Hereby meaning 'Secondary Schools' in Hong Kong, 'Colleges' in UK, and 'Grade 7 to 11' in the US.\n\nPlease consider both locally controversies and global issues and viewpoints. It would be great too if anyone can suggest a detailed list of affirmative and opposition points.
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yes.  some people have special dietary needs, like diabetics who need to eat at scheduled times.  also, hunger can be distracting, causing students to be less able to focus on their studies.  lunch at school shouldn't be required but it certainly should be available.  for some students from low income families their school lunch is the only meal they get all day. i also think breakfast should be available, but that wasn't really your question.
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Here's a FAQ on the UK primary system aimed at American citizens:  http://www.britishcouncil.org/usa-education-uk-system-k-12-education.htm
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Here is a bit of detail from Wikipedia.  Perhaps you could contact one of the schools that is listed in the link at the bottom?  Good Luck!
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It is a colloquialism. It depends on the geographical area where one is educated. It is ambivalent in that either way is correct.
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I can think of several things that may qualify, but upon closer examination I find evidence lacking for all of them.  Not counting some local or minor issue that may have been discussed in your class, consider Iraq?\n\nNo, we are not a colonial power exploiting another people.  Further, the people of Iraq are not culturally related to us, like we were to the British.  So bag that idea.\n\nWhat else? Elections?  Change of focus of power from Republican to Democrat?  No, there were no parties in Colonial America.  Not like we have them today.\n\nSorry I can't be more helpful.  Perhaps, Like I said, the question may be related to some topic covered in class that is not "general knowledge."  \n\nLots of teachers have their own agenda and even more ask questions that only make sense to them.  Some make a career out of making the obvious, obscure.
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It's best to look at it country by country.  Some countries like South Africa are doing a lot of education.  Others are denying it's a problem and not doing anything.  I'd grab a few countries and look on Google for each one.
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I'm in the UK - our government also is giving a high priority to education at the moment part of the reason is that so many people are dropping out early or not going on to higher education, therefore there are more people trying to go for unskilled / low skilled work, when we are a country which traditional has professional / highly skilled work. Such as finance, insurance etc. \n\none of the topics the government keeps going on about at the moment is anti social behaviour (kids messing about, harassing people and vandalising, and drugs) but the crime rates aren't actually that bad comparatively. \n\nA topic that is closer to me is the NHS (National Health Service) is in a bit of debt (1% of its budget) so is now making people redundant and has frozen new vacancies. Which as I am just about to finish at uni as a mental health nurse and that i will have to go to the private section to try and get a job! But there aren't that many to go to! \n\nI might be moving to South Africa soon anyway!
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Liberal meaning?  Huh?\n\nThere is no "political" meaning to those terms in education.\n\nWhat are you asking for?\n\nAutonomy is a huge "hidden" curriculum goal in education... we want kids to learn how to make decisions and be motivated to learn independently.\n\nRationality is another "hidden" curriculum goal in education... being able to think using the reality perceived by the senses and logical sequential reasoning.
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University education in the US is pretty much the best in the world (check the THES rankings for confirmation of this), largely because so many higher education institutions are private with large budgets, so they are able to provide top-class facilities and cherry-pick the most talented academics from all over the world.\n\nSchool education (primary and secondary) is less well regarded, this FT article shows rankings of global education systems - the US is 15th overall, but 42nd for maths and science. Incidentally, the UK is ranked higher for maths and science but MUCH lower for overall quality. It's not the best, but it's not bad either. It's also quite variable - individual states can set their own curricula, and school funding comes for the area immediately around the school - so schools in rich areas have lots of money and tend to achieve better results than schools in poor areas.\n\nIf you go to nationmaster (see sources) then you can see tables and graphs of countries based on all sorts of education statistics, it's really interesting to play around with and get a feel for how American education compares.
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Boyfriends and girlfriends is probably less conservative than in the US. \n\nSchool uniforms are compulsory in the vast majority of schools.  Makeup is frequently banned.\n\nSchool uniforms are supposed to make children less competitive over fashion.  That doesn't mean that they do anything to raise educational standards.\n\nThe academic quality of schools varies enormously from school to school.  The gap between bad schools and good schools and between private schools and state-funded schools is very significant.  It cannot be assumed that a school in a good area will be a good school.\n\nOn the whole, the standard of education in the UK is relatively poor, even though the UK education system is very well funded.
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INCORRECT literal translation:\nAt present, China's education quality is stable and rising.\n\nCORRECT translation:\nAt present, the quality of Chinese education is rising.\n\nbtw, the Chinese sentence is grammatically incorrect in Chinese; the part where it says "stable and rising" is awkward. The first half is fine though.
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High quality education is available though different types of universities.  "Ivy League" are just expensive schools that have a history in America, JUST AS CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD do in the UK.  Why does the UK have Cambridge and Oxford?  Same reason.  They're still more prestigious than some other schools, but that doesn't mean there aren't more outstanding universities outside the Ivy League system.  \n\nStandardized testing is generally just in high school, as a way for colleges to admit more qualified applicants.  Also...even schools not in the "Ivy League" consistently rank higher than many universities elsewhere in the world, and even many of the universities in America that we do not consider to be the greatest, rank much higher than other worldly institutions.  For example, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley as we know it, is a part of a system of 8 other schools apart of the University of California, which are not Ivy League schools, but still prestigious.
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These are some of the bad effects of Globalization and politicization of the education. Education curriculum and students are easiest to be target by political parties to make their point and score brownie points from different quarters. \n\nNo one understand where is problem with reservations - is it concept or implementation of this. Similarly adding film stories and making maths and English optional to please a strata of the society who votes and pay money to these political parties to gather power. \n\nSo I fully agree with you that education about which boast around all the world is deteriorating and this way we will loose whatever position we have got in world.
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You mean my two cents?\nI would agree that an elective course in, say, comparative religions should cover at least the five major religions and perhaps the next 2-3 as well. However, any course or "class" or "club" that promotes a single viewpoint belongs in a church context - not in a public school.
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I agree that a large part of it is national pride.  I believe Oxbridge to be a better system than the US, simply because I went though it and enjoyed it more than I think I would have done in the US.  I'm sure Americans will say exactly the same thing the other way round.\n\nAmongst unbiased opinions (national newspaper rankings etc) there's little difference, and that's probably the most accurate assessment of the situation.
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schools no longer are allowed to teach information like this,  they are required to teach the lie that there is a seperation of Church and State.\n\nPublic schools are now used to teach the agenda of the non christians, in science and evolution, to gay rights agenday and more.
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In the US:\n\nK-5: elementary school\n6-8: middle school (junior high)\n9-12: high school\n4 years undergraduate in a university \n4 + years in a graduate school (medical, law, business, etc)\ndoctoral (PhD)