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Some may also feel a deep aversion to school based on their personal experiences or question the efficiency and sustainability of school learning and are of the opinion that compulsory schooling represents an impermissible interference with the rights and freedoms of parents and children; and believe that schools as a vehicle for knowledge ...
Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.
South Carolina has the sixth worst school system in the United States, a new report shows. Students will return to school in the Palmetto State this month, but they’ll be doing so in a system ...
Here is why parents are worried. Kids now don't have the joy for reading they once did, and teachers have changed the way they teach writing in the digital age. ... Five reasons kids are missing ...
The final sentence, above, clarifies Illich's view that education's institutionalisation fosters society's institutionalisation, and so de-institutionalising education may help de-institutionalize society. Further, Illich suggests reinventing learning and expanding it throughout society and across persons' lifespans.
As the terminus of that example suggests, unfortunately, most good ideas have already been around for a while, so the new ones with the power to dislocate our politics and culture tend to be bad.
The term was used by the Minister of State for Universities Margaret Hodge, during a discussion on higher education expansion.Hodge defined a Mickey Mouse course as "one where the content is perhaps not as rigorous as one would expect and where the degree itself may not have huge relevance in the labour market"; and that, furthermore, "simply stacking up numbers on Mickey Mouse courses is not ...
“So it is likely that many students will encounter school buses that do not have seat belts available.” (In 2019, Iowa issued a rule that all new school buses be outfitted with lap-shoulder ...