the development goal of achieving universal primary education, specifically focusing on the country of Ethiopia. Achieving universal primary education is important because it acts as a building block towards the development of counties as a whole. Primary 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
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them for years to come across many different facets of development. Research suggests that when recess programs are properly implemented, in addition to physical education, they can help children be successful socially, physically, and academically. What defines recess? As defined in Pellegrini and Smith’s
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The Arts: Is it really OK to cut them out? The arts have always been a part of human history and human life itself; Paintings,dances,and songs are not even half of what the arts can truly accomplish as we can see in our society today, so imagining a life without them is very hard to picture. Unfortunately children across the nation have already been experiencing a life without the arts, and the problem is getting worse. In 2008, a majority of schools in the U.S. had major budget cuts, resulting
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Master/Bachelor of Education salary comparison. National Center for Education Statistics 2012. Furthermore, on top of higher earnings, teachers who have their masters can more easily transition into senior and administrative positions in education. An educator who aspires, for example, to a position as a principal or school counselor might pursue a masters in. So with a masters I can have many options in education careers and invest my time wisely. Source: Indiana Department of Education
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impacts due to the rising costs of incarceration. For years prison workers and other professionals have been trying to find a way to reduce these effects. One of the ways they have found is through an education system within the prison. Many see giving those in prison a chance to partake in a form of education as a way to negate ‘prisonization’. Prisonization, according to Harer (1994) as quoted in Contardo (2008) is the “process by which prisoners become alienated from prison rules, staff, and the larger
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Sickels July, 2012 Indiana Department of Education Data were obtained from the Indiana Department of Education website at http://www.doe.in.gov/. Each data set is a representation of numbers in Indiana schools except for enrollment which went back about 75 years. Therefore I took a smaller sample of the population. The Indiana Department of Education website posts most all information to the site. The website provides easy navigation with
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was creating new government that aims to focus on the education of their citizens. The Philippines have started to implement a new educational system which is the compulsory K-12 educational system that includes the new curricula for all schools (Wikipedia, March 10, 2014). It aims to fully enhance and develop the students in order for them to be well-prepared especially in emotional and cognitive aspects, and to uplift the quality of education in the Philippines to meet the standards required for
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they may compare favorably with existing opportunities in other walks of life, attract and retain in the teaching profession more people with the proper qualifications, it being recognized that advance in education depends on the qualifications and ability of the teaching staff and that education is an essential factor in the economic growth of the nation as a productive investment of vital importance. Sec. 2. Title Definition. This Act shall be known as the "Magna Carta for Public School Teachers"
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doing so. For example – parents have a vested interest in their children’s education, and in how they are performing. Information shared by the school with the parents regarding how their child is performing can assist parents to best support their child’s educational development. This is a clear, but very justified, breach of the child’s privacy. Another justifiable breach of privacy is when there is a clear palpable health risk to others, such as students being exposed to contagious diseases. Breach
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One example of scholarship activity is participation in research by raising awareness about current practices. Another element as it pertains to scholarship is teaching that forms the basis of higher understanding. Hence, scholarly education transforms knowledge to students to promote critical and creative thinkers (Caputi, 2015 p. 114). Moreover, "the integration of scholarship supports the AACN position statement such as the scholarship of discovery is the inquiry that produces the
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