People from any country, any background and any income level can receive an elite education at virtually no cost.
With such high barriers to entry, it is unsurprising that most purveyors of elite education are old, and many are charities.
So conventional wisdom is wrong: ordinary students will get an elite education, at least in the quality of the experience, though not necessarily with the same content.
The law was passed in order to extend the possibility of higher education to a working class which had been excluded from the elite classical education offered by the traditional system.
One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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Though it controls some 70% of the private education enjoyed by the young of the elite (as indeed it did, unofficially, before the reforms), religious education is still barred from public schools.
People who go to Princeton or another elite university have a revealed preference for education and intellectual development.
And in online education, the addition of elite higher institutions of learning to the mix has really been a game-changer.
Hunter College Elementary School, an elite public gifted program, operates outside the Education Department and has aligned its deadlines with private schools.
But he also realised that economic reforms needed to be backed by humanities and education projects to engender a new national elite.
In the 1990s, China began pouring money into research at around 100 of its 1, 800-odd higher-education institutions, hoping to create an elite tier of universities.
For some students, the access to an elite school's network is as critical as the education they expect to receive.
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In the Edo period, when the vast majority of the objects on display were made, the samurai evolved from hired archers and swordsmen to an elite class of warriors respected for their military skills, education and refinement.
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Online education is getting a lot of attention as many elite schools are opening up their classrooms for the world to access what, for a long time, had been reserved for a fortunate few.
It was subconsciously elite, there was not much of a public system of higher education, that all came after the end of the Second World War and reached full flowering in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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One of the hardest puzzles for mass higher education is how to make those universities that are not part of some such elite, whether formal or informal, concentrate on their students' needs rather than their own position in a pecking order based on research.
The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses, " which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.
But overall, the announcement is the latest ramping up of higher education's MOOC experiment, which launched in earnest barely a year ago as a way to sample elite college courses.
As competition has intensified for slots at the city's elite public and private schools, a growing number of parents are pursuing both options, anxious to secure a top education for their children.
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