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Definition of Secondary education
1. Noun. Education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school.
Definition of Secondary education
1. Noun. Education of children that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary Education
Literary usage of Secondary education
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Jesuit theological College of St. Beuno in North Wales was founded from
Stonyhurst in 1848. Catholic girls' secondary education is similarly in the ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"THE secondary education of girls is quite new in France, though it has been
desired for a long time ; it was formed in 1880. Before this year, we had for ..."
3. Negro Education: A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored by United States Office of Education, Thomas Jesse Jones, Phelps-Stokes Fund (1917)
"IA summary of the facts outlined in this section on secondary education for
colored people points to the following conclusions: 1. ..."
4. Comparative Education: Studies of the Educational Systems of Six Modern Nations by Peter Sandiford, Isaac Leon Kandel, Harold Waldstein Foght, Arthur H. Hope (1918)
"secondary education While the elementary schools are intended to train the
Godfearing, self-supporting, patriotic subject, the aim of the German / secondary ..."
5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The Certificate of secondary education. that new school-leaving examinations
leading to such a certificate should be nationally established on a regional ..."
6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Educ R 51:286-94 Mr '16 Changes needed in American secondary education. ...
School R 24:67-9 Ja '16 Germany's recent progress in secondary education. ..."
7. Education Indicators: An International Perspective by Nancy Matheson, Laura H. Salganik, Richard P. Phelps, Marianne Perie (1997)
"In other countries, however, because upper secondary education is structured
differently, it is harder to pinpoint an age or an accomplishment that marks ..."