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secondary education
(redirected from Secondary schooling)

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secondary education

Traditional second stage in formal education, typically beginning at ages 11–13 and ending usually at ages 15–18. The distinction between elementary education and secondary education has gradually become less marked, because of the proliferation of middle schools, junior high schools, and other divisions.



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Knowledgeably compiling documentation focused upon the education issues of assessment, citizenship, curriculum, e-learning, exclusion, learning theories, and work experience, Secondary Education offers teachers, administrators, policy makers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in education and the modern schooling system, a detailed compendium of information drawn from academic research studies pertaining to the contemporary history and state of secondary schooling.
Waltham House accommodates 12 teenagers at a time; they receive secondary schooling and vocational training.
Young refugees in Australia are provided with six months of intensive English language instruction, but for many recent arrivals with disrupted or non-existent educational backgrounds, this amount of instruction does not provide them with sufficient language skills to cope successfully with secondary schooling, to obtain employment or to undertake further training.
 
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