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Teaching, Homeschooling & Tutoring Toolkit
NEA’s 3 million members work at every level of education—from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States. Those who serve our students and communities need the support, resources, and working conditions to excel in their work. The power and influence of the NEA community are here to help you understand your rights and improve your working conditions.
- Due to this the proliferation of compulsory education, combined with population growth, UNESCO has calculated that in the next 30 years more people will receive formal education than in all of human history thus far.
- University education includes teaching, research, and social services activities, and it includes both the undergraduate level and the graduate level .
- As cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond skills that could be readily learned through imitation, formal education developed.
- The purpose of education in a given time and place affects who is taught, what is taught, and how the education system behaves.
- A curriculum is prescriptive and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to