...Homework is a huge part of the daily lives of students. Many people believe homework is essential for success in class and a new understanding on materials, but that idea has its critics. Recent data has shown homework to be unhelpful for students’ learning. In Valerie Strauss’ article “As Homework Grows, So Do Arguments Against It” from September 12, 2006 Washington Post she uses pathos and logos effectively, by supporting her thoughts with reliable sources to discuss the controversy of whether or not homework is beneficial and necessary. Homework is often a negative word in our culture. Research shows that there is actually no benefit, yet, students continue to spend hours on homework each night: Elementary school students get no academic benefit from homework -- except reading and some basic skills practice -- and yet schools require more than ever. High school students studying until dawn probably are wasting their time...
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...Eliminating Homework An Italian teacher named Roberto Nevilis lived in a city of Venice, in 1901. Roberto Nevilis made homework as a punishment for his students to fully understand and comprehend the lessons that Nevilis tried to teach the students’ in school. If the homework keeps affecting students in a negative way, than not a lot of students will graduate because of having low grade point average (GPA), which requires students to graduate from school, or students going to start dropping out of school because of not containing enough interest in finishing or doing homework. Students can not understand homework without some help from a teacher, if students have a hard time understanding work in class than the homework will make no sense...
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...Name: Nguyen Thu Trang Class: 14E12 _____________________________________________________________ WRITING ASSIGNMENT Version 01 Task: To what extend do you agree with the statement: “School is bad for students?” Support your claims with appropriate grounds and warrants. People may think that children must go to school; thus, almost children go to school every day (this sentence has a problem in how you express the idea) However, arguments have persisted as to whether school is good (can be replaced by 'beneficial') for children or not. Although there are convincing argument on both sides, I strongly believe that it is bad for children because school not only prevents children’s creativeness, but also has negative impacts on children’s (their) health. Most of (omit) educators claim that school is encouraging children to be individual and different (how does school encourage children to be individual and different? I think you should clarify this a little bit); nevertheless, it is a fact that school is crushing (stifle/ inhibit) kids’ creativeness ( can replaced by 'creativity' to avoid repetition) by asking almost (virtually) all of them to do the same things and not accepting creative children’s characteristics. The majority of students are cast in the same mould made by educators, thinking that model is standard for people who children will be. (express in a clearer way). These acts (not suitable) are the root of being not interested in exploring new ideas or...
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...Trouville English CP III 15 December 2015 Should Schools Be Done with Homework? Have you ever enjoyed a day of relaxation? Have you ever experienced the thrill of having a day just to goof off? Has homework kept you away from that? Kids hate homework. Some kids say that homework is just what they learned in class the same day and they are just repeating it. Why do students need to repeat what we did in class that day? Is it necessary? Some reasons why homework is not effective is that many teachers give too much homework, and often teachers do not coordinate the quantity given. Secondly, unnecessary assignments raise the stress level of the students. However, the main argument against homework is that most of it is just boring practice. Teachers give too much homework to kids and it’s not necessary. In an article written by Lance J. Falk it states that “kids have lives beyond school and schoolwork. About 65 percent of kids, ages of 6-13, play competitive sports. But, unfortunately, some of those kids quit playing the sport they love due to the fact that they have too much schoolwork to tackle during their evening” (Falk). If a student has three soccer practices a week, which consumes 2.5 hours of his Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, how do you think he or she feels? He or she would obviously feel very tired, right? But now if that same student had two hours of homework three of the five days that he or she has school he or she would feel exhausted...
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...School finishes at 2.30 p.m. Nowadays, there is an argument about finishing school earlier than usual and there are some different reactions on this. The one who agree think that it will give students more free time and they will get benefit out of this. Others think that students will have too much time relaxing so there is still a question if this solution will truly benefit students. Those who agree with finishing school at 2.30 p.m. would say that it will make students have more free time. They can not only relaxed but also do something else that they are interested in such as sports and music in those free time and that will make students have their own talent in either spots or music. Moreover they can review and studying on the subjects that they are not understand when they are in classes. If they have any question they can also go and ask teacher in those free time which will benefit students a lot. On the other hand, it is widely accepted that not every student is interested in playing sports, music or reading books. Those students would have too much time relaxed and doing nothing anyway. Moreover, too much homework that they are given on each day will make student too busy to do sports or something else and normally students should finish their homework before doing other activities. Furthermore, Thai education system wasn’t built to be able to support every student interest which is different from America that students have opportunities to do sports and clubs...
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...Book Review The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn University of Montevallo EDF561: Evaluations in Education Susan Scott Alfie Kohn’s (2006) book, The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing, gave me food for thought. Kohn opposes homework of any kind in any form for any grade level. He explores each commonly given, pro-homework argument in an attempt to persuade his readers, both parents and teachers, of the uselessness and possibly detrimental effects of the long-standing educational tradition. The first claim Kohn (2006) makes is that our children are “missing out on their childhoods” (p. 3). His opinion is that children spend seven hours in school everyday; that should be enough. He argues that kids need more time to be kids. Such time would include family time, friend time, time spent in extracurricular activities such as sports, music and art lessons, and play groups for younger kids. I agree. Kids do need time to enjoy their childhood. It is the most carefree time of their lives, relatively speaking. Does that mean they should have no homework at all? I am not yet ready to agree completely with that attitude. “Does homework improve learning?” Kohn (2006, p. 25) asks. The most significant issue he raises, in an attempt to answer that question, is regarding the kind of homework about which we are talking. Assignments can range from useless, fill-in-the-blank worksheets to extended projects that...
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...you imagine a world where homework does not exist? In high school especially, you are up all night doing at least two hours of homework for just one class. You start to wonder if all of this homework is going to benefit you in the long run or if it is worth it. All of the hard work you spent on that 2 hours of homework doesn’t even pay off when you get to school the next day and the teacher doesn't even check in the homework or take it as a grade. How many times have you done all of the homework and still do poorly on the test? This constant cycle makes kids stop doing the homework all together. Homework is not helping students of the twenty first century get to where they need to be to succeed in the work force. In the article, “What Students Would Do If They Did Not Do Their Homework,” Dorothy Suskind points out that it's not enough just to have less homework or even better homework. Suskind believes that we need to change the expectation in our schools so that students are asked to take schoolwork home only when there's a reasonable possibility that a particular assignment will be beneficial to them. She discusses how researchers have consistently failed to link homework with achievement and could only imagine what children could do if they were allowed to go about what they wanted after school, instead of doing homework. It is said that “teachers in top-performing nations, such as Japan, Denmark, and the Czech Republic, assign less homework compared to their low-performing...
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...The Mall: A Typical Teenager’s Second Home At home, Simon suffers from a severe case of boredom that is mildly treated with countless days of sitting in front of the computer playing Lineage II. To further suppress the symptoms of boredom, he goes to the mall where there are a large variety of things to do. The mall is not only his way out of boredom. It is also his way away from the “homely” atmosphere. He suffers constant reminders from his mom to do his schoolwork. Whether it is studying or doing homework, he gets it all the time. Even after summer school, he continues to be reminded. When he is elsewhere, he does not get nagged at all. Sure, he gets nagged for other things but never homework. Perhaps it is the minute sense of freedom that he feels whenever he is away from home. Whenever possible, he tries to get out, which is not often. Most of the time, his place of freedom is the mall. He would have a break from the nagging for at least an hour and a half, the time it takes to watch a movie. The mall’s function in a teenager’s life is to relinquish boredom and to get away from some of the negative feelings associated with home (Kowinski 1985). The mall provides many things that home cannot for teenagers. At home, there is a limited amount of activities, each one more boring than the next. The obvious thing to do at the mall is shopping. Whether it is for clothes or other merchandise, it will be there. Not a shopping person? No problem. One can also go play at the arcade...
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...It has been said that the average American child will devote countless hours at home to homework and all of its components throughout the entirety of their high school career. Schools across America have differing views on the common practice of assigning extra work outside of the classroom. Some schools rally behind the assignment of the work by making claims that homework reinforces the lessons taught in class. Other schools want to do away with homework entirely, claiming that it takes away free time from children and does little when it comes to improvement. Some schools, however, have no definite stance on their take with homework; they are neither in favor nor against it and leave the assignment of work up to the discretion of the teacher....
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...Mid-Term Assignment In Homework Assignment #1 you were instructed to identify what you considered to be a major issue facing organizations today and in the future. You were also instructed to make some argument why this issue is a central one and to offer at least some evidence for making this case. In Homework Assignment #2 you were asked to produce a detailed annotated bibliography that offered more substantiation for the claim you made about a central organizational issue in the first assignment. This annotated bibliography afforded you some substantiation from the scholarly community and from research studies that support your claim. For the Mid-Term assignment you are to write a detailed research paper expanding on both the two homework assignments. This is to say that the topic you have identified and substantiated in your annotated bibliography should now be developed in a more exhaustive analysis of the problem or issue as it applies to organizational behavior and development. This paper should be no more than fifteen pages long (exclusive of the title page and references page) and should represent a more in depth library research analysis beyond the annotated bibliography. Finally, this research paper will be the foundational organizing factor that will support your final assignment the Workforce 2020 paper where you will expand the theme and topic to include the elements of the requirements of that final individual paper. Please note that the Workforce 2020...
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...upon the microeconomic methods discussed in the text. If you have technical questions, please feel free to contact Technical Support. You can also contact me through the email feature in the class. I hope you have a great learning experience! Overview This is an introductory course in the principles of macroeconomics. I am looking forward to introducing you to some of the models economists use to understand and predict how national economies react to the decisions made by consumers, producers, and policy makers. This course focuses on large economic systems, such as the U.S. economy. Macroeconomics studies such national economies and the determination of national income. Graded materials consist of interactive weekly modules, weekly homework, a midterm, and a final examination. updated 14-09-27 19:25 Syllabus XL2 What's New This quarter, UCLA Extension is making...
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...Jolina Munsayac English 99 Murphree 09 September 2014 How I Got Smart Reading Response This article’s title says it all. It is a story about how a guy got smart. In the first few paragraphs, the author talks about how students view teachers as bookworms who would study a lot rather than playing and end up to be a teacher anyway. He mentions that he tried to explain that the image that they are picturing during his adolescence is wrong. He hated compulsory education with a passion. I believe that the author’s argument is that everyone is smart in their own way. He argues that he did not get smart by the way most of the students would assume right away that just because ones a teacher, then they have been a book worm and just studied a lot during their adolescence. This is why the author told a story about an experience that changed his life. An experience on how he got smart and this is because of a girl named Debbie. Just like a typical high school student, he fell in love with Debbie at first sight and since she was an intelligent lady, the author felt obliged to be intelligent as well to impress her. Though the storyline ended as the incentive being gone because the author just got led on by Debbie, he says that “Having savored the heady wine of knowledge, I could not now alter my course”. Reading this article made me think how we all have different backgrounds on why who we are now and how we all have our own ways on how we become who we are and what we are. I believe...
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...Since Roberto Nevilis introduced it to the world as a punishment in 1905, there have been many arguments to whether or not homework should be required. What initially started as punishment for kids who messed around in class has become a mandatory task that all students are required to do daily. I’m here to end that, I intend to show you that students should not be required to complete homework for a grade. Homework consumes too much time and leaves no space for extracurricular activities and causes health problems. On top of that, many students don’t even have the resources required to complete the homework. Despite these things, homework is still a graded assignment that if failed to complete, can drastically bring down a student's grade. Consider the fact that the American standards for homework is much lower than anywhere else in the world. CNN conducted a study that showed that on average, in America students receive three times more homework than the recommended amount. 56% of students said that homework is a primary source of stress and frustration. Stress causes a vicious cycle. It can lead to heart diseases, depression, exhaustion, and pain, which in turn lead to more stress....
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...CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA ACC 311 Intermediate Accounting I SPRING 2016 PROFESSOR: Dr. Hassan Hefzi OFFICE: 164-2085 OFFICE HOURS: 12:30 - 2:00 MW PHONE: (909) 869-2385 And by appointment E-mail: hhefzi@cpp.edu (I do not respond to e-mails on weekends) Text and other Materials: 1. Intermediate Accounting, Spiceland, Sepe and Nelson, 8th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2016. 2. The Wall Street Journal, or the Journal of Accountancy. 3. FASB, Concept Statements No5, 6, 7 & 8). At http://www.fasb.org. Course Description: Analytical study and application of accounting theories and techniques including current literature of authoritative accounting organizations. 4 lecture/problem solving. Prerequisite: A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in ACC 304 and a passing grade on the Graduation Writing Test. Non-accounting majors should refer to the current Cal Poly Pomona Catalog. Course Objectives: This course is aimed primarily towards those who will be providers of financial information for external use—those who will be primarily responsible for observing, selecting, measuring, and reporting financial information for external decision making. The main objective is to develop skills of APPLICATION AND ANALYSIS, i.e., to demonstrate the use of appropriate concepts, standards, and techniques after having considered the needs of financial statement users and how the behavior of the users may be influenced by financial accounting information...
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...Little Bit of Logic.” 1. What is logic? - Logic is the study of arguments. 2. What is an argument in a philosophical sense? What do you call the parts of an argument ? In philosophy an argument is an attempt to persuade someone by giving then two reasons for accepting the conclusion. There are two parts of an argument one of which is called the premise or premises; they are the reasons in an argument. The second part of an argument is called the conclusion, which is the end point that your mind is going towards. 3. What is an inference? An inference is he connection by which the conclusion follow from the premises. 4. What is a valid deductive argument? Define it and give your own examples. A valid deductive argument is one that follows a correct logical form, therefore if the premises are true, the conclusion must also be true. Form * Examples: - 1. John is older than Ron. 1. J is R 2. Ron is older than Troy. 2. R is T 3. Therefore, John is older than Troy. 3. J is T 2. All life requires water. There is no water on the planet Mars. Therefore, no life is possible on Mars. 5. What is an invalid deductive argument? Define and give an example. An invalid deductive argument is an argument that has a false premise. Therefore an invalid argument does not logically compel acceptance of the conclusion. Example: -...
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