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A suggested addition: pronunciation
How is K-12 pronounced: "kay twelve, "kay to twelve", ...?
This still doesn't mean a lot outside of the USA. What are the ages of the children you are refering to?
I've read on several pages (ex. this one: (www.txstate.edu/math/degrees-programs/phd.html) where they use the term "K-16". What does that mean and how, if at all, is it different from K-12? -- 74.120.133.109 23:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
K-18 is also in use ( example)- covering primary, secondary and tertiary education. Kim ( talk) 21:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
The reference to Australia may be misleading here. While such usage exists (as evidenced by the link), it is unusual, and may be capitalizing on the common understanding of the North American system.
My motivation for writing is because I am an Australian living in the USA with young children. I hear the term "K-12" all the time in relation to my sons' educations, and I thought I should look it up to make sure I properly understand what the expression means. Learning that it is in use in Australia was very surprising to me.
65.91.254.98 20:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I would suggest this article be moved to K-12 education, or merged with compulsory education. -- aciel ( talk) 19:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Some action would be good, but I'm not sure what. I can't see any way to expand this article beyond a deletable dictionary definition, but I'd be delighted to be shown wrong.
Notwithstanding the comment by an Australian expat above, K-12 is now an extremely common term in Australian education. I wonder how long they have been away, the usage of the term has only been common for the past decade or so, but it seems standard now. So, as far as Australian English goes IMO it should redirect straight to a page on education, rather than to a disambig or to the mountain K12, with a hatnote then to the disambig. But this may not be the case internationally. Andrewa ( talk) 16:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
I agree completely with the above comment about the uncommon Australian usage. I'm still living and going to school in Australia, infact I've gone to schools in three different states and I've never heard of its usage once. Anpw ( talk) 07:33, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The suggestiion that K-12 is used in New Zealand strikes me as odd. I have ne ver heard it used in my time through primary, secondary or tertiary education, nor while my children are at school, nor while working in the tertiary education sector. Neither have I ever seen or heard it in NZ media. In fact I came across this article after googling the term to better understand a US-oriented article I was reading which referenced K-20. Furthermore it is suggested that the term indicates the years of free education in the named counties (including NZ) up to 12-grade but this is not entirely correct. We do not use 'grades' as a indication of years. I presume that a grade equals a year and if so there is no relationship to the situation in NZ with 14 years free and 13 years compulsory. See Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_New_Zealand) 130.195.91.131 ( talk) 20:45, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
K-12 is also an extremely common E. coli strain used in research. I'd think that'd be more appropriate for this page. -- aciel ( talk) 22:36, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
I know this discussion is old but i would like to point out that 6-12 isnt compullsory in the united states to the same extent as k-5- 209.181.16.93 ( talk) 15:37, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm struggling to figure out why Poland, France, Serbia, Italy and Netherlands are included in the K-20 table, since clearly none of those countries use a K-12 system. Just for comparison purposes, or to hammer the point home that "the Internet does not belong to the USA," or whatever the anti-US slogan on the net is these days? -- SchutteGod 76.171.231.104 ( talk) 22:59, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
There is a line that I believe should be put into an external link or reference (or whatever suitable) but not within the section: 'Further reference to K–18 education can be found in this publication by Ann Diver-Stamnes and Linda Catelli in chapter 4 "College/University Partnership Projects for Instituting Change and Improvement in K–18 Education".75675577v'
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Can the combined junior and senior high school page should be created and what should it be called?
DynastiNoble ( talk) 19:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)