...Executive Summary Reforming Education: Firing and Motivating Teachers The public educational system in Texas is failing. The current practice of retaining underperforming teachers is preventing students from receiving the quality of education that is necessary to succeed. To correct this problem, we propose a system for evaluating teacher performance at the elementary school level based on state test scores. Teachers will be placed into one of four categories based on their students’ educational growth: top performing tier, high performing tier, medium performing tier, or lowest performing tier. Teachers performing in the top tiers will be rewarded with public praise and annual bonuses, while teachers in the bottom tiers will be placed on probation which includes performance improvement courses. Teachers who are unable to improve their performance will be fired. The tactics to sell this plan to the Spring Branch Independent School District board will be based on consistency, intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, emotion, and the Expectancy Chain. Convincing the school board to fire underperforming teachers will challenge the educational status quo, but will improve the quality of education given to students. Reforming Education: Firing and Motivating Teachers Public education is failing in Texas. Texas ranks forty-first out of fifty states in high school graduation rates. “The research shows that kids who have two, three, or four strong teachers in a row will eventually...
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...I think would help improve our school system at Spain Park High School. I have three main ideas and points that I will explain and back up with my reasons. My first idea is to have a ten to twenty minute break at some point during the school day. My second idea is to return the exchange of caffeinated beverages. My last idea is in class the teachers shouldn’t lecture as much as simply showing how to do the work. I think these ideas would greatly improve the likeness of school by attendants and improve the overall grades in the school. My first idea is to have a ten to twenty minute break in at some point during the school day. I think that this would give the students and teachers a break to relieve some stress and rejuvenate their decrepit minds therefore improving the compatibility of the teachers and students. I know this will also improve the recalcitrance of the students that are having trouble with behavior problems, the break would just calm them down so they would be so stressed and tired. The breaks I have proposed would be in two groups, seeming there is A lunch which is early and C lunch which is late. There should be a break in between the beginning of the day and C lunch for those who have lunch C. For those who have A lunch there should be a break in between A lunch and the end of the day. People with B lunch would split up between the two break times. This, I’m sure, will help the stress that is put on people throughout the school day, which brings me to my next...
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...Sisitem Pendidikan Publik, Perlukah ? Wulandini Setiap orang memiliki keterlibatan dalam pendidikan. Baik secara formal maupun informal, pendidikan telah membawa manusia untuk mencapai cita-cita. Alamiahnya manusia bisa melakukan proses belajarnya lewat dua hal yang menurut teory belajar Bandura adalah dengan observational learning dan self regulation. Hanya dengan dua faktor ini, maka manusia bisa melakukan proses belajar. Manusia yang memiliki tiga domain yaitu fisik, kognitif, dan sosial emosi mampu survive sejak penciptaannya dengan mengelola ketiga domain tersebut. Mekanisme cara belajar (aspek nurture) dan nature manusia normal pada dasarnya cukup untuk mempertahankan kehidupan dan kelestariannya. Dengan demikian dapat dipahami bahwa manusia sejak awal sejarah telah mengedukasi diri tanpa mengenal lembaga pendidikan formal melalui proses mandiri dengan berorientasi pada cita-citanya. Saat ini kita melihat bahwa pendidikan telah dilembagakan. Sekolah dalam hal ini adalah bentuk yang merepresentasikan proses belajar yang dengannya eksistensi hubungan manusia dan pendidikan diakui. Manusia berada dalam setting yang memiliki berbagai standar. Standar kompetensi, standar strategi belajar, standar penilaian, standar sarana pendidikan, serta komponen lain yang mensyaratkan berbagai hal untuk menjadikannya pantas mendukung proses pendidikan. Pertanyaannya apakah yang menjadi acuan untuk menentukan standar ? apakah acuan tersebut berorientasi pada nature manusia...
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...Education system prpblems The drastically increasing cost of college is effecting many students all across the United States. Whether the student is coming from a low income home, or a high middle class family, it is starting to impact students all over the country regardless of back round or income. Although there are many opportunities for scholarships, it has become increasingly difficult to get a full ride, or even a partial scholarship. Financial aid is becoming harder to access, and loan rates are steadily on the rise. The increase in tuition across the board is causing many mixed emotions from students, whether to become educated and start life in debt, or try to find a decent job somewhere local and make ends meet. This is a decision that a student should never have to encounter, and there are steps that can be taken to ensure every student that is eager to gain a education is able to do so. The cost of college is sharply increasing day by day, while the resources students have decrease. According to a study done by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, “college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007 while median family income rose 147 percent.”(“College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.”). This means, that while the cost of the median family did go up by 147 percent, tuition cost went up nearly 2.9 times more. Almost triple the cost. This same study also found that “Student borrowing has more than...
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...education the best way? America can create a better system of learning by treating students as individuals, by assuring that schools are created and funded equally by the government, and focusing conditions around what produces the most optimal learning. The sad fact is that the U. S. educational system does not rank in the world's top ten. Educational norms in the United States require students to learn the material in the same format and at the same pace. A student’s best individual learning style, such as auditory or visual, is not addressed by most teachers because they do not go into a lesson with more than one strategy for teaching the material. “If one method fails, teachers consult with colleagues to try something else. They seem to relish the challenges. Nearly 30 percent of Finland’s children receive some kind of special help during their first nine years of school.” This quote, from a Smithsonian article, on the #1 ranked Finnish school system highlights one of the root causes for America’s educational failures. Students should be treated as individuals but schools should not....
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...education is not only a necessity, but a right to all individuals regardless of gender or class. Over the course of the last decade, Ethiopia has experienced vast improvements in its education system. In 2005, the net enrollment ratio in Ethiopia was 77.5% for grades 1-4 and 37.6% for grades 5-8. Since then, enrollment has increased to 92.2% for grades 1-4 and 48.1% for grades 5-8 (UNDP). With the aid of the United Nations and other groups, Ethiopia has been making progress towards achieving primary education throughout the country; however, there is a necessity for a final push in completing this development goal. One of the largest obstacles that Ethiopia had towards achieving nation-wide primary education was the fact that the schools had fees. With a poverty rate of about 30% (UNDP), this created a problem for a large portion of Ethiopia’s population eligible for schooling, as they simply could not afford to attend. Between 1974 and 1991, Ethiopia was a communist state. With resources sparse and funds lacking, the communist government of Ethiopia initiated the fees that students had to pay in order to attend schooling. The communist government system fell to make way for a federalist government system in 1991, and over the course of the next 5 years, all public government schools had abolished...
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...How to Make School Vouchers Equal Today, politicians love to argue over the school voucher system. However, what is this system? The school voucher system was first introduced by Milton Friedman, a conservative economist, and Noble laureate. He believed that making all school private would improve education, and introduced a system where the government pays for a private K-12 school’s tuition (Parkay, 213). Although this system was first introduced more than 50 years ago, it still causes great debate between educators, politicians, parents, and those alike. Those who are against the school voucher system, such as I, argue that this system violates the separation of church and state, gives no statistical difference in test scores and grades,...
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...segregated school system in New York City, America is progressing backwards. With the increasing numbers of minority students attending schools in racially and economically isolated neighborhoods, it is easy to say that America is right back to where it started—a segregated system that is keeping students of color from long-term equal achievement. Furthermore, it is causing a decrease in New York City’s general academic performance of students, and minority families can no longer...
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...Did you know that Finland’s High School graduation rate is 93%? That’s 18% more than the United States High School graduation rate. Research shows that Finland has a way better school system than the American school system. Finland is known for its top education and routinely top rankings of global education systems. Finland was the first state to change their educational system and it has succeeded. The three main factors to Finland’s success was getting the best teachers, getting the best out of the teachers, and having the teachers step in when students started to slack. Compared to schools in the U.S., Finnish schools give relatively little homework, the students have only one mandatory test at age 16, Finnish students don’t start school...
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...ARAULLO UNIVERSITY PHINMA EDUCATION NETWORK ARAULLO UNIVERSITY BASIC EDUCATION Online School Information System A Thesis Proposal Presented to College of Information Technology and Engineering Araullo University - PHINMA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology by: Cariñoso, John Joseph Bartolome, Neil Albert Eugenio, Arvin N. Facunla, Boustros S. Ms. Evelyn Juliano Thesis Adviser 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Basic Education is the college preparatory unit of the university. It is composed of the Pre-School, Grade School and High School levels. It provides school age children and youth with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to make it to the tertiary level of education. It also offers a curriculum following the K to 12 Basic Education Program. English, Mathematics, and Science are prioritized in order for the students to become competent individuals relevant to the needs of the country. Educational trips are integrated into the curriculum to provide an empirical manner of learning and to open a channel where the students can apply what they have learned in the classrooms. At the PHINMA Basic Education Program, we are developing not just mastery, but the love to learn; not just hard work, but the love to excel; not just responsibility, but the love for life and all things living; students who will succeed in whatever they do, wherever they are and...
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...Failing School Systems: Are Students to Blame? The United States educational system is failing. This topic is in the news repeatedly. Failing schools are a problem that must be fixed. However, it cannot be fixed until we figure out its real cause. Many people put the blame on the government, school officials, and teachers. Critics such as Geoffrey Canada, the founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone, say that the problem lies within the public schools. He states, “Public schools are bad, privately managed charter schools are good” (Ravitch 1). This may be a true statement but there must also be an underlying cause for low school performance. Nobody ever thinks the students may have something to do with this problem. The students are the ones who are taking the tests, paying attention in class and completing the homework. Nevertheless, from another view it may not always be the child’s fault. Maybe other factors contribute to this. Some students want to succeed but they do not always have the necessary resources to do so. These reasons are student’s determination, financial limitations, family support, insufficient housing, and poor nutrition. Some students do want to succeed in life however successful needs to be defined in order to figure out criteria for success. According to Merriam-Webster, success is an “a degree of succeeding” and “a favorable or desired outcome”. In other words, success is having a series of goals set in order to achieve a bigger goal or accomplishment...
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...Teacher Merit Pay Systems No matter how smart the student is, the efforts and quality of the school they are in, and the efforts and quality of the teacher that is instructing them has a very large influence on how well they will produce in school. If these factors have such a large influence on children’s ability to perform on standardized and non-standardized tests, both teachers and schools should be properly devoted to the children. This is where the idea of merit pay systems comes in. Merit pay systems reward the teachers with salary raises and reward schools with increased funds when their students do well or significantly improve. This process is made to encourage teachers to bring out the best in their students, and when they are properly influenced, it would seem that good results would be produced. The problem with merit pay systems in today’s schools, is that no one has found a “one size fits all” model for a merit pay system. Some systems have had success in some regions, while similar systems have failed in other regions. Merit systems have not worked in the past as well as they should have, this research paper will identify the failed programs, the problems behind those failed programs, the correct way to execute a merit pay system, and what the intended results can be if merit pay systems work to perfection. One of the first merit pay systems came about when British educators realized they needed to change the education system to yield better results. In his...
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...Co-Educational School Systems Coeducational school systems are complex and controversial issues that are discussed throughout school systems across the United States. Some people think separating young men and woman could contribute to their studies. I strongly disagree with this statement that young men and women should attend separated schools. I say they should be educated in the same school to prepare them for society. School system all across the world should be coeducational. Now, it’s very important today that young men and women should have the some kind of knowledge of every aspect. Our schools are not only academic utensils but are utensils used to mode our educators of tomorrow. The purpose of the education is to teach them about the world outside the four walls of the class room which involves the opposite sex. The different opinion on subjects from classmates will help them develop the skills of listening and embraces others informational thoughts. Secondly, they encounter friendship with different genre of people by just communicating with them. As a youth they don’t even know their preparing for life outside the four walls of a classroom. They learn to communicate with the opposite sex as youth which is important in almost every workforce today. The coeducation method of regulating a school system basically prepares student to deal with all kinds of people. Once, the youth is taught in the same classrooms with...
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...ABSTRACT TITLE: Electronic School ID System using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with Short Messaging Service (SMS) AUTHORS: Crystal Genna F. Antinero Ma. Josefa T. Pacoli Mark A. Soliva Venus R. Tongohan COURSE: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering ACEDEMIC YEAR: 2013-2014 TYPE OF DOCUMENT: Undergraduate Thesis TOTAL OF PAGES: 73 COLLEGE: College of Engineering NAME AND ADDRESS OF INSTITUTION: University of Rizal System Morong, Rizal EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The study aimed to develop a new Electronic School ID System using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with Short Messaging Service (SMS), and to determine its level of acceptability with respect to the selected aspects of evaluation. The researchers used the developmental method of research since the study is focused on developing the Electronic School ID System. Descriptive method was also used to determine the level of acceptability of the system. The researcher was evaluated by means of testing this system but monitored by the researchers and the report was based on the accuracy, applicability, user-friendliness, modifiability, workability, safety and maintenance of the system. The researcher conducted the study to electronic ID system of the students. This mainly focuses on the ability of the RFID components to visibly play the task of the Barcode in the supermarket that check the value of the item being scanned. As with the system, there is an RFID card/tag that is...
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...FEES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COUPLED WITH E-MAIL AND MOBILE MESSAGING TECHNOLOGY Case Project: Maryhill High School BY MUZOORA SAVIOR MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS FACULTY OF SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Email:lunsavioz@hotmail.com Tel: 0753404044 / 0774922487 A Concept Paper Leading to a Project Proposal Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment for the Award of the Degree of Master of Science in Information Systems of Uganda Martyrs University August 2013 Introduction The domain of this project is Information Systems and the sub domain is Management Information Systems (MIS). Laudon (2012) defines MIS as the study of computer-based information systems in business and management. MIS provide reports on the organization’s performance. This project will result into a Fees Management System (FMS), coupled with E-mail and mobile messaging technology. FMS for Maryhill High School will serve administrators with reports about students’ fees collection. It will also provide parents and guardians with reports about students’ invoices, payments and balances through E-mail and mobile messages. Background Maryhill High School is located at Nyamitanga hill, Mbarara district. At present, the school’s enrollment is at about 1500 students. The school generates revenue from students’ fees, therefore all students are required to pay school fees. Students pay for Tuition, PTA...
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