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any of various types of education given in postsecondary institutions of learning and usually affording, at the end of a course of study, a named degree, diploma, or certificate of higher studies. Higher-educational institutions include not only universities and colleges but also various professional schools that provide preparation in such fields as law, theology, ...
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the first stage traditionally found in formal education, beginning at about age 5 to 7 and ending at about age 11 to 13. In the United Kingdom and some other countries, the term primary is used instead of elementary. In the United States the term primary customarily refers to only the first three years of elementary education—i.e., grades 1 to 3. Elementary education is ...
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any form of learning undertaken by or provided for mature men and women. In a 1970 report, the National Institute of Adult Education (England and Wales) defined adult education as “any kind of education for people who are old enough to work, vote, fight and marry and who have completed the cycle of continuous education, [if any] commenced in childhood.” Adult education ...
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Noteworthy educational events during 2000 focused on the worldwide status of education, efforts to improve the quality and quantity of schooling, inequitable educational opportunities, controversies concerning the testing of teachers, strategies for financing higher education, innovations in distance education, and the political activities of university and college ...
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Topics in education that commanded attention in 1999 included politicians' educational decisions, the supply of teachers, violence in the schools, church-state relationships, technological advances, university consortia, new types of higher-education institutions, and student political activities. School and college attendance in the U.S. set new records as 53.2 million ...
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| bilingual education
The ability to speak or write two languages well is called bilingualism. In terms of schooling, bilingualism has two somewhat different aspects. In a country like the United States that has what may be considered a national language—English—bilingual education means teaching English to those who were brought up using other native languages. The purpose of such education ...
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from the Massachusetts article
The first school law in North America was passed by the Massachusetts Bay government in 1647. It required the teaching of writing and reading in towns of 50 families or more and the establishment of secondary schools in towns of at least 100 families. The system of private academies had been started in 1635 with the founding of Boston Latin School.
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from the Sweden article
The length of the country's railroad network is more than 6,750 miles (10,850 kilometers). The highway network runs more than 120,000 miles (193,000 kilometers) in length. Sweden has a large number of passenger automobiles (more than 3.8 million) compared with the size of the population. There are four-lane highways between Stockholm and Uppsala and, for much of the ...
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from the El Salvador article
Primary education, from age 7 to 15, is officially compulsory. About 90 percent of children attend primary schools. Three years of secondary education begins at age 16; however, some 60 percent of children do not attend secondary school. Institutions of higher education include the University of El Salvador, the University Dr. José Matías Delgado, and the Central American ...
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from the Venezuela article
Venezuela channels a higher portion of its budget into education than do other large Latin American countries such as Mexico and Brazil. As a result its literacy rate is considerably higher—92 percent. Primary and secondary education is free and compulsory. Higher education at state universities is tuition free, but places in the best institutions—such as the Central and ...
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