The following is a guest post by Radhika Morabia a high school dropout and diploma holder. It was May of 2014. I d just received a call saying I officially failed school. They were being nice and just counting it as if I wasn’t enrolled for the whole semester. It was as if the dozens of hours I spent worrying and attempting to catch […]
You can apply for undergraduate programmes either through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) or the Common Application. Please use only one method of applying. If you are using UCAS to apply for other UK universities, please also make your University of Bristol application through UCAS and do not use the Common […]
1647 The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decrees that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school. The goal is to ensure that Puritan children learn to read the Bible and receive basic information about their Calvinist religion. 1779 Thomas […]
Many American critics believe that the major problem with public education today is a lack of focus on results. Students aren’t expected to meet high standards, the argument goes, and the process of education takes precedence over analyzing education results in policy-making circles. This is a valid argument (as far as it goes) […]
In the United States, school consists of 12 grades. Grades 1-5 are called “Elementary School”. In New York City, many elementary schools are called “P.S. ” and have a number. Example: P.S. 122. Do you know the correct name of your child’s school? Children in elementary school are usually between the ages of 5 and 10. You can see […]
St. Davids (Main) Campus 1300 Eagle Road Saint Davids, PA 19087 Phone: 610-341-5800 (Some GPS devices list Wayne, PA as the town rather than Saint Davids) From I-476 (The Blue Route): Take Exit 13 (St. Davids/Villanova). Turn left off the ramp onto Route 30 (Lancaster Avenue) At light for Radnor-Chester Road (Radnor Hotel on corner) […]
When countries across the globe entered into a period of economic recovery during 2010, it became increasingly clear that emerging nations were bouncing back far quicker than their more established Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) counterparts. For example, while the global recession of 2008 and 2009 left […]
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