The most selective schools in the US could easily double their enrollment while maintaining exceptionally high standards, but the costs of greatly expanding campuses and faculty would almost certainly exceed incremental revenues.
For the Swedish school system operates with directly funded schools, the municipality running them just as a school district would in the US. But such schools are not experimental in the manner of Egalia.
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In fact, the School Food Trust tells us that some of the best schools in terms of attitudes to food and meals are academies.
Some of the most cutting edge work in K-12 is being led by social entrepreneurs starting new private schools to eliminate the achievement gaps among underserved students, like Rocketship Education in the US, Spark Schools in South Africa and Innova Schools in Peru.
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The former students at Jesuit schools in five states of the north-western US said they were abused from the 1940s through the 1990s.
We exceeded our goal in the Healthier US School Challenge with over 1, 500 schools meeting high standards in nutrition and fitness, and the list continues to grow.
There has been a pilot scheme for this project, involving schools in 22 US states, and also a small number of schools in the UK and Canada.
The Taleban fell from power in 2001, after an intensive three-month military campaign led by the US. The country lay in disarray and all schools were suspended.
It does not appear anywhere in the acclaimed US News and World Report lists of high-performing schools in Maryland, let alone nationwide - even in the subsets of STEM or charter schools.
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Data compiled by GMAC in the 2012 World Geographic Trend Report indicates that the percentage of GMAT score reports sent to US business schools in 2012 has dropped from 81 to 76 percent since 2008, and those sent to schools abroad have increased proportionally.
In both the UK and US many schools have already banned pupils from using these networks over fears that the children are taking risks with the amount of information they are posting.
She said volunteering should be introduced as part of national curriculum projects in schools and she backed a US idea that ties the funding of public bodies with the number of volunteers recruited.
In fact, many high schools (secondary schools) around the US support a traditional foreign exchange student club and national organization, the American Field Service (AFS), founded by WWI ambulance drivers like Mr. Patch.
But it takes us to the question of why do we have schools in the first place.
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In the last budget, when schools and hospitals desperately needed more cash, Gordon Brown gave us a tax cut, due next April.
"I think parents would want us to be having the kind of look we are in Coventry schools at the moment, " Ms Soden said.
The government says the US Charter schools movement is closer to its free school programme and that in Chicago and New York, Charter schools have helped close the achievement gap between rich and poor students.
Other autocracies, such as Saudi Arabia, seem mired in self-destructive behavior: spending vast sums to promote a whole set of domestic and foreign institutions, such as Saudi and Pakistani schools, that build hatred against both us and the modern world and that will, in time, undermine their own rule.
The mayor and I have worked with the DC Council to pass the personnel legislation that will allow us to create a culture of accountability in the central office that serves our schools and families.
In the fall, the US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case involving several law schools that restrict military recruitment on their campuses.
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There are mayors in his district, there are schools in his district that have reported to us jobs that have been saved or created as a result of the Recovery Act.
Too many schools do not realise pregnant students should receive equal treatment, the US National Women's Law Center said in a June report.
His schools now extend to computer classes and various second language classes, some even outside Brazil (already in China, the US, Japan, Mexico and four other countries, they most recently announced another school opening in Panama).
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From thousands answering Peace Corps appeals to help boost food production in Africa, to millions volunteering time, corporations adopting schools, and communities pulling together to help the neediest among us at home, we have refound our values.
We believe in an America where we all understand that none of us gets where we are on our own, and where we treat everyone with dignity and respect -- from the teachers who inspire us to the janitors who keep our schools clean. (Applause.) In this America that we are working to build, we believe that the truth matters.
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