... bewildering variety of schools existed for the small number of teenagers who had the ability or the desire to pursue education beyond the elementary level. These schools offered students opportunities to prepare for college, or to learn a complex skill instead of competing for one of the rapidly decreasing number of on-the-job apprenticeships. Only a relatively small number of ... uses of knowledge, especially in agriculture and engineering, created powerful incentives for states to increase financial support for their public universities. In addition, the numbers of students attending co...

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... likely to be in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, or calculus. Although 53 percent of white eleventh-graders could perform reading tasks that they were likely to encounter in college, only 20 percent of black students could perform these complex reading tasks. The relatively recent use of microcomputers in school has already resulted in quantitative as well as qualitative inequalities. Schools with 5 ... . Most of the differences found within schools were the attitudes and backgrounds of the student body, variables also related to the socioeconomic environment. Compared to poor children, ...

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... using a 3 way ANOVA to complete analysis. Our results indicate that the educational experiences of high school students we interviewed were similar in ratings for life/college preparation, academic challenge and overall satisfaction but perceived quality among private and charter schools students rated significantly higher than those of public schools. In conclusion there is not a large variety of ... . In the second DV, perceptions of life preparation, measurements of life preparation were F (2, 44) = 1.918=.980 which is not significant. The third variable, perceived academic challenge ...

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... practices that, in addition to equal funding, would improve the odds for low-income children in urban schools. What would make a difference for at-risk students? Well, let me just say parenthetically, while visiting urban schools, I saw some simply terrific teachers, some really wonderful school principals, and some excellent ... really superb, experienced teacher who agrees to teach in the inner city, not for one or two years when they're just out of college and it's sort of fun and exciting, but for a lifetime. I would enact a one-time federal school reconstruction bill of about $100 ....

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... laws are leading the Mexican people of California to become more distant and less represented on all social aspect of our environment. All immigrant students entering public schools, is believed, will automatically start the so-called "americanization" process. To become American is the main outcome of migration ... that the number of qualified bilingual teachers was dramatically small. Over twenty thousand bilingual teachers were needed in order to accommodate the 1.4 million students that were in bilingual classes in 1997-8 academic year. The need for professional and qualified staff e...

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... study of voucher plans concludes that vouchers don't improve student achievement. The official study of Cleveland's voucher program, by Dr. Kim Metcalf, found no achievement gains for voucher students compared to students in the public schools. The official evaluator of the Milwaukee voucher plan, Professor John Witte, found no improvements in student achievement after four years of the program's implementation. Also ... schools offer special education and other programs that many private schools don't provide, he thinks vouchers would encourage private schools to offer such programs, e...

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... fee paying schools. All the other Russell Group Universities in the country have a correspondingly unbalanced ratio, with Bristol, Newcastle and Durham all consisting of a disproportionately high number of privately educated students (40.1%, 30.8% and 40.2% respectively). These figures are not necessarily the fault of 'elitist' universities however, but rather lie in the enormous pressure at elite public schools to move ... on to top universities. When a friend was a pupil at Winchester College, one of the highest charging schools in the country, the general assumption amongst his ...

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