I.

Introduction: defining education in general

II. Introduction to main education systems around the world

-American

-British

-Finnish

-Romanian

III. Defining the American education system

IV. Structure and main characteristics of the American education system

-primary school

-secondary school

-highschool

-college

V. Grading system (could you help us here, please?)

-parallel between the American and Romanian grading system

-GPA (definition, types, etc.)

-basic systems (numerical and letter grades)

-the 4.0 scale

-honors (graduation, types, etc.)

VI. Ups and downs

-ups (diversity & inclusion, global recognition, flexibility, enriching student experience)

-downs (cost of tuition, diversity in teaching, admission requirements, social benefits

during the period of study, employment opportunities & work benefits)

VII. Conclusion

VIII. Bibliography

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In this presentation, we would like to present the American education system overall, meaning
we are going to break it down for you. We will talk about education in general, then we wil
define the American system itself and we will also give you examples of other education systems
around the World.

After introducing you to the American education system, we are going to present you its
structure and main characterstics.

And finally, we are going to explain you the advantages and disadvantages of this specific system,
as well as the hardest part, in our opinion: the grading system. We know this can be difficult for
people to understand but we will try our best to make it comprehensible.

We will end our presentation with a brief conclusion.

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We are pretty sure that the American education system is kinda unknown to Romanian people
and that's why we chose this topic. We want to teach our classmates something new.

We will do a PowerPoint presentation. Each one of us is going to speak about one or two certain
subtopics. We will list everyone's responsabilities below.

We researched different websites which provided us useful information about our topic.

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Group responsabilities (everyone will give an oral presentation about the subtopics they chose):

-Codrin: subtopics I & II

-Ioana: subtopics III & IV

-Mary: subtopic V

-Teo: subtopics VI & VII

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Bibliography:

Segal Tom, "What is the Goal of the American Education System?", August 29, 2013 11:31 AM,
https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/reimagining/2013/08/whats_the_goal_of_edu.html?
fbclid=IwAR0LD8ve4gthweljwWTA4B48pt_VM_RHio0Co8pTpmkjTWT92UH_9Tt6ZKw

"Understanding the American Education System", July 16, 2019,

https://www.studyusa.com/en/a/58/understanding-the-american-education-system?
fbclid=IwAR2RU1mBe3LLH66gYld1p9MQgUNmQZiWXLTO7JhRE-WM_A2YdS3SDZRN5Nc
"The American education system: An overview", August 31, 2017,
https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/american-education-overview?fbclid=IwAR03vqjQUvSKO-
cl3SOjA7nUnfFovqh_WFwb7sFSEtgcOXSKs8EZJgrlvYg

"American Education System Of Education", December 3, 2015,

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/American-Education-System-Of-Education-F3BY8GKTUXYW

"Education system", August 29, 2013, https://www.edglossary.org/education-system/?

fbclid=IwAR0KHddpQnfGv0YuxkCQek80cBo38JjeJs-DGKqHzWGjUn-xDdM6_z_4tOA