Examples of school choice in the following topics:
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- For example, in 2007, the Washington, D.C. public school district had the third highest level of funding per student among the 100 biggest school districts.
- For example, in 2007, the Washington, D.C. public school district had the third highest level of funding per student among the 100 biggest school districts.
- A central issue for educational reform advocates today is school choice.
- Debates over school choice focus on advocates' claim that school choice can promote excellence in education through competition.
- Most proposals for school choice call for vouchers.
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- The Master's of Arts in Teaching degree is often advantageous to middle school and secondary school teachers because it allows them to focus on subject area knowledge in their undergraduate program and then acquire pedagogical skills in their graduate studies.
- Aspiring teachers can now get their degree online with schools like Walden University or University of Phoenix.
- However, getting a degree in the traditional manner and from a fairly well- known school is currently still the most popular choice.
- Taking the time to visit schools, to talk with alumni, and to meet with education professionals, can help you make the best choice.
- Also, if you are interested in making your choice based on the ranking of a particular school, check out USNews Education Program ranking.
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- It is important to understand the stances of the various school of economic thought.
- Although the beliefs of each school vary, all of the schools of economic thought have contributed to economic theory is some way.
- The Austrian School of economic thought focused on the belief that all economic phenomena are caused by the subjective choices of individuals.
- Unlike other schools, the Austrian school focused on individual actions instead of society as a whole.
- Differentiate "Chicago School" or "Austrian School" economists from "Keynesian School" economists
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- Home schooling is the education of children at home rather than in the setting of a school.
- Motivations for homeschooling vary, but may include dissatisfaction with the school environment, religious or moral reasons, or dissatisfaction with the quality of academic instruction provided in local schools.
- However, parents have always had some degree of choice in where and how children are educated.
- First, in some states, homeschooling is treated like a type of private school.
- A minority of states require public schools to give homeschooled students access to district resources, such as school libraries, computer labs, extracurricular activities, or even academic courses.
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- A rise in formalized vocational training followed the Panic of 1893, with vocational high schools and normal schools preceding.
- Normal Schools began in Massachusetts in the 1880s as extensions of local high schools.
- Paul's Public School District established a "City Training School" for preparing teachers.
- Paul School's first principal; Mrs.
- The closed shop of the artisan which had initially provided workers was no longer the educational program of choice.
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- Traditional I-Search allows complete choice on the part of the writer.
- This very openness, which motivates the writer to delve deeper into the topic of choice, is limited in the standards-based classroom.
- Much more planning time is required of both the teacher and the school media specialist with this student-centered approach in order to compile a comprehensive assortment of resource materials.
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- This school district was actively adopting technology and software as integrated, and integral, components of the traditional bureaucratic hierarchical brick and mortar system of schooling.
- Meritocracy means that hiring and promotion should be based on proven and documented skills, rather than on nepotism or random choice.
- However, they were excluded from the school system by segregation laws.
- In order to understand the bureaucratization of schools, we must understand the historical development of the school system.
- These needs formed the basis for school bureaucracies today.
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- The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
- The Ashcan School, also known as "The Eight," was central to the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
- Critics of the time did not always appreciate their choice of subjects, which included alleys, tenements, slum dwellers, and in the case of John French Sloan, taverns frequented by the working class .
- However, the Ashcan School was not an organized group.
- The artists of the Ashcan School rebelled against American Impressionism, which was the vanguard of American art at the time.
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- They research alternatives to disposable packaging and create a display of environmentally conscious choices.
- The overflowing trash bags create cognitive dissonance, and their research helps them develop attractive dissonance-reducing choices.
- Some of her students write letters to the local school board about a proposed reduction in physical education classes at their school.
- Others compare the nutritional quality of school lunch programs in their area and present recommendations for improvement to their school board.
- For example, a student may have believed that orange soda and french fries were healthy fruit and vegetable choices.
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- Many feel this ignores basic democratic principles in that control of schools' curricula is removed from local school boards, which are the nominal curricular authority in the U.S.
- The act is especially controversial because it ties funding to standardized test schools.
- When schools fail to show adequate yearly progress, they may lose funding or be taken over by the school board or state.
- Students must pass a standardized test in order to graduate from high school.
- Some standardized testing uses multiple-choice tests, which are relatively inexpensive to score, but any form of assessment can be used.