High schools in North America are schools for secondary education, which may also involve intermediate education.
High schools in North America are schools for secondary education, which may also involve intermediate education.
High school football is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both countries. It is the level of tackle football that is played before college football in the United States and U Sports football in Canada.
The Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts (often referred to simply as LaGuardia or "LaG") is a public high school in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It specializes in teaching visual arts and performing arts. It is operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Situated at 100 Amsterdam Avenue between West 64th and 65th Streets, near Lincoln Center, the school was resulted from the merger of the High School of Music & Art and the School of Performing Arts. The school has a dual mission of arts and academics, preparing students for a career in the arts or conservatory study as well as a pursuit of higher education.
High school basketball, also known as prep basketball, is the sport of basketball as played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.
Top high school athletes sometimes go on to play college basketball after graduating. Some players were drafted directly from high school to play professionally in the National Basketball Association, including future NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, and LeBron James.
In the United States and Canada, a school of education (or college of education; ed school) is a division within a university that is devoted to scholarship in the field of education, which is an interdisciplinary branch of the social sciences encompassing sociology, psychology, linguistics, economics, political science, public policy, history, and others, all applied to the topic of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education. The U.S. has 1,206 schools, colleges and departments of education and they exist in 78 per cent of all universities and colleges. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 176,572 individuals were conferred master's degrees in education by degree-granting institutions in the United States in 2006–2007. The number of master's degrees conferred has grown immensely since the 1990s and accounts for one of the discipline areas that awards the highest number of master's degrees in the United States.