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High-quality education is the result of a system, not just of the work of individual teachers. If you put a high-quality teacher recruit into a dysfunctional school environment, the "system wins every time."

T.S.U. had been one of the state’s last open-enrollment public universities. Now prospective students must have at least a 2.5 grade point average and either a combined reading and math score of 820 on the SAT or a 17 on the ACT.

“We thought access should be free and open.”

To meet that goal, students in the academic village are pushed to take at least 15 credit hours each semester and are encouraged not to hold jobs. Mr. Rudley said graduation rates are unlikely to rise without applying pressure. “If you just let them do things on their own, they’ll start out with 15 hours and drop down to 12 hours, then drop down to 9 hours,” he said.

In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.

Since it was started 11 years ago, Wikipedia has moved a long way toward replacing the authority of experts with the wisdom of the crowds. The site is now written and edited by tens of thousands of contributors around the world, and it has been gradually accepted as a largely accurate and comprehensive source, even by many scholars and academics.

The Britannica, the oldest continuously published encyclopedia in the English language, has become a luxury item with a $1,395 price tag

What strikes us about these passages is not their antiquity, but their wisdom. Today, many Americans have lost pride in their government. At a time when universities trumpet their place in the world—and within Facebook—but say little about their place in the Republic, these calls to educate citizens who will sustain the nation have new and vital meaning. It is time to reimagine higher education’s civic mission.

They are positioned not only to foster innovation, which is essential to national prosperity, but also to teach the public responsibilities associated with invention and entrepreneurship.

Its antiauthoritarian agenda and tactics notwithstanding, the student movement sought to reassert the educational importance of common values and social mission.

The facts of the case are supported by an extensive electronic record, including text messages and Twitter feeds and a record of the exact moments of computer activity in the dormitory where the events occurred in September 2010.

Mr. Clementi had checked Mr. Ravi’s Twitter feed dozens of times after discovering that he had been viewed

“And if the official school licence is once again denied, maybe we’ll have better luck in a couple of years’ time”

The school, which has operated independently without state ratification since the autumn of 2010, applied for the official school licence again last year.      The licence would give the school the right to issue school certificates and receive state aid.      Currently the school perseveres with the help of the EUR 250-300 student fees and voluntary contributions.      In the autumn, 15 year-round pupils started with the school. In addition, there are a certain number of “seasonal students”.

The government can grant private communities or foundations the right to organise basic education, if it can be established that there is a need for it.      The curricula of the school and the finances of the organiser also have to be in order. The granting of the licence is discretionary.