In sum, the school systems in Sweden and Norway are similar in many respects but differ, for instance, with regard to the possibility of school choice.
The early death of his father when he was 11 eliminated the possibility of schooling in England, and his mother rejected attempts to place him in the Royal Navy.
Since children for this study are to be recruited from schools there may be some possibility of school clustering effects.
The possibility of schooling was impossible, and in order to reduce the costs of supporting her family, Deepti's marriage was arranged at the age of 13, to a man 20 years her senior, and someone she had never met before but had heard was a sloth.
In The Limits and Possibilities of Schooling (1993), the American sociologist Christopher Hurn proposed one method of evaluating education systems over time.
Although deeply pessimistic about the possibilities of school reform, he nevertheless published many books on the subject, including "The Preparation of Teachers: An Unstudied Problem in Education" (1962), with Kenneth S. Davidson and Burton Blatt; "How Schools Might be Governed and Why" (1997); and "Educational Reform: A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir" (2002).
And it is the possibility of new schools, as much as their actual numbers, that raises standards.
Mr. Levy disclosed his interest in the development plan yesterday at a meeting of the School Construction Authority in response to a question about the possibility of housing schools in mixed-use buildings from Howard Wilson, chairman of the construction authority's trustees.
When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.
Talk to your parents about the possibility of switching schools.
