This marks a radical advancement of the original school choice idea introduced by the late economist Milton Friedman.
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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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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 many years, so-called Chicago School economists thought the idea of tying was absurd.
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Like another controversial idea, school vouchers, it will hardly solve all America's education problems.
Now when a parent sends their child to school they have no idea who is teaching them.
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During the kick-off, children from Idea Public School enjoyed a nutritious lunch and participated in various activities.
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Mr D'Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartphone application that offers summaries of existing news stories published on the net.
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.
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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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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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.
School trips are a good idea in principle and my children have been on all sorts.
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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.
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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It says doctors often graduate from medical school "without a clear idea of the normal anatomy of a woman's genitalia, still less the complex physical and psychological consequences that may result from sexual assault".
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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.
The interim board will now discuss with parents and staff the idea of converting the school into an academy.
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She had the idea of photographing her school lunches and posting them and some ratings to a blog, NeverSeconds.
They have to come up with an idea to benefit their school or community and draw up a business plan.
The other heavily-trafficked area of contemporary business school is ethics, or the idea of ethics as an independent component of curriculum.
He's continuing his education by going to graduate school in finance -- an idea some might shudder at given today's economic climate.
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.
So Swaniker planned to delegate his idea of starting a school.
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.
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.
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