Two years ago, the Houston Independent School District began offering the SAT free during class time.
Mr Beer said the research challenged the "glib assumption" that all independent school pupils came from privileged backgrounds.
It was denied academy status then run by volunteers as a non-fee paying independent school until December.
An independent school in Devon has announced it will close owing to the "economic situation" and falling pupil numbers.
And it features broadcasters such as Tony Blackburn, Rory Bremner, Jeremy Clarkson and Jonathan Dimbleby, again all former independent school pupils.
Michael Hinojosa, superintendent at Dallas Independent School District, said the federal money could offset some of the cuts he is considering.
Buckholme Towers is an independent school for children aged three to 12.
She arrived at the school as head teacher of what was then a girls' independent school run by the Society of Merchant Venturers.
Two years ago, King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, became the first independent school to be designated a teaching school.
An independent school in Glasgow has re-opened in temporary premises - almost four weeks after fire destroyed its main building in the Yorkhill area.
Officials emphasized that school closures are ultimately local decisions, which Superintendent Al Hambrick at the Sherman Independent School District in North Texas also stresses.
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The new identification policy at the Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio, Texas, began at the start of the 2012 school year.
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In the midst of an on-going recession, parents are still investing in independent school education (private day and boarding schools) for their children in grades K-12.
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Last week, the board of Austin Independent School District declared a "financial exigency, " a move that will allow it to lay off more than 1, 000 teachers.
It also showed that one third had parents who had not been to university, and one in five who had not been to independent school or university.
It started with my job as a first year assistant principal at Charlotte Ann Cox Elementary School in Leander Independent School District (LISD) in Cedar Park, Texas.
Up to 60 children have been led to safety after a fire broke out in a first-floor classroom at an independent school in the west end of Glasgow.
However this later data showed that, even though independent school pupils were still more likely to be offered a place than similarly-qualified state school pupils, the gap was narrowing.
Second, in my opinion the answer depends on whether the student is currently attending a public school or an independent school (otherwise known as private schools or prep schools).
In 1995, the mayor struck a deal with the Republican-controlled state legislature to wrest control of the schools away from the city's semi-independent school board and its impenetrable bureaucracy.
Overall some 44% of those on the list went to independent school, 27% to grammar school, 8% to a former direct grant school and 21% to comprehensives and other state schools.
They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.
And what galls many, ND is the only independent school that is a founding member of the BCS, the unincorporated association that determines who will perform in the BCS bowl games.
Recently, Mark Mitchell shared his insights on independent school affordability with me, and highlighted some of the proactive steps that are being taken by NAIS and its member schools to address affordability.
FORBES: Affordability of Independent Day and Boarding Schools
At the independent school Harrow, the exam results of the First XI cricket team are closely scrutinised because a high number of matches takes pupils out of lessons during the summer term.
According to the main annual survey of independent school finance, published by Horwath Clark Whitehill, an accountancy firm, teaching staff costs rose 6.5% in 2001 and 5.2% in 2002, while fees rose 7.3% and 7.9%.
At a meeting with independent school head teachers, the Higher Education Minister, Margaret Hodge, confirmed the government was trying to find "more sophisticated" measures than simply setting quotas for the number of students admitted from state schools.
In Laredo, Texas, school officials are considering asking next year's seniors to sign a contract agreeing graduation ceremonies are a privilege that can be revoked for bad behavior, said Veronica Castillon, a spokeswoman for the Laredo Independent School District.
In his speech to independent school leaders at Brighton College, Mr Gove ridiculed the suggestion - on a website called Active History - that the Mr Men children's books, written by Roger Hargreaves, could be used as a way of explaining Hitler to pupils.
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