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in 1944 grammar schools were created. They were seen as providing the best teaching and were attended only by the best students selected on a test (called the eleven plus). Since the 1960s grammar schools have become independent (or public schools), they were criticized for being elitist, for creaming off the brightest students and for condemning the masses to failing comprehensive schools which were less prestigious and not selective. Moreover, students who attend state schools are less likely

3. Solutions offered and reactions 1) As a reaction to the poor state of secondary education in the US some partnerships were set up to try and improve the situation (business/school partnership) this also had a problem because it led to increased commercialization in schools, because to find money, American schools look for private financing and education has become a marketable commodity. That was one solution. 2) Another solution was to select teachers more closely, it did not work too well

For a long time the role of the parents is to educate their children.The children go to the school to educate itself. The instruction is the role of the teachers who have to pass on knowledge to the child.The school is a place where the child spends a lot of time. It thus has to feel good there. For it the school middle, the teachers, to have to be less hermetic and the parents should get involved a little more in the schooling of their child. How could parents and teachers cooperate for the benefit

special day for me. I am going to tell you this extraordinary day. This morning, as usual, I woke up very early. It was maybe seven o'clock. When I was walking to school, I saw a very beautiful toyshop. Behind the glass, I saw plenty of amazing dolls. I must have stayed for 5 minutes in front of the shop window. So, since I was early for school, I decided to think about what I would ask as a birthday present. Then, I don't really know why, I decided to steal the biggest dolls which was at the top of

while I was going to school, my mother founded on my desk the map that the old man gave me so she showed everything to the principal and at lunch time the principal called me to his office. My mother was there too. They sent me to the city laboratory where scientists started strange tests on me; it was similar to a brainwash. During the night, when everyone was sleeping I escaped from the laboratory and I ran to my school. I finally opened the door and penetrated in the schools corridors. I went directly

Devoirs d’Anglais In this document there is two documents. The first one is an article entitled “Change law to make bullying bosses pay.” It is a newspaper from “The independent on Sunday”, which was published on the 26th of May 2002. So it is a fairly old daily. The second is an extract from a strip drawn. The author is Edward P. Lazear. These articles tacked the issue of harassment from bosses at work. To summarize, the author said that there is more and more bullying bosses at work and this

discounting of standard chicken began weeks after a week long “Hugh’s Chicken Run” campaign by a celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall that was aimed improving consumers’ knowledge about the welfare standards on the chicken factory farms. (The Independent Online, 2008) The National Farmers' Union said that the move was” extremely ill-judged and short sighted" and that Tesco is devaluing the price of chicken at the same time as it is rising. The price is not sustainable unless Tesco subsidizes it

Guerre du Vietnam : il n'est pas trop tard pour s'enrôler 03.07.2003 | The Independent on Sunday La guerre du Vietnam. De 1964 à 1973, ce furent près de 9 millions de militaires déployés, plus de 58 000 tués (dont les deux tiers avaient moins de 21 ans), quelque 2 300 portés disparus... sans compter les Vietnamiens. Et, tous les mois, le conflit recommence sur un terrain boisé à la sortie de Wolverhampton [près de Birmingham, en Angleterre]. Cette fois, quand un franc-tireur vietcong abat un soldat

A) State schooling in Britain today. State schools are free and have to follow a National Curriculum (programme obligatoire), with obligatory and optional subjects. We can distinguish: - Comprehensive schools which are co-educational (boys and girls together) and open to pupils of all abilities, who are often streamed (répartis par niveaux) depending on their level. - Grammar schools which are often more academically-oriented. Unlike France, the educational system in Britain

road through the hill is a normal public highway and indeed a bus route. The school is made up of some 400 acres (160ha) of playing fields, tennis courts, golf course, woodland and gardens. Harrow mottoe is : Latin : Stet Fortuna Domus ("Let the Fortune of the House Stand") & Donorum Dei Dispensatio Fidelis ("The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God"). Harrow School offen just called "Harrow", is an independent school for boys situated in the town Harrow, in north-west London. Harrow has educated