Education Northwest

The exact boundary between primary and secondary education also varies from country to country and even within them but is generally around the seventh to the tenth year of schooling. In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education comprises the formal education that occurs during adolescence. In the United States, Canada, and Australia, primary and secondary education together are sometimes referred to as K-12 education, and in New Zealand Year 1–13 is used. The purpose of secondary education can be to give common knowledge, to ensure literacy, to prepare for higher education, or to train directly in a profession.

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Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. Tab will move on to the next part of the site rather than go through menu items. A New Federal Guide Aims to Help While tech availability and affordability are often high equity priorities, how schools put digital tools to work is a big challenge. Why Some Districts Are Designing Their Own Curriculum Advocates say the homegrown materials better reflect the cities where they live and the students they serve.

What Is A Basic Definition Of Education?

The city of Alexandria in Egypt, established in 330 BCE, became the successor to Athens as the intellectual cradle of Ancient Greece. There, the great Library of Alexandria was built in the 3rd century BCE. European civilizations suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in CE 476. Out of 182 colleges surveyed in 2009 nearly half said tuition for online courses was higher than for campus-based ones. The conventional merit-system degree is currently not as common in open education as it is in campus universities, although some open universities do already offer conventional degrees such as the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Principals who are part of the online group known as Moms As Principals met face-to-face for the first time during a national conference in Philadelphia. Some governmental bodies, like the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra in Finland, have proposed compulsory lifelong mynewsfeeds.net. A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for three or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation rates of students from low income families. The Programme for International Student Assessment and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement objectively monitor and compare the proficiency of students from a wide range of different nations.

Higher education typically involves work towards a degree-level or foundation degree qualification. In most developed countries, a high proportion of the population (up to 50%) now enter higher education at some time in their lives. Higher education is therefore very important to national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right and as a source of trained and educated personnel for the rest of the economy. For the subfield of formal epistemology and computer science, see Formal learning theory.