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...Among observers who've scrawled an "F" on Latham's plan are those who believe he hasn't gone far enough in putting high-fee schools in their place. In the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand, governments give nothing to private schools, says Jane Caro, convener of the advocacy group Priority Public. Australia is probably too far down the opposite path to turn back, she says, "but I wish we'd never gone that way." Parents argue that because they save the public thousands of dollars a year per child by opting for private education, they're entitled...
Sitting poised on the ground, with a lacy cardigan framing her bright blue eyes, she looks like a Jane Austen heroine...
...obviously hit it off,” Heller says. She kept the engagement a secret—even from her sister and mother—just as Jane Fairfax did in the Jane Austen novel “Emma,” she says. The differences in their family backgrounds—hers leaned liberal, his conservative—also complicated matters...
...series of violent attacks in the past decade has forced school administrators to take preventive action against an array of threats - from vandals and burglars to murderers and terrorists. "School-related terrorism incidents are extremely rare, but they do occur," says Michael Dorn, a school security expert with Jane's Information Group who is writing a book about terrorism in schools. Protestants left pipe bombs near a Catholic school in Belfast in 2001 and 2003. Last November, arsonists set fire to a new wing of an Orthodox Jewish school in Gagny, a suburb east of Paris. Sixteen children and their...
...sound of shuffling feet announces her entrance as dozens of youngsters rise from their seats to chant in unison: "We welcome our headmistress." Jane Kansiime, who runs the Kamwokya primary school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, silently reviews the students, who stand politely at attention, five to a bench. Most wear the navy-and-turquoise school uniform, but other colors speckle the crowded classroom: a yellow shirt, a red dress, a white blouse. "We are not rigid here, as long as a child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years...