Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Public School |
Public SchoolNoun1. A free school supported by taxes and controlled by a school board. 2. (British) private independent secondary school supported by endowment and tuition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Public School |
| English words defined with "public school": Charterhouse ♦ Eton College ♦ Free school ♦ high school ♦ school board ♦ Winchester College. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "public school": administrative assistant, special education, assistant superintendent, special education ♦ CERTIFICATION AND SELECTION SPECIALIST ♦ DIRECTOR OF GUIDANCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, DIRECTOR, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL, DIRECTOR, SPECIAL EDUCATION, DIRECTOR, VOCATIONAL TRAINING ♦ janitor, head ♦ lead janitor ♦ porter, head ♦ School, Public or private, SCHOOL-PLANT CONSULTANT, supervisor of guidance and testing, supervisor of researc, supervisor, building maintenance, supervisor, counseling and guidance, SUPERVISOR, JANITORIAL SERVICES. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Public School" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (public school). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A public school, in common British and Irish usage, is a school that charges fees and is financed by bodies other than the state, commonly as a private charitable trust. (For the US usage of the term, see public school.)Whether the term public school can be applied to all of the several thousand independent schools in the UK is a matter for debate. Whilst some schools openly declare themselves to be public schools, (possibly to attract foreign students), others prefer to be called independent schools.
The term 'public' (first adopted by Eton) refers to the fact that the school is open to the paying public, as opposed to, for example, a religious school open only to those part of a certain church, or private education at home (usually only practical for the very wealthy who could afford tutors).
Prior to the Clarendon Commission, a Royal Commission that investigated the public school system in England between 1861 and 1864, there was no clear definition of a public school. The commission investigated nine of the more established schools; the day schools (St Paul's and the Merchant Taylors') and seven boarding schools (Charterhouse, Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Westminster and Winchester). A report published by the commission formed the basis of the 1868 Public Schools Act.
The Public Schools Yearbook, published in 1889, named the following 25 boarding schools:
Amongst the oldest independent schools in the UK are (chronologically):
In British usage, a government-run school (which would be called a 'public school' in other areas, such as the United States) is called a state school.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Public school."
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I went to public school. (G vs E; writing credit: David Burris; Janice Engel) | |
Lyrics | But if you're over 35 and went to a public school you say eight from four is (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | View from Southwest. Photograph by W.S. Stewart, November 23, 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS, DEL, 2-NEWCA,41-1) The U.S. government built this arsenal in 1809 under threat of war with Britain. Originally a one-story building with a wagon entrance at each end to help with the storage and distribution of arms, the Old Arsenal played an important role in both the War of 1812 and the Mexican War of 1846-48. It also housed the garrison from nearby Fort Delaware when that fort burned in 1831. The second story and cupola date from the 1850s, when the building was converted into a public school. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Caption: Students of the Hailey Public School, Hailey, Idaho, with an Edison Phonograph; Hailey, Id; October 17, 1894; {29.700/22} (jpg). |
 | Public school building -- wholly inadequate, badly overcrowded, pupils on half ... / Herbert Johnson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Public school, East Marion, Long Island, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Public school building, Forrest, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Public school building. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Public school. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | United States Public School for Eskimos. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Public school. Norfolk, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cloakroom, public school. Norfolk, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | It is true that public school education at the time of the Amendment had advanced further in the North, but the effect of the Amendment on Northern States was generally ignored in the congressional debates. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Help with learning disabilities is available through public school systems for XXY males high-school age and under. (references) | |
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) | ||
Since new cases of hearing impairment can arise in early childhood, school entry screening procedures should be extended to all private and public school students. (references) | ||
Business | The Mexican constitution establishes the government's obligation to grant all Mexicans free secular education through the public school system. (references) | |
According to new Education Secretariat guidelines, any child may now be registered for public school with a Mexican or foreign birth certificate. (references) | ||
Children | Tajikistan | Public education is intended to be free and universal; however, a lack of resources has caused the public school system to deteriorate to the point at which it barely functions. (references) |
Trinidad and Tobago | Some parts of the public school system seriously fail to meet the needs of the school age population due to overcrowding, substandard physical facilities, and occasional classroom violence by gangs. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | Arab children make up approximately one-quarter of the public school population, but historically government resources allocated for them were proportionately less than for Jewish children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Uganda | In April 2000, following allegations that the church allowed youths to engage in sexual relationships, the deputy RDC closed the Revival Pentecostal Church in Nseko village, Kasangati; in mid-April 2000, police in Kasese district banned the activities of a church group based in Hima public school, Busongora. (references) |
Mozambique | The return of church property is problematic when the facility is in use as a public school, health clinic, or police station, because funds for construction of new facilities are in short supply. (references) | |
Ukraine | Officially religious instruction is prohibited in the public school curriculum. (references) | |
Economic History | Colombia | During 2000, strikes by workers in the health sector and public school teachers affected the labor climate in the country. (references) |
Bahrain | Education: Bahrain is the regional leader in providing education for all citizens; the first public school was established in the 1920s for boys, with a girl's school following a few years later. (references) | |
Costa Rica | English is part of the public school curriculum, and the country has long been know for its English speaking skills, but the recent arrival of such companies as Intel, Procter and Gamble, Western Union and other call centers has drawn down the supply of speakers of fluent business and technical English. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | In 1999 CINEP reported that nearly half of those threatened were public school teachers and that approximately half of all threat recipients were residents of Antioquia department. (references) |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | In June the President announced that every public school in the country would receive a series of texts: Literary works, reference books and historical works. (references) |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | It falls to the discretion of public school principals whether children may attend, when immigrant parents have no identity cards or birth certificates to register children formally. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | Because the public school day lasts only 4 hours, PETI also offers complementary cultural and instructional activities to children during nonschool hours to keep them out of work. (references) |
Indonesia | For instance, in September public school teachers in Atambua, Lampung, Bandung, Banjarmasin, Gorontalo, went on strike over back pay owed to them. (references) | |
Moldova | Local NGO's operate public school programs to educate young women about the dangers of prostitution and in April the NGO Association of Women Lawyers established, with the support of a foreign government, an antitrafficking center. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We know charter schools provide real public school choice. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | With the No Child Left Behind Act, we have committed the nation to higher standards for every single public school. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "public school"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مدرسة عامة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безплатно училище, държавно училище. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veřejná škola, soukromá škola. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | école publique (publicly-maintained school). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | public school, privatschule (private school), staatliche schule (board school). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δημόσιο σχολείο (state school). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | előkelő bentlakásos iskola. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scuola statale, scuola privata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | パノラマ写真 (palladium, panoramic photograph, Papa, papaya, paprika, papyrus, parachute, parachute skirt, paradigm, paradigm shift, paradise, paraglider, paragraph, parapsychology, paraquat, parasail, parasite single, parasol, Parathion, paratyphus, parfait, pavilion, Pavlov, performance, perfume, perfumer, pub, public, public acceptance, public corporation, public course, public domain, public house, public opinion, public relations, public servant, public space, publicity, puff, puff sleeve, puppy), 公立学 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パブリックスクール , "うりつがっ"う. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scoill phreevaadjagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ublicpay oolschay escola pública. (various references) liceu (grammar school, gymnasium, high school, lycee, lyceum, secondary school), şcoalã comunalã (parish school). (various references) instituto (insitute, institue, institute, institution, school), escuela privada selecta, escuela pública. (various references) devlet okulu (common school), özel okul. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-s-u" | |
-3 letters: copublish. | |
-4 letters: bucolics, piccolos. | |
-5 letters: bucolic, bullish, collops, colobus, coolish, copious, hiccups, oilcups, phobics, piccolo, publics, publish, scollop, subcool, upboils, upcoils, uphills. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
