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Access online resources, student materials and advice to maintain teaching and learning in the event of a prolonged school closure or student absence. Find out about the support, programs and services your child can access to ensure they receive a quality education and can fully participate in the learning. More than 200 million children would be out of school, and only 60 per cent of young people would be completing upper secondary education in 2030.

• Global initiatives aim at achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4, which promotes quality education for all.
• Often in a post-colonial context, the growing recognition and use of indigenous education methods can be a response to the erosion and loss of indigenous knowledge and language through the processes of colonialism.
• In the United States, an estimated 55.1 million students were forced to cease in-person instruction as of 10 April 2020.
• Institutional racism prevents students from getting the opportunities they deserve.
• In this general sense, it explores how teachers can bring about experiences in learners to advance their understanding of the studied topic and how the learning itself takes place.

And it’s expected to double again in the next decade, along with international student mobility. Over the past decade, major progress was made towards increasing access to education and school enrollment rates at all levels, particularly for girls. Intuitive and actionable data for teachers, parents and school leaders. We provide a wide array of financial products and technical assistance, and we help countries share and apply innovative knowledge and solutions to the challenges they face.

In general, primary education consists of six to eight years of schooling starting at the age of five to seven, although this varies between, and sometimes within, countries. Globally, in 2008, around 89% of children aged six to twelve were enrolled in primary education, and this proportion was rising. Under the Education For All programs driven by UNESCO, most countries have committed to achieving universal enrollment in primary education by 2015, and in many countries, it is compulsory. The division between primary and secondary education is quite arbitrary, but it generally occurs at about eleven or twelve years of age. Some education systems have separate middle schools, with the transition to the final stage of secondary education taking place at around the age of fifteen. Schools that provide primary education, are mostly referred to as primary schools or elementary schools.

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Different places, and at different times, have used educational systems for different purposes. The Prussian education system in the 19th century, for example, wanted to turn boys and girls into adults who would serve the state’s political goals. Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education. Those who have higher scores of intelligence-metrics tend to perform better at school and go on to higher levels of education.

A closely related distinction is that between descriptive and prescriptive conceptions. Descriptive conceptions aim to describe how the term is actually used by regular speakers while prescriptive conceptions try to express what good education is or how it should be done. Being an education professional requires passion, dedication, confidence, and resilience. Our community helps educators at all stages in their career become leaders in their profession, in their union, and in their communities.