Mr. White is emblematic of the young generation of educational leaders in a national movement championed by President Obama that emphasizes school choice, teacher quality and data-driven accountability.
But Bataille might also have emphasized school, for school is work, too — work before the adult workplace — and school tutors the adolescent in repression and the rectitude of the bourgeois order, at the very moment in life when, temperamentally and biologically, one is most Dionysiac and most enraged by the hypocritical ordinances of the parental league.
In a move that could significantly reduce enrollment in New York City's bilingual education program, Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy will propose that the Board of Education end the automatic assignment of students with limited English skills to such classes and have parents choose whether they want their children in programs where English is emphasized, school officials say.
The constitutional obligation to provide education, in Article IX, Section I, has existed for more than a century, but the specifics about how it should be provided were added by voters in November 1998 -- the same year Mr. Bush was elected governor on a platform that emphasized school accountability and school choice.
First, there are elements that the Education Trust properly emphasizes: schools must improve instruction, get parents more involved and hold low-income children and their teachers more accountable.
Kerala's culture of human investment is at least two centuries years old and owes early debts to the missionaries and maharajahs who emphasized schools.
A16 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Mayor Emphasizes Schools In Annual Speech to Council Mayor Giuliani urged the extension of the school week to Saturday and Sunday for tens of thousands of students who need extra help.
While public health reforms have emphasized school-based physical education as a means of combatting the childhood obesity epidemic, the study's results found that courts typically do not interfere with state legislative decisions concerning curriculum.
17 These are also the categories the state chooses to emphasize in school report cards.
