Examples of school choice in the following topics:
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- For example, in 2007, the Washington, D.C. public school district had the third highest level of funding per student among the 100 biggest school districts.
- For example, in 2007, the Washington, D.C. public school district had the third highest level of funding per student among the 100 biggest school districts.
- A central issue for educational reform advocates today is school choice.
- Debates over school choice focus on advocates' claim that school choice can promote excellence in education through competition.
- Most proposals for school choice call for vouchers.
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- Home schooling is the education of children at home rather than in the setting of a school.
- Motivations for homeschooling vary, but may include dissatisfaction with the school environment, religious or moral reasons, or dissatisfaction with the quality of academic instruction provided in local schools.
- However, parents have always had some degree of choice in where and how children are educated.
- First, in some states, homeschooling is treated like a type of private 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.
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- On the one hand, choosing certain occupations or attending certain schools can influence a person's level of prestige.
- While these opportunities are not equally available to everyone, one's choices can, at least to a limited extent, increase or decrease one's prestige, and lead to social mobility.
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- For individuals who do not have a high school degree, opportunities for monetary earning fall further, $30,000 less than those with a degree.
- Although schools' manifest function is to educate and train intelligence, they also have latent functions like socializing students.
- Students who do best in school are not always the most intelligent, but are usually culturally competent and sociable.
- In the above paragraph, it is the purpose of and people expect a school to teach or transmit knowledge.
- Therefore Bourdieu's perspective reveals how objective structures play an important role in determining individual achievement in school, but allows for the exercise of an individual's own free will and abilities to overcome these barriers, although this choice is not without its penalties.
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- This school district was actively adopting technology and software as integrated, and integral, components of the traditional bureaucratic hierarchical brick and mortar system of schooling.
- Meritocracy means that hiring and promotion should be based on proven and documented skills, rather than on nepotism or random choice.
- 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.
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- Many feel this ignores basic democratic principles in that control of schools' curricula is removed from local school boards, which are the nominal curricular authority in the U.S.
- The act is especially controversial because it ties funding to standardized test schools.
- When schools fail to show adequate yearly progress, they may lose funding or be taken over by the school board or state.
- Students must pass a standardized test in order to graduate from high school.
- Some standardized testing uses multiple-choice tests, which are relatively inexpensive to score, but any form of assessment can be used.
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- Currently, there are more than 75 million children around the world of primary school age who are not in school.
- For example, according to UNICEF, an estimated 121 million children of primary-school age are being kept out of school to work in the fields or at home.
- Online learning gives students flexibility and choice in terms of what, when, and at what pace they learn.
- Students from the Hala Bint Khuwaylid secondary girl's school in the Amil district of Baghdad, pictured with new school bags containing pens, pencils, notebooks, calculators, and other school supplies: USAID is funding the purchase and distribution of 1.5 million school bags through a partnership with Creative Associates International.
- School children at Imperial Primary School in Eastridge, Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa)
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- From the conflict perspective, schools play a role in screening and allocating people and their abilities.
- Tracking is one of the predominant organizing practices of American public schools, and has been an accepted feature in the country's schools for nearly a century.
- Some may extend to the entire school system so that students follow a track that begins in elementary school and continues until high school graduation.
- Other schools may use tracking only for certain classes or subjects.
- Parents and peers may influence academic choices even more than guidance counselors by encouraging students with similar backgrounds (academic, vocational, ethnic, religious, or racial) to stay together.
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- In some industrialized nations, women have achieved parity in medical school.
- In many developing nations, neither medical school nor practice approach gender parity.
- In some industrialized countries, women have achieved parity in medical school.
- In 2007-2008, women accounted for 49% of medical school applicants and 48.3% of those accepted.
- Analyze the role women play in the medical field and how gender parity affects women's choices when it comes to medicine
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- Childless women in the developed world often express the view that women ultimately have to make a choice between motherhood and having a career.
- Chance of childlessness (age 35 to 44) by education level: graduate or professional degree (27.6%) vs non high school graduate (13.5%), high school graduate (14.3%), some college but no degree (24.7%), associate degree (11.4%), and bachelor's degree (18.2%).
- Some opponents of the childfree choice consider such a choice to be "selfish."
- In fact, choosing to have children may be the more selfish choice, especially when poor parenting risks creating many long-term problems for both the children themselves and society at large.