...Homeschool VS Public School Shawn Banks University of Composition and Communication COM/ 155 February 19, 2012 Cari Kenner The issue of homeschooling versus public education has been an ongoing debate for a very long time. The decision between the two forms of education has plagued parents for an equal amount of time as well. For some parents, the choice is easy because the options are limited by funds and availability of the parent’s time. Academic environment can be an issue for some parents. There are also several health and safety concerns that parents must face too. One of the biggest concerns that parents contend with is the overwhelming difference in the social aspect between homeschooling and public education. Granted that both can accommodate a quality education to its students, there are many differences between homeschooling and a public education. For the most part, homeschooling your children are reasonably inexpensive. With the Internet, parents can get the curriculum for the grade level of the child for free. There are plenty of websites that offer this service. This leaves the price tag for the supplies that the child will need. If these are bought by bulk during the July/August back-to-school season, parents can save a ton of money. By doing these things the cost for homeschooling a child would be under fifty dollars per child. Public school, on the other hand, in some cases is quite different. Public schools across the country struggle...
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...the above design thinking process, you must substantiate your claims with research evidence preferably from both primary and secondary sources. Be THOROUGH in your ANALYSIS and EVALUATION Analyse and evaluate the extent to which your idea is effective, feasible and manageable in addressing the root causes of the problem. Show how they achieve your project aim. You should also preferably think of a prototype which you can test the feasibility of your ideas with credible experts or authorities. Please indicate your word count at the end of your Preliminary Idea (PI). The word limit for PI is 500, excluding footnotes. Please use Arial Font type and size 12 in typing out your PI. Task: | Expansion | STEP 1: PROJECT CHOICE | Topic Title: | Lack of expansion of seats in food centres | Reasons for choice of topic: | As Singapore’s population is constantly increasing, there is an increase in the lack of seats in food centres such as hawker centres and food courts. Footnote evidences of population increasing and lack of seats at food centres? During lunch and dinner timings, many are unable to find a seat as soon as they reach the food centres and thus they are forced to wait until there is a vacant seat. The impatient ones may then choose not to eat and leave the food centre. As such, during those peak hours, many of those who manage to get a seat would use their belongings such as their tissue paper and umbrellas to reserve their seats. This would thus cause foreigners who...
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...Interview with Community We spoke with Ms. Beatrice at the VFW summer camp to further assess our population. She informed us that the children at the VFW summer camp begin their day by playing tennis for an hour, then an hour of board games and have lunch. After lunch they will play kickball for an hour, play board games for an hour then they will go home. The children were provided breakfast, which consisted of powdered donuts, a cheese stick, and a choice of skim milk, chocolate milk or grape juice. The meals are provided through the cafeteria program. Ms. Beatrice stated that they do not know what meals they are going to have each day however the meals are “well balanced” (B. Garcia, personal communication June 29,2016). West Baton Rouge...
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...of the six sigma winners “Mumbai Dabbawallas” Global Cuisine Reasearch Assignment Arjun Singh Arora Research Proposal Research Question An Investigation Study of the Life and Livings, Organisations and Culture of the Six Sigma Winners ‘ Mumbai Dabawalas’ Rationale The reason why I selected this topic is because I’m very fascinated towards the supply chain management line. I find this research interesting because the “Mumbai Dabawalas” are doing 4,00,000 transactions everyday without the help of any technology or educated manpower and are still able to deliver the tiffins on time and without any errors. Methodology To conduct the investigation study I mainly concentrated on secondary research by reading the various studies that have already been conducted by students from other management institudes. To gain more information I also watched a few lectures by Professor Pramod Agarwal (PHD on Supply chain management) and other documentaries such as “….” By BBC. Declaration I declare that this report is the result of my own individual efforts and that it conforms to university, departmental and course regulations regarding cheating and plagiarism. No material contained within report has been used in any other submission, by the author, for an academic award. Acknowledgement I would like to thank Chef Shankar Jha for helping me frame the research question for my report and would also like to thank him for his support and assistance in making this report...
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...concern about the number of teachers who leave the classrooms in the high school that I work and in the school district in general. It is on this premise that I seek to find out the relationships of teacher retention and attrition in a collaborative classroom in five schools in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System. Good – but no mention of special education? Introduction According to Boe, Bobbit and Cook (1993), teacher attrition is another term used for teacher turnover, which are changes in teacher status from year to year. Teacher turnover may include teachers leaving the profession, or teachers who change schools. Over the years, there have been issues concerning attrition and retention of teachers in the Chatham County district. Students with disabilities are at a disadvantage with the type of education they receive from teachers who are not qualified special education teachers, as well as general education teachers who are not coached or prepared to meet the individual needs of special education students. In the Savannah Chatham County School District, thousands of teachers have left the teaching profession for varying reasons. Some teachers leave because they have done many years of teaching and have reached the age of retirement. Others leave because they change profession, or they migrate because of family commitments, while others leave in search of better working conditions. But, whatever the reasons might be, schools and districts are faced with the high...
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...Applying and Strategizing Research GEN 200 University of Phoenix September 19, 2010 Amidst numerous problems, time management is the most crucial problem I face in my day-to-day life. Time management is the range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage time when accomplishing specific tasks, projects, and goals. From waking up in the morning, to falling asleep at night, managing time efficiently has been a nightmare to render. Possessing excess time to perform a task and not using it wisely is my nemesis because I always find myself unprepared and complete the task at the last minute. Some examples of not using time management effectively in my daily life are: arriving to work late, not preparing what to wear to work the night before, overextending my lunch break, and turning in homework late. Knowing how to prepare and plan ahead of time for any event will help overcome this problem. Finding a solution requires strategic planning using either a daily planner or an organizer found in most smart phones these days. Electronic organizers have more of an advantage because they can sort, organize and store more information than paper and pencil planners. However, if technology is not user-friendly, the idea of pen and paper will always remain available to use. Identifying the order of daily events and when they should take place is critical in managing time efficiently. For example, setting an alarm clock at five o’clock in the morning is a daily routine...
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...PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME (SOLOMON PROJECT) PROPOSAL DONE BY: MIRECO COMMUNITY BASED DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ABSTRACT Ever went to school or work with an empty stomach? Then surely you can remember the difficulties you can have in trying to concentrate on the tasks given to you. Your attention gets drawn to that empty feeling inside your body, the cry for food. The above mentioned scenario is just a nightmare for others. But to others it is not an incidental thing but occurring day after day. Who can stand there and see it happen and still do nothing.., just standing there and let those things happen without feeling pity for those people? This is what happens in some schoolsin Kenya. Quite a number of the children come to school with little or no food for breakfast, just chewing some bush fruits, if they found any on the way to school. Getting in class with an empty stomach surely is not the right start for a day at school; concentration is lacking, attention is drawn to that gnawing feeling inside. These children don’t have the energy for sports; fall sick more often as their resistance is undermined by under-nourishment and drop out more easily from school. What would you do if you saw it happening? Would you just be the bystander or the one that would take action? Surely it is impossible to help the whole world but this doesn’t mean that we don’t have the obligation to help, even with just the little bits we can share. That is why our organization...
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...Angeles, is world-renowned for research and education in many fields. The campus is located in Westwood area of Los Angeles, and was founded in 1919, and currently has about 40,000 students, 26,000 administrative staff and 4,000 faculty (UCLA, n.d.). The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is an organization that researches a number of psychiatric and behavioral topics. The researchers come from all across the globe to work at UCLA and publish papers into prestigious journals, which hopefully might change the way diagnoses are made and treatments provided. Researchers also need to hire assistants and volunteers to help with the workload and get a project initiated and running, and eventually finished to analyze results. In addition to hiring assistants, researchers also need to hire employees that will fill out grant paperwork, handle finances and purchases, and set-up meetings as needed. If the researcher has many projects going on at the same time, this could be very stressful for the most capable employee, and could lead decrease in motivation and productivity, eventually leading to either leaving the job or getting fired. California is currently in a budget crisis, and public schools are getting less and less money from the state government to hire more employees. The employees that are present must be able to be as productive as two or three employees put together and have quality results. My role in this is a volunteer for a research project for 3 months. I was...
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...AND ITS EFFECTS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE HOW CAN OUR SCHOOLS IMPROVE? By Amy Ross SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS EDUCATION AT NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNDERSITY July 28, 2010 APPROVED BY: DATE: Derek L. Anderson, Ed.D. August 2, 2010 Nutrition and Academic Performance 2 Table of contents Abstract ...…………………………………………………………………………………………3 Chapter I: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….…4 Statement of Problems…………………………………………………………………….8 Research Questions…………………………………………………………………….…9 Definition of Terms ……………………………….…………………………………….10 Chapter II: Review of the Literature Nutrition and Cognition ………………………..……………………………………….11 Food Insufficiency …………………………..………………………………………….24 School Food Programs ……………………………...…………………………………..35 Chapter III: Results and Analysis …………………………..…………………………………..51 Chapter IV: Recommendations and Conclusion ……………………...………………………..54 References...………………………………………………………………………………..…...59 Nutrition and Academic Performance 3 Abstract The purpose of this paper was to review existing literature about past research that highlighted studies concerning nutrition and its relationship to brain function, cognition, learning, and social behaviors. There is evidence that school breakfast and lunch programs are not up to par with current United States Department of Agriculture standards and that USDA standards may not be utilizing the latest research about nutrition. Studies have shown that proper nutrition...
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...Time Management Essays-Various Top Five Time Management Mistakes Time management is not necessarily working "harder", but rather, "smarter." And to accomplish significantly more in our days, we need not increase our efforts. As an example, in a horse race, the first horse may earn a $50,000 purse and the second horse may earn a $25,000 purse. The first horse gets twice as much money as the second horse, not because it ran twice as far or twice as fast. It was only a "nose ahead" of the competition. So it is with our daily results. We need not run twice as fast or put in twice the effort to significantly increase our daily success. We only need to be a "nose ahead" of where we already are. We are all productive in our days. We would not survive the demands of this world if we were not. The real challenge is how much more productive can we become? And, a lot of our time management has to do with more of what we are not doing rather than what we are doing. Sometimes our mistakes and omissions will keep us from running at a full pace. Here are the Top Five Time Management Mistakes we should all avoid to help us to increase our daily success both on and off the job, in less time and with less stress. 1. Start your day without a plan of action. You will begin your day by responding to the loudest voice (the squeaky wheel gets the grease) and spend it in a defensive mode, responding to other people's and events' demands. The tail will wag the dog. If there is a void of...
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...of education for the school system with administrators who form a curriculum for teachers to teach by; and administrators leads the teachers to make sure the teachers are teaching children based on the curriculum formed by the board of education. Child care centers usually form curriculums based around what program the center is accredited by through the state. For an example, here in Georgia we have a program name “Bright from the Start” which has standards each center must meet to be on the program and have curriculum for each child care center to follow. Whether it is a school system or childcare center administrators and teachers must work together to teach from the curriculums formed so children can learn. How the role of the administrator in program and curriculum planning is different from that of the teacher. Education administrators organize and manage the administration, support systems and activities that facilitate the effective running of an educational institution (AGCAS 2012). For an example, in a childcare center the administrators are the owners, directors, and whatever program that accredited the daycare center through the state. School systems have administrators also. The board of education votes on the school super intendant who schedule meetings to plan a curriculum for the school system to teach by. The school super intendant hires administrators such as principals, and assistant principles to make sure the teachers in the schools are teaching by the...
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...During his first year as a social studies teacher at Wings Academy in the Bronx, New York City, Charles Best had some powerful experiences that would significantly transform his life as well influence the lives of countless others. Best recounts both the frustration and inspiration of lunchroom conversations with his fellow teachers. He remembers, “there were great ideas for programs and projects that we talked about in the teachers’ lunchroom that could never leave the teachers’ lunchroom”20 due to a lack of resources to implement them. “Funding for the basics was woefully inadequate, and teachers routinely dipped into their pockets to buy even paper and pencils for their students.”21 Best’s brainstorm for DonorsChoose.org emerged during one of these lunch conversations with colleagues. “Best figured there were probably plenty of people who would rather fork over a bit of cash for a specific classroom project than write a check to a traditional charity. So he moved back to his parents’ home to save money and designed the Web site”22 for DonorsChoose.org. To convert the idea from a pipe dream to a viable venture, Best needed the help of his fellow teachers and his students. His students’ volunteered to help start the Web-based organization. To lure his fellow teachers into trying out the organization’s new Web site, Best offered them his mother’s famous pear dessert.23 Best then used his savings to fund these projects anonymously. 24 And DonorsChoose.org has been growing...
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...The community we have targeted is the Southfork Mobile Home Community in Wylie. While Wylie is a growing city with a great school district, we have noticed dramatic differences in STARR test results between the district as a whole, and the children from economically disadvantaged families who attend Groves Elementary school, where Southfork students are zoned to attend. 39% of Groves Elementary School students come from low-income families who rely on the free/reduced lunch program in order for their kids to eat at school. Overall, passing rates are over 20% lower for those children, and as much as 32% lower if we look at reading scores alone! [Please include physical reports here as...
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...improved from what it used to be cell phones especially. The behavior I choose to be is the new way that students interact with schools. Walking to school every day I noticed that students don’t talk to each other anymore. Even when they are together on a table, walking or even during class, there is no more a face to face interaction. Technology has become the new face to interact with one another. The theory on this observation is the social behavior perspective. This theory explains how people interact with the environment. Even when they are in groups dung lunch most of them are on their cell phones. Student's face to face communication is fading by the frequency of texting, not merely in the sense that they speak is becoming abbreviated but the focus associated with talking is becoming distracted and scarce. BACKGROUND: “From a survey 800 American young people between ages 12 and17 regarding their use of mobile phones . The researchers report that half of the teens were sending 50 or more messages a day , with older teenage girls sending an average of 100 messages daily”. (Chin, Jen, Fan, 2013). Clearly, text messaging on mobile phones is an important element in the lives of many American teenagers, though voice calls remain part of their communication patterns as well. Even before the epidemic of mobile phone use in the U.S. , international research documents the pervasive use of mobile phones by teenagers and young adults in other parts of the world. Cell phones have permitted...
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...Effects of the California High School Exit Exam on Student Persistence, Achievement, and Graduation Sean F. Reardon Allison Atteberry Nicole Arshan Michal Kurlaender April, 2009 (full paper available at irepp.stanford.edu) Executive Summary Roughly half of the 50 U.S. states now require students to pass a high school exit exam in order to graduate from high school. These exam requirements are predicated on the belief that “raising the bar” for graduation will motivate low‐achieving students to work harder in school, motivate schools to improve their instruction for low‐achieving students, and provide employers with a clearer signal of high school graduates’ skills. Opponents of these requirements, however, argue that creating additional barriers to graduation discourages students—particularly academically and socially disadvantaged students—from persisting in school and hence leads to increased dropout rates and greater inequality of educational outcomes. Prior research has found somewhat mixed evidence regarding the effects of exit exam requirements, though the most rigorous studies suggest that the introduction of exit exam requirements leads to roughly a 2 percentage point decline in high school graduation rates. However, prior research has not examined closely the extent to which this effect results from students leaving school early or from students failing to pass the exam despite staying in school through 12th grade. In addition, prior research has not examined whether ...
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