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  2. Department of Education (Philippines) - Wikipedia

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    Philippine Education has undergone different stages of progress from the pre-Spanish era to the present. During the early Spanish period, education in the Philippines was religion-oriented and was primarily for the elite, especially in the first years of Spanish colonization.

  3. United States Department of Education - Wikipedia

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    The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into ...

  4. Education in the Philippines during Spanish rule - Wikipedia

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    At the present time, after three hundred years of Spanish domination, the bulk of the people cannot do his. The Spanish minister for the colonies, in a report made December 5, 1870, points out that, by the process of absorption, matters of education had become concentrated in the hands of the religious orders.

  5. Education in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    In the early years following the 1898 American occupation of the island, the opposite was true: public schooling was entirely conducted in English, and Spanish was treated as a special subject as sanctioned by the US from 1903 to 1917 for grades 1 through 4; only by 1934 were grades five through eight also being taught in Spanish.

  6. Secretariat of Public Education - Wikipedia

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    Mexican flag and banners Murals by Diego Rivera. In Mexico, the Secretariat of Public Education (in Spanish Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP) is a federal government authority with cabinet representation and the responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of national educational policy and school standards.

  7. Ministry of Education (Spain) - Wikipedia

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    This situation is maintained for one year: In 2009 the functions on tertiary education are returned to Education and the Social Policy goes to Health. In the first government of Mariano Rajoy , on December 22, 2011, the Ministry of Education was again merged with Culture in the new Department of Education, Culture and Sport. [ 14 ]

  8. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Education Department considered this direct measure of literacy more accurate than a 1979 estimate which inferred literacy from the number of years of education completed. [32] Data from the ELPS were presented in a 1986 Census Bureau report which concluded that 13% of adults living in the United States were illiterate in English. [ 32 ]

  9. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia

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    However, the local education authority may grant an exception to any individual English learner for another two years' testing in his or her native language on a case-by-case basis. In practice, however, only 10 states choose to test any English language learners in their native language (almost entirely Spanish speakers).