...Did you know that if state colleges were free that it would raise taxes by 67%? While the thought of state colleges being free might sound like the world’s best idea, the reality of it might shock you. Free post-secondary education is a bad idea for a variety of reasons. First of all, it wouldn’t really be free. You would still have to pay for your materials and housing. But then where would the schools get the money to pay the teachers and bills? The government. FutureFemaleLeaders.com states that the government would be directly providing aid to universities, making tuition free. The government would also be able to exert more control over said universities. And where does the government get enough money to pay the teachers and bills? From...
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...A post-secondary education or degree has become essential in today’s society. Many students in the United States tend to focus on their studies and work hard to receive good grades. Most importantly, the financing of most student’s post-secondary education tuition has become difficult in today’s economy due to the costs. According to American Progress, “a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on education and workforce found that at current levels of production, the U.S. economy will have a shortfall of five million college-educated workers by 2020.” (Bergeron & Martin). This shows that the cost expense of college causes five million college educated workers to decrease. Five million people who do not have a post-secondary degree due...
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...living wage policy benefits majority of people throughout the globe. In Canada, some of the benefits of the living wage is that it’ “enables working families to have sufficient income to cover reasonable costs, it promotes social inclusions, supports healthy child development principles and ensures that families are not under severe financial stress.” (Living Wage Canada, 2013) Yes, the living wage policy is overall very beneficial for the employees that do receive...
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...provider that under MWFCD & Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia. ‘AZAM Tani’ program is creates an opportunities in small-scale agriculture that under Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based industries. For the ‘Insurance 1AZAM’ program, it too provides a death, permanent disability and bereavement benefits and covers funeral expenses for members of poor households that under MWFCD and Via Alliance Bank. ‘AZAM Bandar’ is focuses on the urban poor area and comprises of all sub programs under the 1AZAM program that under supervision of Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Limited incomes transfers but for the poor and vulnerable have positive...
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...collaboration and impacts Outcomes measured through Return On Investment The Valley Initiative for Development and Industries Advancement, or VIDA, is a nonprofit organization – Allied Health founded in September 1995 by Valley Interfaith,1 a – Manufacturing grassroots organizing group, working in partnership with community and business leaders in the Rio Grande Valley at the southern most tip of Texas. VIDA’s mission is “to formulate new institutional relationships in the Rio Grande Valley that simultaneously address employers’ needs for skilled workers” and help low-income, unemployed and underemployed residents in the Valley get the skills necessary to secure a high-skilled, high-wage job. VIDA works with employers, education institutions and community-based nonprofit organizations to provide services in six locations, and its work spans four counties. Today, its board of directors consists of five leaders from Valley Interfaith and five local business leaders. The Valley has a diverse economic and employment base, with the mainstay agricultural and livestock sector interspersed with urbanized centers that have developed, along with the manufacturing and assembly industries. Much of the manufacturing industry appeared in the region beginning in the 1960s in the form of maquiladoras – typically low-wage assembly plants. In more recent years, many of these plants, including those that produced for Haggar Clothing Co., Fruit of the Loom, and Levi-Strauss...
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...Francisco Private Sector Post-Secondary Schools — Do They Deliver Value to Students and Society? by Robert Lytle, Partner and Co-Head, Education Center of Excellence Recently, U.S. private sector post-secondary education providers have come under intense legislative, regulatory, political, and press scrutiny across a myriad of issues. Likewise, discussions in Washington, D.C. have focused on assuring quality outcomes for students by enhancing existing regulations and proposing new ones. Underlying this scrutiny is an apparent belief that private sector educational providers are likely to suppress investments in educational quality and student outcomes in favor of profits. As a result, there has been much subjective discussion around the private sector’s role in post-secondary education with a limited level of objective facts. In an effort to shed more objective light on the role of private sector education providers, The Parthenon Group examined the following question: Do private sector post-secondary schools deliver value to students and society? Over the past several months, through an analysis of U.S. Department of Education longitudinal studies, industry data, and primary research, Parthenon conducted a rigorous examination of the private sector’s ability to provide meaningful post-secondary outcomes. E d u c at i o n c E n t E r o F E x c E l l E n c E w w w. p a r t h e n o n . c o m Parthenon Perspectives Private Sector Post-Secondary Schools — Do They Deliver...
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... The interest in this essay will be the academic curriculum transition from secondary education to higher educational institutions such as colleges and universities. Interest in this area affects many individuals preparing for education beyond K12. The purpose of this essay is to provide an outline of how implement a curriculum improvement plan that goes beyond high school transitioning to colleges and universities. Analysis of Curriculum Articulation and Alignment Curriculums in many high schools (systems) throughout America vary, but regionally many public school systems are similar, especially if they are in the same state. Most states mandate certain criteria that must exist in terms of what is expected for graduation. However, school districts do develop their own curriculums, as long as the elements that are mandated exist in the development of each school districts academic plan. By focusing on existing articulation programs a review of what is occurring in Wisconsin and with some reference to California will be used as a comparison to the proposed plan. In most school systems the goal of curriculum articulation as it applies in Wisconsin and California, is to provide educators a method where they can work towards an established articulated curriculum. (Alexson & Kemnitz, 2004) The target is to provide students with a transition between their secondary education towards colleges or universities. (Alexson & Kemnitz, 2004) The overall goal of the...
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...com/edu-644-new/edu-644-week-4-dq-1-making-a-difference-biotech-academy At-riskchildren benefit from access to specific programs that support their success in a school environment. By providing opportunities that students can connect with, the probability of them staying in school and matriculating to a two- or four-year college or university will increase. Biotech Academy in San Jose, California is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on bioscience. The program and its faculty, however, provide supports for at-risk students that go far beyond academics. To prepare for this discussion, watch the nearly 10-minute video Biotech Academy: A catalyst for change. Note that this video can also inform your completion of the Week Four Assignment. Initial Post: Create an initial post that addresses the following: a. Share a minimum of three things you observed showing how teachers at Biotech Academy instigate and maintain student support and success. Be sure to consider what characteristics they have to have and what behaviors and practices they need to present to their students. b. Describe the impact collaboration between teachers, parents, and students has on student success as well as having a spirit of cooperation instead of competition between students. c. Discuss two to three observations you made that show relevancy between Biotech Academy instruction & supports and what students need in post-secondary education and employment. Be sure to address how having such relevancy for student...
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...Running header: DIGITAL BLENDED CLASSROOM LEARNING Lloyd Wayne Murphy Digital Blended Classroom Learning the New Dawn of Learning for All Strayer University Professor Randi Fass SUMMER 2011 EDU500 August 7, 2011 The intended purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how the ensuing commencement of a new dawn of student instruction, the digital-blended-classroom-learning (DBCL) discipline is upon the academic world. The advent of the innovative blending of computers within classroom instruction referred to as digital learning by some, and by others in academic world refer the discipline as blended learning posit the possession the qualities thereof, exceptionally enhance both SDL and SRL disciplines. A wide variety of DBCL discipline programs exhibit signs of incurring the utmost in achieving efficaciously successful method of instruction with both the age of majority and minority age student proficiency, in a plethora of educational institutions, where the DBCL discipline is employed. DBCL involves the integration of computer and the Internet and Intranet into the classroom, thus allowing the communication technology as a teacher/student instruction tool, along the classroom instruction tools employed in the student’s core curriculum. DBCL disciplines demonstrate signs of the improvement of teacher/student interest, student participation, student aptitude, and of the utmost import is student academic proficiency. DBCL further reveal, when, computers...
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...------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty Name> <Grade Earned> <Writing Score> <Date Graded> Title Topic Paper Submitted to Northcentral University Graduate Faculty of the School of Business and Technology Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION by Christina Thompson Prescott Valley, Arizona January 2013 Table of Contents Proposed Topic 1 Introduction 1 Abridged Literature Review 1 Problem Statement 1 Purpose Statement 1 Research Questions 1 Summary 1 References 2 Postsecondary Transition for Students with Disabilities Accumulative number of students with disabilities is following post-secondary education. The number of students with disabilities attending college or entering the work place has significantly increased in the last three decades. The most recent changes, many of which were implemented in the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) in 1997, introduced more accountability for transition outcomes and facilitated partnerships, particularly those related to employment. Despite these changes, studies have documented problems overlapping and conflicting regulations and...
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...help people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health” (Edelman & Mandle, C.2010,p.16). Nurses preserve a large portion of health promotion by routinely managing the nursing assessment, while incorporating a nursing diagnosis according to the individual’s necessity of learning. Ideally the goal of health promotion is by empowering individuals, family or communities to develop the ability to conquer daily routines and conditions, reaching a height of health safety. The importance of the nursing roles and responsibility in the revolving healthcare promotion will be discussed with nursing implementation methods that embrace health promotion. A comparison of the three levels of health prevention, known as primary, secondary and tertiary prevention will be noted and associated with three different reference articles. The levels of prevention may overlap in practice, while maintaining effective, healthy lifestyles. The purpose of health promotion is to empower individuals to adjust their lifestyles and daily routines to become overall a more healthy being. Enhancing the...
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...One countries development scale reflects by the education standard of that country.Education plays a very significant role in the economy because education nurtures the communicational and intellectual skills to help people in order to be knowledgeable. “Education is the backbone of a nation” In Bangladesh, expenditure for education is important but like other south Asian countries the expenditure is not sufficient to improve the overall education sector in Bangladesh. Every decision about education and educational system in our country is taken by Ministry of education. Ministry of Education is the head making policies for institution of the Government regarding administration and development of post-primary education sector. Ministry of Education generates policies and programs as well as laws, rules and regulations for the management and administration of post-primary education sector for the development of post-primary to higher education including Madrasah, Technical and Vocational education. Several attached bodies for supervision and management of formal education includes Colleges, Madrasahs, Technical Schools and Colleges, Polytechnic Institutes, Engineering Colleges and Universities. There are about 38412 post primary secondary Schools/Colleges/Madrasahs and 34 public and 68 private universities. It is a great matter of concern that Bangladesh since 1971 have gained independence as well as improved the quality of education vigorously. Although this is a great fact but...
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...The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA, 2004) requires transition planning to prepare students for upcoming adulthood responsibilities and demands that the process be results oriented. The most common transition goal result being skilled based employment. Effective transition planning at the high school level is vital for individuals with intellectual disabilities to develop job and vocational skills. Post-secondary transition goals are developed for every individual at the high school level with the intention of harnessing the individual’s interests and skills into paid employment after graduation. IDEA identities transition services as a “coordinated set of activities” that promote movement from “school to post school activities.” Research studies report that post school activities and employment rates for individuals with intellectual disabilities were slightly under fifty percent according to Douck and Joshi (2012). Years of transition goal development and implementation occur at the high school level with the primary focus of employment for the individual. If transition planning and skill development are effective at the high school level, why do current employment statistics reveal less than fifty percent of individuals with mild intellectual disabilities obtain employment and less that twenty percent of individuals with severe intellectual disabilities? The purpose of this literature review is to examine high school transition planning and its correlation...
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...patterns. Various economic indicators are released daily, weekly, monthly and/or quarterly which can result in an enormous amount of data to go through. Post-Secondary colleges and universities rather than wade through all data reports and economic indicators can select a few macroeconomic indicators to assist in meeting the challenges of the market to provide a quality and competitively priced education. Significant indicators used in this paper to aid in the decision making process for sustainability and growth for post-secondary education are inflation, the unemployment rate, interest rates and consumer confidence. This topic is of interest because for the past 35 years holding a four-year college degree has given workers a distinct advantage in the U.S. labor market. There is usually a large wage gap between college-educated working adults and those with high school degrees. With technological advances in the workplace and a growing reliance on computers, skilled workers are needed to apply for these technological positions. However, based on new trends the U.S. labor market now favors workers who hold a graduate degree (Valletta, 2015). It is because of these new trends we want to focus on the need for quality education and economic factors that will influence it. Economic Indicators & Post-Secondary Education Introduction Macroeconomic indicators are tools used by organizations and their leaders to help make decisions concerning the welfare, stability and growth...
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...conflict. While some students may struggle with financial struggles, many just simply do not know. However, despite these challenges, college is actually worth it. Receiving a college education is more beneficial, and will help you out in the long run. Statistics show that attending college will increase one’s employment rates and pay in salaries. Other sources show that college graduates have better interpersonal skills and are more exposed to different cultures and people. Students should go to college, because they will become...
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