Having failed his 11-plus, Beadle went to Orpington secondary modern school, easing the boredom by joining CND marches, working for Oxfam and playing a pantomime dame for a youth club.
Longer term, these developments risk pitting school against school, easing the way for for-profit providers into a key public service, alienating many teachers and undermining across-the-board educational progress.
The clubs also prepare girls to get jobs after they leave school, easing the difficult period of transition between the end of their education and the time they gain employment.
AS ATTACKS ON SCHOOLS SLOW Taliban insurgents are attacking fewer schools, easing the way for boys and girls to attend in larger numbers, even in largely insecure areas of the country, Afghan education officials say.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents are attacking fewer schools, easing the way for boys and girls to attend in larger numbers, even in largely insecure areas of the country, Afghan education officials say.
President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, has backed off a proposal to remove Roman Catholic instruction from Bolivia's schools, easing a dispute with church officials over his plan to place greater emphasis on Indian faiths.
With schools easing the way, English is penetrating Ulan Bator through the electronic media: bilingual Mongolian Web sites, cellphones with bilingual text messaging, cable television packages with English language news and movie channels, and radio repeaters that broadcast Voice of America and the BBC on FM frequencies.
Hopefully, and with time, we'll see more high schools ease their policies about social networking and see a shift in mindset that will allow for more seamless integration of these sites into education at all levels.
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Community schools ease the transition between early childhood programs and traditional classrooms.
On the statewide level, Governor Bobby Jindal is pushing a reform agenda that would offer vouchers to students in subpar schools, ease teacher certification standards for charters, and "allow parents in certain circumstances to vote a 'failing' school into the state-run Recovery School District," according to the Times-Picayune.
