is the last one . From the twelfth grade someone proceed to college (Karabel , 1989

Incase a child is not performing well in school the parents have an option of taking him to the best school (either public or a government chartered school ) around . Supplementary services for example summer programs and private tuitions will be funded by...