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Definition: School System |
School SystemNoun1. Establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | Son, what do you see as the problems that are effecting our school system. (Senior Trip; writing credit: Roger Kumble; I. Marlene King) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | One-room schoolhouse. Seward County, Nebraska. Nebraska's school system is one of the least consilidated of all the states.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system." Whatever may have been the extent of psychological knowledge at the time of Plessy v. Ferguson, this finding is amply supported by modern authority. (reference) |
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Health | The local public school system, the state board of education, or local parents groups may be able to tell parents where they can enroll in such a course. (references) | |
If your child is receiving frequent treatments or is too ill to attend school while at home, a home tutor may be available through the school system (the treatment center may be able to help you arrange for this). (references) | ||
Business | Kuwait enjoys a modern, large school system that in many ways is comparable to European and American standards. (references) | |
Graduation from the Uyghur school system leaves Uyghurs poorly educated, with an inadequate command of the Chinese language. (references) | ||
The Mexican constitution establishes the government's obligation to grant all Mexicans free secular education through the public school system. (references) | ||
Children | Russia | Boys and girls are treated equally in the school system. (references) |
Hungary | Although the children could be returned to the regular school system, only a small percentage return. (references) | |
Swaziland | The public school system ends at grade 12. Children are required to start attending school at the age of 6 years. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Norway | In 1995 the Parliament introduced the subject "Religious Knowledge and Education in Ethics" into the national school system. (references) |
Iran | Furthermore the Government has required that several Jewish schools remain open on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath, in conformity with the schedule of other schools in the school system. (references) | |
Economic History | Maldives | As the modern English-medium school system expands, the traditional system is gradually being upgraded. (references) |
Travel | Philippines | Pilipino, based on Tagalog, is the national language, and is also taught in the school system. (references) |
Philippines | English is widely spoken and is taught in the Philippine school system, as well as the usual language of commerce. (references) | |
Women | Egypt | A discussion of FGM and its dangers has been added to the curriculum of the school system. (references) |
Worker Rights | Georgia | In 2000 the FTUTGS organized a demonstration in front of government offices in Kutaisi to demand payment of back wages to teachers in the Imereti region's school system. (references) |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Lucius Wright is a teacher in the Jackson, Mississippi public school system, a Viet Nam veteran. |
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| Language | Translations for "school system"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skolevaesen paa landet (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | plattelandsonderwijs (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | koululaitos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | enseignement rural (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Landschulwesen (country school system, country schools, rural school system), ländliches Schulwesen (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | persekolahan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scuole rurali (country school system, country schools, rural school system), insegnamento nelle campagne (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 学制 (educational or school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がくせい (celebrated musician, educational or school system, student). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oolschay ystemsay ensino de província (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) školstvo (schooling). (various references) skolväsende på landet (country school system, country schools, rural school system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: cohostess, homolyses, lysosomes, schmooses. | |
-4 letters: cosmoses, costless, cytosols, lothsome, lysosome, myosotes, schmoose, smooches, smoothes, smoothly, systoles. | |
-5 letters: chooses, choosey, closest, closets, clothes, coeloms, cohosts, coolest, coolths, cossets, coyotes, cytosol, hostels, hostess, loosest, lotoses, methyls, molests, molochs, mooches, mooleys, motleys, mycoses, myosote, mysosts, ocelots, oocysts, oocytes, osmoles, osmoses, ostoses, schmoes, schmoos, schools, scythes, sholoms, sloshes, smoochy, smooths, smoothy, soothes, soothly, sycoses, systems, systole, thymols, toyless. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6F 6F 6C 53 79 73 74 65 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100000 01010011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h o o l   S y s t e m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C 0053 0079 0073 0074 0065 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369748181782539185867179 |
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