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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 46 United States high school education the status quo reform trends and inspiration to us Upper secondary education is an important stage of education in the entire national education system plays a role of linking role. Students graduating from high school, or studies, or employment, their qualities, have a bearing on national competitiveness. For this reason, the U.S. government attaches great importance to improving the quality of secondary education. First, the United States senior secondary education structure, scale, funding and so the overall situation The United States over a four-year senior secondary academic structure, from grade 9 through grade 12 (the United States in most parts of the school system, grades 1 to 5 for primary, 6 to 8 grades of junior high school), all grades are often the same as the university were known as the Freshman, Sophomore , Junior, Senior. According to 2003 statistics, the United States four-year public high school enrollment of about 14.2 million people, while a four-year private high school enrollment is about 1.38 million people, the number of private high school students in public high school students about the number of 1 / 10, a total of approximately 15.6 million people. High school net enrollment rate was 96.4%. The above figures, if the high school compared with China, and perhaps more able to understand the United States high school level of development. In 2003, the number of high school students are 36 million people. High school net enrollment rate was 48.1%, only about half of the United States. In other words, China’s penetration of high school education than the United States there is a large gap. Although China 高中在校生in absolute numbers more than twice the size of the United States, but China’s population size is four times more than the United States, (China’s 1.3 billion, the U.S. 300 million). Therefore, the relative size of Chinese high sc