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

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secondary constriction
secondary degeneration
secondary dementia
secondary dentin
secondary dentition
secondary deviation
secondary dextrocardia
secondary diagonal
secondary digestion
secondary disease
secondary drives
secondary drowning
secondary dysmenorrhea
secondary dysmenorrhoea
secondary education (current term)
secondary egg membrane
secondary electron
secondary electron imaging
secondary emission
secondary emissions
secondary encephalitis
secondary energy
secondary failure
secondary fermentation
secondary fissure of cerebellum
secondary follicle
secondary gain
secondary generalised epilepsy
secondary glaucoma

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 ..."

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