A comparison of American and Russian schools.

Education
Russian and American adolescents differ with respect to education. Russian teenagers are learning easier than American. For them, school is a time of carelessness. While American young people in the process of education comes with the responsibility.
Most likely, this is due to the fact that the majority of American students pre-determined with his future profession and getting into the right COLLEGE. While the Russian teenagers don't realize the future calling. Besides the choice for them often make parents.
American Teens love to learn. A huge amount of time they spend on school projects, actively participating in school or student life. From an early age they learn to plan their time. In America it's a shame not to study, as tuition paying a lot of money or sponsors, or parents. The children understand that investment is necessary to work out.
In the schools of America cannot see that someone someone has cheated. There this is strictly monitored. Even classmates noticed written off, could blow his cover. Students not only cheat themselves but also willing to write off others.
From early childhood, in adolescents the US to participate in charity events, to perform certain powers. They strive to ensure that their perceived personalities. Students of Russian are unlikely to attend such events. Although in Russia there is a lot of ideological personalities.

Appearance.
The appearance of American teenagers do not give any importance. Even those who are overweight, it is absolutely not complex. The clothes are very simple and often sloppy. Boys wear t-shirts and shorts. Girls - those t-shirts and skirts.
Russian girls from high school never comes to school in faded form and clothing. At Americans it is quite normal. In addition, their clothes are rarely combined together. Not to say that they don't care about appearance and they do not want to be beautiful, just their concept of beauty.
In many States among adolescents, no differences in the cost and quality of clothing. Do not concentrate attention on the presence or absence of a vehicle. In this regard there is no differentiation by social status or the amount of money the family. More precisely, it is, just people don't flaunt it in front of each other.

American school

Russian school

Education in the United States mainly state. It is controlled and funded at three levels: Federal, state and local authorities. There is a system of public schools. Higher education institutions mainly private, and so they try to attract students and postgraduates from all over the world.
The literacy rate in USA is 99% (2008), in 2011, 86% of people aged 25 years and older had secondary education, 30% had a bachelor's degree. The main language of instruction is English.
For historical reasons the issues of education are not mentioned in the Constitution, whereby it is implied that they should be over the States. In the USA there are no strict Federal standards for school curricula.

Education in the Russian Federation — a single purposeful process of education and training, being socially significant boon and implemented in the interests of the person, the family, society and state, as well as the totality of acquired knowledge, abilities, skills, values, experience and competence of certain size and complexity in order of intellectual, spiritually-moral, creative, physical and (or) professional development rights, meet their educational needs and interests.