EDUCATION

USA

There are public schools and private schools in the United States. The public school curricula and other policies are set through school boards; meanwhile the Private schools are free to determine their own curriculum and policies.

The education is divided into three levels: elementary school, middle or junior high school, and high school. Twelfth grade is the final year of high school.

There are also a large number and wide variety of publicly and privately administered institutions of higher education throughout the country. Post-secondary education, divided into college, as the first tertiary degree, and graduate school, is described in a separate section below. They prefer go to public schools.

In United State there are also a variety and a large number of public and private institutions of higher education. The U.S. spends more on education than any nation in the world.

COLOMBIA

Education in Colombia is considered a right and a public service.
It is a permanent cultural and social process that has as principal goal to achieve the integral development of the people, their dignity, their rights and duties. It may be a public or private education that is offered by the public sector or private institutions.

The Colombian educational system is divided into three levels:

- Preschool Education: includes grades prekindergarten, kindergarten and transition.

- Basic Education consists of two stages: the elementary school comprising grades first to fifth; and secondary, with the sixth to ninth grades.

- Medium Education: comprises tenth and eleventh grades. Only a few international schools also offer grade twelve.

You can also list a fourth level comprising higher education offered by various university entities, but compulsory education in our education system comprises only until grade eleven.Today the Colombian education system is governed by the law of childhood and adolescence (Law 1098 of 2006), in which the fundamental nature of the rights of children and adolescents is recognized.