Charter school - Inside the United States. In 1991, Minnesota adopted charter school legislation to expand a longstanding program of public school choice and to stimulate broader system improvements. Since then, the charter concept has spread to 40 states and DC. State laws follow varied sets of key organizing principles based on the Citizens League's recommendations for Minnesota, American Federation of Teachers guidelines, and/or federal charter-school legislation (U.S. Department of Education). Principles govern sponsorship, number of schools, regulatory waivers, ...

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Like in other Asian countries education plays a very great role in the lives of the young. And given the intense competition that young Indians experience because of the country's huge population, the need for a degree takes on a whole new perspective. Numerous cram schools—referred to as tutorials in India—have sprung up all over the nation. Like elsewhere here too these tutorials have become a parallel education system with the aim of getting their "clients" through various competitive exams. These exams are necessary to get into not only fields like engineering, m ...

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When a school bus is retired from school transportation in the United States, most states have requirements that school bus lettering must be covered or removed and warning devices deactivated or removed. At least one state prohibits non-school buses from being more than 50% yellow, reserving the color on buses for school buses only. Regulations vary from state to state. The large quantity of school buses retired from daily servic ...

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In much of India, the schooling (school in India always means an institution giving education to children in their Kindergarten and/or all or some classes from Class I to Class XII) offered by the state governments, which would technically come under the category of Public schools, often have sub-standard education and educational facilities. They are Federal or State funded and have zero or very minimal fees, usually in the vernacular medium (though English is taught as a compulsory language). Such schools' stude ...

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Private school, Private school - Types of private school in North America, Private school - Types of private school in England and Wales, Private school - Private schools in India

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A gift of ten million dollars by America Online founder Steve Case, a Punahou School graduate of 1976, led to construction of a new middle school for grades six through eight. Some time into the project, the school heard and learned about LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The school then hired a design consultant for sustainability and found out that they could earn the LEED Gold certification. At th ...

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John Lyon was a wealthy farmer, living at Preston, a village near to Harrow. He took an interest in education and even while alive he paid for 30 boys to be educated. Some romanticise the royal charter given to Lyon by Elizabeth I, granted in 1572, which allowed the foundation of the current school after his death; an example of this would be the Harrow song 'Queen Elizabeth sat one day' which describes how he obtained the charter specially. However in reality it was no different to a charter given to any other school of the time. It is argu ...

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Taunton School was founded in 1847 as a school for dissenters - those not members of the Church of England. Right from its founding, it was in direct competition with the other private schools in Taunton, Kings College (Church of England) and Queens College (Methodist). Its first site was at the southern end of the town. In the 1870s, the school's governors purchased a site at the northern end of Taunton, on Staplegrove Road. They had built an impressive gothic-influenced building, in the prevailing style of the period. The school is ...

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Oakham School has a total of 16 houses; 3 in the Upper School (1 boys and 1 girls), 10 in the Middle School (5 boys, 5 girls; 6 boarding, 4 day) and 4 in the Lower School (Jerwoods) (2 boys, 2 girls; 2 boarding, 2 day). There is a 17th house (College House) which is not residential and reserved for the exclusive use of pupils in the Seventh Form undertaking Oxbridge entrance preparation. Oakham School - Upper School. See also:

Oakham School, Oakham School - History, Oakham School - Curriculum, Oakham School - The lower School - Jerwoods, Oakham School - The Middle School, Oakham School - The Upper School, Oakham School - Houses, Oakham School - Upper School, Oakham School - Middle School, Oakham School - Lower School Jerwoods, Oakham School - School Clubs & Societies, Oakham School - Some Old Oakhamians

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The school has been described in the past as the "Catholic Eton" (' A Catholic Eton? Newman's Oratory School ' by Paul Shrimpton, ISBN 0852446616 ). Its current headmaster is Clive Dytor, (like Newman a convert and former Church of England clergyman), a veteran of The Falklands War who was awarded the MC for his actions during the conflict, and an MA of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The Oratory is one of only two schools in the United Kingdom (the other being Canford) to have a real tennis court (built in 1990) and en ...

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The Oratory School, The Oratory School - History, The Oratory School - The school today, The Oratory School - Former pupils and masters, The Oratory School - Preparatory School

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The aims of the schools were expressed in the words of Jean Monnet in 1953: "Educated side by side, untroubled from infancy by divisive prejudices, acquainted with all that is great and good in the different cultures, it will be borne in upon them as they mature that they belong together. Without ceasing to look to their own lands with love and pride, they will become in mind Europeans, schooled and ready to complete and consolidate the work of their fathers before them, to brin ...

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European School, European School - The Aim, European School - History, European School - Curriculum, European School - The European Baccalaureate, European School - Schools, European School - Source

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The European Schools project began in October 1953 in Luxembourg, on the initiative of officials of the European Coal and Steel Community, with the support of the Community's institutions and the Luxembourg Government. The first European school was established in a suburb of Luxembourg in that year, for the children of the officials of the European Coal and Steel Community. It was an experiment to standardize teaching standards amongst countries. Different governments and Ministries of Education co-operated in matters of curricula, ap ...

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The school was founded in 1913 by Ela Hockaday in response to parental demand for a college preparatory school for girls. While the school is noted for its students' continuing on to a variety of prestigious universities today, early on the school sent many girls to Smith College. The first class consisted of only fourteen students. Miss Hockaday's friend, Sarah Trent, was one of the first teachers at the ...

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List of schools in Singapore - Government Schools. Admiralty Primary School Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School Anderson Primary School Ang Mo Kio Primary School Balestier Hill Primary School Bedok Green Primary School Bedok West Primary School Bendemeer Primary School Blangah Rise Primary School Boon Lay Garden Primary School Bukit Panjang Primary School Bukit Timah Primary School Bukit View Primary School< ...

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Victoria School - Recent History. When top schools were given a choice to go independent, or remain government or government-linked, in 1990, Victoria remained a government school. This decision was by no means an unanimous one. An initial application for independent status was turned down by the Education Ministry, on the grounds that there should be some good schools accessible to the general population, as independent schools typically charged fees up to about 20 times the subsidised rate that government/gover ...

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Victoria School, Victoria School - Profile, Victoria School - Recent History, Victoria School - Recent Achievements, Victoria School - Recent Academic Performance, Victoria School - Programmes, Victoria School - Mission, Victoria School - School Crest, Victoria School - School Colours, Victoria School - School Motto, Victoria School - Core/Key Strategic Values, Victoria School - Victorian Anthem, Victoria School - Uniform, Victoria School - School Identity - The Victorian Spirit, Victoria School - Sports and Culture, Victoria School - Demographics, Victoria School - Victoria Hall, Victoria School - Affiliations, Victoria School - Prominent Victorians, Victoria School - External link

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Shrewsbury School ("The Free School") was founded in 1552 by King Edward VI, and in 1571 was augmented by Queen Elizabeth I. In 1868 the school was named one of the nine ‘great’ schools of England (along with Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Merchant Taylors' Rugby, St Paul's, Westminster and Winchester) in the Public Schools Act passed by the British Parliament. Headmasters include Sir Thomas Ashton, Samuel Butler, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, C.A. Alington, and Sir Eric Anderson. Sir Thomas Ashton, the first headmaster, gave the school a classical and humanistic tone that has been retained, though sciences and other stud ...

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Cram schools are usually privately owned. They are prevalent in East Asia, where education plays a greater part in adolescent life. In fact, there are so many cram schools in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and Hong Kong, that they have become a de facto parallel educational system, and high school students may need to attend cram schools after regular school to master certain important courses, like ...

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The Buchan School, Castletown, Isle of Man +44 (0) 1624 820400 head@buchan.sch.im ...

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In many parts of Africa Christian missionary organisations have founded schools, often in places where no other schooling is available. Such schools generally provide a complete education in a Christian context. Associations American Association of Christian Schools Association of Christian Schools International Association of Classical Christian Schools ...

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Christian school, Christian school - United States, Christian school - Canada, Christian school - United Kingdom, Christian school - Australia, Christian school - Africa, Christian school - External links

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Several camps of criticism of the Frankfurt School have emerged. One criticism is that the intellectual perspective of the Frankfurt School is really a romantic, elitist critique of mass culture dressed-up in neo-Marxist clothing: what really bothers the critical theorists in this view is not social oppression, but that the masses like Ian Fleming and The Beatles instead of Samuel Beckett and Webern. Another criticism, originating from the Left, is that critical theory is a form of bourgeois idealism that has no inherent relation to political practice and ...

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Secondary Schools: these offer 4-year courses leading up to the GCE O-level examination.* * Excluding privately (owned/funded) schools. List of schools in Singapore - Government schools. Admiralty Secondary School Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School Anderson Secondary School Ang Mo Kio Secondary School Balestier Hill Secondary School Bartley Secondary School Beatty Secondary School Bedok Green Secondary Scho ...

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List of schools in Singapore, List of schools in Singapore - Primary Schools, List of schools in Singapore - Government Schools, List of schools in Singapore - Government-aided Schools, List of schools in Singapore - Secondary Schools, List of schools in Singapore - Government schools, List of schools in Singapore - Government-aided Schools, List of schools in Singapore - Independent Schools, List of schools in Singapore - Autonomous schools, List of schools in Singapore - Special assistance plan schools, List of schools in Singapore - Specialised schools, List of schools in Singapore - Privately funded schools, List of schools in Singapore - Pre-university schools, List of schools in Singapore - Junior Colleges JC, List of schools in Singapore - Centralised Institutes CI, List of schools in Singapore - Language Centres, List of schools in Singapore - Technical schools, List of schools in Singapore - Institute of Technical Education, List of schools in Singapore - Polytechnics, List of schools in Singapore - Universities, List of schools in Singapore - Singaporean universities, List of schools in Singapore - International universities, List of schools in Singapore - Specialised tertiary schools, List of schools in Singapore - Special education schools, List of schools in Singapore - International schools

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Victoria School is affiliated to Victoria Junior College, and both campuses are co-housed in East Coast side-by-side. The two schools occasionally conduct joint programmes and activities, such as concerts and overseas trips. Both institutions are under the charge of the Victoria Executive and Advisory Committee (VEC/VAC), and share a common alumni association - the Old Victorians' Association (OVA). ...

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Victoria School, Victoria School - Profile, Victoria School - Recent History, Victoria School - Recent Achievements, Victoria School - Recent Academic Performance, Victoria School - Programmes, Victoria School - Mission, Victoria School - School Crest, Victoria School - School Colours, Victoria School - School Motto, Victoria School - Core/Key Strategic Values, Victoria School - Victorian Anthem, Victoria School - Uniform, Victoria School - School Identity - The Victorian Spirit, Victoria School - Sports and Culture, Victoria School - Demographics, Victoria School - Victoria Hall, Victoria School - Affiliations, Victoria School - Prominent Victorians, Victoria School - External link

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Main articles: List of schools in Australia, Queensland state high schools High school is the most common name for secondary schools in Australia. In Victoria the name was officially changed to secondary college in the early 1990s, but to the majority of the adult population they are still high schools. In the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania high school is 7-10, and studen ...

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