commercial, and vocational curricula housing 1500 or more teenagers in the 1920s. Since then the institution has been praised and attacked every single decade for nearly a century. Policymakers have adopted ref
Calling many students “educationally disadvantaged” became popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the growth of the reform-driven“effective schools”movement when reformers said schools can get better if they follow program prescriptions that “effective schools” advocates offered. Over thes...
Recent changes to these policies allow for the use of Performance Based Assessment Tasks (PBATs) as assessment indicator to supplement standardized tests. In this article, we explore how one highly successful high school that works exclusively with recently arrived immigrant teenagers has incorporated ...
Footnote63 However, the work done with teenagers in training homes and training schools escaped Department control, so that the Department could do little to modify their regime. As for ‘voluntary’, Department files use this word to refer to girls and women who had been sent to Good ...
Every year, thousands of teenagers are shipped to boarding schools, boot camps, and other facilities against their will. Some may call it tough love, but the “troubled teen industry,” whichgenerates billions of dollars annually, is reportedly a hotbed of psychological and physical abuse that tr...
For example, Bandura et al. (2001) suggest that teenagers’ academic aspirations influence their actual educational achievement and career choice. For this analysis, we construct a binary variable that equals 1 if the desired educational attainment of the child is at least college. The cognitive ...
The state and the public, or the administration and the market constitute the two poles of the society for public schools. It is, therefore, held by many that the importation of nongovernmental strength in education and the market-economical mechanism can help change the stagnant educational status...
For a start to accommodate that number you need to build a city at least the size of Liverpool – EVERY YEAR. Along with that you need to built infrastructure to match- power grids, power stations, sewage farms, roads, waterworks, dentists, schools, hospitals, a city worth of specially tr...
Leaving Cert students are keener on the idea of school-based assessment than their Junior Cert counterparts, according to a survey of teenagers who are preparing for State exams. Asked whether they would prefer continuous assessment, graded by their teachers, in place of the current extern...
These groups encompass diverse voices on public affairs related to education and the social environment in which teenagers grow up, which serve as powerful driving forces for improving the quality of public administration and service. The reform and opening-up has generated increasingly more ...