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magnet school
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magnet school
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A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community.
magnet school
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(Social Science / Education) a school that provides a focus on one subject area throughout its curriculum in order to attract, often from an early age, pupils who wish to specialize in this subject
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ON A BITTERLY COLD Saturday morning in December 1995, I wished my son Jonathan good luck and then watched him join a long line of students at the entrance to Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan, They were all waiting to take the admissions test for New York's three vaunted" exam schools The admissions process for the three schools is one of the last bastions of pure meritocracy in American education.
Facade of excellence. (Feature) by Stern, Sol / Education Next
Those bookstands near exam schools were selling answer sheets,'' Sok Chantha, a police officer deployed at a central high school in Phnom Penh, explained.
Schools turn to police to stop exam cheats in Cambodia by Asian Economic News
Clearly, there's a need for programs that would do more than shoehorn a few bright kids into an exam school.
Beyond racial preferences: a handful of programs are showing that ... by Worth, Robert / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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