But education and parent teacher groups criticised the survey by North Yorkshire County Council, which contained more than 100 questions - half of which were about drugs and drug abuse and 26 others about sex.
The idea has been rejected by teacher's groups and mayors, including New York's Michael Bloomberg, Boston's Thomas Menino and Philadelphia's Michael Nutter.
Also, Secretary Duncan will meet with representatives from parent, teacher, and education groups.
Membership of parent-teacher associations, sports groups, political parties and organisations such as the Boy Scouts or Rotary are all in sharp decline.
These former classroom teachers had spent the past several years coordinating teacher workshops, working with small groups of students or mentoring young teachers.
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And I get to be a teacher of sorts when I talk to civic groups, senior centers and churches about how to get themselves and their members ready.
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The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a web-based course management system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, a surveys module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class.
The biggest difference, Prof Nicolson says, is that when the class is broken down into ability groups within the literacy hour each day, the teacher has to move from one to another.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
"Coney Island is much more than just an amusement district, " said Mark Treyges, a 30-year-old teacher and volunteer with the Sandy Task-force Recovery Organized by Neighborhood Groups.
The teacher will truly be able to facilitate the learning environment and spend more time in small groups and one-on-one with students.
The budget is worked out on the basis of two children and a teacher travelling from every secondary school in England, with the aim that the funding will encourage schools to take larger groups.
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