Elementary Education

Definition: Elementary Education

Elementary Education

Noun

1. Education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school.

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Synonym: Elementary Education

Teaching

Elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics, moral tuition.

Crosswords: Elementary Education

Books

• Nineteenth Century Elementary Education in the Archdiocese of Tuam (Maynooth Studies in Irish Local History) (reference)

• CST - Elementary Education Sample Questions (reference)

• Schooling the Poorer Child: Elementary Education in Sheffield, 1560-1902 (reference)

• India's struggle to universalize elementary education (reference)

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Elementary education shall be compulsory. (reference)

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Children

Philippines

In the 1980's, public spending covered 80 percent of the cost of elementary education; however, according to government estimate, this share has declined to less than 60 percent. (references)

Burundi

The Government provides elementary education at nominal cost through grade six; however, inequitable distribution of educational resources favors those children in southern and central areas of the country, according to International Alert, an international NGO. (references)

Indonesia

According to Ministry of Education data, 11.7 million children through the age of 18 were not attending school in 1999, while the ILO estimated that 11.9 million school-aged children did not attend school between 2000 and 2001. A 1994 law increased mandatory education requirements from 6 to 9 years (6 years of elementary education and 3 years of junior high school education). (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

Other than in one multicultural elementary education "pilot school," the Government does not provide instruction in Greek as a second language to Turcophone children in the Athens area. (references)

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Dutch

basisonderwýs. (various references)

Esperanto

elementa instruado. (various references)

Greek 

στοιχειώδησ εκπαίδευση. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

初等教育 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょとうきょういく. (various references)

Pig Latin

elementaryay educationay

Portuguese

educação elementar. (various references)

Spanish

educación elemental. (various references)

Turkish

temel öğretim, ilköğretim (primary education). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: nonmatriculated.

-5 letters: recontaminated.