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Selecting the School That Is Right for Your Child: Consider Your Child and Your Family
Start your search for the best school by thinking about what you want a school to do for your child. Perhaps your child ...
Source: U.S. Department of Education
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Charter Schools
In seven short years, the U.S. charter-school movement has produced about 800 schools in 29 states and the District ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Selecting the School That Is Right for Your Child: Gather Information About Schools
If you were looking to buy a car, vacuum cleaner, or refrigerator, you could talk to friends and family and find ...
Source: U.S. Department of Education
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The Diversity Debate
Think Brown v. Board of Education settled the school integration issue back in 1954? Not so fast. Last week's U.S. ...
Source: Education.com
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IB or Not IB? Is International Baccalaureate Right for Your Child?
International Baccalaureate (IB) started in the 1960s as an attempt to create a high school curriculum that would meet ...
Source: Education.com
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Factors Involved in the Slow Death of High Quality Public Education
I seldom watch network television programs. However, I am aware that two shows are particularly popular these days: CSI ...
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Busting the Myth that Poor, Urban Schools Can't Succeed
With the first bell of the new school year about to ring, a new book from the Urban Institute Press spotlights how ...
Source: Urban Institute
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Using Scientifically Based Research in Schools
Use science to improve teaching. This idea has surfaced repeatedly in education literature since the passage of No ...
Source: The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
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Directory of Innovative Schools (Bay Area)
JCC, San Francisco Att: Pam Schneider, Director, 3200 California St., San Francisco, CA 94118 Telephone: 415-292-1282 ...
Source: Innovative Teacher Project
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Differences Between Junior High and Middle School
Junior High Subject-centered Emphasis is on cognitive development Organizes teachers in subject-based ...
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The Property Tax: The Road to Unequal Schools
Excerpt from: Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education p. 230-231The method of financing ...
Source: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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State Influence Grows as School Boards Come under Fire
Excerpt from: Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education p. 245-247During the past two decades, ...
Source: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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What Makes a School Effective?
Excerpt from: Teachers, Schools, and Society Consider the following situation: Two schools are located in the same...
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Who and What Shape the Curriculum?
Excerpt from: Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education p. 354-358 Although all three...
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Design Considerations for Early Education Classrooms
Elements of design that are important to consider in early childhood environments are softness, texture, color, and...
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What Makes a High School Successful?
We hear it all the time: American students aren't stacking up when it comes to 21st century skills. Japan, Singapore,...
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Important Factors to Consider When Choosing Between a Public and Private School
At first, a voucher system for adjusting the perceived disparity between public and private school education might seem...
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