We wanted an alternative to the formal institutions of schooling, with its familiar distinctions between the classroom level, the school level, the district level and the system level.
Places that shine on the Opportunity Index are much more likely to be states or counties that provide more opportunities for young people to lay the foundation for a rewarding life; in low-scoring states and counties, more young people are adrift and isolated from the anchor institutions of school and work.
People have lost faith in the institution of schools.
Monolithic rules have gradually taken over as the system develops, reflected in institutional and academic drift, where an institution of schooling has a tendency to slowly extend itself, even into the arenas of pre-school and kindergarten, and also into non-formal education as tertiary education expands.
It's coercive, and it comes with a built-in measure of bureaucracy — which isn't an argument against the institution of school but a red flag regarding its instrumentalization.
Big tax breaks for the wealthy, and an easing of corporate taxes and regulation; changes to the estate tax; a passage of the Keystone Pipeline; a scrapping of the Paris Agreement on climate change; a neutering of the EPA; the institution of school vouchers.
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Eusebius suggests that Pantaenus was the head of the school, but it is controversial whether the institutions of the school were formalized in this way before the time of Origen.
There is no doubt that the institution of public schools is badly in need of repair, but the repair of our schools must be done by teachers, parents, students, and communities, democratically; it should not be placed into the hands of a billionaire who fundamentally misunderstands and willfully ignores the reality of public education.
Public education was dependent on an institutional basis consisting of a number of institutions: schools, museums and other places holding public exhibitions, and periodicals (Neurath 1931/1973, 222).
