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El término public school se refiere al grupo de escuelas independientes privadas de pago más antiguas, más caras y exclusivas del Reino Unido, particularmente de Inglaterra, a las que asisten principalmente niños con edades de 13 a 18 años.
Public school. Look up public school in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Public school may refer to: State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government. Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging private schools in England and Wales.
Education in the United States. The 2019 graduation ceremony at Pitman High School in Pitman, New Jersey. In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling.
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Public school, in the United Kingdom, one of a relatively small group of institutions educating secondary-level students for a fee and independent of the state system as regards both endowment and administration. The term public school emerged in the 18th century when the reputation of certain.
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There is no single or absolute definition of a public school, and the use of the term has varied over time and according to context. The starting point was the contrast between a public school and private teaching.Public schools are not funded from public taxes. The independent schools' representative body, the Independent Schools Information Servi...
Public schools emerged from grammar schools established to educate pupils, usually destined for clerical orders, in Latin grammar. The term "public" came into use because over time access to such schools was not restricted on the basis of home location, paternal occupation or status, and that they were subject to an element of public management or ...
A Royal Commission, the Clarendon Commission (1861–1864), investigated nine of the more established schools, including seven boarding schools (Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Westminster and Winchester) and two day schools (St Paul's and Merchant Taylors'). Howard Staunton's book of 1865 entitled The Great Schools of England consider...
There was a further expansion in public school education in the interwar years. New schools such as Rendcomb (1920), Stowe (1923), Canford (1923), Bryanston (1928) and Millfield(1935) were established. In 1942 the then President of the Board of Education Rab Butler appointed a Committee on Public Schools under the leadership of Lord Fleming. The co...
In September 2005 the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) found that 50 prominent public schools were in breach of the Competition Act 1998 through their exchange of details of planned fee increases over three academic years 2001–02, 2002–03 and 2003–04.The Independent Schools Council claimed that the investigation had been "a scandalous waste of publi...
Former Harrow pupil Stanley Baldwin wrote that when he first became Prime Minister in 1923, he wanted to have six Harrovians in his government. "To make a cabinet is like making a jig-saw puzzle fit, and I managed to make my six fit by keeping the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer for myself". Until the war, the role of public schools in preparin...
Dorothy L. Sayers in her 1933 novel Murder Must Advertise had her protagonist, the aristocrat Lord Peter Wimseypostulate that there are but three 'great' public schools (with the incipient corollary that all others are 'minor'), as follows:- "Well, you and Mr. Bredon have had college educations, so you know all about it. What schools do you call pu...
Public schools have been light-heartedly compared by their pupils or ex-pupils to prisons. O. G. S. Crawford stated that he had been "far less unhappy" when incarcerated in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp during the First World War than he had previously been at his public school, Marlborough College. Evelyn Waugh observed in his satirical novel De...
Rugby School inspired a whole new genre of literature, i.e. the school story. Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days, published in 1857 was set there. There were however as many as 90 earlier novels set in British boarding schools, taking as an example just girls' school stories, published between Sarah Fielding's 1749 The Governess, or The Little...
1967: "Eton"is a documentary produced by Anthony de Lotbiniere, narrated by René Cutforth, shown on BBC TV 1979: Edward Mirzoeff produced the BBC documentary entitled "Public School" about Westminster School, including footage of John Rae 1980: Richard Denton produced a ten part documentary about Radley College also entitled "Public School"which ra...
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. Such schools are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-funded schools are a global phenomenon, with each country showcasing distinct structures and curricula.
In the United States and Canada, public schools are schools that are paid for by the government. They are open to all students who live nearby without any charge. They are usually paid for through property taxes that are applied to everyone who owns buildings in the area around the school.
