Elissa Gootman (NYT) CENTRAL ISLIP: EDUCATION SUIT SETTLED -- A settlement between nearly 1,000 special-education students and the Central Islip School District was signed yesterday by Judge Leonard D. Wexler of Federal District Court.
Only a system could offer all citizens an education proportioned to their needs: the laborers, a broad, general education; the learned, an education suited to their idiosyncratic needs (Bowers 1943: 243 and Walton 1984: 119).
Lower-income individuals often find themselves in an unfair catch-22: they need to be "better off" to gain access to credit, but they need something (car, education, suit, inventory capital) to become "better off".
Both school and family responsibilities The ABE system responds to the urgent need for an education that suits the special needs and constraints of pastoral life.
The emphasis on competences rather than subjects will make vocational education better suited to post-industrial economies.
The Congress' struggle for self-rule, however, became more vigorous, and with it spread the national movement toward education to suit national needs.
And Richard Haier, an intelligence researcher at the University of California, Irvine, said that schools could scan students' brains to see what kind of education would suit them, or prisons could scan inmates to see whether they were prone to violence or addiction.
Contending that the state has shirked its own constitutional obligation to provide all children with a sound basic education, the suit challenges whether its $13 billion education budget for 3 million schoolchildren is nearly enough.
They might be surprised to hear the opinions of some successful investors about the education best suited to such professions.
Let's hope other institutions of higher education follow suit so that more student parents can reap the rewards of a college education for themselves and their families.
