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2. Education in Saskatchewan - Wikipedia

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   Education in Saskatchewan, Canada, teaches a curriculum of learning set out by the Government of Saskatchewan through the Ministry of Education. The curriculum sets out to develop skills, knowledge and understanding to improve the quality of life. On June 22, 1915, Hon. Walter Scott, Premier and Minister of Education, set out as his mandate the "purpose of procuring for the children of ...

3. National Science Education Standards - Wikipedia

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   Many critics of standards-based education reform [7] and reform mathematics are also critical of the emphasis of the standards on process and inquiry-based science rather than learning of facts. Science assessments such as WASL in Washington state [8] contain very little factual content, and most assessment is based on the ability of students as young as the fifth grade to construct and ...

4. Education in Canada - Wikipedia

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   The mandatory education age ranges between 5–7 to 16–18 years, [31] contributing to an adult literacy rate of 99 percent. [32] Just over 60,000 children are homeschooled in the country as of 2016. The Programme for International Student Assessment indicates Canadian students perform well above the OECD average, particularly in mathematics, science, and reading, [33] [34] ranking the ...

5. Next Generation Science Standards - Wikipedia

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   The Next Generation Science Standards is a multi-state effort in the United States to create new education standards that are "rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education." [1] The standards were developed by a consortium of 26 states and by the National Science Teachers ...

6. Science education - Wikipedia

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   Science education is the teaching and learning of science to school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education includes work in science content, science process (the scientific method ), some social science, and some teaching pedagogy. The standards for science education provide expectations for the development of understanding for students ...

7. Academic grading in Canada - Wikipedia

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   The grading standards for public elementary and secondary schools (including secular and separate; English and French first language schools) are set by the Ontario Ministry of Education and includes letter grades and percentages. In addition to letter grades and percentages, the Ministry of Education also uses a level system to mark its students. The four levels correspond to how students are ...