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All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries.

Business schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects.

For this purpose, our schools need both the talent and the organization to educate each child who arrives at the schoolhouse door.

girls who graduate from single-sex schools are three times more likely to become engineers than those who attend coeducational schools.

I have visited some of the newer supposedly "effective" schools, where children shout slogans in order to learn self-control or must stand behind their desk when they can' t sit still .

I see schools taking this idea of projects and looking at: How do they support children in a higher level learning?

In coeducational schools, girls are often expected to succeed only in humanities or the art.

In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.

Medical schools at Yale and Stanford now have paperless, iPad-based curriculums.

Numerous studies have shown that women who attend single-sex schools tend to have stronger self-confidence, better study habits and more ambitious career goals than women who attend coeducational schools.

right, and schools, employers… in fact, we all need to do something about it.

Schools and prisons with craft programs report that they have a calming effect and enhance social skills.

Schools, restaurants, and businesses closed, and more than 1, 000 flights were canceled.

So it's no surprise that the Maker Movement today is thriving in communities and some schools across America.

Some colleges have what they call an "honor code", though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so.

The data will certainly fuel the ongoing debate over whether physical education classes should be cut as schools struggle to survive on smaller budgets.

The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.

The reason is that all-girls schools encourage women to enter fields traditionally dominated by men such as science, technology and engineering.

Young families move here because the schools are great.

"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

And lower-tier schools can have alumni networks just as strong as their big name counterparts.

And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.

Big name schools are not necessarily the best places for professors; plus, many professors split teaching time between multiple colleges and/or universities.

Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

Conversations about the benefits of fiber are probably more common in nursing homes than high schools.

Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions — and two-year schools in particular.

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of

However, many schools seem to ignore the advice; and it does not cover the kind of glamorous, exotic trips.

I do think there are advantages to schools with more recognition, notes Marybeth Gasman, a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania.

I quickly passed over state schools and southern schools, believing their curriculums to be automatically inferior to northeastern or western counterparts.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

Imagine how intimidating it be for prospective students unfamiliar with the complexities of higher education to navigate this kind of information and then identify which schools are the best fit.

In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending — which may stand for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rag

Indeed, our schools and universities are structured to mould pupils to be mostly obedient servants of rationality, and to develop outdated skills in interacting with outdated machines.

Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools.

Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.

It is actually quite difficult to find reliable statistics on the issue for many schools.

Should we change the way math is taught in schools, or eliminate some courses entirely?

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

Many schools simply don't prioritize academic competitions.

Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.

NYU is consistently ranked one of the country's most expensive schools, with room and board costs totaling upwards of $64,000 a year.

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

Schools are not just a microcosm of society: they mediate it too.

Schools cannot be expected to bring together communities single-handed.

Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

some schools have shown remarkable determination and ingenuity in ensuring that all their pupils are able to take up opportunities that may be truly life-changing.

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

Students apply to the program directly through their schools.

Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.

That helps explain why, as I'm first's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.

The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350, 000 children.

The Department for Education's guidance says schools can charge only for board and lodging if the trip is part of the syllabus, and that students receiving government aid are exempt from these costs.

The gold standard study by Harvard and Columbia University scholars found that even in high-poverty schools, teachers consistently had a huge positive or negative impact.

The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives.

The Washington Post reported on a recent study by Princeton economists, in which college graduates who applied to the most selective schools in the 12th grade were compared to those who applied to slightly less selective schools.

Though schools cannot profit from these trips, the companies that arrange them do.

To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students — young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.

Trips that many adults would consider the adventure of a lifetime-treks in Borneo, a sports tour to Barbados-appear to have become almost routine at some state schools.

visits to nursing homes and schools are also a regular part of the horses' schedule.

We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the rat race and build a better future.

Yet our schools focus primarily on students as individual entities.

His not-for-profit organization runs 100 river boats that serve as floating libraries, schools, and health clinics, and are equipped with solar panels and other communicating facilities.

Pupils at about 90 percent of British secondary schools wear uniforms.

School uniforms are traditional in Britain, but some schools are starting to get rid of them.

Schools should be lively places where individuals are encouraged to develop to their greatest potential.

Some schools will have to make adjustments in agreement with the national soccer reform.

Some very good schools don't have a uniform policy.

Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.

The children's commissioner said schools and parents must now do more to prepare children for the emotional minefield they faced online.

The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting where schools except them to act as partners in their children's education.

The quality of education in this small school is better than that in some larger schools.

They are often used by schools and libraries.

Three years ago, schools in edina, minnesota, changed the start time from 7:25 am to 8:30 am.

To increase levels of community service, some schools have launched compulsory volunteer programs.

But senior medical figures want to stop fast-food outlets opening near schools, restrict advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar, and limit sponsorship of sports events by fast-food producers such as McDonald's.

Even very young children tend to look down on the overweight, and teasing about body build has long been a problem in schools.

He also urged councils to impose "fast-food-free zones" around schools and hospitals—areas within which takeaways cannot open.

If there is a role for government, it should really be getting involved in providing common goods—making sure there is space for playing fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts, and encouraging the provision of all these activities in schoo

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that "liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools".

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most notoriously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

The best lawyers made skyscrapers-full of money, tempting ever more students to pile into law schools.

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

The teachers'unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the

Vocational schools should do a better job of fostering problem-solving skills and helping students work alongside robots.