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Direct linkHern, Matt – Education Canada, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the impact of compulsory state schooling in North America. The author stresses that schools are not making kids smarter, more capable or more skilled. The basic aspects of everyday school life have emerged and continue to evolve not as a response to the needs of students, but as driven by institutional needs.…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Download full textUnited States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1905
Volume 2 addresses German school courses of study, a report on the Chilean Education Congress and Exhibit, U.S. and foreign education necrology for 1902, and profiles of education benefactors and others who have devoted their lives to education. Chapter XXX's miscellaneous educational topics include remarks on education in America, a good urban…
Descriptors: Education, Foreign Countries, School Organization, Urban Schools
