Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCavana says that he would like Harvard to adopt other school's strategy of having a summer program specifically for minorities...
...Students come while they are in college or high school, not with the goal of necessarily attracting students to that school, but grad school in general," he says...
...process of choosing and attending a college is the first chance many students have to be truly independent in their thinking. Sure, parents often play an influential role in the process, pushing for the school where they themselves had gone or perhaps for the campus that's closer to home, but ultimately, students will be on their own at their chosen college, reasonably free to explore new academic, extracurricular and social options. That's the way it's supposed...
...school's motto is "For Christ and For Liberty," and the only major will be government. The plan is to educate students through a combination of a classical liberal arts curriculum (which, according to their Web site, consists of "Bible, logic, rhetoric, composition, Latin, western civilization, American history, and a great books study of English and American literature") and a clinical experience program working on Capitol Hill with members of Congress. PHC wants to create a new generation of politicians out of home-schoolers...
...Home-schooling is a tough issue in the field of education. On the one hand, it's possible to understand why parents--for either educational or religious reasons--might want to teach their own children, rather than sending them to a poorly-funded public school or to an institution which does not promote and may in fact ignore their personal beliefs. Home-schooling provides control in a society where parents often feel powerless. And it may seem like a logical extension of that control for those parents to send their children to a home-schoolers' college with...