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  2. Education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational standards, often mandate standardized tests for K–12 public school systems and supervise, usually through a board of regents, state colleges, and universities.

  3. Education reform - Wikipedia

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    Education reform is the process of constantly renegotiating and restructuring the educational standards to reflect the ever-evolving contemporary ideals of social, economic, and political culture. [9] Reforms can be based on bringing education into alignment with a society's core values.

  4. Educational inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Educational inequality contributes to a number of broader problems in the United States, including income inequality and increasing prison populations. [1] Educational inequalities in the United States are wide-ranging, and many potential solutions have been proposed to mitigate their impacts on students.

  5. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education - Wikipedia

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    The rapid spread of COVID-19 lockdowns forced many females into the traditional roles as caretakers. Common gender disparities that impact a female's education during the pandemic are finances enabling higher dropout rates, domestic violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, and exploitation of child labor. [71]

  6. Educational inequality - Wikipedia

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    Educational inequality. Educational inequality is the unequal distribution of academic resources, including but not limited to school funding, qualified and experienced teachers, books, and technologies, to socially excluded communities. These communities tend to be historically disadvantaged and oppressed.

  7. Educational system - Wikipedia

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    The educational system generally refers to the structure of all institutions and the opportunities for obtaining education within a country. It includes all pre-school institutions, starting from family education, and/or early childhood education, through kindergarten, primary, secondary, and tertiary schools, then lyceums, colleges, and faculties also known as Higher education (University ...

  8. Education in California - Wikipedia

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    The educational system in California consists of public, NPS, and private schools in the U.S. state of California, including the public University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges systems, private colleges and universities, and elementary, middle, and high schools .

  9. Breast Cancer in Young Women: Rates Rise, Guidelines Shift

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    Lack of Education The absence of curriculum in health classes that teach students how to perform a breast self-exam is a major component in the lack of detection.