 "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"
Source
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