U.S. Educational System Based on Age

The United States Educational System-Based on Age

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The United States educational system based on age is adapted to United Nations Educational , Scientific , and Cultural Organization 's (UNESCO International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED ) levels . In to define the levels of education uniformly across all countries this publication used terms to compile worldwide comparable statistics on education

The organization differentiated seven levels of education ranging from preprimary to tertiary . International s of preprimary primary , and tertiary education are parallel to the classification used in the United States . On

the other hand , lower and upper secondary education has slightly dissimilar meanings

Level zero is called as preprimary education or commonly known as early childhood education . It usually included education for children aged 3-5 , although in some countries , it starts as early as age 2 and in other continues through age 6 . In the United States , preprimary education includes kindergarten (Matheson , Salganik , Phelps Perie 19 ' Primary education (level 1 ) runs from about ages 6-11 , or about first through sixth grades in the United States . Specialization rarely occurs in any countries before secondary education

Secondary education covers ages 11 or 12 through 18 or 19 and is divided into two levels : lower and upper secondary (levels 2 and 3 . For purposes of statistical comparability , the United States has defined lower secondary education as grades 7 through 9 and upper secondary as grades 10 through 12 . In the United States , lower secondary education ends with an examination and constitutes the completion of compulsory education (Matheson , Salganik , Phelps Perie , 19 ' Upper secondary education immediately follows lower secondary education and includes general or academic , technical , and vocational education , or any combination thereof , depending on the country . An upper secondary attainment level is roughly equivalent to a U .S . high school diploma

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Higher education , also referred to as tertiary education , includes three ISCED levels and is equivalent of postsecondary education in the United States . Non-university higher education includes education beyond the secondary school level involving programs that terminate in less than a 4-year degree (Matheson , Salganik , Phelps Perie , 19 This type of education is at ISCED level 5 . ISCED level 6 comprises education programs that lead to a 4-year undergraduate degree . These programs are typically located in universities and other 4-year institutions . The highest level , ISCED level 7 , includes graduate and professional degree programs

Compulsory education ends at different ages across other countries . In the United States , Canada , France , Germany , and the United Kingdom mandatory schooling ends at age 16 , the end point is age 14 in Italy and 15 in Japan . In Germany , full-time compulsory education ends at age 16 although students are required to be enrolled at least part-time through age 18 (Matheson , Salganik , Phelps Perie , 14 . After compulsory education , enrollment rates drop off . In the United States , enrollment in secondary education dropped from 72 percent for 17-year-olds to 21 percent for 18-year-olds

In the United States , the first opportunity for students to receive...