NO! CHILD LEFT BEHIND. Barack Obama took a strongly progressive stance for public education and for teachers, and against publicly-funded vouchers to pay for private school education, in this July 5, 2007 speech. Obama's remarks included a number of controversial proposals, including immediate, across-the-board pay raises for teachers, and redesign of standardized tests to support learning, not punishment of teachers. While Obama proposed to fix the many substantial problems of the No Child Left
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Union College for my freshmen year, I was in awe of the array of opportunities that were awaiting me. As an eighteen-year-old that hailed from a town of three thousand people, I was eager emerge myself in a diverse range of activities. My freshmen year I volunteered at a children’s hospital, joined a campus action group, and by year’s end I was elected my Class President. My first year had seemed to be the “ideal” first year of college experience and I was eager to return to my small hometown boasting
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evolved throughout history. Section 2. “Childhood – The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth.” (www.thedevilsdictionary.com) Over the last 200 years childhood has change radically. I look at my own children and wonder how they would have survived the suffering and distress children in the early 19th century endured in fact, I wondered if I would have. Child labour was a common practice in the early part of the 19th century, children worked
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Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan Introduction This Comprehensive Classroom Technology Plan details ideas and concepts that I wish to put into practice in my future high school classroom. This plan demands common sense and excellence and focuses on providing students information for them to become their own digital citizens. The categories of this plan include my mission and vision for my classroom, my communication plan for engaged groups in the educational community, classroom instructional
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The decision to enroll in college can be a difficult choice. Many people follow a standard time frame going from High School directly to college and utilize more idealistic means in choosing where they will go to college. Idealistic means such as where their parents went, what the campus is like or whether its academics cater to a specific lifestyle or career choice. Others, like me, must base their decision on where they attend based on more realistic means. So what makes Western Governors a
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December 09, 1996 at Provincial Hospital in Mati City, Davao Oriental. My mother went through cesarean while delivering her youngest son, which is I, “CD”. My parents call me “CD” because of my initials, which is Christian Dale. My family has 4 members including myself. We lived in a small room in a bus terminal in Tarragona, Davao Oriental when I was 6 years old. We were not that poor but I can safely assume that we had money for food. My father and mother had no work and the only source of income that
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be acquired if students and teachers have a strong relationship. One in which questions and conversation can flow freely. In our educational system today however, this is not always the case. There is a method of teaching occurring in almost every school in the nation where the teachers play the role of the ‘all-knowing.’ This teacher prefers to force-feed information to students whose only job is to take detailed notes on everything the teacher is saying. No questions or differing opinions are allowed
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tolerating this stuff, it becomes the norm. The more you give, the more they take. These devices become an indisposable sort of thing for the students. And nothing should be indisposable. Multitasking is good, but I want them to do more tasking in my class." This quote was following a demonstration he performed in his class. What he did was pretend to smash a student’s phone because he was texting during a lecture, but the phone was an extra he had and snuck in place of the student’s. He wanted
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“Dead Poets Society” by Peter Weir In 1990, Dead Poets Society won the 62nd Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Peter Weir as the director who succeed in narrating a story about youth and death, dream and despair. From my point of view, it is a profound movie that intended to inspire and provoke thoughts; at the same time, to bring a combination of humor and drama to the audience while pushing a non-conformist ideology at the core of the story. Besides, there are many
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My chosen career is to become a Social Worker dealing with kids and their families. I have so much love for kids that I just want to see smiles on their faces. I want to start as a Social Worker and work my way up to become a Child Protective Specialist. Becoming a CPS would mean a lot to me because it will make me help kids get out of harm that is caused by parents or guardians. It also will make me feel better knowing that some kids are going to sleep safe at night and trying to live a normal life
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