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Original Technorati articles tagged “private school”

• in Politics
  Thinking in Shades of Gray
  Alabama's debate over immigration law is an opportunity to practice thinking
  by coachlorraine / on May 12, 2012
• in Film
  Fate Prevails in Never Let Me Go (DVD)
  If the cost of your liver transplant is the l, would you care?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 3, 2011
• in Technology
  Technology Enhanced Learning Provides Students With Skills Needed In Workforce
  In our techno-centric world, schools are becoming more innovative by incorporating new technological learning methods into their classrooms.
  by secondjenn / on Dec 13, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “private school”

 

• Louisiana Court Rules Against School Choice, But Educational Opportunity Moves Forward

  
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  Andre Jenny Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom After a series of school choice victories across the nation, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a disappointing ruling this Tuesday when it upheld a lower court’s ruling invalidating the state’s school voucher program. With a 6-1 vote, the higher court declared ...
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• Private school lobbyists buying state elections all over the country. The attack on public education is in full swing.

  
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  Courtesy of Common Dreams :   A fundamental struggle for democracy is going on behind the scenes in statehouses around the country, as a handful of wealthy individuals and foundations pour money into efforts to privatize the public schools.  The implications are huge. But the school privatizers, and their ...
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• Choosing the Boarding School That’s Right For You: People Matter

  
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  This story came to me via the grapevine last week, about a student, who believed that he had found the perfect school, but, after his accepted student revisit, found that his dream wasn’t his dream at all. In fact, it was something of a nightmare. Full disclosure, I verified that this story is, indeed, true. We ...
  2 weeks ago

• Home Education Resources

  
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  For those who educate at home, learning about the resources at your disposal is extremely helpful. Most homeschooling parents will tell you that you never stop discovering new resources, and new ones are being developed all the time. So this brief overview is not so much a list of resources as a generalized discussion ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jindal-backed private tuition vouchers take a hit

  
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  Louisianas Supreme Court says the funding method for a private school tuition voucher program pushed through the Legislature last year by prominent Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal violates the state constitution. The voucher program was touted as a major achievement for Jindal, often mentioned as a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saudi Arabia to allow girls to play sports at private schools

  
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  Saudi Arabia to allow girls to play sports at private schools : Saudi Arabian girls will be allowed to play sport in private schools for the first time in the latest in a series of incremental changes aimed at slowly increasing women’s rights in the ultraconservative kingdom. Saudi Arabia’s official press ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teacher Appreciation Week: Share Your Stories

  
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  Teacher Thank You © 2009 Cameron Blazer Today, I’m going to lobby for connecting the boarding school internal to the external. As were fond of observing, boarding schools work so well because they do such a good job of focusing internally — while the the rest of the world can go on unconnected. Great faculty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Private School Feeling | Busting Gulen charter schools myths

  
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  Parents4Magnolia >> Gulen charter schools >> Testimonials   Parent Testimonial: My daughter is a teenager and likes to go school, this tells me that her school has good and caring teachers . The school is small, so it’s almost like a private school. Normally, at that age children are not ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Reasons an American Student Chose a Canadian Boarding School

  
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  I visited a few minutes with Shawnigan Lake student, Rosa about how she chose Shawnigan Lake , one of Canada’s largest boarding schools, as student coming from California’s Bay Area. Boarding school, and Shawnigan’s international student experience, in particular, offered Rosa opportunities that stretched her ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paper vs. Screens: The Evolving Equation

  
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  How I read. Scientific American writer Ferris Jabr has a good distillation of the evolving science and understandings of the differences in brain functions and affects when reading a physical book vs. using a tablet/screen/e-reader. In The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens , ...
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• Fun days!

  
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  Our school emphasizes public speaking, beginning in kindergarten. Lydie has had two major opportunities for it this year. She had nursery rhyme day when she had to memorize and recite a nursery rhyme. And then this past week she had to memorize and recite a book report. She is a fabulous public speaker. She gets ...
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• One Dad in disgust.

  
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  Remember this? That school paper was brought home the other day by a 10 year old fourth grader whose paper brought so much disgust to her father that he vows to never again send his daughter to that undisclosed school where that disgusting paper came from. "I didn’t know that this was being taught to her ...
  4 weeks ago

• Asheville Releases In-house Built App for iPhone and iPad

  
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  Asheville isn’t the first school to release an iPhone/iPad app devoted to covering and following school happenings, “ Asheville School App Now Available on App Store .” But, they are the first that I know of- to have built the app in-house. Asheville Technology Coordinator Charles Long and Director of ...
  4 weeks ago

• School choice is (real estate) market based

  
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  “Private public schools” are “open to anyone who can afford expensive real estate,” writes Matt Yglesias in Slate. Michael Petrilli estimates that 2,800 public schools “serve virtually no poor students.”  Yglesias thinks there are many more schools with a “smattering” of low-income students. You ...
  4 weeks ago

• Grand River Academy Joins with John Carroll University to Create Aspire Program

  
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  The Aspire Program founders, Grand River Academy Headmaster Tim Viands (Left) and John Carroll University Vice President of Enrollment Brian Williams (Right) Grand River Academy and John Carroll University are combining resources to create The Aspire Program. Aspire will allow Grand River’s qualified international ...
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• Are small class size and stellar writing programs important to you? Think about private high school.

  
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  I don’t recommend thinking about a private high school for your rising freshman unless you care about small class sizes, more individualized attention especially in writing, and solid college counseling. If those things aren’t a concern and your student thrives in a big school environment, private school might not ...
  4 weeks ago

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