This marks a radical advancement of the original school choice idea introduced by the late economist Milton Friedman.
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When it comes to the modern education reform movement, I am much more concerned with the testing regime and the top-down approach of many school reformers than I am with the idea of school choice.
For high school seniors looking into applying to colleges both early decision and on regular admission, the idea of going into school with a business idea that could one day potentially be the next Facebook is enough to make anyone want to shoot for the stars and begin launching their own company.
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The trio met at Stanford University, spinning Tableau out of the school in 2003 around the idea that companies needed simpler ways to visualize big data and databases.
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In fact, one of the things that first attracted me to the concept of school choice was the idea that perhaps students could escape the increasingly burgeoning testing apparatus.
Presumably, the idea of school sports is that it gives everyone in school (and homeschoolers, in the case of Duval County) a chance to participate in an extracurricular activity and, as such, give students and their families a deeper connection to the institution.
In the state's Southern Tier, the idea of combining high school football's Maple Grove Red Dragons with the Chautauqua Lake Thunderbirds teams that lined up against each other this past season was lamented at public hearings, especially by the Red Dragon faithful worried about losing a generations-long tradition of winning, something less important for the newer Chautauqua Lake district.
You may be as skeptical of this ecosystem as we are, or the fact that students would actually hang on to the idea they entered the school with two years prior.
Meanwhile, Year 8 student Reece is working on a written report about the new government idea to display the calories of school dinner meals, to see if the students will pick something healthy.
The interim board will now discuss with parents and staff the idea of converting the school into an academy.
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Anyone with the slightest streak of rebellion has to be thrilled at the idea that a high school marching band would subtly stick it to Scott Walker, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Koch Brothers.
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The other heavily-trafficked area of contemporary business school is ethics, or the idea of ethics as an independent component of curriculum.
Rachel Wolf, the director of the New Schools Network (which helps groups prepare free school bids), says the idea of profit in schools should be looked at.
For many years, so-called Chicago School economists thought the idea of tying was absurd.
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"There is nothing particularly new in the idea of primary school teachers requiring more maths subject knowledge, " said general secretary Christine Blower.
The council recently insisted closing the school was still only an idea.
The idea for the school sprang in 1987 from three MIT visionaries who scraped together enough money to begin a summer session the next year.
Fewer than half of college graduates support a proposal to put armed guards or police in more schools, while three-quarters of those with no more than a high school education favor the idea.
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In the current environment where too many law school graduates are chasing too few jobs the idea of publishing a ranking that rewards law schools for bloated enrollments seems out of touch.
It was jointly taught by staff from the Judge school and executives from Saatchi and Saatchi, with the idea of breaking down the notion that creativity should be the sole preserve of the so-called "creative industries" such as advertising.
She had the idea of photographing her school lunches and posting them and some ratings to a blog, NeverSeconds.
The idea of a small school nabbing a top coach from a major sports factory would be unthinkable in most other forms of college sports.
When he was 12 and took science classes at Northwestern University, he saw a school bus, and had an idea: what if the clunky, right-angled school bus was more aerodynamic?
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Webster, 47, learned about the risks of betting on overcomplex space technology more than a decade ago, when he and two Harvard Business School classmates dreamed up the idea of launching commercial satellites with a rocket carried in the cargo bay of the space shuttle.
Last week, the NRA released an advertisement that called the president an "elitist hypocrite, " and asked why he opposes the idea of placing armed guards in every school -- a proposal pushed by the NRA -- despite the fact that his own children attend a school with similar security.
The choice movement always struck me as a path toward division and the breakdown of the neighborhood school, and teaching to tests is perhaps the most wrong-headed idea education reformers have ever dreamed up.
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Mostly, because a lot of kids love the idea of playing for their school team.
About half of pupils did not like the idea of pupils from another school coming into their building.
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