The first school house in Poland was built in 1795. It was a log building in a clearing near the Baptist Church on what was then called Newport Street. The first school teacher was Mr. Silas Barker from Massachusetts. He was very rough in his punishment of disobedient pupils. The second school house was halfway between Swezey Hill […]
This week, public education and those who are at the forefront of educating young minds across the country gets a giant salute. This week is hailed as American Education Week and honors those making sure children in public education are receiving the quality they deserve. This year s theme is Great Public Schools: A Basic Right […]
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) […]
The past few years have been a time of fast-paced change in higher education in England. Shifts in some areas have been more pronounced than in others. This report is an update to our publication ‘Higher education in England 2014: Key facts’. It provides an overview of the shifts and trends we identified as key issues in last year’s […]
Editor’s Note : Tino Sanandaji, a National Review In the early 1990s, Sweden introduced one of the most ambitious school-voucher systems in the world. The state still pays for education, but it gives parents the choice to take their voucher to any public or private school. In Slate , Ray Fisman, an economist at Columbia Business […]
Why UW? A high-ranking university 2014 – the University of Warsaw was declared number 1 in Poland in scientific ranking published by the POLITYKA weekly; 2014 – number 1 in Poland…
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In 1-2, the states with the largest number of public secondary schools were California, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, and New York. (Digest of Education Statistics, 2001, Table 101) Enrollment…
Perspektywy Education Foundation published a report: International Students in Poland 2012 , presenting the newest trends in internationalization of Polish higher education. There…
With 700 universities and more than 35, affiliated colleges enrolling more than 20 million students, Indian higher education is a large and complex system. The structure of degree-granting…
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