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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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.
The other heavily-trafficked area of contemporary business school is ethics, or the idea of ethics as an independent component of curriculum.
For many years, so-called Chicago School economists thought the idea of tying was absurd.
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But Roberts will be a tougher sell, says Mark Hall, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law and leading proponent of the idea that the Obamacare law will survive Supreme Court review.
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.
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.
"There is nothing particularly new in the idea of primary school teachers requiring more maths subject knowledge, " said general secretary Christine Blower.
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.
So Swaniker planned to delegate his idea of starting a school.
How can you reduce weapons in schools if you do not know what students think about guns in school and you have no clear idea of just how prevalent the problem is?
Mostly, because a lot of kids love the idea of playing for their school team.
This marks a radical advancement of the original school choice idea introduced by the late economist Milton Friedman.
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About half of pupils did not like the idea of pupils from another school coming into their building.
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.
"For all young people to be able to reach their full potential, we need to rid ourselves of this idea that an education system familiar to those who attended school towards the middle of the last century is the only way forward, " she said.
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Andy Boynton is Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and coauthor, with Bill Fischer, of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen (Jossey-Bass), written with William Bole.
Andy Boynton is Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and coauthor, with Bill Fischer, of The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make Them Happen(Jossey-Bass), written with journalist William Bole.
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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.
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.
Subsequently, though, I heard him speak at the London School of Economics, and he took this idea in a slightly different direction.
For me, the idea of summer reading began in elementary school.
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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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One of the most important innovations was the purely American idea of requiring all children to go to school.
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