through a series of curricula funded by the Lane Workforce Partnership, Oregon Youth Conservation Corps, Oregon Department of Human Resources, and the local school districts. The most recent program we have developed is a culinary arts program in which students learn about food preparation and safe handling and then put this knowledge to use by preparing lunches
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Amber Kiker Kiker 1 Professor McCarthy English 102 August 12, 2015 Deaf Employment in the Professional Sector Profound hearing loss affects millions of people in the United States today. According to the Gualledette Research Institute there are currently over a million people between the ages of 6 and 65 who are Deaf (Harrington 1). While several state and federally funded programs have been implemented to support early and post-secondary education for the Deaf, evidence points
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Attendance Policy Students are expected to attend all regularly scheduled classes. Should absences be necessary, students are responsible for the material covered during the absences. Faculty cannot grant requests for excessive amounts of make-up material, and they may request written documentation detailing the reason for the absences. Excessive absences make it almost impossible for a student to meet the academic objectives of a course; they frequently cause a student to receive a lower grade
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used to measure the level of proficiency of students- even though these students are not being given sufficient tools to be able to learn the material given. Because of this many have scrutinized this system and have hypothesized that instead of the standardized testing scores being representative of a student’s individual capability to learn, they should be a more “objective and efficient” means of accessing the accountability of not only the students, but the teachers and administration themselves
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Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 6 (7), pp. 522-527, July 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/ERR ISSN 1990-3839 © 2011 Academic Journals Review The effects of poverty on academic achievement Misty Lacour1 and Laura D. Tissington2* 2 Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA. th University of West Florida, 1732 N. 13 Avenue Pensacola, Florida 32503, USA. Accepted 12 May, 2011 Poverty, which forms a specific culture and way of life, is a growing issue in the
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Abstract Academic achievement of a student is always a main concern for the parents that hoping for the success of their children. In fact, there are factors influencing academic achievement of a student in Malaysia. First of all, social life became a main factor to influence a student in especially from the family, friends and tutors where there might have both positive and negative impact upon the children. Apart from that, the advanced technology in this current era, co-curricular, physical evidence
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of past students. While many higher education institutions provide training to a variety of clients, most forget them as soon as they graduate and leave the institution’s environment with no means to contact them. Employability upon graduation an over the long term is, understandably, the major priority for the vast majority of our University students. Over the past decades or so the University has increasingly offered a wide spectrum of higher education courses that provide students with the
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“THE EFFECT OF STUDY HABITS OF SELECTED MARINE STUDENT TO THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE” A Research Paper Presented to the College of Arts Department In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course English Presented To Sir. Joel E. Payapa, Ed.D Presented By Cercado, Joshua Kim T. Daniel, John Daniel M. De Guzman, John Odilon T. March 15, 2013 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction
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instruction to every student in their classroom. Each student has their own academic and social needs, therefore it is important for teachers to be able to use viable techniques to educate these students, whether they are general education students or have a disability (Byrd, 1990). There is also an emphasis on mainstreaming, so classrooms are becoming more and more diverse. Peer tutoring is one technique that can be implemented in general education classrooms to help lower performing students improve academically
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Introduction to Psychological Testing Aryne F. Levine PSY/475 May 24, 2012 Glenn Leighbody Introduction to Psychological Testing The term test is a difficult term to define. There are several major categories and sub- categories of assessments. The major categories of assessments relate to the type of examination. The sub-categories of assessments relate to the manner in which the assessment is taken. Assessments can be used for a wide variety of purposes in the professional
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