...last few years, there has been a debate as to whether a college education is worth it. With the sky rocketing debt in student loans, the employment rates, and the time dedicated some people believe that it is not worth the time nor the money. Many people have many different views on college education. From recent studies and statistics, the employment rate is higher for a college graduate, depending on the degree, than a person who has little to no college credits. Also, the money a college graduate makes is high than that of a high school graduate. While the time dedicated may be too much for some individuals, in the end it all pays off not only because of the hard work but also because of the experience. Obtaining a college degree is worth it because of the employment rates, cost of expenses, time dedicated, and experience. There are different types of degree; Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate. An associate’s degree is a degree that is common at junior or community colleges and trade and professional school. The requirements to complete an associate’s degree is about 60 hours of course work, which...
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...education should be in every society. Education is key to the expansion and prosperity of civilization and it is what keeps us, as a human race, growing. All over the world students are learning to improve themselves to eventually improve their society. The problem here is that not everyone values the importance of education as much as they should. From examination of completion rates and analysis of standardized tests, it is clear that America is falling behind many countries, Japan in particular. This disparity between America and Japan is shown not only in academics, but also in competition for jobs. The better the education people achieve, the more advancements the country can have, and the more successful that nation will be as a whole. America needs to refocus its value on education to emphasize its importance to avoid falling behind on a global scale of educated citizens. One of the main reasons America is falling behind Japan is that the high school drop out rate in America is 1.2 million students a year, which is 6,000 students a day (The Broad Center). The fact that this many students are forfeiting their education everyday is disturbing. Students can just ease their way through and earn a high school degree; so dropping out shouldn’t even be an option. In Japan, the drop out rate is significantly lower and graduating high school is Japan is much more challenging. With all the resources available in American high schools, there is no excuse for why American students are...
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...About 1900 of high school juniors may not graduate in 2014 in three semester. Because they need to take more courses this year, it’s the new academic policy. The school says they will make sure help student to graduate on time, for example school will offer more class to let student learn more, and the school will not take extra fee for doing that. Also some online course will be offered during summer or winter break, and the city wants to make a vote to see if they get some money from city reserves. there will be some positive feedback and negative either. In this news I think its more about city government , in this news government wants to help school get more classes and help student to graduate on time. In personal, I don’t think is fair for those juniors are graduating 2014, because this policy just came out from middle of high school class, why those students need to take those extra that other students don’t need to. “Some of this year's juniors, for example, are missing the newly required two years of foreign language. Others, the two years of laboratory sciences, or the three years of math and history, the year of visual or performing art or the full four years of English.” I don’t agree student take too many classes, when they are young. Because not everyone in high school wants to go to college, school should have another set of system for students who don’t want to go to college. “But budget cuts have stripped the schools of many credit recovery options...
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...become creates a goal that every student should try to accomplish. Due to its harmful nature, marijuana should not be legalized because it can cause damage to the brain. Legalizing marijuana would only bring more problems to our already fragile youth. The world before education, some might wonder what that might have been like? In the early stages of education, and anonymous writer said on wikipedia.org, “Some forms of traditional knowledge were expressed through stories, legends, folklore, rituals, and songs, without the need for a writing system”(“Right to education”). These people learned through speech and visuals without the resources to excel and proceed into higher levels of education. From this, the young were not expected to advance into a higher degree of study. Once writing became available, these stories, legends, folklore, etc. were more easily passed along to future generations. This helpful finding made the stories more accurate and believable. Current students now have an advantage because of the resources that help attain an outstanding education. Some of the resources that show up in the today’s youthful generation that helps them to succeed include libraries, books, and computers. Just these three things can improve student learning because they provide so much more information. Other resources include student to teacher interaction, scholarships, and counselors to help with scheduling and getting enough credits to graduate. The opportunities are limitless...
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...Nonessential Standardized Testing Should students have to take standardized tests? Although standardized testing is currently used to measure the skills of students, it should be eliminated; because it causes anxiety, teachers focus more on testing than the information needed throughout life, and it judges kids on skills instead of knowledge. Standardized testing causes kids to have high anxiety. In the Midwestern states, a study was conducted using three elementary schools. The study was on the anxiety that mandated tests cause on children and teachers. One of the scales used to measure anxiety was the Children’s Tests Anxiety Scale, also known as CTAS, which assess children’s physiological and disengagement behaviors. CTAS measure...
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...Recommendations B. Action Plan VIII. Bibliography 20 IX. Appendices 21-36 Appendix A – Sample Questionnaire Appendix B – Other Researches 1 ABSTRACT In this research material, we aim to know the problems of a senior high school student especially the K+12 coming. A survey was made containing questions about what we have observed among other senior students. We had 100 respondents from different high schools. We consider you to definitely see the answers to the research questions because we can clearly prove that what we experience are just same with what our respondents face. The result recommends more number of students to participate and a wider area including rural areas. 2 INTRODUCTION It is everyone’s dream to graduate high school. It is because it will be their stepping stone to fully realize their dreams. Graduating high school is not as easy as you think especially when we are on the verge of the K+12 implementation. It is a hard thing to do, especially when something bothers or hinders you to do your main purpose in high school. There are many requirements to pass, hard lessons to learn and different problems to encounter. A senior high school student will never say that it is very easy to graduate secondary education because of the very many struggles he...
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... Assessment of Learning Why the Philippines does Needs the K+12 Education System? Updated on November 24, 2014 Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international community. While this may be true, our current education system hinders us in becoming more competitive among other countries. Starting this coming school year 2012- 2013,the current education system of the Philippines will be enhanced from the 10- years of basic education into 12- years through the program called the K-12 Education Plan of the Department of Education. The implementation of the K- 12 education plan in the Philippine Basic Education Curriculum is the key to our nation’s development. Though the government will face many problems in the long run of the implementation of the program, there really is a need to implement it because the enhancement of the quality of our education is very urgent and critical. Here are some of the good reasons not to disagree with K- 12 education plan in the Philippines according to Isagani Cruz (2010) in one of his columns in a local newspaper: Sufficient Instructional Time If K- 12 will be implemented, students will be able to get sufficient instructional time to do subject- related tasks which makes them more prepared and well- trained on that subject area. On the other hand, if we remain on the old system, Filipino students would continually get low achievement scores. For instance, international test results...
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...Improving the Educational Attainment of America’s Youth American students are not learning the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s world, where technology and economies are increasingly interacting globally. U.S. students are continuing to trail behind their peers of industrialized nations, who have been dominating the academic achievement ranks, according to results from a key international assessment. In comparison, Finland, South Korea, and Singapore students are consistently the top performing students in the world according to their PISA scores. What is it that these three countries are doing that the U.S. isn’t, when it comes to educating their students? Compared to the U.S., Singapore, Finland, and South Korea only recruit teachers from the top 10% to 33% of their top high school and college students. And in the case of Singapore and South Korea, students attend school on average 60 more days a year than U.S. students. By implementing teacher reform and longer school year attendance, the U.S. can improve the educational attainment of its youth. Scores from the 2009 PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) show 15-year-old students in the U.S. performing about average in reading and science, and below average, in math (PISA 2009). The PISA exam is one of a handful of tests that compare educational levels across nations...
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...Allen September 8,, 2012 As a child growing up doing well in school was never an option. The only this I had to do was go to school and make good grades. Now that I think about it school was my job and my paycheck was the knowledge I was gaining. This generation now-a-days have the idea that they should be rewarded finically for doing well. Students should not offered finical incentives to do well on standardize test in school. Schools should not give into to paying students for their performance. It is understood that in order to keep a school in good academic standings you have to make sure students do well on the standardized test. The test scores not only reflect the school but also represent each student as an individual. So you can see why it is important for students to do well but should that really mean at all cost. For many years teachers have been teaching the material for the long term knowledge now it seems as if they are just beginning to teach just for testing. There are some major disadvantages when trying to offer students financial incentives to do well on standardized test. Education should be viewed as a privilege. Many students take educations for granted. Not knowing that in some countries education is still not free let along for all males and females. You even have some certain types of schools here in the USA that you have to pay for high school education. I would think since students know that one day you will have to pay to further your education...
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...Keeping Our Young Adults in School: It is possible Staci N. Holt RN Excelsior University Writing for the Professionals ENG 201 Dr. Katherine Nelson-Born May 30, 2011 Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to establish that the social, economic, and demographic factors are in direct correlation to the high school dropout rate. Research shows that high schools that identify these three categories’ and implement specific programs can lower their dropout rate. These variables have been identified; therefore, precise programs need to be implemented for the at risk student to obtain a high school diploma. Our greatest defense in a global economy is an educated work force and having our young adults choose to drop out of high school poses a threat to the country's strength and prosperity. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the group of non-graduates will continue to rise unless extreme improvements take place, especially in the state of California. Rubidoux High School (RHS) is one of three comprehensive high schools’ within the Jurupa Unified School district (JUSD). The graduation rate for RHS for the 2008-2009 school years was 72.3% and the state of California’s average for the 2008-2009 school years was 78.6% (Jurupa Unified School District, n.d., p. 16). If the Jurupa Unified School District (JUSD) better identified social, economic, and demographic factors and provide stronger intervention programs then they will decrease their dropout rate. Keeping...
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...controls the Philippine education system, especially the curriculum used in schools, and usage of funds used for further improvements, which includes the continual building of schools and its facilities, and the recruitment of teachers and other staff, among others. Prior to the mid-20th century, the country's education system was patterned on those of its earlier colonial powers, those of bothSpain and the United States. However, after the Philippine independence in 1946, its educational system changed radically. The former basic educational system of the Philippines was composed of 6 years of elementary education starting at the age of 6,[3] and 4 years of high school education starting at the age of 12.[4] Afterwards, one can continue his or her education by enrolling in technical or vocational schools, or in higher education institutions like universities. Although the 1987 Constitution states that elementary education is compulsory, it was never put into force. Since 2011, the country started its transition from its old 10-year basic educational system to the K-12 educational system, as mandated by DepEd.[5] This time, the new 12-year system is now compulsory, along with the adoption of new curricula for all schools (see 2010s and the K-12 program). The transition shall last until the S.Y. 2017-2018, where the first graduates under the new educational system will be brought forth. All public schools in the Philippines must start classes from a date mandated by the Department...
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...Situation of Formal Education in the Philippines 0. Introduction Compared with other countries, the literacy rate in the Philippines is quite high . Moreover enrolment rate is 99. 9% in primary level and 77. 8% in secondary level, which is higher than Singapore and the highest in ASEAN countries (Figure 0-1). However while statistics on educational attainment may be high, the economic situation in the Philippines is still not so good. The Philippines has succeeded in expanding its education in quantit ative terms, but now they have to think about “Quality of education”. Figure 0-1 Literacy rate and enrolment ration in ASEAN countries Adult literacy rate (% age 15 and above) 1998 91. 8 90. 7 86. 4 95. 0 94. 8 92. 9 85. 7 84. 1 37. 4 46. 1 Youth literacy rate (% age 15-24) 1998 99. 7 99. 3 97. 1 98. 8 98. 4 96. 7 97. 3 90. 5 56. 9 67. 5 85. 1 Age grope enrolment rations (adjusted) Primary age group Secondary age grope (% of relevant age group) (% of relevant age grope) 1997 99. 4 87. 6 99. 9 88. 0 99. 9 99. 9 99. 2 99. 3 99. 9 73. 0 87. 6 1997 75. 6 81. 9 64. 0 47. 6 77. 8 55. 1 56. 1 54. 2 38. 8 63. 4 65. 4 Singapore Brunei Malaysia Thai Philippine Vietnam Indonesia Myanmar Cambodia Laos Total Source: UNDP “ Human Development Report 2000 ” People cannot develop their skills. Quality of education is inadequate. Students cannot understand well. Topic 4 Especially math and science performance is poor Core...
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...on the mind of every prospective student trying to decide what they are going to do for the rest of this life’s. Although it’s not a simple yes or no answer, it can be simplified. Whether they want to attend a state university, local community college, or a private school it’s all the same. It depends on what degree is perused and what field Is College Worth It? College has always been a gateway to a better future ever since the mid-1600’s. Prosperous students have lined up to attend college. In recent events, the cost to attend college had risen 130% from fall 1982 to fall 2012. It raised speculation about attending college or not. All though college education is the same, the financial aspect made all the difference. College offers higher pay grade with a crippling student loans, better job opportunities without any guarantee for a job. A diluted college degree but more jobs require a college degree and the college stress can lead to health problems but can afford better health insurance. College can be worth it depending on the degree is pursued and if the field is in demand. Attending college will give people the opportunity for a higher pay grade. On average the higher degree is pursued, the higher annual salary will be earned. An Associate’s Degree is worth $170,000 over a lifetime than a high school diploma while a Bachelor’s Degree is worth $30,000 more per year. (Greenstone, 2013) Although people make a living with a high school diploma, they’re not making livable...
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...PREFERENCE ON THE PROPOSED K+12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM “If you want to plan for a year, plant a tree; for a decade educate people.” It is an old maxim that talks about the importance of education where it plays a major role in the progress and welfare of a nation. Thus, every nation has a high regard in educating its people. According to Nelson Mandela, one of an African foremost statesman said that “education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” It is supported by one of the approaches of curriculum which is known as reconstructivism where the long term purpose of education is promoted. They are trained to be professionals in the future that in the end will reform the society. Everyone has the right to education as what the Universal Deceleration on Human Rights stated. It is supported by the 1987 Philippine Constitution Section 1 of Article XIV that announces that “the state shall protect and promote the right of all citizen to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.” This creates an avenue for the children to have quality education so that they will have a bright future and a better quality of life that most parents want to achieve and this will be beneficial and helpful to the nation itself. In the Philippine Journal (2006), Moises R. Tamandong cited different ingredients for quality education. He stated the following: 1.Curriculum which caters to the needs of the learners...
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...sometimes associated, where students become graduates. The graduation ceremony is a cultural tradition that is considered a rite of passage. The ceremony marks a transition from one stage in a student's life to another. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as grandaunts. The date of graduation is often called graduation day. The graduation itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. In case of study and education graduation is the meaning of getting a higher degree of three years after 10+2 from a university or college, but that degree must come under the degree of graduation. Quite apart from that though, the graduation ceremony fulfills an essential human function as a ritual of transition, in this case marking the move from student to worker. The whole idea of graduation is believed to have started in the 12th Century, introduced by scholastic monks who wore robes during the entire graduation ceremony. It has kept on evolving ever since. Gill, L. (2012, January 15). Convocation and its importance. Graduation. Retrieved August 7, 2012. Scholars, especially anthropologists, consider graduation to be a rite of passage. A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change from one stage of life to the next in a person’s life. The pomp and ceremony of the graduation ceremony can lend itself to accusations of irrelevance and elitism. Such criticisms I think miss the point. The occasion certainly wasn't irrelevant to the students and families who attended...
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