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Getting Into College

... boy of age ten. Never before had he, been exposed to life outside his fifth grade classroom and his immediate family. Timid and shy, he decided he had listened to his mother's continuous nagging for the last time. That weekend, he would do as she said and "just go" to see an audition for the community's production of the musical Oliver. He arrived on time, the hustle and bustle of signing in all very new to him. There was no way he would actually get up on stage and sing for that skinny man with the clear acrylic braces showing on his teet ...

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Student's Rights

... year? I ought to read this!" So I read. Soon I realized why our School Board may not want students realizing what we are actually entitled to. Right away in the Preamble, it states "students have the responsibility to respect rights of all persons involved in the educational process and exercise the highest degree of self- discipline in observing and adhering to legitimate rules." The first thing I thought was "WOW! That sounds great! The School Board really trusts me as a free-thinking individual to respect people and be respected. ...

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Schools Uniforms

... between students who are rich and students who are poor. Studends who wear brand clothing makes them rich and students who wear normal clothes makes them neutral. Wearing uniforms makes all the students equalize from rich and poor. It makes the neutral students not being worry about their clothing when there is a dress code. The rich students would not make fun of the students who do not know how to dress up or student who just wear weird clothing. Some students who may feel this really upsetting because they want to look different every ...

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Things Aren't Always What They Seem

... just looked up at me and stared as if I was a portrait. In a polite manner, the teacher told me to sit next to those girls at the corner. At first they were quiet and then the whispers began. “Oye chulo,” they began to call me. I didn't know what to do, so I did what any guy with a great girlfriend would do, played dumb. Then they began telling each other that I was probably rich and conceited. Their remarks about my clothing and the color of my eyes and hair, surprised me. I was not upset because they were Hispanic. I am sure t ...

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Bilingual Education

... proposing is not just to help those children who do not speak English and speak Spanish only, but to also help those children who speak English only and not Spanish. Students will need to speak, read and write in English and Spanish when they reach the business world (Anderson 1). In many metropolises, the top-rated television station broadcasts in Spanish, the top-ranked newspapers publish a separate Spanish edition, and many top civic leaders speak fluent Spanish (Anderson 1). According to a 1995 survey of businesses in Miami and surroun ...

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Students Rights In The Public School System

... in the bathroom of her school. She was then taken to the office, and asked to open her purse and spill out the contence. What was found in the purse was marijauna a role of money and notes sujesting that she was a marijuna dealer. Her parrents soon filed a suit against the school on the basis that the evidence found was obtained illegally becauce no search warrent was used. In 1985 the case got all the way to the supreme court. The court ruled that the fourth amendment rights didn't apply in the school, and school officialsstill have to ha ...

Number of words: 586 | Number of pages: 3

The Power Of Reading

... literature is a powerful tool that enhances one’s vocabulary. Gaining the necessary knowledge of vocabulary from reading is an effortless way of meeting the demands summoned by society today. Not only is one able to express him or herself more freely and eloquently, but one is more likely to sound sophisticated. When a person speaks articulately it is because they are confident about themselves, and what better way to obtain that confidence than through reading. Having an extensive vocabulary will not only help you feel more confident a ...

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Sex Education

... developed for sequential age levels, would include discussion of the maturation and reproductive processes and extend, for example, to such related considerations as perception of obligations to the self and others; protection from sexually related disease, explotation, and unjury; and awareness of the maturity required for full expression of sex in love relationships. Supporters of formal consider that sex in mordern society is too complex a phenomenon for instruction to be left to the varying influences of parental attitudes and haphaz ...

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Importance Of Multicultural Education

... about Culture B. While hearing these remarks, they begin to judge, before Culture B has the experience of meeting with Culture A. The remarks influence Culture A to have negative experiences with Culture B when they do eventually meet. Culture A will be willing to interpret anything Culture B does as evidence for the remarks they have heard in the past. When this happens, Culture B assumes that every member of Culture A has these same feelings. This is likely to cause a cultural tension, which may not be easy to break. With the help of ...

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Order In The Classroom

... of pencils and pens being thrown at him while he was at the blackboard. Looking back I can honestly say that I felt sorry for all of our victims over the years. And that if I could do it over again I wouldn't. I recently went back to visit one of my high school teachers. It was amazing the amount noise and chaos coming from some of the rooms. It seemed as if the kids had a tension span of about 30 seconds before they felt that they must amuse themselves by belittling their teachers. Granted that my cohorts and I were fairly bad, but we looked ...

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Being A Substitute Teachers Aid

... if I wanted the charge for the fingerprints taken out of my first check. Shocked, I thought “What, that’s it. That’s all I have to do? Not even an interview process.” This was too easy. Anyone who could pass a fingerprint background check could become a teachers aid. Over the next few weeks I had waited to get my password so I could access the sub-hot line. When the password came and I was ready to go. The way the system works is simple: the computer calls you; at anywhere from 5:00p.m. to 5:30a.m.; you enter your password, ...

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Experimenter Expectancy Effect On Children In A Classroom Setting

... the children did not know, i.e., what Rosenthal had kept hidden, was that the rats were chosen at random. There were no rats that were especially bright or dull. Another case of the experimenter expectancy effect was that of the horse known as “Clever Hans”. It seemed to be able to read, spell, and solve math problems by kicking his leg a number of times. The horse was tested and passed, but what the experts did not realize was that their own hopes for the horse to answer the questions, were giving the horse signs on which he based his ...

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