Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street.
That link on SPARK takes you to the iRobot site dedicated to educational efforts for elementary school up to college.
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My son's school broke up for the school holidays 3 weeks ago, but none of the pupils had received their results.
The first time we go to Sea Cliff, where Alice lives, she points up a hill at fog sneaking through the eucalyptus trees and says that her old school is up there: an all-girls school that her little sisters go to now.
How pupils perform in exams will count for rather a lot, granted but how many children actually turn up every day, whether there are signs of progress - will also help decide where your school ends up near the top or towards the bottom of its band.
The University of Cambridge is to set up a school of entrepreneurship in another sign that one of Britain's top universities, which only recently set up a management school, is at last embracing business.
So how does a school keep up with a community that moves around so much?
The roughly 1, 300 students now take classes at a makeshift school made up of tents provided by UNICEF.
This fall, the school opened up the weekly workouts to its entire student body as part of a wellness initiative.
The council says it allocated places to children living closest to the school, up to a maximum distance of 0.685 miles.
Lagat, who ran 3 miles from home to school growing up, plans to compete in the New York City Marathon one day.
He attended an all-black high school growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where he still remembers what it was like to be a minority.
Also, children in regular schools in Korea are in school for up to 12 hours a day, with highly structured, large classrooms, and few opportunities for socialization.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populous state, a new minority government of Social Democrats and Greens favours keeping children together in school for up to ten years.
In London, four out of five parents (81%) got their first choice of school - up on last year - while 92% got one of their top three choices.
The government argues that children's education is disrupted by term-time holidays, although parents are entitled to take their children out of school for up to 10 days a year.
With the specter of the sex scandal fading and her second group of seniors sending out college applications, Winfrey is opening the school back up to the outside world.
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The school beefed up its recruiting effort in China three years ago, said Dean Mark Zupan, after recognizing that the Chinese education system's focus on quantitative skills would provide a good grounding for students in its finance-heavy programs.
We're going to keep fighting to give every American the best education possible. (Applause.) That's why we launched the Race to the Top program, to make sure every school lives up to its potential so that every child lives up to their potential.
Alwaleed wound up attending military school in Riyadh, picking up a strict discipline he adheres to even now.
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When everything is working, this is first-rate theater, as when Peter Darling's choreography, Howell's sets, the songwriters and actors do with the tune "School Song, " when children climb up the school gates with each step linked to a letter in the lyrics.
Supported up to 800 poor families through a family sponsorship program since 1988, and provided school support for up to 1, 500 children for over 16 years.
Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make-up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.
This is not in the article but was tweeted at me by Ashk4n and may provide further reason to read the piece: At a Start-up School talk last month, Palantir co-founder Stephen Cohen bragged about how his pattern-finding start-up makes grizzled government types turn into giddy teenagers ( 15:00 min mark).
The class paired up Stanford engineers and B-school students to come up with a product.
He, the secondary school principal and the school security officer have redoubled efforts to make students show up for school, visiting truants' homes almost every day.
Her own Cleveland High School helped out by setting up an account for the school's management of financial donations -- for disc purchases, packing supplies, and shipping costs.
In fact, a small school can make up for the factors that often stifle student achievement.
When private-school tuition goes up, it's because the cost per student has gone up.
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