Definitions
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- adj. Not school, or not directly related to school
- n. A building or organization that is not a school.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The education department had a policy that prohibited religious instruction and worship at public schools during nonschool hours.
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We haven't paid for nonschool endeavors for Luke, our college junior, who has worked the past four summers at a robotics-engineering shop -- an internship equivalent -- to raise cash.
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At the University of California, Berkeley, for example, students who buy the school plan pay $10.80 for an X-ray on campus, while nonschool-plan holders pay $54.
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Not good enough, especially for disadvantaged kids whose nonschool hours often undermine what they're taught in class, but pretty good.
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But the same body of research shows that nonschool factors matter even more than teachers.
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According to University of Washington economist Dan Goldhaber, about 60 percent of achievement is explained by nonschool factors, such as family income.
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At the same time, Seth Godin opens a sort of business nonschool: six months hanging in his office, working on project, neither paying nor getting paid, to provide a springboard for a life change.
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Hoover said the correlation of nonschool factors like median income with test performance was off the charts.
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• To offset the disadvantages faced by historically lower performing groups of students, in-school programs and reforms need to be complemented with out-of-school interventions and programs that address nonschool conditions such as housing, poverty, health care, and safety.
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In one, the court ruled 5-4 that a student's speech can be abridged by government because he seemed to be supporting drug use in a nonschool venue.
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