Fairfax County Public Schools

a. Public schools for K-12 1. The government forms and maintains public schools across the country and require mandatory attendance (with the exception of alternate education routes including Montessori schools and homeschooling, etc). The requirement of some form of education improves the country's future productivity and is an investment in the nation's future. The federal government only provides a small portion of the funding for public schools; most is provided by state governments. 2.…

should the budget crisis of Tri-County School Corporation worry someone from Indianapolis, or from Terre Haute? The day-to-day operations of school districts might seem minimal in the face of larger issues the state is facing. But this line of thinking fails to take into account what is true of Tri-County and any other school district in the state. Schools are responsible for producing entire generations of Hoosiers. The students that will emerge from the Indiana Public Education system in just…

The latest standardized testing reveals the ugly truth for Wood County Schools: Proficiency in Math: From 3rd grade to 11th grade – a steady drop from 47% to 21%. Going into their senior year, 21% of Wood County students are proficient in math after being in the system for 13 years! Proficiency in Science: Average proficiency in science, 4th, 6th, and 10th grades is 41% Proficiency in Reading/Language Arts: Going into their senior year, 51% are proficient In the midst of this deepening…

After working for 30 years in the accounting and purchasing departments in a public school system in Louisiana, I started a new career as a financial planner. Upon completing all of my coursework with the College of Financial Planning, I realized that much of what I learned could have helped greatly if I had this knowledge while working in the school system. Although I did fairly well financially in my career, I could have done much better if I had a book like this…

For traditional public education, the public school system offers a one-size-fits-all method of education of children in the decades. Enter the 21st century, more and more children begin to lag behind the fast changing environment was introduced on personal computers and later the Internet. It's need to change. Many people began to push for a new education mode, which can keep up with The Times. Charter schools and school voucher programs are collectively referred to as “school choice”…

Franklin Massachusetts. Horace Mann was raised in poverty, and was educated in an elementary school that was diminishing into rubble. Mann was self educated in the Franklin library until he attended Brown University. Mann studied law, politics, and social reform. Mann lived a very successful life and improve the lives of many other with The Common School Movement. Mann was known as the father of the Common School Movement. In 1819 Mann graduated from Brown University and by 1827 he was elected…

we have explored the ins and outs of the educational system in the United States. We have learned that the public school system in America is failing our minority students, specifically the African American ones. The goal of this paper is to explain my school reform concept, that I have developed based on the various types of school systems that we’ve explored. The major goal of the school reform project is to close the achievement gap between our African American students and their white…

introduces a program named Channel One. Channel One goes into less fortunate high schools and lends them technology like computers, televisions, and satellite dishes. The rules Channel One lays out are simple. Each day, the teachers must have all the students watch a video. The first three minutes are advertisements. The main goal of Channel One is to sell their advertisements to the students and in return the school will get equipment. On the one hand, Barber gives an example how if Channel…

I examine the concept of school choice policy and how political culture affects its creation. It has been widely researched and concluded by many scholars that school choice policy and implementation segregates school districts. However, a relatively untouched component of this issue has looked at the affect political culture and other factors have on the creation of school choice policy and type of school choice policy that is introduced. In this research I am going to look at how political…

inequalities that have manifested in public schools are the obsessive emphasis on high-stakes testing are damaging for kids in general and people who can afford to send their kids to a private school have no idea how inadequate the public school system can be. Students and schools suffer from high stress levels when their futures rest on the outcome of these tests. The parents who have the know-how, and can afford it, will find some way to get their kids into a better school while parents who do…