The Social, Emotional, and Educational Needs of Military Children in the U.S. Public school System

The social structures within which we live and work have a profound effect on the success of our pursuits. These effects are too often poorly understood by those who shape public policy, leading to organizations that are antagonistic to the very goals they are meant to achieve. Unfortunately, this has been the case with public education in the United States. Data are presented that illustrate the way in which the incentive structure of our public school system leads the goals of its employees to diverge from those of the families it is intended to serve. Arguments in support of government-run schooling are discussed and refuted. An alternative system of mutually beneficial cooperation within a competitive market is proposed, based on its proven success in the more liberal parts of our economy. It is demonstrated that such a market system would unite the goals of educators and families, encourage innovation, and discourage many of the inefficient and educationally irrelevant practices engendered by the public school system.

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“We Charge Genocide”

10.5406/illinois/9780252037924.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gerald Horne

Keyword(s):

Public School ◽

School System ◽

Public Library ◽

Voting Rights ◽

International Community ◽

Public School System ◽

The Public ◽

The U.S

This chapter explores Patterson's genocide petition, which was a devastating indictment of the U.S. authorities' complicity and dereliction in lynching, murder, deprivation of voting rights, and all manner of crimes. Ominously for Washington, the petition virtually invited the international community to intervene forcefully in what had been seen traditionally as an internal U.S. affair. By early 1952, Patterson claimed that as a result of this petition, “the international offensive against racist terror” in his homeland had “reached unprecedented heights.” When Eleanor Roosevelt felt compelled to disparage the petition, it suggested that the campaign could not be ignored easily. Even in Seattle, which had been thought to be a liberal citadel, the public library banned the genocide book, while the public-school system sought to bar the CRC from renting an auditorium.

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Do Private Schools Produce More Productive Workers?

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v38i4iipp.937-954 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 38 (4II) ◽

pp. 937-954 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Zafar Mueen Nasir

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Public School ◽

School System ◽

Work Force ◽

Public School System ◽

The Social ◽

Social Returns ◽

System 1 ◽

Household Cost ◽

Tuition Fee

Education has positive links with economic development as it raises the productivity of the work force. Beside private rates of returns, the social returns of education are also high. Because of the gains to society, education is subsidised in many countries. Pakistan, where only 2.5 percent of the GDP is spent on education, provides subsidised education in the form of a public school system.1 Government pays for the major expenditures such as construction of infrastructure for education and salaries to the teaching and related staff. Household cost is kept low to attract more people to send their children to schools. Therefore only a nominal tuition fee is being charged for attending these schools.

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