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  2. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    (1) a reduction of per-class or per-capita costs; (2) a greater equalization of local tax burdens; (3) a decrease in the number of teachers needed; (4) an increase in the preparation, experience, and tenure of teachers; (5) better educational achievement by pupils; (6) broader curricula; (7) an increase in the instructional time for each pupil ...

  3. Attention span - Wikipedia

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    Many different tests on attention span have been used in different populations and in different times. Some tests measure short-term, focused attention abilities (which is typically below normal in people with ADHD), and others provide information about how easily distracted the test-taker is (typically a significant problem in people with ADHD).

  4. History of education - Wikipedia

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    The History of Western Education. (11th ed, 1975) online; Butts, R. Freeman. A Cultural History of Western Education: Its Social and Intellectual Foundations (2nd ed. 1955) Cook, T. G. The History of Education in Europe (1974) Cubberley, Ellwood. The history of education (1920) online Strong on European developments; Graff, Harvey J.

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .

  6. Secondary education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States public education system is structured into three levels: elementary (also known as primary) education, middle and high school (which is secondary together) education, and college or university level (also known as post-secondary) education. Schooling starts at age 5–6 and ends anywhere from 16 to 18 depending on the school ...

  7. International Standard Classification of Education - Wikipedia

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    Primary education or first stage of basic education: Normally starting between the ages of 5 – 7, designed to give a sound basic education in reading, writing and mathematics along with an elementary understanding of other subjects. 2 Lower secondary education or second stage of basic education

  8. Second-order - Wikipedia

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    Second order approximation, an approximation that includes quadratic terms; Second-order arithmetic, an axiomatization allowing quantification of sets of numbers; Second-order differential equation, a differential equation in which the highest derivative is the second; Second-order logic, an extension of predicate logic

  9. Standards-based education reform in the United States

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    His organization had contracts with states and districts covering as many as half of all American school children by their own claims, and many states enacted education reform legislation in the early 1990s based on this model, which was also known at the time as "performance-based education" as OBE (and the non-OBE progressive reforms co ...