It is also arguably enshrined in federal law, as the Elementary Secondary Education Act requires that states implement yearly assessments, for example.
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In Burkina Faso, for example, mothers with secondary education are twice as likely to give birth in health facilities as those with no education.
As highlighted in the Digest, secondary education costs more than primary education mostly because of the need for teachers trained to provide subject-specific instruction.
The Design and Technology Secondary Education degree is a three-year course and qualifies students as secondary school Design and Technology teachers.
The proposals will come as an amendment to an elementary and secondary education reauthorization bill that will come before Congress later this year.
Many parents still look back on communist East Germany as a provider of first-rate secondary education in its many good grammar schools, though few regret the ideological brainwashing that went with it.
The market for post-secondary education could be every bit as open, diverse, and consumer-friendly.
As all of you know, post-secondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
But the Report calculates that the cost of one Nepalese student studying in Japan, for example, could pay for as many as 229 young people to have access to secondary education in Nepal.
For one, many young adults and students need to think about paying for the biggest expenses of their lifetime, such as a new car, home or post-secondary education.
In the United States, where loans for university students are packaged and sold as securities guaranteed by the government, much post-secondary education is already financed in this way.
As they work their way through primary education and on into basic secondary, education delay increases the probability of students dropping out of school.
For four years, as you know, Congress has struggled to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and to fix No Child Left Behind.
It serves as a principal movement to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education and to ensure the right to education and gender equality for all children, girls and boys alike.
The Global Microscience Experiments Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students as well as university students the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that are veritable mini-laboratories.
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"We extend an open invitation to all post-secondary institutions that care about sharing knowledge as a core value of education to join us in planning these sustainable learning futures, " said Dr Robin Day, Chair of the Board of Directors of the OER Foundation.
In so far as international comparisons (which are notoriously tricky) are to be believed, secondary education in most ex-communist countries matches western European levels.
In Latin America and the Caribbean as well as in East Asia and the Pacific, household contributions to both levels of secondary education range from 25% to 41% on average.
The main objective of this programme is to build capacity in the field of science education and develop of scientific thinking and experimentation among primary and secondary students as well as academics.
There will be a knock-on further down the education system as primary level has to be toughened to meet the demands of secondary to in turn meet the demands of A-levels and so on.
The Global Microscience Experiment Project is a hands-on science education project that gives primary and secondary school students ( in some countries university students as well) the opportunity to conduct practical work in physics, chemistry and biology, using kits that come with booklets describing possible scientific experiments.
The education minister wants to cut the subsidy paid to fee-paying secondary schools by half as part of wider government savings.
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The Department for Education is considering the site of the old Arbour Vale School as one option for the new Khalsa Secondary Academy.
The decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove will mean that computing will count as a science in the English Baccalaureate for secondary school league tables from January 2014 - alongside physics, chemistry, biology and pupils taking double science.
It is hoped the qualification - currently with the exams regulator, Ofqual, for approval - will be rolled out in secondary schools in the UK from next year, possibly as part of PSHE (personal, social and health education) or free study periods.
Worthy as land reform is, if equity is the goal, the money might be better spent on, say, secondary education or the government's new youth-unemployment scheme.
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