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Research Topics on: private schools

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Books on: private schools

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  • School
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...States, the standard school system developed from...conglomeration of dame schools, reading and writing schools, private academies, Latin grammar...System The free public school system is paralleled in many areas by private and parochial schools . Preparatory schools are private schools operated primarily...
     
  • School Vouchers
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...income families by providing school tuition that can be used at public or private schools. The idea behind school vouchers is to give parents...assumed that competition from private schools will pressure public schools...
     
  • Parochial School
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...mid-1960s, Roman Catholic schools began to encounter severe financial problems; many parish schools were closed and the Catholic school population dropped sharply. Although parochial schools still account for the bulk of the attendance at private schools in the United States...
     
  • Nursery School
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Vassar. Early American nursery schools were often sponsored by and...universities. The Eliot Pearson School (opened in the 1920s as the...Nursery) is one of the oldest schools of its type and is still affiliated...with Tufts Univ. Few public school systems include nursery education...facilities offered are chiefly private, philanthropic, or cooperative...
     
  • Integration
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...desegregation now centered upon the school question. By the end of 1957...begun integration of their school systems. Another five states had some integrated schools by 1961. The states mostly...integration of southern school districts was progressing...states were in integrated schools. However, the continuing...tax-exempt, segregated private schools that had been developing...
     

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