Public Education

Further Reading: Education

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Foreign Language ... Foreign language education and ability See main article: Language education Most schools around the world teach at least one foreign language...

Rote Learning ... For example, science and mathematics standards in the United States specifically emphasize the importance of deep understanding over the mere recall of facts, which is seen to be less important, although advocates of traditional education have criticized the new American standards as slighting learning basic facts and elementary arithmetic, and replacing content with process-based skills...

Philosophy Of Education ... As an academic field, philosophy of education is "the philosophical study of education and its problems.its central subject matter is education, and its methods are those of philosophy"... "The philosophy of education may be either the philosophy of the process of education or the philosophy of the discipline of education... That is, it may be part of the discipline in the sense of being concerned with the aims, forms, methods, or results of the process of educating or being educated; or it may be metadisciplinary in the sense of being concerned with the concepts, aims, and methods of the discipline." As such, it is both part of the field of education and a field of applied philosophy, drawing from fields of metaphysics, epistemology, axiology and the philosophical approaches (speculative, prescriptive, and/or analytic) to address questions in and about pedagogy, education policy, and curriculum, as well as the process of learning, to name a few...

School ... In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary and secondary education... Private schools may be for children with special needs when the government does not supply for them; religious, such as Christian schools, hawzas, yeshivas, and others; or schools that have a higher standard of education or seek to foster other personal achievements... Schools for adults include institutions of corporate training, Military education and training and business schools...

Tuition Payments ... Tuition payment Some methods students use to pay for the cost of tuition include: Scholarships Bursaries Grants Parents' money Student savings Government Student loans Financial institution loans Educational institution loans Company funding Tuition is one of the costs of a post-secondary education in the U. S...

Online Tutoring ... The tutoring may take the form of a group of learners simultaneously logged in and receiving instruction from a single tutor, also known as many-to-one tutoring. This is often known as e-moderation, defined as the facilitation of the achievement of goals of independent learning, learner autonomy, self-reflection, knowledge construction, collaborative or group-based learning, online discussion, transformative learning and communities of practice...

Tutor ... In the University of Cambridge, a Tutor is an officer of a college responsible for the pastoral care of a number of students in cognate disciplines, as against a Director of Studies who is responsible for the academic progress of a group of students in their own discipline, with both Tutors and Directors of Study answering to a Senior Tutor. In the University of Oxford, the colleges fuse pastoral and academic care into the single office of Fellow and Tutor, also known as a CUF Lecturer...

Community College ... The majority of colleges by the late 20th century had also become Registered Training Organisations; recognising the need to offer individuals a nurturing, non-traditional education venue to gain skills that would better prepare them for the workplace and potential job openings... Colleges are educational institutions providing higher education and tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, associate's degrees, and bachelor's degrees...

Second-language Acquisition ... As well as the various branches of linguistics, second-language acquisition is also closely related to psychology, cognitive psychology, and education... Writers in fields such as education and psychology, however, often use bilingualism loosely to refer to all forms of multilingualism...

Education In South Africa ... In 2010, it had 12.3 million learners, 386,000 teachers and around 48,000 schools (8 teachers per school on average) – including 390 special needs schools and 1,000 registered private schools. Officially, primary schools comprise Grade 1 to 7 and High schools Grade 8 to 12...

Virtual School ... All or a majority of the student services are conducted via Internet technology. The virtual school differ/contrasts from the traditional school through the physical media that links administrators, teachers, and students...

High School ... In all of New Zealand and Malaysia along with parts of Australia, Bangladesh and Canada, high school is synonymous with secondary school, and encompasses the entire secondary stage of education... The later years of high school are known as the Higher School Certificate (HSC) in New South Wales for Year 12, Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) in Victoria for Years 11 and 12 and similar names in other states...

University ... The first universities in Europe with a form of corporate/guild structure were the University of Bologna (1088), the University of Paris (c. 1150, later associated with the Sorbonne), the University of Oxford (1167), the University of Palencia (1208), the University of Cambridge (1209), the University of Salamanca (1218), the University of Montpellier (1220), the University of Padua (1222), the University of Naples Federico II (1224), the University of Toulouse (1229), the University of Siena (1240)...

College ... In Queensland some newer schools which accept primary and high school students are styled state college, but state schools offering only secondary education are called "State High School"... It can refer to an institution of tertiary education that is smaller than a university, run independently or as part of a university...

Philosophy Of History ... Sometimes critical philosophy of history is included under historiography. Philosophy of history should not be confused with the history of philosophy, which is the study of the development of philosophical ideas through time...

Homeschooling ... In some cases a liberal arts education is provided using the trivium and quadrivium as the main model...

Amateur Sports ... The middle and upper class men who dominated the sporting establishment not only had a theoretical preference for amateurism, they also had a self-interest in blocking the professionalisation of sport, which threatened to make it feasible for the working classes to compete against themselves with success. Working class sportsmen didn't see why they shouldn't be paid to play...

Education ... A right to education has been created and recognized by some jurisdictions: Since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education... Etymology Etymologically, the word education is derived from the Latin ēducātiō (“A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing) from ēdūcō (“I educate, I train”) which is related to the homonym ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”) from ē- (“from, out of”) and dūcō (“I lead, I conduct”)...

School Discipline ... Historical attitudes to school discipline Corporal punishment Throughout the history of education the most common means of maintaining discipline in schools was corporal punishment...

Medieval University ... These universities evolved from much older Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools, and it is difficult to define the date at which they became true universities, although the lists of studia generalia for higher education in Europe held by the Vatican are a useful guide...

College Athletics ... Competition between student clubs from different colleges, not organized by and therefore not representing the institutions or their faculties, may also be called "intercollegiate" athletics or simply college sports. College sports originated as student activities...

Curriculum ... A curriculum may also refer to a defined and prescribed course of studies, which students must fulfill in order to pass a certain level of education...

Elementary Schools In Japan ... Virtually all elementary education takes place in public schools; less than 1% of the schools are private...

Education In The People's Republic Of China ... Laws regulating the system of education include the Regulation on Academic Degrees, the Compulsory Education Law, the Teachers Law, the Education Law, the Law on Vocational Education, and the Law on Higher Education... See also: Law of the People's Republic of China History Since the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), the education system in China has been geared toward economic modernization... In 1985, the national government ceded responsibility for basic education to local governments through the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party's "Decision on the Reform of the Educational Structure." In unveiling the education reform plan in May 1985, the authorities called for nine years of compulsory education and the establishment of the State Education Commission (created the following month)...