Examples of public school in the following topics:
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- Children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
- Not only do wealthier students tend to attend better-funded schools, but they often also benefit from family background characteristics.
- The monetary advantages of unequal school funding are frequently coupled with the advantage of having a safe, supportive, and intellectually enriching home environment that comes with wealth.
- So it is not surprising that children who attend better-funded public schools tend to be more successful than those who attend more poorly funded public schools.
- In fact, family background may be even more important than school funding.
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- Homeschooling is the education of children at home, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
- Among students who took specific tests, the average homeschooled student outperformed his public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points in every subject.
- Homeschooling is the education of children at home, rather than in the formal settings of public or private school.
- Today however, homeschooling is very much an alternative to attending public or private schools.
- It allows them to provide their children with a learning environment if they are dissatisfied with offerings at public or private schools.
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- Because schools are funded by property taxes, schools in poor areas receive less funding then schools in wealthier areas.
- In the United States, most public schools are funded primarily through local property taxes.
- But unequal school funding may afford students from poorer families fewer opportunities, reinforcing the status quo.
- Since school funding is often based on property taxes, poorer neighborhoods may have less money available for schools.
- Examine the inequality in public school systems and the implications for a student's future
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- Most homeschooled children are homeschooled only, but about one in five are also enrolled in public or private schools, which they may attend for 25 hours or less each week.
- Homeschooling is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school.
- The most common way for parents to meet these requirements is to have their children attend public school.
- A minority of states require public schools to give homeschooled students access to district resources, such as school libraries, computer labs, extracurricular activities, or even academic courses.
- Other states allow homeschoolers to compete for the public schools that they would otherwise attend by virtue of their residence.
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- School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
- For example, school shootings account for less than 1% of violent crimes in public schools, yet nearly every school shooting makes national headlines.
- Finally, school violence tends to be higher in certain types of schools, the characteristics of which are listed below:
- School-wide strategies are designed to modify school characteristics associated with violence.
- Bullying is a common occurrence in most schools.
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- Educational attainment is tied to social class, with upper class individuals acquiring higher degrees from more prestigious schools.
- Educational attainment refers to the level of schooling a person completes — for instance, high school, some college, college, or a graduate degree.
- Upper-class parents are better able to send their children not only to exclusive private schools, but also to public state-funded schools.
- Such schools are likely to be of higher quality in affluent areas than in impoverished ones, since they are funded by property taxes within the school district.
- Wealthy areas will provide more property taxes as revenue, which leads to higher quality schools.
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- However, they were excluded from the school system by segregation laws.
- In order to understand the bureaucratization of schools, we must understand the historical development of the school system.
- These needs formed the basis for school bureaucracies today.
- Most critics of school bureaucracies do not question the aim of transmitting the dominant culture through public education, but some dissenters oppose this strategy precisely because they fear children will lose valuable cultural differences through their socialization in the American system.
- Immigration trends have posed serious concerns for public school education systems because immigrants often bring religious, ethnic, and cultural differences to the classroom that differ from the protocol and ideology of "one best system. " School bureaucracies seek to assimilate foreigners by teaching them English, indoctrinating them in American civics, and providing them with skills and habits needed in the urban job market.
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- In 2010, there were 3,823,142 teachers in public, charter, private, and Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
- They taught a total of 55,203,000 students, who attended one of 132,656 schools.
- Teachers facilitate student learning, often but not always in a school or academy.
- Perhaps the most significant difference between primary school and secondary school teaching in the United States is the relationship between teachers and children.
- In 2010, there were 3,823,142 teachers in public, charter, private, and Catholic elementary and secondary schools.
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- High school dropouts are much less likely to be employed than those with high school and college degrees.
- Academic risk factors relate to the performance of students in school.
- For example, students are more likely to drop out when they attend schools with less rigorous curriculum, when they attend large schools, or when they attend schools with poor student-teacher interactions.
- Students who build relationships with anti-social peers or who have deviant friends were more likely to drop out of school early regardless of their achievement in school.
- Chess legend Bobby Fischer never finished high school; however, most high school dropouts do not achieve his level of success.
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- When black students were bused in to these schools, white parents began to move their children out of such schools in large numbers.
- The report, titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity," came to be known as the "Coleman Report. " At the time, it launched widespread debate on school effects, or the ways in which school-level characteristics influence student achievement.
- Although Coleman found that, on average, black schools were funded on a nearly equal basis by the 1960s, he also found that socially-disadvantaged black students profited from schooling in racially-mixed classrooms.
- When black students were bused in to these schools, white parents began to move their children out of such schools in large numbers.
- The Coleman Report led to busing programs to help integrate schools.