...Introduction……………………………………..3 Problem Definition……………………………..3 Objectives……………………………………….4 Problem Scope………………………………...4 Problem Constraint………………………….…4 Methodology………………………………..…..5 Current System………………………………...6 Proposed System……………………….…......6 Context Diagram…………………...…..7 Diagram 0……………………………….8 Diagram 1……………………………….9 Diagram 2………………………………10 Diagram 3………………………………11 Diagram 4………………………………12 System Implementation………………………15 System Maintenance……………………….…15 System Modeling……………………………...16 Data Modeling………………………………….19 Object Modeling………………………………..20 Preliminary System Design…………………...21 Build or Buy……………………………..21 Screen Form Design…………………..22 Appendix………………………………………..28 Outline of interviews…………………...28 Allocation to Nearest School………….31 Annual Report Output………………….34 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The lack of appropriate budget allocation for the education sector is the main cause of annual problems in schools such as overcrowding, shortage of facilities, shortage of teachers, etc. This misappropriation happens all the time because the government has no reliable and concrete bases for the budgeting. They do not have access to information that would help them forecast the incoming number of enrolees for the next school year. The proposed system will serve as a tool in the decision making for budget allocation and will not require a certain budget from the Department of Education. This will be done by allocating students to the nearest public school in their respective...
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...PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN DISTRICT MARDAN KPK PAKISTAN NIAZ ALI Rustam Model School and College niazyousafzai2000@yahoo.com Revised September, 2013 ABSTRACT. This study aimed to seek the causes that affecting the academic performance of Public Primary Schools in District Mardan. The study was delimitated to Rustam district Mardan. The simple random sampling technique was used and the researcher selected 20 Public Primary Schools of Rustam District Mardan. The research study was descriptive in nature. The researcher prepared a closed ended questionnaire and the respondents were the teachers of the Public Primary Schools in Rustam. The data was collected, analyzed and interpreted in percentage method. On the basis of analysis it was concluded that there is lake of facilities and there is a political interference in the Public Primary Schools. Also the study shows that there is no availability of teachers for each class. Poor and old system of assessment, no reward or punishment for the teacher’s academic achievements. The system of supervision is weak and autocratic. Educational policies have failed to bring an identified positive change in academic achievements and students’ performance. On the basis of the study it is recommended that the system can be improved by motivation of the teachers and robust system of accountability and eradication of political interference and corruption. Quality curriculum and assessment system may be introduced. The problems of teachers...
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...Essay Ashley Seeram Most will agree the public needs an educational system beneficial to all, but many people have different opinions on how this can be done and what a beneficial educational system is. There are groups that say division says privatize education, and another group of people who believe charter-schools are not the solution to this problem. Is it important to give the public an option to what they want or need? This question is something really makes you think and wonder about what the public really needs. This essay will discuss the possibilities and that there isn’t a right answer. In the documentary Waiting for Superman, the public education system is viewed as broken. He dubbed the system as drop-out factories; claiming that children are sent in but aren’t given the proper materials or knowledge to complete school. These actions (or lack of actions) lead to a cycle of poverty and crime. In the documentary it is shown that the problem has a solution, also known as charter-schools. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary it is a school that is established by a charter, it is run by teachers, parents, etc., and uses tax money but does not have to be run according to the rules of a city or state. In simple terms it is a type of private school that has way more resources and material that is beneficial to children and their education. It is shown that through longer school days and unique lesson plans Charter-schools showed greater test scores and student graduation...
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...with Bridget for my conference on my rough draft of Inquiry 2, she had me read my paper aloud. Reading it out loud made me realize how focused the paper really was on my thoughts and my opinions on the topic of the documentary. There was way too much emphasis on my thoughts on the public school systems of America, and not nearly enough rhetorical analysis of the documentary. I wrote what felt like millions of drafts and printed them all out and scribbled all over them. I also used Bridget as resource and took her ideas and comments into considering my final draft. Overall, I tried to focus the paper much more on a rhetorical analysis of the film instead of my own opinions on the issue (those can come in Inquiry Three!). Waiting for “Superman” Waiting for “Superman” examines one of the most heated debates in today’s political society: the question of what to do about public school systems in America. Most of the public schools in the country are funded based on local property taxes. This system leaves make schools in low- income areas deprived of the funding necessary to provide an adequate education for the children in these areas. The documentary proposes a solution to this problem: charter schools. Although a good idea in...
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...for Superman The film “Waiting for Superman” illustrates various problems that we have in our public education system. The film follows several children on their quest to get accepted by different schools because if they continue down the path of public school they will fall behind and are far more likely to drop out. Problems in Education: One major problem that the film addresses quite thoroughly is the problem with school funding. Schools receive money from the state, and they are also funded by tax money from citizens who live in the communities. Typically in a neighborhood where the average home price is relatively high the school will often receive and spend more money per student than a school in a poor community. A school in a rich neighborhood will more often than not have newer and higher quality learning materials than a school in a low income community. This difference in income has a huge impact on the education students receive. For example, a “school in a poor neighborhood may be rundown, lack library and science facilities, have crowded classrooms, and be staffed with poorly trained teachers” (Macionis 350). In the film, they called these schools names such as “dropout factories” and “academic sinkholes”. The children in the movie were forced to attend these schools which put them at a huge disadvantage compared to kids who were able to attend a private school or even a decent public school. Another example that the film portrayed was how a rough home life...
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...Unvaccinated Children: Should they be allowed public schools? Deborah Toodle Stephen Webber English 215 18 August 2013 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify the problem that will be addressed with my proposed solution. It will describe the history and overview of the issue both medically and publicly as well as the current status of public and political opinion. Three problems will be identified in the course of this paper as well as support to show the true application of these problems. Finally a solution is proposed and discussed after a summarization of the problems. Unvaccinated Children: Should we allow them in public schools? Every day one of a parents greatest worries is the health of their child. As they get older and venture out of the house and out of a parents sight more often, children are exposed to an even greater risk of illness. The culmination of this is the day a parent puts a child on a school bus and sends them off for the first time. One of the biggest fears of the modern day parent is the health risks of sending a child to public schools. While they claim to be safer in the modern world, the exposure of children to one another in a confined place for days on end still continually results in easily contracted illnesses. Children are constantly reported as having flu’s or colds that can be traced back to an entire classroom of sick children. So why should they be exposed to extra illnesses and even sometimes...
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...the education system in Indiana. There is a constant strain in system about how much money is being made and how they can make more. There is also the issue of budgeting. School corporations are trying to divvy up money to different schools. There’s a lot to pay for. And money seems to be one of the biggest problems (Cavazos). Other issues are the abundance of students in our schools (Public Education). “Our school system does not accommodate the needs of our students or teachers,” Tiffany Dix says. In short, the Indiana school system has many flaws. I feel the the school system is more flawed than perfect. It has problems with money, hiring, and testing (Public Education). However, there...
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...MATERIALS AND FACILITIES IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL AFFECTING STUDENT’S EDUCATION A Research Presented to the Bachelor of Secondary Education of St. John Paull II College of Davao Ecoland Drive, Matina, Davao City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in the Subject of Writing in the discipline – English 2 Christian P. Ranises October 2014 Abstract In this research, it talks about the lack or limited quality learning materials like textbooks. The teacher doesn’t have the resources to be able to teach every aspect that needs to be taught. The students are missing gaps on their education and the opportunities for hands on learn experiences. A study that states that more and more students are kinesthetic learners. If the schools systems lack the supplies to provide these opportunities then they are missing out on a learning opportunity. These missed opportunities result in lack of knowledge and material. This problem change the behavioral area of the students. Introduction Without the right materials, students disconnect and eventually drop out. When schools are not provided with the resources they need to teach then the students are the ones that being affected. The students are lacking the best education possible when they don’t have these materials. (Dan O’Connor, Lyons Public Schools in Brooklyn New York state’s 2012). Our students already have doubts about their importance and the value of school. The children without materials...
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...and Decision-Making: A Southeastern School District and Elementary School Greg Alford, DA University of Phoenix Org 714 Organizational Learning and Decision-Making: A Southeastern School District and Elementary School Although learning should be an easy task for a school and school system, the bureaucracy of a public educational system presents many obstacles to substantive learning on the part of the employees and the smoothness of the decision-making process. This paper examines the opportunities for organizational learning and the decision-making process in southeastern U.S. school district and specifically at an elementary school Pre-K CDC Program. What is Organizational Learning and Decision-Making? Organizational learning is the process through which managers seek to improve organization members’ desire and ability to understand and manage the organization and its environment so they make decisions that continuously raise organizational effectiveness. There are two types of organizational learning strategies that may be pursued by any group: exploration and exploitation. Exploration is a method where organizational members learn of ways to improve existing organizational activities and procedures through experimentation. Exploitation is where those members refine and improve on existing activities and procedures to increase effectiveness (Jones, 2010). Organizational decision-making is the process of responding to a problem by searching for and selecting a solution...
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...the U.S. school system. The film follows five students across the U.S., who range in grade level from kindergarten to eighth grade, as they try and escape the public school system through a lottery for a chance admission to a charter school. Guggenheim lays the blame for the failing public education system at the feet of the various teachers unions, and makes a plea for the public in general to get involved in reforming the system. By analyzing Waiting for Superman through a sociological perspective, issues of inequality will be explained using the theoretical approach of the conflict perspective. Waiting for Superman begins with the director, David Guggenheim driving past the Los Angeles public schools as he takes his own children to a private school. Guggenheim starts to explain the problems with public education, in regards to how it is failing our society in general, and that the only way for the average family to escape it, is luck. The documentary follows five children, four are minorities from lower income families and one is white from an affluent area of California. All five face the same problem, a public education system that views them as numbers that feed the system. They are not considered for their individual talents or shortcomings. They are all doomed to follow a predestined track, developed by a bureaucracy that favors the welfare of the teachers over the students. Guggenheim presents to the audience charter schools, an alternative to public education...
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...2500 students per day and the only thing they can come up with as a solution is a Charter School. It’s been ten years since President Bush signed into law “No Child Left Behind”, but the law has done nothing to bring our children up to par when it comes to academic excellence. When will we stop blaming the teachers and their unions for the problems that our children face on a daily basis? Our politicians need to stop blowing smoke and make it happen because our government spends about $200 billion dollars a year to rescue our poverty stricken communities to accommodate worthlessness in the individuals who dropped the education ball and have taken up other means of support. Education versus Charter Schools is a topic that many parents and grandparents hear on a daily basis if they follow the news or has children in the public school system. It’s becoming harder and harder to determine the effectiveness of our public schools systems, because so many youth dropout before they can become eligible to graduate and receive their diplomas. There is a real war going on and it starts with our kids, they are the real victims of our failing school system. Public education was born in America in 1840 and was created to keep American people literate so they could read the bible and stay Biblically Literate (C.Bonastia,2012). In the beginning public education was a good thing known as Common Schools that were supported by the community, thus giving them control over what was to be taught...
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...States education system needs reformation because today’s public school don’t teach the skills necessary to be successful in the newly developing world, and its methods are extremely outdated. On the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments, only 25% of students pass in mathematics, 37% in reading, and 22% in science. How come so many students are failing these tests? Public schools have organized the material to fit everyone into one program similar to an assembly line, prioritized quantity over quality. For instance, public schools progress students at a fixed rate regardless of whether or not the material was mastered. This is equivalent to building a house on a fragile and shaky foundation. Education is...
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...The Complex Issue of Public School Funding Ever since the beginning of the United States, the founding fathers and citizens have emphasized the importance on the education of its people, child or adult. Although education exists in this country both publicly and privately, the public school systems have become a powerful resource in many political social issues in this country. Recently, however, many debates have sprung up over issues that deal with the process of funding public education, including: Who is ultimately responsible for funding? How much funding should local, state, and federal governments contribute? How should funds be distributed? Questions such as these have been raised in the United States because of the many problems with education that are prevalent today despite funding. One of the biggest problems is inequality in education powered by property tax values. Numerous research data has shown how the unequal effects of funding from local property taxes has had on the level of education available in the same school districts. This essay will discuss if there are more fair methods to funding public schools than what is presently the norm through local property taxation and also talk about the effects that this kind of funding has on the standard of education that students receive. Each state of the United States manages its own school districts, which includes the administration of funds that pays for these school districts’ costs, with comparatively...
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...fictional characters such as Superman, parents look up to our school system to educate, if not raise, their children. However, too many of these parents are beginning to realize that an effective education, like Superman, is nonexistent. In Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim addresses a failing public school system in America that is a result of teachers unions, ineffective teachers, and false promises, among many other factors. The director’s selective perception in the video Waiting for Superman purports that public education is incapable of meeting the challenge of providing an adequate education to each one of its students and hence, charter schools are the answer to fixing the problem with education in the United States. He focuses on the plethora of public schools robustly failing its students and the factors causing them to fail. He gives statistics and facts to support his arguments and emphasizes that which makes a great school or a great student, is a great teacher. He criticizes the public school system by calling the federal, state, local, and district boards a “tangled mess of conflicting regulations and mixed agendas.” He states “the things we’ve done to help our schools work better have become the things that prevent them from working.” He hints on how some political figures believed No Child Left Behind was going to “fix” education, but after a few years of standardized testing in public schools it has only proved to show that in math and reading, students...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION School bus has become an important facility in supporting parents at the grassroots in picking and dropping their children off at school. However, the challenges faced by Local Authorities (LA) in terms of demands and funding cannot be over emphasised. One of such LA faced with this dilemma is Middleton Local Education Authority (LEA) which has been chosen for the purpose of this study. In order to address this problem, a statement of the problem is defined with reference to the presenting issues. Secondly, the aims and objectives of this study is stated in an attempt to resolve the presenting issues. Thirdly, key definition of terms is addressed with reference to the school bus problem. Fourthly, a critical review of the literature whilst putting into perspective the methodologies adopted in research. Furthermore, findings from different approaches using computer programs to address the school bus problem are highlighted. In addition, a critical analysis of the school bus problem is attempted whilst putting into perspective transportation management systems, public policy and compliance, appreciation of public transport design and sustainable transport systems. An understanding and knowledge of UK based transport systems is demonstrated with an application to the case study problem. Lastly, limitations are acknowledged, recommendations and conclusions are drawn. Within this, future challenges relating to the school bus problem with reference to transportation...
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