...The High Life In high school peer pressure is stronger then ever. Students are critically judged by their peers and are forced to either compromise one’s own moral values to fit into the group or face being ostracized and out casted. Students sometimes feel backed against a wall and following the group is sometimes easier than going against the grain. It all started a few years ago on a blistering summer day towards the end of the school year. Class was, like usual, long, boring and unbelievably tiresome. All day long I had been thanking God, more than usual, that it was Friday; earlier that day I ran it an old friend, Deiondre Howard, we made plans to hangout; he said he wanted to introduce me to a few friends and chill with a few girls. So with the possibility of meeting and flirting with a couple hot girls, I droned through last period, counting the seconds go by on my English teacher’s old handmade wooden clock. Suddenly the bell rings, I sighed with instant relief, “Finally”. I darted out of class like a bat out of hell, excited, I immediately ran into the jam packed grid-lock traffic of Bayside High School’s hallways. As I pushed, shoved, and fought my way through the human blockade I slowly but surely made it closer to the courtyard. Bayside’s courtyard is like a crucible filled with every type of spice you could imagine mixed together. With that said, like any other high school, Bayside still had its moments of segregation based on popularity. For instance, there’s...
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...the United States prepares students for life after high school is long overdue. The U.S. education system currently fails to prepare many young Americans to lead successful adult lives because our preparation strategy is narrow, focused on readying students to attend four-year colleges and universities. As a result, many youth leave high school no more fit to succeed in college than to thrive in the world of work. Even though high school schedules lack job related courses, vocational school prepares you more for the workforce than conventional high school because the curriculums are hands on based and vocational education combines theory and realistic approaches. There is a need for more effective approach that supports the American system. We must offer young people in high school and beyond multiple pathways to success, instead of putting so much emphasis on attending a four-year college. Engaging employers into crucial work of preparing young people for success, such as providing career counseling and offering opportunities for work-based learning and actual employment and create a new social compact with youth, in which key stakeholders in a state or region educators, employers, and government officials -- pledge to collaboratively improve pathways for those who are now being left behind. The structure and demographics of today’s high schools states that forty percent of white students attend high schools that is 90 percent or more white, while roughly one-third...
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...first increase since 1991, fueling a debate whether the Bush administration’s abstinence only sexual education efforts are working. However they teach teenagers from middle school all the way up to high school to practice abstinence, but it seems as if it’s not working. In a female under the age of 20 when the pregnancy ends, pregnancy can take place weeks before your first menstrual period. In a healthy young teenage girls body a menstrual can take place around the age of 12 or 13. Teenage pregnancy rates are different in every country because the levels of sexual activity. Over the world teenage pregnancy range from 143 percent 1000 in some sub-Saharan African countries to 2.9 percent 1000 in South Korea. Pregnant teenagers go through the same issues as women in their 20s and 30s. However mothers 14 and 19 faces low births weight and itself is also connected with the teenage mother’s age. Teenage pregnancy has been a problem for many decades and it originally started in the 60s. However back in those days you had to married before having your first child. At least I think that’s how is should’ve been and it should still be that way now days. It affects the community because most teenage parents would depend on financial support. The family would have to help you take care of the baby while you finish school, and you wouldn’t be able to move on your own because you wouldn’t have that stability to afford certain things in life, like a home. Also you wouldn’t be able to afford a...
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...Alexander University of Phoenix Abstract There are many factors that have an influence on the educational process and effect student performance in the public school system. One factor of specific concern is the student-to-teacher ratio in the classroom. The premise is that teachers can coax each of the students, have one-on-one time, and easily identify student strengths and weaknesses. The increase of the population in the United States, the number of teachers, and effects of inclusive learning play a role in the number of students assigned to each classroom for instruction. Population increase has a negative effect on the public school system in every state across the United States. Budget cuts and teacher layoffs affect the ability of the administration to expand for the allowance of smaller class sizes. The goal of inclusive education is for students of different levels with disabilities to become an integral part of their perspective learning environment, but with an increase in the population, budget cuts, and teacher layoffs, the class sizes become larger degrading the educational process, and student performance suffers. Class Size and the Effect on Student Performance There are many factors that have an influence on the educational process and effect student performance in the public school system. One factor of specific concern is the student-to-teacher ratio in the classroom. The premise is that teachers can coax each of the students for better performance...
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...whom they matter most. Results. Several health conditions, which are observable by school health officials, are highly negatively correlated with math and reading test scores. The findings control for detailed information on students’ home environments. Conclusions. Given the current education policy environment where schools are shifting resources to conform to state and federal requirements on test scores and other outcomes, these results suggest caution in cutting resources from the traditional role of schools in monitoring a wide set of health outcomes. 3 Introduction Children who experience poor health have significantly poorer adult outcomes, such as lower educational attainment, adverse health conditions, and lower social status (Case et al., 2002; Case et al., 2005). A particularly potent conduit through which childhood health is linked to adult outcomes is education. Poor health impedes educational progress because a student with health problems is not prepared to fully engage in or take advantage of learning opportunities at school or at home (Hanson et al., 2004). Schools have long recognized the relation between student health and educational progress, and have played a role in diagnosing and treating student health conditions such as vision, hearing, and speech impairments, as well as asthma, mental disorders, and more recently obesity (Council of Chief State School Officers, 1998). Research from the medical...
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...Vanesbroeck (1998 ) ,career education plays a key role in helping labour markets work and education systems meet their goals. It also promotes equity: recent evidence suggests that social mobility relies on wider acquisition not just of knowledge and skills, but of an understanding about how to use them. In this context, the mission of career guidance is widening, to become part of lifelong learning. Already, services are starting to adapt, departing from a traditional model of a psychology-led occupation interviewing students about to leave school. According to Herr and Cramer (1982) Career guidance in general, is a systematic program of processes, techniques, or services designed to assist an individual to understand and to act on self-knowledge and knowledge of opportunities in work, education, and leisure and to develop the decision making skills by which one can create and manage one's career development. Such services may be found in schools, universities, and colleges, in training institutions, in public employment services, in the workplace, in the voluntary or community sector and in the private sector. The activities may take place on an individual or group basis, and may be face-to-face or at a distance (including help lines and web-based services). They include career information provision (in print, ICT-based and other forms), assessment and self-assessment tools, counselling interviews, career education programmes...
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...Last school holiday, my family and I went back to our hometown, the eagerly-awaited holidays bring a respite from homework, lessons, extracurricular activities and exams. For me, spending a holiday at home is equally unbearable. 0n the last day of school, I eagerly waited for the bell to ring at 1:10 p.m.. Then, I felt like a caged bird hat has just been set free. I slang my bag over my shoulder and make a beeline for the bust station. My hometown! We started our journey early in the morning. When we arrived, we had a quick lunch. I make a short exchange and headed for my favourite spot here- a secluded corner of my grandfather durian orchards. There under a shady spot, I sat down a surveyed the surroundings. Here, far away from claustrophobic classrooms, rushing crowds, busy sidewalks and congested streets, I enjoyed the solitude of nature. As I took my seat on a flimsy woody bench, and looked around me, I can see a flurry of activities. Birds flew gracefully and noiselessly above me while bees traveled flirtatiously from tree to tree, colourful butterflies flit about here and there flapping their fragile wings and ants scurry in a single file carrying bits of food on their tiny backs. A soft cool breeze blowed. I can hear the soft rustle of leaves. The air is heavy with the scent of shrubs and grasses coupled with the scent of ripe durians. I lied on my back with my hand clasped behind my head and watched streaks of...
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...THE PERCEPTIONS OF EFFECTS OF A STUDY SKILLS COURSE, “DYNAMICS OF EFFECTIVE STUDY,” ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS AT A DEDICATED ACADEMIC MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Educational Leadership, Research, and Counseling by Josephine Ann Allen B.S., Nicholls State University, 1976 M.A., Southern University, 1988 M.A., Southern University, 1990 December, 2003 DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ who has given me this wonderful gift and to my loving mother, Mrs. Daisy Celestin Allen, who has always believed in education and has supported me throughout my academic endeavors. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am most appreciative to my former principal, Mr. James B. Williams, Jr., who encouraged me to complete this study and East Baton Rouge Parish for allowing me to conduct this research. I am also thankful to the participants in the study - teachers, students, parents, and administrators of Baton Rouge Magnet High School - for allowing me to conduct this research. I want to acknowledge a former student of mine, Harley Becnel, for reminding me of why I started this educational journey and why I persisted to complete the process. All children deserve to be properly educated. With love for...
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...Relieve Parents Year-Round Esther J. Cepeda wrote “Ring the school bell year-round” to be read in The Washington Post. This controversial topic was published August 16th, when schools across the country are beginning to go back into session. Cepeda shares her thoughts on keeping students in school spring, summer, fall, and winter. Using personal situations and allusions to other articles, Cepeda makes her opinion of having school year-round very clear. In the first sentence of the opinionated piece, Cepeda says “It’s mid-August and parents across the country are breathing a sigh of relief that their tours of duty as surrogate educators finally will end.” Cepeda’s tone suggests that she is glad school has started once again. The way Cepeda refers to all parents suggests her propaganda of plain folks. This article can be appealing to any guardian of a student; whether they agree or disagree with the rest of the piece. What Cepeda has to say in the rest of her writing will ultimately effect how the readers react but in the first sentence it is easy to determine her stand point on the situation. Cepeda almost refers to the schooling systems as a daycare and when school is not going on, parents are burdened by their children. As Cepeda goes on, she discusses the cause and effect of summer break. The topic of “summer learning loss” is brought into the piece. It is only talked about briefly but is a key in the article. Cepeda says that the only way to prevent students from forgetting...
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...Educational Qualification:- Technical Skills:- Elementary knowledge over C and C++ Digital Electronics circuit Summer Training:- Organization – Central Tool Room and Training Centre, BBSR Duration – 01.08.2011 to 30.08.2011 Description – Very Large Scale Integrations Design (VLSI) Projects Undergone:- Title of the project –Home Automation Using GSM and RFID Duration – 01.02.2013 to 15.05.2013 Team Size – 6 members Description - The main aim of the project is to control the home appliances which are o operated with GSM module. Additional Qualification/Achievements:- • Completed spoken English course in VETA • Won second prize at Block level quiz competition • Awarded for school scholarship in NRTS Exam Personal Information:- • Father’s Name : Mr. Pranabandhu Sahu • Mother’s Name : Mrs. Shantilata Sahu • Date of Birth : 26th March,1992 • Gender : Male • Language skills : English, Hindi, Oriya • Permanent Address : At/Po-Naulipada, PS-Reamal Dist-Deogarh, Pin-768109, Odisha Declaration:- I hereby declare that all the above-mentioned information provided by me is true to the best of my knowledge. Date :_____________...
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...Education, school administrators, teachers, parents, students, and the public with information about what students know and can do in relation to provincial standards at the end of Grade 9. Achievement tests are based on what students have been learning throughout the school year, so I will mark them before they are returned to Alberta Education. This will allow me to get an initial look at the performance of the students in my class and will enable me to use each child’s achievement test score as ___ percent of their final grade in each subject tested. In the fall, an Individual Student Profile showing your child’s achievement test results will be available at our school. This profile is prepared by Alberta Education after the marking and scoring of tests has been completed and final scores are calculated; it will present your child’s performance on each test in relation to provincial standards. This information may be useful in planning your child’s instructional program for the coming year. You are invited to review your child’s results with his or her new teacher and to discuss how results will be reflected in the instructional program that is planned for the coming year. Reports that show how well our students did as a group in relation to provincial standards will also be available at our school in the fall. All parents and other members of our community will be invited to our school to discuss the results at that time. Please call our school if you have...
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...straight A’s and had much more free time than I knew what to do with. Now however, I use social media frequently and it has eaten up my time and concentration. I began to complete my homework at school in the mornings before classes because I concluded that talking to my “friends” and seeing who was posting what was more important than my schoolwork. This behavior began to cause my grades to plummet. Realizing what I was doing to myself, I decided to make a change. I do not check my social networking accounts as much as I used to and my grades reflect it! After long contemplation, I realized that I couldn’t be the only one that had this horrible habit of putting social media before education; someone else absolutely had to do it as well. I had many questions in my head about why such a thing would happen with others. “Do they do it because of boredom? What if they focus more on it because their friends do?” After testing 30 students at Frederick Douglass High School with the amount of time spent on social media as the independent variable and the condition of the grades as a result being the dependent variable, I found my theory to be correct. The more these students used social media, the lower their grades were. They reported that they spent time completing homework at school, spent more time on social media than they did completing schoolwork, and that they try to cram in work at the end of each quarter to try to bring their grades up. They also reported that...
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...1. You are a member of a physical education staff in a high school in which the instructional program is under attack by the faculty. It has been suggested that the program be abolished. Prepare a brief defense of the instructional physical educationprogram thast descirbes its nature,scope, and worth in the educational process? Physical education is very important to me because. Physical education can give students an opportunity to take a break from academic study, get some fresh air and clear their head. If they've been listening to teachers, and reading and writing for hours at a time exercise can help wake them up a bit and make them feel more alert so that when they go back to class they are able to concentrate better and take more information in. It is all well and good for teachers to concentrate on cramming as many 'important' lessons into the timetable as possible, but doing so won't necessarily mean students learn more, particularly if they end up getting distracted due to a short attention span. Even if children do not want to do the exercise just walking around talking to friends helps them relax and makes them better students for the rest of classes. 2. You have been invited to speak to the PTO in your community on the topic”The role of physical education in the community”prepared a speech that described the role of physical education and present it to your class. With obesity at an all time high, schools and communities are encouraging students to take part in...
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...from my adolescence and vowed to never repeat the cycle. My family was evicted from our home several times with no remorse. As a child I never understood why this was happening, as I grew older I realized my mother did not make enough money to pay the monthly bills on time. I am a strong believer that no matter how difficult the journey to adulthood was, there is no excuse to repeat failures you have lived through once before. Personal responsibility was introduced to me at a young age. I moved away from my family at age 16. I was paying rent at this time so it was difficult to balance school and work. Often I had chosen to work over school, which led to an academic constraint. I went to four different high schools in my youth. I worked two jobs while struggling to graduate. Though I felt as if I were going nowhere in life, I focused my priorities and eventually obtained my high school...
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...describe her experiences as an African American woman. How we utilize the gift of language can not only determine our success or failure in life, but it can also affect those exposed to it. As an African American female, attending predominantly white private schools, I quickly realized the life changing effects language could have on me. I was misunderstood and labeled by the African American kids who went to public school and made to feel unworthy by the white kids who attended private school. I should not be characterized as “stuck up’, or “acting white”, nor made to feel as though I do not belong just because I attended a predominately white private school. We all know that language can be used not only to inform, educate, and inspire, but also to discourage, degrade, and judge. African Americans in public schools often thought I was “stuck up” just because I went to a private school. Sometimes, I was actually called “stuck up” other times their body language told me how they felt. I can remember one time my best friend, who went to a public school, and I were at the mall shopping and she ran into one of her friends from school, who was also African American. I introduced myself and told him where I went to school, after he asked. He immediately responded back I must be “stuck up.” Honestly, this statement made me feel uncomfortable and judged. I did not understand how he could come to that conclusion since he did not even know me. I wanted to...
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