In his book, The End of Education, the American cultural critic Neil Postman argued that students detach from school and "amuse themselves to death" because what they learn in school is neither relevant nor meaningful; to re-engage students, we need to let them have an impact in their community as well as a say over what they learn.
Too many young people in Nevada are detached from the worlds of school and work and, as a result, face an uncertain future.
"I think a lot of people would prefer that all four schools be detached from the will, but this sounds like the kind of distinction that is important in a legal proceeding, and I am glad they are going ahead," said Barton D. Gellman, a political aide in Washington who finished his studies at Oxford last year.
"Whether it's New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City or Tulsa," Mr. Kotkin said, "schools have become detached from the life of the middle class".
"They're detached from their families, they don't have schooling, and they're thrown in with adults in this adversarial climate".
Because a school's financial success is detached from student outcomes, for-profits are often poor investments for students and do not maximize total welfare.
A landscaping trailer detached from a dump truck and plowed into a school minibus, severely injuring Kaiser, 58, the driver.
Some say the schools have become too scientific, too detached from real-world issues.
Her parents are divorcing, she's struggling in physics at school and she feels like she is becoming detached from her boyfriend.
He was exceptionally bright, highly individualistic, detached from his factory-worker father and permanently at war with authority figures at school.
When I socialized too much after school, it wore me out, but when I stopped doing it completely, it made me feel detached from my colleague.
