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Terminating the Test Monster American children are being held hostage in public schools today by a billion dollar destructive monster known as the high stakes standardized achievement tests. These tests have been terrorizing our American students since the 2002 enactment of the No Child Left Behind law initiated by former president, George W. Bush. An angry uproar of parents, educators, and child advocates need to be heard crying out across the nation demanding the release of its children from…
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Grand Canyon University EED 465 Curriculum, Methods, and Assessment: Social Studies Leah Barley December 8, 2011 Interview and Standards Investigation Social studies is a complicated subject for teachers to teach and for students to learn because it encompasses so many different disciplines. On top of that, society is characterized by increasingly rapid social and technological changes that affect what social studies content is being taught to students (NCSS, 1988). For many years students have…
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academically competitive [with Whites].... Various studies seem to show that Blacks [and] Mexican Americans spend less time in school They have a culture that seems not to encourage achievement.... failure is not looked upon with disgrace. (Valencia, p. 14) In his book, Chicano Students and the Courts, Valencia dedicates the introduction to mapping out the contextual framework of the book. Valencia chronologically places the thirty-five court cases throughout eight chapters. The book offers an academic…
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of 11-17. According to Anna Merod, a reporter, 97% of teens use their phones during the school day. Schools took action in order to keep these addictive cell phones that students eternally stare at out of reach during school days by handing them pouches. A yonder pouch is a secure bag that can be used to lock/store devices during important events. While many are aware that restricting cell phone usage in school by locking them up could possibly be detrimental to the students personal responsibility…
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CASE STUDY 3: “Getting EFL students to speak: an action research approach” 1. INTRODUCTION Speaking is one of the major and problematic issues in English teaching and learning. Some learners feel afraid of talking and they face some difficulties in reaching an appropriate fluency level. They have a negative view about it, and they reflect this in class. It is necessary to analyse learning factors such as age, personality, cognitive style, learning style, curriculum, outcomes, etc. to understand…
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Situational Leadership Case Study Paper Sawsan Berjawi February 9, 2013 Introduction In search of what situational leadership style would fit me better, I completed the Situational Leadership Style Self-Assessment provided on line and adapted from Hersey and Blanchard. This paper will assess the results of this self-assessment and study its application on a given case study. In the process, I will be discussing if I agree or not with the results and I will be identifying…
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CON CASE (FINISHED PRINTING) My Partner and I negate the following resolution: Resolved: On balance, public subsidies for professional athletic organizations in the U.S benefit their local communities Contention 1: In no instance did a positive correlation surface among professional sports, income as a fraction of regional income in the long term. Stadium redesign or advancement, or a city's allocation of a master football or baseball gathering had an immense negative impact on metropolitan pay as a little measure of…
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In our study, we carried out a cross-sectional study on students of KGMC and distributed questionnaires in order to know the view of students of Khyber Girls Medical College about their study habits. The result of current study provided us with a better understanding of Khyber Girls Medical College students' study habits. The results also held insight into the relationship between different study approaches used by the students and their educational levels. Our study showed that 45.5 % (91…
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Case Study Student Name Student e-mail MGMT591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Russell Wright January 26th 2014 Part I: Group Development After reading the case study “Building a Coalition” I think that within the five-stage group-development model described in our textbook the group involved in the case is somewhere between the forming stage and storming stage, I can see signs of both stages at the same time. The textbook says that during the forming…
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preventing the nation from getting back “to the good old days.” However, it is important to note that “there has not been an era in the twentieth century where public schools satisfied the opinions of education reformers, parents, and citizenry.” (Ravitch, 2000, pg. 13) Universal approval has become even more difficult since schools have become responsible for educating students regardless of ethnic background, social status, language barriers, or learning deficiencies. The United States continues…
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