I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a family/school etc outing
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a class outing to the ballet
a farm/factory/school etc gate
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I carefully shut the farm gate behind me.
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Lots of parents were waiting outside the school gate.
a film school
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He graduated from film school in 1998.
a high school/elementary school student American English
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Her son is a high school student.
a high school/elementary school student American English
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Her son is a high school student.
a school bag
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Hey, don't forget your school bag!
a school bus
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Hurry up or you'll miss the school bus!
a school counsellor (= working with the students at a school )
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I worked for three years as a school counsellor.
a school day (= a day when children go to school )
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It’s a school day tomorrow, so you need an early night.
a school desk
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The children are at their school desks by 8:30 in the morning.
a school friend
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I met some old school friends for lunch.
a school inspection
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The arrangements for school inspections have been greatly improved.
a school lunch (= a lunch provided by a school )
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Free school lunches are provided for the poorest children.
a school meal (= provided by a school )
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Many of the children are receiving free school meals.
a school play
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I got a small part in the school play.
a school trip (= when children and teachers from a school go somewhere )
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She went on a school trip to Tuscany.
a school/pod of whales (= a group of whales )
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A school of sperm whales was sighted.
a school/prison/club etc rule
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He had broken one of the school rules.
a school/university term
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The school term was about to start.
a school/university/college library
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She was studying at the college library.
a shoal/school of fish (= a large group swimming together )
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Shoals of little fish were swimming around her.
a university/college/school student
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How many college students are politically active?
A-level/high school etc examinations
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The school usually achieves good results in GCSE examinations.
an exclusive school
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Marjorie went to an exclusive girls’ school.
an office/school/hospital etc building
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Our office building is just ten minutes’ walk from where I live.
approved school
boarding school
business school
charm school
charter school
church school
comprehensive school
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Kylie goes to the local comprehensive.
compulsory schooling/education
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11 years of compulsory education
continuation school
convent school
day school
doing the school run
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We hope to increase the safety of children who walk to school and cut the number of cars doing the school run .
driving school
elementary school
factory/hospital/school etc closure
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the problem of school closures
feeder school
finishing school
grad school
grade school
graduate school
grammar school
high school exams
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Greg got good grades in all of his high school exams.
high school
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We were friends in high school.
high school/college diploma
independent school especially BrE (= one not owned or paid for by the government )
intermediate school
junior high school
junior school
law school
leave home/school/college etc
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How old were you when you left home your parents’ home ?
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My daughter got a job after she left school.
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The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office .
lower school
magnet school
medical school
middle school
new school
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new school hip hop artists
night school
nursery school
old school tie
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a system based on social class and the old school tie
parochial school
play catch/house/tag/school etc
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Outside, the children were playing cowboys and Indians.
prep school
preparatory school
primary (school) education British English , elementary education American English (= for children aged between 5 and 11 )
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The government has announced plans to improve the quality of primary school education.
primary school
prison/school yard (= an area outside a prison or school where prisoners or students do activities outdoors )
private school
public school
reform school
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If you’re not careful, you’ll end up in reform school.
riding school/stables (= place where people learn to ride horses )
sb's absence from work/school
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You will be entitled to sick pay in respect of any absence from work through sickness.
sb’s work/business/school address
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I sent the letter to her work address.
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My business address is on my card.
school age
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Children should start doing homework as they approach high school age.
school age
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children below school age
school board
school chum
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Freddie’s an old school chum of mine.
school dinners British English (= meals provided at school in the middle of the day )
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School dinners are served in the canteen.
school discipline
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a government report into how to improve school discipline
school district
school friend
school governor
school mates
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Most of my school mates are black.
school run (= the journey that parents make each day taking their children to and from school )
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the daily school run
school run
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We hope to increase the safety of children who walk to school and cut the number of cars doing the school run .
school tie
school/army/police etc uniform
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He was still wearing his school uniform .
school/college/university fees
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She paid for her college fees by taking a part-time job as a waitress.
school/family crest
school/work clothes
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Work clothes tend to be black, blue, or grey.
secondary school
senior high school
senior school
single-sex school (= one for only boys or girls )
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a single-sex school
skip school/class especially AmE
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He skipped chemistry class three times last month.
special school
start school/college/work
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I started college last week.
state school
summer school
Sunday school
take time off (work/school)
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I rang my boss and arranged to take some time off.
teach school/college etc American English (= teach in a school etc )
the primary/secondary/high school etc curriculum (= for particular ages at school )
the school band
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She plays the trumpet in the school band.
the school board American English
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The school board voted on the appointment.
the school curriculum
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The children carried out the project as part of the school curriculum.
the school team
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I played for my school cricket team.
the village hall/school/shop/church
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A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
the whole school/country/village etc (= all the people in a school, country etc )
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The whole town came out for the parade.
trade school
traffic school
university/college/school admissions
university/college/school entry
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Japan has one of the highest rates of college and university entry in the world.
upper school
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comprehensive
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Sessions will take place both indoors at the centre and outdoors on the adjacent comprehensive school playing fields.
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Wilson has been pushing for a comprehensive school test since he became governor in 1991.
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The first, and most orthodox, of these was the 11-18 comprehensive school .
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Choice programs in schools typically have greater flexibility and autonomy than are found in traditional comprehensive high schools.
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Teachers in comprehensive schools can be as imaginative and as devoted as in any other kind of school.
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Studies of large, comprehensive high schools suggested they are inhospitable places for both students and teachers.
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In Worcestershire, the education authority is committed to parity of excellence for all of its comprehensive schools .
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Our big comprehensive high schools are simply too big.
elementary
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His partner is an elementary school principal in town.
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Born and raised in Tokyo, Komuro started violin lessons at age 3 and began learning keyboards in elementary school .
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Some of the elite kindergartens and elementary schools also protest the advent of baby cram schools even while admitting their young alumni.
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The rest were educated from five until fourteen in elementary schools .
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In Tampa, Fla., he posed with elementary school students learning how to run businesses.
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Then came junior school . Elementary school it was called in those days.
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At a recent elementary school appearance, Stack slides easily into his crowd-pleasing presentation.
high
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An Aboriginal high school girl from a desert tribe had chanced to see this picture - and all hell had broken loose.
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Basic computer literacy is becoming an integral part of education for many high school and college students.
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The latest craze sweeping high schools and college dorms across the States is True Crime trading cards.
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I look older than I am, at the butt end of my junior year of high school .
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I also recruited Elwood Glover straight from high school .
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The skinhead students were expelled and transferred to another high school , but the problems at Groves were far from over.
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We hire young people without glancing at their high school transcripts and then wonder why they do not work harder in school.
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Then 23, she married her high school sweetheart, Dave.
independent
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Of the 42,000 who leave independent schools , more than 11,000 go to a top-13 university.
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Fees for independent schools are high.
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Apart from the local authority-run schools , Pocklington has an independent public school.
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On the other hand the public would want inspectors to be independent of the school being inspected.
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Pupils in independent schools achieve higher levels of success in public examinations than those at maintained schools.
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In Ulster, there are 72 grammar schools out of 238 secondary schools, and no posh independent schools at all.
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Parents began to turn in increasing numbers to the independent schools .
junior
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One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.
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They spend six years in elementary education and three years in junior high school .
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Most of us think the teachers are easier to approach in junior high school .
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It was Alex's last year in the Penzance junior school and he would be sitting the eleven plus immediately after Christmas.
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I teach history at the high school and junior high school levels.
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But that argument is unlikely to hold much water at Aldercar junior school outside Nottingham.
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Church league to junior high school to high school.
local
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On Monday Brandon, a third-grader at a local parochial school , told his teacher about the owl.
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But in many rural areas the only real choice is the one local school .
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State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards.
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I attended the local school , went to the swimming baths on Wednesdays and the cinema on Saturdays.
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She was an administrator in the local school system.
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In the slums of Luanda hundreds of local schools have sprung up in churches, or in modest classrooms built by parents.
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It is up to local school authorities to adopt rules controlling the use of such leaves.
medical
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Projects are offered in a wide range of science laboratories in the university and medical school .
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His parents had assumed he would go to a big university, major in science, and go to medical school .
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They never taught me in medical school that I would be doing so much paperwork.
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Few other medical schools have such a successful record of attracting research funds.
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Blacks, particularly black males, are underrepresented in medical schools across the country.
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Already some medical schools have made progress in implementing such schemes.
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The alleged cancer connection was disputed by scientists at the University of Arizona medical school in Tucson.
middle
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My own work on middle school teachers provides some support for this view.
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In middle school , your children would rather attend your execution than have you attend their field trip.
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The participation of primary and middle school teachers forms a major part of the methodology.
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Such exposure should begin in middle school and increase in intensity and focus in high school.
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The establishment of first and middle schools came in the wake of the Plowden Report of 1966.
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I tried to meet the administrators from as many high schools and middle schools as possible.
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At the time of going press, primary and middle schools are being reorganized.
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And what about sites for middle and high schools ?
old
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The old village school , which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.
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The only exception was among my childhood friends or old school classmates.
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Not everything old is old school .
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Hawaiian Tropic was invented in 1969 by a 25-year-\#old high school teacher and part-time lifeguard named Ron Rice.
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Not everything old is old school .
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The facilities are no better at the other four oldest schools .
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When we return to our hometowns, a visit to the old school to pay homage is a mandatory ritual.
primary
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Her father, a primary school teacher, was also disappointed with her choice.
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To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered.
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They can be primary or special schools , mixed groups of teaching and outside agency staff.
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Dozens of homes, a church, primary school and shops were also extensively damaged.
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For some schools , especially primary schools, it will be the new managerial responsibilities which will bring the most daunting challenge.
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Lights were on in the primary school .
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Thirty senior class pupils from ten primary schools in the Yarm area will attend a three-day pilot project.
private
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Admittedly I was on the Costa del Sol at a private international school and not in the capital.
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I mean they go to the private schools , of course.
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The Grammar schools were for the most able, bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines.
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In other cases, schools escort students back and forth from their private schools to public classrooms.
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An obvious example is education, where a child attends either a state school or a private school.
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As a consequence, private schools flourished, from the very expensive to the shantytown schools run by women in the slums.
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After an education in private schools , he became a laboratory assistant at the Runcorn Soap &038; Alkali Co.
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The proposal is popular among parents who are unhappy with public education but can not afford private school tuition.
public
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Corporal punishment became an issue both in the armed forces and the public schools .
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Can teachers wear distinctively religious clothing in public schools ?
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This last point was, however, mainly directed towards the public schools and the independent sector generally.
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Half the 1, 500 public schools in Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria, have no electricity.
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Can secret societies be prohibited in public schools ?
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She would have just been going into eighth grade when public schools around the country were implementing the legislation.
secondary
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This evidence was collected for primary, secondary and special schools .
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In secondary school I ran a little track and led Human Growth Seminars, which was sort of a teen-age est.
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Singing in Schools An additional cause for disquiet is the present shortage of music teachers in primary and secondary schools .
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The great majority of these Volunteers were secondary school teachers.
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A cursory perusal of my file of pupils' pursuits in both primary and secondary schools shows similar experiences and reflections.
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At ten, she could dream of completing secondary school .
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Even if we wanted to, we could not make secondary school like primary school.
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Each zone typically includes a cluster of two or three secondary schools with their supporting primaries and special educational needs provision.
special
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The doctor recommended a place at a named independent special school .
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Jimi and his colleagues have had another good day at a very special school .
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Children with special needs Special schools .
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More aid also is proposed for bilingual education, special education and school construction and repairs.
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Children with special needs Special schools .
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Cedars, he told them, was a special school because it had special teachers with special skills and training.
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Nearly three-quarters of these children were educated at special schools , often in special classes.
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If it is used only to improve the pupil-teacher ratio within special schools then its value is limited.
whole
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The centralizing pressures of the whole school were kept at the lowest level compatible with the necessary coherence of the enterprise.
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And if one thing happened, the whole school would be involved.
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In addition, the clarification of such issues could well provide the initial stimulus for a whole school language policy.
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The year after I was graduated, they built a whole new high school to handle the incoming hordes.
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The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school .
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He denounces Jane before the whole school as a liar, but Helen Burns does not shun her.
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The whole school would instantly become hushed and enthralled by the horror, watching.
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In a few places, whole high schools have divided into four or five separate academies.
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age
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The nineteen whom I interviewed included women with seven, five and four children, several under school age .
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Part of the reason is that by the time our toddlers are of school age , we take their talk for granted.
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The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.
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It is estimated that lead reaches toxic levels in the blood of 17 percent of urban children under school age .
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First-stage tinies progress to playing variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and by school age are tackling several tunes.
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Constable McLennan stated that children of primary school age were allowed to cycle on the pavement.
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But König's interest in schools spread predictably to provision for handicapped people beyond school age .
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A member from the panel of parents of school age will be required to attend each of the meetings.
board
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The immigrant groups had the numbers, even if they didn't have control of the media or the school board .
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In Mobile, Alabama, when the school board proposed a teacher competency test, the union objected.
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He sat for sixteen years on the London school board , and seventeen on the London county council.
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The school board claimed the dis-missals were required by economic necessity.
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Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches.
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He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.
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State law, however, gives control of instruction to local school boards .
business
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Establish which is the best business school in the country and hire its best professor at double his or her current salary.
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If he had suggested business school , I probably would have hit him.
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Inside the business school chimed the melody that meant the change of lessons.
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Even the business schools are coming around to that point of view.
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Nor is it surprising that business schools moved swiftly to meet this demand for new skills.
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After all, its merits were preached by our business schools for several decades.
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Reynolds wanted new consultants from business schools and commerce or industry, not from other headhunting firms.
child
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What of heroic exploits during armed service or the caning of school children ?
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It is being asked to compensate for the failures of the education system by teaching school children art and history.
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Thus the proportion of secondary school children going to grammar schools has always been positively related to social class.
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Across the hall, a group of twenty grade school children are at work in two connected rooms.
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For example, mandatory polio immunization of all school children has been upheld, despite the religious objections of some parents.
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It is hoped that as many as 90 percent of all school children will take part.
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But that maneuver would permit the Democrats to demonstrate their devotion to school children .
day
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Every school day was a good day.
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Almost any child will assert that recess is the best part of the school day .
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Althusser offers as examples of ritual practices a funeral, a school day , a political party meeting.
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The nun who teaches our class gives us time during the school day to begin.
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I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.
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It was clear to him that Dan needed to maintain persistence for about ninety minutes of every school day .
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This was home throughout his school days until he returned to St Andrews to attend the University.
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This fragmentation of the school day gives rise to teaching that is mainly talking, learning that is mainly seat time.
district
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The lawsuit demands Arnold turn over the fees he earned in the transactions to the school district .
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Cameron and the school district sit down with a neutral third person to negotiate an agreement that both sides find acceptable.
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Davis' journey began when the Fort Pierce, Fla., school districts were rezoned after his freshman and sophomore years.
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Open-enrollment charter schools draw students from across school district boundaries and are financed with state and local school dollars.
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In a small Texas school district , two political factions were vying for control of the school board.
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They get their own school district too.
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In half-day kindergarten programs, school districts need only half the number of kindergarten teachers and kindergarten classrooms.
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Frezzo said discussions are under way with the San Francisco school district to allocate money to pay students to maintain its networks.
drama
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A.R. You both went into the theatre together from the same drama school ?
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People had seen me in my drama school finals.
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The drama school audition By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor - nomatterwhat the problems or obstacles.
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Above all you need new audience experience now you are out of drama school .
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Payment of fees and grants Fees set by each drama school do differ slightly, though they can be considered basically similar.
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He returned in 1987 to attend the national drama school in Krakow.
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Being technically aware of your body is very important and the more drama school does about that the better.
friend
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He phoned an old school friend named Andy Rourke.
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There she was able to board with the family of an old school friend .
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If she had been speaking to a school friend she would have called Brian Daddy but this was not acceptable to Jasper.
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One successful enterprise was started by two high school friends who loved to eat.
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I was sixteen before I took any of my school friends home.
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How would my secondary school friends have described me?
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Luke and Helen visited families of school friends .
graduate
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In the United States the graduate school is the major arena of pedagogic activity and intellectual life.
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C., and a substantial amount of money toward graduate school .
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There is a variety of approaches in graduate schools and change is more easily envisaged.
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This question is the great white whale of graduate school finance courses.
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He didn't get on at graduate school at Harvard, finding it pretentious and doctrinaire.
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He would also be a marvelous attraction for a graduate school of almost any-thing.
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Both of us will teach to support our husbands through graduate school .
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She has plans for graduate school .
grammar
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But the small grammar schools of the North-East had something which modern schools often lack.They had well-qualified, determined teachers.
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Lately, everything I wore that she made for me, apart from my grammar school uniform, seemed frumpy and old-fashioned.
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Thus the proportion of secondary school children going to grammar schools has always been positively related to social class.
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I leaned against the wall and thought back to a graduation party at my old grammar school .
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Three years passed, and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school .
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The grammar school has its defects.
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Eventually we moved to Dorset where my father taught at the local grammar school .
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I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels.
holiday
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Next to her is Michelle, her daughter, who helps with the bulbs in school holidays .
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So, we needed to find a low-cost way to help parents on school holidays , on snow days and in general.
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Child: What work did you do in the school holidays ?
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Lingdale Residents' Association asked the council's permission to organise school holiday activities on spare land in Wilson Street.
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I used to help at weekends and during school holidays .
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Employee attitudes towards a move may be made more favourable if the employer allows the relocation to take place during school holidays .
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Friends with children and those in the teaching profession all wanted to visit us then, in the school holiday time.
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The departure date was fixed for 4 August, an ideal time to travel because of school holidays and our diaries.
law
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It is said many students leave the Harvard law school with debts of $ 75,000 or more.
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Procaccia, the law school dean, believes the intent of the compensation bill is to save money.
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I might go to law school next year, and I wanted to find out if I liked it.
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He was a young lawyer, just out of law school .
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How would I select a law school class?
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The number of students enrolled in ABA-approved law schools doubled in the twelve-year period from 1968 to 1979.
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Though he entered law school , Kelly was teaching dance a few months later.
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Yet law schools understand the dollar as well.
library
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Swinton thinks perhaps she stumbled on Orlando in the school library .
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The publication also is distributed to youth clubs, clinics, school libraries , drug treatment centers and churches across the country.
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To improve secondary school library provision and the quality of book selection. 3.
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Look in your school library for information about that or other oil spills.
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But she didn't know where to find it in the rows of medical books in the nursing school library .
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There are no school libraries in the 175 elementary and junior high schools.
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The news of busy, wanted school libraries can help all of us engaged in providing books and related services to schools.
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What can Prestel offer the school library ?
meal
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This boom in fast food is providing strong competition for both staff restaurants and school meal services.
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It's very easy to organise some investigative work by children on school meals provision.
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They live in the nine skinflint boroughs - mostly Tory authorities - which have scrapped their school meals service on cost grounds.
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Assemblies, dress requirements, school meals provision and links with parents may be insensitive to different cultural backgrounds and linguistic diversity.
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There is also considerable variation in the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals .
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While such concern gained support for the provision of rate-financed school meals , proposals for full state maintenance had far less backing.
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The school has 1,308 on roll and 30 per cent take free school meals .
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They had been expected to supervise school meals , to distribute milk, to be responsible for children at lunch times.
nursery
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Jason was part of a team involved in producing a mural for a nursery school playground.
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The children in child-cantered nursery schools tend to play and work in small groups or in pairs.
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It runs over 150 primary and nursery schools , and 12 secondary schools teaching agriculture, commerce and industry.
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Child care: day care, nursery school , babysitting.
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As to her other point, I can say only what I said to her about her calculations on nursery school resources.
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And then the kindergarten teacher started throwing him back into the nursery school .
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I tried putting the boys in nursery school , but they screamed the place down.
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Thus the movement is striking at the early stages: nursery school , kindergarten, and the lower grades.
pupil
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Drug dealers elicited sympathy from secondary school pupils , who laughed at the suggestion of reporting them to the police.
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The segregation of school pupils who have disabilities or learning difficulties poses this question immediately.
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The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils .
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In the white sector, 94 percent of primary school pupils were aged twelve or below.
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Estimates of total enrolment vary, but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800.
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There have even been suggestions that the length of the working week for secondary school pupils may have to be increased.
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Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.
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Grammar school pupils were drawn disproportionately from middle-class families.
state
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He is a former academic, whose five-year-old daughter attends state school and will apparently continue to do so.
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Justice says they should be allowed to attend the state school .
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The Department of Education and Science has estimated that state schools have a £3 billion backlog of repairs.
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The state school officials says all of those things are on the way.
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Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas, but for Amy the change was sudden.
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Her language may be a bit highbrow, but it strikes a chord with many of Britain's state school heads.
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Some state schools have followed the example of the independent schools in asking parents to give covenanted sums.
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Games were not even made compulsory in state schools until 1944 despite the importance of athleticism in private education.
student
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She did best in the interview, the part of the application process which was said to disadvantage comprehensive school students .
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But they expressed the greatest concerns about the time it takes for workers to supervise and mentor high school students .
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These findings were welcomed as reinforcing the need for top universities to do more to attract working-class and state-school students .
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High school students are remarkably perceptive and fresh in their views.
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Even when their grades are the same, public school students are still much more likely to win places at the 13.
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For Tulsa to provide school-to-work experiences for large numbers of high school students , something else was needed.
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They had not begun the program as high school students .
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In Tampa, Fla., he posed with elementary school students learning how to run businesses.
system
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But its collapse had served to focus attention upon many of the tensions within the school system .
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I doubt if the schools system could cope with another overhaul to undo all the harm done.
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But, in his place, the school system did not have the wisdom to send in anyone more qualified.
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Hold on to the remnants of a once great public school system .
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The New York City school system has a rule book the size of two collegiate dictionaries.
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Initially, the newly nationalized school system expanded very rapidly, with enrolments doubling in the course of a few years.
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S libraries and school systems have Internet access-the majority are yet to be connected.
teacher
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We are circulating the report to all primary schools so that primary school teachers can benefit from its advice.
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Jack Spencer was a high school teacher and a coach.
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In boxing, I was encouraged a lot by school teachers .
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He had the ironic, amused manner of a high school teacher , which he also was.
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So too have the subjects which the primary school teacher is expected to cover.
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South Florida owes him the respect one gives to a stern high school teacher .
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So, simply in its volume the assessment system itself represents a burden for primary school teachers .
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Perhaps he or she was a junior high school teacher who once commented that your writing skills were far below average.
village
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He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe.
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Opening their hearts to Jane, the brother finds her work in the village school and the sisters listen to her story.
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She attended only a teachers' institute, then taught in a village school .
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Or better still, there was the village school practically next door!
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Mr Gordon finds a Musician Mr Gordon was the teacher at the little village school .
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She met Sebastian from the tiny village school and told him what had happened.
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The village school , built in 1870, is now closed and used for the village hall.
year
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The purpose of the evening is to explain the nature of the tests which these children will undertake later this school year .
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The students participate in paid internships during the summer and part-time work during the school year .
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Our son's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers.
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That uncertainty arose after a $ 10 million budget shortfall surfaced in July, days before the start of the school year .
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The customary school year is 219 days.
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I can't believe that a school year could go so fast.
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This is the social event of the school year .
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The 1988 school year began with a sunrise breakfast and sing on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.
■ VERB
attend
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In January, Bisceglie was contacted by Swanson, with whom he had attended law school .
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She also attended a kindergarten school where she first demonstrated her talent for modelling with clay.
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Students who attended schools that regularly received and posted notices of job openings earned about $ 950 more than the annual average.
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The 825 youngsters who attend the school are mainly children of immigrants of over 25 different nationalities.
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She attended school in Pencer, and Roseau.
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Mrs Short said she would prefer George to attend a mainstream school .
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In the education department, more than 10, 000 students attended nine school performances.
finish
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Ponyboy hopes he will finish school and go on to university, so that he can gain qualifications and lead a better life.
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Amelia became a student at one of the most exclusive finishing schools in the country, a school called Ogontz.
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Sheila and Mona were at the convent secondary school , Michael was finishing national school.
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They established a bakery that eventually employed several hundred village girls on a part-time basis while they finished school .
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She finished school last year, and she worked for six months in a hospital to get some money.
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Listen to the Evert family, who refused to let Chris play full-time on the pro circuit until she finished high school .
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The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day.
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Alvin was to stay behind to finish the school year.
go
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Most slum children do not go to school , are very poor, and speak only Hindi.
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She chose to go to a different school , a true boarding school.
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I went to Tintagel primary school a few months later.
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Richards and I went to flight school together.
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One morning when they went to school the little bunnies were there in the cage and they were all very happy.
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This woman is never going to law school .
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Charlotte went to school again when she was fifteen.
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Today, close to half of all young people ages 25 to 34 still have not gone beyond high school .
leave
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Before you leave school to go on Work Experience you will be told which teacher to contact if you have any problems.
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Her sons left school when they were big enough to work.
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Mary was forty-six and had left school without any educational qualifications.
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The aim is to make students' aware of their own capabilities and options after leaving school .
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I left school at 16 without much in the way of qualifications.
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He was forced to leave school at 16 and go to work as a bank clerk.
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People who left school unable to read were often dismissed as lazy.
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What is done here with and for high school students will make a difference in who they are when they leave school.
stay
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He even wanted her to stay at school after she was sixteen, but she got round him there.
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My dad wanted me to stay in school .
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I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.
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He seems to make few friends and is content to stay at home after school and play Nintendo until bedtime.
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Contact with employers has enabled many young people to see the value of staying on at school to improve their qualifications.
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Holly will retain his scholarship as long as he stays in school , according to Frieder.
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Accordingly, they had planned to stay until the new school term began.
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She went so far as to make special transportation arrangements for some students to stay after school to finish their assignments.
teach
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At this time, I grew disheartened with the work, and started teaching in secondary school .
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Parents are cleaning, shoveling, and even teaching to aid schools .
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On 29 July, while I was teaching at a secondary school near London, I got married to.
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And over the years, an array of conservative luminaries have spoken or taught at the school .
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The first issue focuses on how to teach prayer in both school and parish.
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Thoreau first tried to make a career of teaching school and then wrote essays, which almost no one bought.
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The ideal solution to the conundrum is to teach no religion in schools .
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They stood and talked, and Alvin asked when Truitte was coming to teach at the school he had opened nearby.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut class/school
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She started cutting classes and fighting with her teachers and parents.
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But Democratic legislators say the tax cut would cut school funding by more than $ 3 billion.
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The conference also approved resolutions to cut class sizes and protect teachers from undue stress.
fee-paying school
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But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.
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Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.
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Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.
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Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
go to school/church/work etc
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And I was going to school.
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Dad, I want to go to school.
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Everyone says the space program is great, he goes to work on the space program.
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His Mum went to work this afternoon.
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I was too upset to go to school.
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Keith makes himself go to work.
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Phillips should have lost his eligibility for the year while continuing to just go to school.
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When he was told he must go to school, he said he would not.
infant school/teacher/class etc
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Ah, but here was a job: the infant teacher was called away for half an hour.
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An infant school built in 1840 served both Seaton and Sigglesthorne.
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At this time Syeduz was nearly six and in his second term in the infant school.
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Children attended infant school until they were seven.
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Read in studio An infant school has reopened after being severely damaged by arsonists.
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The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages, 24.
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This infant school was sometimes part of a junior school which catered for seven to eleven year olds.
model prison/farm/school etc
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A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
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Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
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The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
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The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
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There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
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Wave of unrest hits model prison.
of/from the old school
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As a soldier of the old school, Eisenhower felt his responsibility was to protect the nation's security.
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Harris was a newspaperman of the old school.
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At such a time, with his formal dress, he looked like a diplomat of the old school.
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He was of the old school, complete with stiff collar and bowler hat, and he was a good all-rounder.
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He was one of the old school, not exactly sleeping under hedges, but an itinerant caddie.
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I had to have ideas about how to sell the packages even though my business was still of the old school.
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Oscar was from the old school.
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The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.
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They sweep aside the qualifications and reservations which monetarists of the old school would occasionally express.
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This one was of the old school: giddy and flirtatious.
put sb through school/college/university
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I'm grateful to my wife for putting me through law school.
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He put himself through school with wages earned as a carpenter.
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He put his kids through college.
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I put my children through college doing it.
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I felt guilty thinking of my father working so hard to put me through school.
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Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.
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Some said Pops sent his Social Security checks to his daughter to put his grandchildren through college.
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The boys were to be sent by their father, but he was able to put just one through school.
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There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night.
residential course/school etc
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As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.
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Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
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In fact I hear that several Outward Bound schools are offering fortnight-long residential courses on the safe removal of the fleecy top.
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The residential course will be a combination of talks, demonstrations and hands-on experience.
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The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses, organised for college students and Fairbridge.
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Therefore, the concerns raised do not apply necessarily or equally to all residential schools working with such children.
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They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
secondary education/schooling/teaching etc
▪
A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.
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All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
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During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.
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Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
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If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.
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In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.
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Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.
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These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.
single-sex school/college etc
sink estate/school
stay after (school)
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But Lucie stayed after all, to play Balaam, and Izzie to play her pipe beforehand.
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I stayed after hours doing murals on tailgates.
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I had a friend who worked for the oil people, and I decided to stay after a visit to this place.
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I have never once heard a staff member say that wouldn't stay after the school day for some activity or other.
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In May, when the time changes and the weather mellows, the team will stay after the games to picnic.
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Keegan is desperate to stay after savouring his first taste in management by keeping United in the Second Division.
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She went so far as to make special transportation arrangements for some students to stay after school to finish their assignments.
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Some stay after class and follow me devotedly around the campus.
storefront church/law office/school etc
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In Sanchersville, she opened a storefront law office perforating the heart of the ghetto.
the old school tie
the old school tie
the school/academic year
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A dud for most of the year , with peaks at the start of the school year and at Christmas.
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Alvin was to stay behind to finish the school year .
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In the academic year 1990/91, work by the staff of the Department led to two national awards.
▪
That uncertainty arose after a $ 10 million budget shortfall surfaced in July, days before the start of the school year .
▪
The Counselling Service offers a number of group workshops and skills acquisition classes during the academic year .
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The paper was discussed by branches and Federations during the academic year 1956-57 and at the District Council of July 1957.
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The Transit minibus will be used for outings and visits throughout the school year .
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To bring together these keys to the curriculum, the school year is organized around themes.
work your way through school/college/university etc
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He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the kids around here take the bus to school .
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Both their kids are away at school now.
▪
Did you have a good day at school ?
▪
He argued for the abolition of the public schools, which he says are elitist.
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He seems to be very much part of the Marxist school in his approach to politics.
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I've only been out of school a couple of years, but I've forgotten all the math I learned.
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I always liked school , but my sister hated it.
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Jake dropped out of school and started working at the bowling alley.
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Jessica's still too young to go to school .
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Kyle is one of the most popular boys in school .
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Many parents want to send their children to private school because class sizes are smaller.
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My mother is a teacher at the local school .
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One school of thought argues that introducing stiffer penalties would bring the crime rate down.
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Phil gave up his job, and he's going back to school next year.
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She must be about 16 - she's still at school .
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Teachers are complaining that the public schools do not receive adequate funding.
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The children were all wearing school uniforms.
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The nearest school was 10 miles away.
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The whole school was sorry when she left.
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There is no denying the influence of the Impressionist school in his painting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In high school , he also learned to play the drums, piano and cornet.
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Mary was forty-six and had left school without any educational qualifications.
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Oh, they said how heroic he was and the headmaster said all the right things at the school memorial service.
▪
Primary schools, it argued, are failing to stretch older children.
▪
The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school .
▪
The high school signing period begins Feb. 7.
▪
The public schools get the least and the last-the least money, the least equipment, the least of everything.
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They're even thinking of closing schools down.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
church
▪
The Klan firebombed black homes, churches , and schools in over one hundred towns and rural areas.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fee-paying school
▪
But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools, provided that was not against the parents' principles.
▪
Over three quarters of the House of Lords attended fee-paying schools of one sort or another.
▪
Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded, said officials.
▪
Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school.
infant school/teacher/class etc
▪
Ah, but here was a job: the infant teacher was called away for half an hour.
▪
An infant school built in 1840 served both Seaton and Sigglesthorne.
▪
At this time Syeduz was nearly six and in his second term in the infant school.
▪
Children attended infant school until they were seven.
▪
Read in studio An infant school has reopened after being severely damaged by arsonists.
▪
The limit for first-year infants classes will be 27 and for classes of children of mixed ages, 24.
▪
This infant school was sometimes part of a junior school which catered for seven to eleven year olds.
model prison/farm/school etc
▪
A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
▪
Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
▪
The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
▪
The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
▪
There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
▪
Wave of unrest hits model prison.
of/from the old school
▪
As a soldier of the old school, Eisenhower felt his responsibility was to protect the nation's security.
▪
Harris was a newspaperman of the old school.
▪
At such a time, with his formal dress, he looked like a diplomat of the old school.
▪
He was of the old school, complete with stiff collar and bowler hat, and he was a good all-rounder.
▪
He was one of the old school, not exactly sleeping under hedges, but an itinerant caddie.
▪
I had to have ideas about how to sell the packages even though my business was still of the old school.
▪
Oscar was from the old school.
▪
The overall effect was grandfatherly-a gentleman of the old school, fusty, faintly absentminded, and deeply courteous.
▪
They sweep aside the qualifications and reservations which monetarists of the old school would occasionally express.
▪
This one was of the old school: giddy and flirtatious.
residential course/school etc
▪
As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans.
▪
Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
▪
In fact I hear that several Outward Bound schools are offering fortnight-long residential courses on the safe removal of the fleecy top.
▪
The residential course will be a combination of talks, demonstrations and hands-on experience.
▪
The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses, organised for college students and Fairbridge.
▪
Therefore, the concerns raised do not apply necessarily or equally to all residential schools working with such children.
▪
They joined the six-day residential course after a careful selection process.
secondary education/schooling/teaching etc
▪
A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.
▪
All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
▪
During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.
▪
Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
▪
If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.
▪
In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.
▪
Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.
▪
These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.
single-sex school/college etc
sink estate/school
storefront church/law office/school etc
▪
In Sanchersville, she opened a storefront law office perforating the heart of the ghetto.
the old school tie
the old school tie
the school/academic year
▪
A dud for most of the year , with peaks at the start of the school year and at Christmas.
▪
Alvin was to stay behind to finish the school year .
▪
In the academic year 1990/91, work by the staff of the Department led to two national awards.
▪
That uncertainty arose after a $ 10 million budget shortfall surfaced in July, days before the start of the school year .
▪
The Counselling Service offers a number of group workshops and skills acquisition classes during the academic year .
▪
The paper was discussed by branches and Federations during the academic year 1956-57 and at the District Council of July 1957.
▪
The Transit minibus will be used for outings and visits throughout the school year .
▪
To bring together these keys to the curriculum, the school year is organized around themes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
She eased to a more comfortable position against the angle of the ground and schooled herself to wait.
▪
She was starting at zero as she had very poor schooling due to ill health.
▪
Stepping from behind the screen, Isabel schooled her features into an expression of remote serenity.
▪
Though described as a gentleman, and obviously well educated, his birth, parentage, and schooling all remain obscure.