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Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Secondary education is a period of education which, in most contemporary educational systems of the world, follows directly after primary education, and which may be followed by tertiary, "post-secondary", or "higher" education (e.g., university). |
 | | In some educational systems, secondary schools are literally termed middle schools; the use of this term, however, is not consistent around the world as middle school in some systems refers to the first period of secondary schooling, or alternately, the last period of primary education. |
 | | Primary and secondary education together are sometimes (in particular, in Canada, Australia and the United States) referred to as "K-12" education, (K is for kindergarten, 12 is for twelfth grade). |
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