The research concerning such schools in shaping young lives is scattered within the historiography of youth. Girls were taught domestic skills and boys were trained in trades such as agriculture. Forced labor was not punishment but seen as moral uplift for troubled youth. This article studies the ...
Parents know private schools produce much better educational outcomes than government schools, but most families opt for the inferior option because it’s already being financed by their tax dollars. I fear the same thing will happen with the so-called public option. Politicians (in their never-...
and the Fairbridge Society felt sufficiently confident to ask for an increase in the Government's contribution to maintenance payments for child migrants so that it could build up sufficient capital to open new farm schools.2 Although not particularly dramatic in scale, the Commonwealth Relations Offi...
” said Joseph Fernandez, president of the Council for Great City Schools who was ousted as New York school chancellor last year by a newly elected school board. “The last count of superintendents of the 50 largest school districts showed ...
Hal Wilson, associated superintendent for instruction (25 minutes): discussed where we should go with the Teacher Innovation Fund next year; two problems with teachers at Washington-Lee that he wanted me to be aware of; told me of his plans to keep an orchestra in the high schools by trying...
In 2011, the LA School Board took over Henry Clay Middle School on 122ndand Western Avenue in South L.A., one of the most historically troubled schools in the city, with chronically low test scores and continual issues on campus of absenteeism, fighting and chaos. The board turned the sch...