They came from city streets and prairie towns, from public high schools and West Point.
And who gets to do sports in high school particularly in our large public high schools?
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In 1990, Muslim Brotherhood Cabinet ministers declared a ban on gender mixing in public high schools sports.
But learning to program is, in fact, difficult, and getting schools particularly public High Schools to introduce new curriculum is very slow going.
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From the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution came a system of public high schools that prepared our citizens for a new age.
What would this country be like if we had chosen not to spend money on public high schools, or research universities, or community colleges?
Mark Dixon, the governor's adviser for education, says that several years ago fewer than half of Alabama's public high schools offered any college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
Bronx Science is one of the city's eight elite public high schools that use a single test to determine admissions, drawing 3, 000 students from the five boroughs.
In the U.S., debates about science and religion in the classroom tend to focus on American public high schools, where local school boards argue about Darwin and the Bible.
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When we transitioned from an economy based on farms to one based on factories, and workers needed new skills and training, our nation set up a system of public high schools.
You know, the United States historically became an economic superpower in part because we were ahead of the curve when it came to education -- establishing compulsory public high schools, using the G.
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Stuyvesant is widely regarded as the best of the nine free New York City public high schools that select students based on a highly competitive Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT).
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Dory learned to help people negotiate a discriminatory government bureaucracy, ultimately winning documentation for dozens of community members and helping them achieve access to public high schools and a shot at a better living.
The announcement comes about six years after anonymous donors gained national attention for creating Kalamazoo Promise, an organization that covers tuition costs at state colleges and universities for graduates of Kalamazoo public high schools.
Although public high schools submit their admissions decisions to the Department of Education by the end of January, it takes three to four weeks to review the data, run matches, follow up with schools and check accuracy, school officials said.
Stuyvesant along with other elite New York public high schools must dismantle all vestiges of the resentful, biased, and anti-meritocratic quota system pushed on many elite New York public high schools as far back as 1968, which has likely enabled the admission of students fundamentally unprepared for its academic rigor.
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In a study of 2, 500 students who went through the Fond du Lac program at six public high schools between 2005 and 2009, published last week in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, nearly 20% were identified as at risk, of whom 73.6% were not receiving treatment at the time of screening.
In the years since the murders at Columbine High School in 1999, Evan has spoken at hundreds of public and private high schools, colleges, churches, youth groups and more.
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The Make and DARPA project around public education and high schools.
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Bryn Austin from Harvard's School of Public Health mapped all the schools in Chicago--kindergartens through high schools, public and private--and also mapped where the fast-food restaurants are located in the city.
Last year, the Department of Education changed the date of its high-school notifications so that students were informed in mid-February about which public schools had accepted them, including the specialized high schools.
When I was in junior high, public schools tolerated a much higher background level of bullying than they do in the post-Columbine era, but when I was at the Spelling Bee, I fit in.
"Only 28% of ninth graders in the Detroit public schools are graduating high school, " he notes.
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We aim to not only open more high-quality public schools across the country but also to have a transformative impact on the traditional school system.
You simply decide how much you want to give and which charity appeals to you, and the money goes directly to one or more programs that will impact high-need public schools.
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Authorities said Higazy, who attended elementary and high school in Washington public schools, entered the United States on August 27 on an Egyptian passport with a student visa.
And thus, the fights between public and private schools under the same high school association banner growing more intense.
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The President's proposal includes robust investments to modernize at least 35, 000 public schools to put Americans to work and provide our students with high-quality education and safe and healthy schools in which they can learn.
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Frank Wilson, now the recruiting coordinator and running backs coach at LSU, said he has known Green-Ellis since he was athletic director for the New Orleans public schools and Green-Ellis was a high school star there.
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