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  Welcome to Army Public School, Lucknow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Army Public School, Lucknow had it's origin in the form of an Army School which was established in 1981 to meet the educational requirements of army children and to a limited extent, civilian children.
In addition to meeting the educational needs of army personnel, the school also considers other students from all over India and abroad, it is a co-educational institution offering boarding facilities to boys as well as girls from class VI to XII.
The school teaches the children to think for themselves and to take their own decisions and to be responsible for them.
www.awesonline.org /schools/LUCKNOW/intro.html   (227 words)

  
 Defenceindia : Special Feature : The Army Public School
The Army Public School is one of the leading teaching and learning institutions in Delhi - renowned for the quality of its students and its commitment to new and creative approaches to education.
The school provides holistic education through a vast range of activities that encompass the entire range of human growth and development to the children of Army Personnel, irrespective of their rank.
The school fully appreciated the effort of the erstwhile soldiers, who are grandparents today, by granting their wards admission on a priority basis.
www.defenceindia.com /defenceind/aps.html   (935 words)

  
 Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the ...
That's because school staffs, both line and management, are involved in a guild system; in that ancient form of association no single member is allowed to outperform any other member, is allowed to advertise or is allowed to introduce new technology or improvise without the advance consent of the guild.
A movement as visibly destructive to individuality, family and community as government-system schooling has been might be expected to collapse in the face of its dismal record, coupled with an increasingly aggressive shake down of the taxpayer, but this has not happened.
School people are in a position to outlast any storm and to keep short-attention-span public scrutiny thoroughly confused.
www.dvschool.org /psngatto.htm   (2827 words)

  
 Compulsory and progressive education, Prussian school system, totalitarianism, State versus the Individual, conformity ...
The aim of the public schools at the macro, or social, level was the creation of a homogeneous, national, Protestant culture: the Americanization and Protestantization of the disparate groups that made up the United States.
An early elaboration of the potential role of public schools was written by Martin Luther in his 1524 letter to the German authorities.
The use of the school as a buffer between the child and his family and community led to the establishment of playgrounds and parks, and then summer schools all intended to extend the school's influence over the child.
www.sntp.net /education/school_state_3.htm   (5296 words)

  
 APS Dagshai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Army Public School at Dagshai was founded on 1st Jun 1986 under the aegis of Headquarters Western Command now the School is under the aegis of Army Welfare Education Society (AWES) Adjutant General's Branch, Army HQ.
Army Public School, Dagshai is a Residential, Co-educational English Medium Public School, which has been established to provide modern and progressive educational facilities at a reasonable cost to the children of Army personnel.
The lowest class in the school is class V. The school is run primarily for children of serving army personnel and war widows.
www.awesonline.org /schools/aps-dagshai.htm   (1198 words)

  
 Why public school?
In our neighborhoods close to Boston, some communities with long traditions of excellence in public education are inhabited with parents whose greatest goal for their children is to avoid the local public school.
A visit to a half-dozen independent schools would reveal Hollywood's standard portrayal of private schools — ivy-clad places where snotty rich kids in blazers torment good-hearted scholarship students — to be as dated and unrepresentative as the parochial-school stereotype of ruler-wielding nuns terrifying students with promises of hellfire.
Independent schools, in part because they are self-governing, reflect the full spectrum of current approaches to education, from traditional to alternative, and offer families a rich variety of personalities and programs.
www.kidsboston.com /publicprivate.htm   (1167 words)

  
 Sri Lanka Army -Soldiers & public join hands to prepare groundwork for school re-opening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Enthusiastic members of the public, tutorial staff and Jaffna based soldiers scotched media rumours and joined hands together recently to prepare groundwork for the re-opening of the abandoned Government’s Tamil Mixed School in Eluthumadduval north.
A crowd of parents, teachers and members of the public, joined by hundreds of Army Officers and soldiers were at the forefront to organize this three hour long Shramadana, voluntary campaign, meant to get rid of garbage and unwanted materials from the school premises before groundwork for renovation and rebuilding got underway.
Earlier, a north based Tamil daily in its issue on 18th May 2004 claimed that this school was among many others that cannot be reopened for children since the school premises was infested with landmines, said to have been planted by Security Forces.
www.army.lk /News_Reports/2004/may/261.htm   (284 words)

  
 Public School Prayer persecution
It was the ministers who negotiated for the school system and drafted the so-called "equal access plan." A plan that any student, club member, teacher or parent could put their name into a hat and if selected, they would give a pre-game prayer.
It's not about prayer in public schools -- it's using the government to sponsor their prayer and it is about being seen and heard praying in a government setting.
The battle to teach Creationism instead of evolution, public school sponsored prayer, a moment of silence, posting of the Ten Commandments, placing "In God We Trust" in public schools and re-writing of the history of the United States are all in line with the Fundamentalist Conservative Christian thinking.
www.mindspring.com /~wjager/billrel.html   (5916 words)

  
 The Observer | Politics | £100m public school perk of diplomats and spies
The figures obtained by The Observer demonstrate that these diplomats tend to choose the very top public schools in the country for their children and the state subsidy covers the entire fees for schooling at Eton or Sevenoaks.
He pointed out that, although the Foreign Office last year paid for 236 children to go to public school even though their parents were living in the UK, many of these were not permanently residing in Britain and could be sent abroad in the future.
A spokesman for the Independent Schools Council said there was a 'traditional and legitimate' argument for keeping the scheme: 'This money is paid in order to secure the continuity and security of education of service personnel and that is only right and proper'.
observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1396585,00.html   (1772 words)

  
 Family-Friendly Public School Book Policies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Public school libraries serving minors should not contain material that has profanity or sexually suggestive material and language which school policy prohibits students to use while on school property.
The school should encourage parents to visit the school library to familiarize themselves with the content and to facilitate their children’s fullest possible use of the materials for educational benefit.
In developing their collections, school librarians should base their guidelines on the existing approved curriculum standards and on the spirit of the laws and statutes in the community rather than the doctrines and dogma of the American Library Association, a private trade organization.
www.fflibraries.org /Book_Reports/PSBookPolicies.htm   (1984 words)

  
 Township of Union Public School District
There are ten schools currently in operation: six kindergarten through grade four elementary schools; one elementary school which houses all of the district's grade five students; two middle schools, grades six through eight; and one comprehensive high school grades nine through twelve.
The Township of Union Public Schools is dedicated to providing quality education that meets the needs of a diverse population.
The Township of Union Public School system is geared to address the multipurpose needs of a diverse population.
www.twpunionschools.org   (226 words)

  
 Timeline of Public School Governance in the District of Columbia, February 2000
Public schools become “pauper schools” as Council directs trustees to only accept the poor due to financial problems.
Congress establishes a 7-member School Commission appointed by the County Levy Court to establish and govern Washington County schools (1 from each of 7 school districts in the county).
Davis Investigation of public school conditions (House District Committee) — according to Carl Hansen, advocate of desegregation, it was designed to show desegregation had failed.
www.dcwatch.com /richards/0002.htm   (2675 words)

  
 GROUP IS RAISING ARMY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENTS - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For example, one elementary school in Massachusetts reports that after 200 of its 350 parents signed the Pledge, the school was able to make badly needed capital improvements, raise enrichment program funding, and had 30 different parents who volunteered in the classroom at any given time.
Currently school districts receiving a minimum of $50,000 must set aside one percent of Title I Basic Grant funds for parent involvement activities and may pay for the development of pledges, parent training, child care, and transportation to facilitate parent involvement.
The goal is to ensure that schools have the support of millions of parent volunteers while they are simultaneously held accountable by organized parent groups at the district level.
education.press-world.com /v/38321.html   (1084 words)

  
 ACLU threat causes Boy Scouts to drop public school ties - (BP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The ACLU sent a letter to the Boy Scouts of America in February threatening legal action against public schools and other governmental agencies that charter Boy Scout groups on grounds that their sponsorship amounts to religious discrimination and violates the separation of church and state.
Removal of a scouting unit's charter from a school will not necessarily remove its presence from the school, Shields said, noting that groups will still have access to public school facilities; they just won't be chartered by the schools.
By attempting to remove Boy Scouts from public schools, the ACLU is attempting to undermine an organization that has exerted an overwhelmingly positive influence on millions of school-aged children, Shields said.
www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=20306   (969 words)

  
 Education in India: Implementation Success Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Army Public School (APS), Pune was established in June 1988 at Dighi to provide a high standard of education to the children of defence personnel.
On April 1 1997, the school was shifted from Dighi to its present location.
There is a separate computer lab for teachers to work in the senior wing and 2 separate computers for teachers in the junior wing.
www.educationinindia.net /html/iss-apspune.htm   (253 words)

  
 Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice | by Sol Stern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Filled with timely insights and human drama, Breaking Free vividly describes how cash-starved Catholic schools in the South Bronx are performing small educational miracles every day with children the public schools have given up on.
Drawing on personal observation and intimate conversations with parents, students and educators, Breaking Free is the first book to transform school choice from an abstract policy issue into a question of basic personal freedom, and indeed, for minority children at the bottom of the social ladder, into a question of survival.
Unlike the modern army, urban schools don't allow reporters to embed themselves within their operations.
www.manhattan-institute.org /breakingfree   (446 words)

  
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Faced with stinging public criticism, school officials in this Army base city have reduced a suspension imposed on a student who wouldn't give up his cell phone while talking to his mom - a sergeant on duty in Iraq.
Kevin Francois, a 17-year-old junior at Spencer High School, was suspended for 10 days for disorderly conduct Wednesday after a teacher told him to give up his cell phone outside the school during his lunch break, and he refused.
School officials said Francois was defiant and used profanity when asked to surrender his phone.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=62766   (307 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Delhi News : Army Public School bus kills four
The mangled remains of one of the two-wheelers after it was hit by a school bus in the Capital on Thursday.
Four persons, including a young woman, were killed and two others injured when a rashly driven bus carrying about 40 students of Army Public School rammed into two motorcycles and a scooter waiting at a traffic signal on Simon Bolivar Marg at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi today.
The deceased have been identified as Daya Nand (30), who was driving the scooter, Manushi Gautam (20), who was travelling on a motorcycle driven by her brother, Manish (22), Ravinder and Devender, who were on the other motorcycle.
www.hindu.com /2004/05/07/stories/2004050714370300.htm   (405 words)

  
 Another face of Indian Army - schooling of kids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
New Delhi: In a novel pilot scheme, Army has taken up schooling of 101 militancy-affected children including girls from Jammu and Kashmir with some of them being orphans of militants.
In a humanitarian gesture, the Army has shifted these children to the prestigious Army Public School, Beas, near Jallandhar, where as boarders they will undergo schooling from class V to CBS standards, with the entire estimated cost of Rs 1 lakh per annum being borne by the force.
They will now have the benefit of being exposed to a public school English medium education," the Additional Director General for Public Information Maj Gen D H Summanwar told reporters.
news.indiainfo.com /2003/09/15/15army.html   (293 words)

  
 Army school wins national quiz:- - India News - Webindia123.com
New Delhi, May 4 : The Army Public School, Pune, won a national quiz competition organised by Doordarshan here Wednesday.
The team from the Pune school were trained by their teachers Pendharkar, Nazma Begum and Smita Shirwalkar and took home a variety of gifts, individual trophies and a trophy for the school.
The quiz show is produced by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity on behalf of the Petroleum Conservation and Research Association.
news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=80779&cat=India   (146 words)

  
 Kansas Army National Guardsmen attend Unit Public Affairs School
Staff Sgt. Sheila D. Dues, Kensington, recently attended the Unit Public Affairs Representative School (UPAR) on March 6-7, 2004, in Salina, Kan. She is assigned to the 995th Maintenance Company, Kansas Army National Guard, in Smith Center, where she has been a cook for the past five years.
Dues was in the active Army for 10 years as an administrative specialist and has been in the Army National Guard for seven years.
Recently appointed Unit Public Affairs Representative for his unit, Harmon has already started planning for future annual training sessions and other events, where he might be given an opportunity to tell fellow citizens about the wonderful opportunities the Guard has to offer.
www.accesskansas.org /ksadjutantgeneral/News%20Releases/2004/04-017%2019-28%2032%2034-50.htm   (6078 words)

  
 News Letter Second Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
New Students of Management School are welcome to join and take part in the activities.
And OPAC [on-line public access] would be implemented within a short time.
Nazish BCS paid a visit to Chinar Army Public School, Murree on, July 16, 2003.
www.szabist-isb.edu.pk /newsletter/2ndpage.htm   (459 words)

  
 Public School Observance Days
Observance days can be part of a rich social studies curriculum that gives these individuals and events proper emphasis, both in the context of Wisconsin and U.S. history and in relation to their effect on or improvement of our political, economic, and social institutions.
The legislature encourages schools to conduct a day-long program, using all educational subjects, to enhance the student's understanding of the environment and to promote an ethic of environmental stewardship.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability.
www.dpi.state.wi.us /dpi/dltcl/eis/observe.html   (1654 words)

  
 Archived News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Publication of the Society for Phenomenology and Media., 1 61-72.
Publication of the Society for Phenomenology and Media, 5, 17-22.
The CSO is widely publicized and this accomplishment brings great prestige to both Stephen Jones as as individual and Brigham Young University.
guam.byu.edu /College/ArchivedNews.php   (5079 words)

  
 Hassan Bin Tila
I had my schooling at different schools because of the postings of my father.
Army Public School and College (Junior), Peshawar, NWFP
Army Public School and College (Senior), Peshawar, NWFP
www.geocities.com /hassanpak30/index.htm   (346 words)

  
 Army Public School founders day
The school's annual report presented before an audience of parents, siblings and special invitees stated that a national merit certificate was obtained by Tarunjeet Klair from CBSE for securing 97 marks out of 100 in mathematics.
The school stood second in the Western Command declamation competition, while several prizes were bagged in painting, quiz and debate competition.
Earlier, president of Army Wives Welfare Association (Regional), Kusum Kala gave away the prizes and trophies for the year 1997-98.
expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980602/15351194.html   (291 words)

  
 APS Dagshai celebrates 19th Founder’s Day
The celebrations were marked by a science and art exhibition, a colourful cultural programme which included a bhangra item, a drama presentation and other activities showcasing the talents of the students of the school.
In his address to the gathering, Lt Gen said that world is acknowledging India’s intellectual powers and an important role in this has to be played by the schools, who act as the link between the family and society at large and contribute in the development of child.
Principal of the School Col A K Maini presented the school annual report, in which he listed several achievements of the school, which included as many as ten students of the school joining the armed forces.
cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=132065   (287 words)

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