Similarly, Jo Coton, CEO of six-school NET Academies Trust, says bringing in a trustee with financial expertise gave the organisation insights into better ways to invest reserves to generate more returns - something she admits the trust had not thought about before. “The challenge they put ...
In addition, because more powerful actors usually have a greater responsibility than those with less power or status, they tend to give more importance to the central task for which they are responsible. According to the situated focus theory of power, powerful individuals thus direct their attenti...
school teachers “private” and paying them in homeschool co-op situations, while new private school models like Acton Academies are getting the cost out of private education while startups like Prenda.com are providing the back-end tech-stack for parents to launch their own micro-schools. ...
But would schools take notice anymore when they know how much trouble the DfE has had in turning its tough talk into reality? Just as Eastern Bloc Communist leaders found in the late 1980s, the DfE could well discover that once you start to loosen the reins of power it is very hard to...
*Ukrainian troops are moving into Kherson(the capital city of the eponymous province), so apparently the Russian exodus from the city was not a trap designed to snap shut on their foes. The move puts Kyiv on the cusp of achieving one of its most significant victories of the war and deals...
Simply turning common-pool resources over to local users by itself is unlikely to avoid overharvesting especially if these same resources were taken away from users decades earlier and are in a degraded condition when returned. Some communities manage their fish- eries, water systems, or forests ...
When my oldest son was turning 3, it suddenly occurred to me that it was time to think about where to send him to school. I was vaguely aware we had options within our public school system, but I didn’t know the slightest thing about classical academies or magnet programs, or even ...
t cope. Downgrading students is only possible in larger schools with at least five proficiency levels for separate classes—beginner, intermediate, and advanced is woefully inadequate. Students can only be moved if the jumps between classes are relatively small and...
for free or reduced-price lunches, and more than half are English-language learners. Yet over the past decade, the high school’s rocketry club has repeatedly outperformed prestigious magnet schools and science academies with twice its budget—and easy access to big-box craft and hardware stores...
from the nude model in their studios. In general, it might be added, while individual artists and private academies employed the female model extensively, the female nude was forbidden in almost all public art schools as late as 1850 and after—a state of affairs which Pevsner rightly ...