K-12 schools
Kindergarten through twelfth
K-12 schools are educational institutions covering kindergarten through twelfth grade—the full span of primary and secondary education in the American system.
The term groups together elementary, middle, and high schools as a single category, typically in discussions of policy, funding, or curriculum: K-12 education spending, K-12 teachers.
Children generally enter at age five or six and graduate around eighteen.
- kindergartenEarly schooling for youngsters
- show and tellStudent object presentation
- classroomsEducational instruction spaces
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- teachersThose who instruct students
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K-12 schoolsuniversities
Institutions granting advanced degrees
higher education · colleges · graduate schools · post-secondary education · doctoral programs
K-12 schoolshomeschooling
Family-directed academic instruction
unschooling · self-directed learning · autodidacticism · informal education · free schools
K-12 schoolsadult education
Learning for mature students
continuing education · senior centers · professional development · corporate training · retirement communities
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