School ballots 'no help to poor'
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Poorer children are not more likely to take up a school place allocated through a  lottery, researchers say.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are concerned that a new  European Union proposal for improving development aid may not  result in sufficient extra money for health and education in poor  countries.
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Catchment areas ought to be banned to prevent richer families buying their way into good schools.
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Fewer councils help poorer families to pay for children's school uniforms, a charity says.
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Charter-school opponents and supporters are both claiming the high ground after a controversial report by the American Federation of Teachers that said students at charter schools fare worse than students at traditional public schools.
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TeachersÃÂÃÂ misconceptions might be preventing bright state-educated pupils from applying to Oxford and Cambridge University, according to a survey for an educational charity.
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Steps to improve early years education made by the government are making no impact, research suggests.
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The government has abandoned plans to have local authorities redistribute 5% of school budget surpluses.
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Number of children taught in schools with more than 2,000 pupils has trebled since Labour came to power
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America's once-proud public school system -- the great equalizer of our democratic society -- is failing an entire generation of students. Millions of high-school students are donning their caps and gowns this month, but a new Education Week report reveals that more than 1.2 million students will fail to graduate high school this year. Half of our black and Hispanic male students are dropping out of public high schools.
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Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration move to curtail hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding for disabled students that could force some schools already in budget straits to trim health services or cut back instructional programs.
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Computer says no to tens of thousands of votes More than seventy thousand votes in the recent Scottish elections were rejected by the electronic counting machines, with no human oversight.â¦
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Some secondary schools provide no sex education or health advice, a report says.
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Vulnerable youngsters expelled from schools in England are being doubly disadvantaged, inspectors have said.
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A top government adviser says about 80,000 children go to underperforming secondary schools each year.
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The state should "back off" and allow charities or parents to run schools, the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will say.
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Criticism of the No Child Left Behind Act by Democratic presidential contenders is endangering its renewal.