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Is Online High School Right For Your Student? ... When students and their families begin to explore high school courses online, what they find attractive is a quality education that features: - individualized learning plans,...

Why Go To School, When You Can Be Online Learning Law? ... So, why go to school to become a lawyer, when you can be online learning law? Make no mistake, there are still a number of advantages to classroom education...

Earn A High School Diploma Online ... Insight School of Washington will be offering 140 different classes to 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12 graders...

Graduate School Rankings ... The important detail is not how good the graduate school is, but whether that particular program is right for you... After all, you want to go to a reputable institution! Nonetheless, a higher ranking graduate school is not necessarily better than a lower one...

The Three R's And Beyond: Education In Nepal ... The school authorities no doubt had a huge task on their hands as typically, more than 2000 apply every year for 200 seats in this premier school... Anyway, the long and the short of it was that my daughter gained the coveted admission to the prestigious school and 11 years later passed out from Class 12...

Greatest Risk In School Travel Is Not On School Buses ... WASHINGTON -- Children are at far more risk traveling to and from school in private passenger vehicles -- especially if a teen-age driver is involved -- than in school buses, says a new report from the National Academies' Transportation Research Board... National data assessing the risk of different modes of school transportation need to be made available to help parents, students, and officials at the state and local levels make more informed decisions regarding safety, said the committee that wrote the report... "Each state, school district, and private school must assess its own situation and circumstances," said committee chair H...

The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything—getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. We can’t have permissiveness. When someone comes in and says, “Oh, your room is so quiet,” I know I’ve been successful.
—Rose Hoffman, U.S. public school third-grade teacher. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973)

Their school a crowd, his master solitude;
Through Jonathan Swift’s dark grove he passed, and there
Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

school days, school days; dear old golden rule days.
Readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmetic; taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick.
—Will D. Cobb (1876–1930)