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Follett is a provider of educational services and products to colleges, schools, and libraries. [1] Through 2021 and 2022, Follett sold its corporate entity and operating units, Follett School Solutions, Inc. and Follett Higher Education Group, completing the Follett family's exit after nearly 150 years.
DoD schools and enrollment by region as of 2021. The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is a federal school system headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, [1] responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and managing prekindergarten through 12th grade educational programs on behalf of the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
All schools in the DoDDS system operate outside of the states of the United States and the District of Columbia.There are also some schools that operate on military installations within the United States, but those are grouped in a separate organization within DoDEA, the Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools (DDESS).
Aspen Education Group is an American company that provides controversial therapeutic interventions for adolescents and young adults, including wilderness therapy programs, residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools, and weight loss programs, which have been accused of torture and abuse.
K-12 Education: Students in DOD Schools Generally Score Higher Than Public School Students on National Assessments: Date: 31 January 2022, 15:21: Source: Figure 1: DODEA School and Student Locations, 2021: Author: U.S. Government Accountability Office from Washington, DC, United States
The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into ...
Aspen Achievement Academy has been a subject of several media reports and works of popular culture: The 1999 book Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild by Gary Ferguson, ISBN 0-312-20008-0 recounts the author's experiences and observations during several months he spent in the wilderness with teens at Aspen Achievement Academy.
Walter Paepcke (June 29, 1896 – April 13, 1960) was an American businessman and philanthropist who was prominent in the mid-20th century. A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both of which helped transform the town of Aspen, Colorado into an ...