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Students In The American Educational System
796 wordsAmerican Education system versus Asian Education System Today the American education system is no longer the best in the world. With declining test scores and poor academic achievement, people have questioned whether our current educational system is working for us On the other side of the Pacific, the situation is totally different. Students of Asian countries achieve higher academic achievements, and they rank at the top on math and science tests. If their educational system is better than the...
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List Of Reported Crimes In Public Schools
8,835 wordsweb Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97 Executive Summary "No matter where you are, parents want their students to be safe and secure... that might even precede a quality education... ". With drugs, gangs, and guns on the rise in many communities the threat of violence "weighs heavily on most principals' minds these days... Anyone who thinks they are not vulnerable is really nave". (Principal Michael Dur so, Springbrook High School, as quoted in the Washingtonian Mag...
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Open Campus
438 wordsOpen campus is something every student dreams of. I had the experience to be in a highs cool with open campus. The open campus, allows us to walk around the school area. It includes bigger break time. We young teenager are not put in prison anymore. There are no more hall passes. Students have more free time, which they are able to use for many diffrent things like talking to friends. Sometimes there is even enough time to go to the cafeteria. Students also can use their time for playing sports ...
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Their Students Achievement Levels
740 wordsThe abbreviation SOL stands for, Standards of Learning. The Standards of Learning is a test that was devised in the spring of 1998 to provide information on the progress of students toward meeting achievement levels. To me as a citizen of Virginia, and as a student, I think this test is a burden on most students in all grade levels, and should be eliminated. Because first, the number of tests being administered to student each year is outrageous, second, the penalties a student has to face for f...
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High School Student
941 wordsStudents, you, as well as I, have always felt the strain of limitations brought upon you this and past school years. These past years, the school board has been closing students' ability to do almost what they please to an oppressive detention in which you cannot even walk the hallways to get a sip of water. How many times have you or heard that someone has been given a detention for just walking around the halls? How many times have you been hassled for trying to go to your car and sent back in...
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Students Performance In Public And Private Schools
1,250 wordsWould you change your school? Would you go to a private school instead of a public school? Or to a public school instead of a private school? Private and public education is different in many ways such as their performance, enrollment, and the overall education taught but yet they have somewhat similar teachers. Students' performance in public and private schools differ a lot. Private schools often have better grades and test scores. It is proven that kids who go to a public school and attend a ...
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Advantages To School Vouchers
764 wordsImagine going to school and finding half of your friends are moving to different schools because they have qualified for a school voucher. It's difficult to see them go because you have known them all your life. It's also difficult to watch them attend the school which everyone knows in your community is known to better than the one you are currently attending. Questions are also brought up to your mind with school vouchers. Students who don't qualify may ask themselves am I put into a disadvant...
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Drugs At The Private School
428 wordsIn the world today many parents ponder the thought whether private schools are better than public schools. They decide what would be better for their children. When they do this they ponder many different things like what would be academically better for my son or daughter or which would be safest and some people even would send their son or daughter to a school just for athletics. Some private schools are known for their academics. One of these schools would be Phillips Andover Academy in Andov...
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Students And Other School Personnel
527 wordsSchool violence is not a new issue for the nineties. School violence has been around since the nineteen fifties, but was more an issue of juvenile delinquency. The difference between the 1950's and 1990's is that the student conflicts are more likely to be settled with the use of weapons in the nineties. The availability of weapons today has seemingly increased the severity of which young people settle their arguments. From a sociological perspective, the increase of violence in schools in poor ...
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Students Live In Three People Rooms
1,330 wordsSubject: Three students living in one dorm proves to raise many problems. Recently, students at Millersville University have been forced to live in three person rooms. The dorm room is around eleven feet wide and fourteen feet long. Not only is their privacy very limited, it also poses many other problems. Their own closets are shared with other people, showers are hard to come by, and finding a washing machine starts to compare to finding a golden nugget. Having these students live in three peo...
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Affects On Students
405 wordsSummary / Response Part-time Employment Undermines Students Commitment to School Summary: In the essay, "Part-time Employment Undermines a Student's Commitment to School" by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, whil...
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25 Of Inner City School Students Report
515 wordswhen 57% of violent crimes committed by juveniles occur on school days, even though only about half of the days in a year are school days you know there is a problem. Or maybe it is more visible with the knowledge that 25% of inner-city school students report carrying a weapon in school, and 44% report carrying weapons out of school. No one really needs statistics to see we have a problem. You can watch any news program and hear others horror stories. Our nations schools once a protected haven f...
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Parents Of Charter School Students
1,101 wordsCHARTER SCHOOLS Charter School Since President Clinton signed into law, H.R. 2616, the "Charter School Expansion Act of 1998" charter schools have been providing an alternative for parents of public school students (Lin, Q., 2001, p. 2). To date, charter schools enroll over 500,000 students (Fusarelli, 2002, p. 1). Charter schools have been favorable because it is believed that they can provide for a way to enhance student achievement by serving students who have been under-served by the public ...
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Low Class Schools
1,195 wordsThere seems to be obvious differences in the education system all over America. It caters the upper class majority and it is biased to the ones that serve the lower and middle class minority. There is a strong undercurrent of racial inequality in today's school systems that negatively affect the quality of education that its students receive. A schools potential to give a proper education often depends on the perspective economic, and social, or perhaps the racial backgrounds of its students. So...
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Programs Lynn Olson
1,065 wordsAn Avenue to High Academic Standards By Lynn Olson In her article "An Avenue to High Academic Standards", Lynn Olson argues that "A prominent misconception surrounding school-to-work is that it downplays intellectual achievement", and that "school-to-work can encourage young people to pursue education and training beyond high school". A school-to-work program enables a student to go to a regular school and attend classes just like any other regular high school student, but they are also required...
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8 3 Of High School Students
2,436 wordsChabert 1 Guy Chabert Mr. Addison English 102 12 April 2000 Solution in School Murder It is 7: 30 on a normal Tuesday morning at Westside Elementary School. The buses have begun to pull into the child unloading dock and have unloaded the students. As the buses pull off, the students began to head toward their classroom to wait for the day to begin. As the day progresses, the students ready themselves for lunch break. As the teacher's aid opens the door for the students to leave, she sees four st...
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Presence Of Students In A Public School
2,363 wordsIS IT LEGAL TO PRAY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Is it legal to pray in public schools This is the question. The answer of course is, It depends. Both on what kind of prayer we are talking about, and more importantly, who is doing the praying. Because people are usually talking about organized classroom prayer, we will begin our there. The Supreme Court has made clear that prayers organized by a public school violate the First Amendment, whether in the classroom, over the p-a system or even at graduation. ...
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Discipline Punishment Q Between Students And Teacher
1,640 words1. What is the philosophy of the school q It is in the appendix (in the first page) 2. Review the student and the teacher handbooks. Comments q It is in the appendix 3. When are professional employees required to be in the school building (When do they arrive, when leave) q They must come to the school at 08 o'clock and they can leave at 17 o'clock. 4. What time does school begin End q On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the school start at 08.30 and it ends at 16.10 q On Friday the school ...
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Drug Prevention At Asfdsafsdf High School
912 wordsAs Anthony ran down the hallway screaming, I m going to jail, I know it, it is all over! a teacher who had no clue what was going on tackled him. The teacher soon found out that in the student's hand was a small bag containing crystal meth. A drug he was taking in the bathroom of the school before being turned in by another student. was suspended from school for 180 days and must face legal charges later this year. Drugs are becoming more apparent at High School. Over the past several years ther...
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Reasoning Behind Student Searches
582 wordsIt is overwhelming how much controversy there can be over simple statements. It may have been written over two hundred years ago, but people are still confused over this matter. As attorneys, our first intent is to express the reasoning behind student searches. It is obvious that there has been a major increase in the number of student property searches in schools from the time of the drafting of the Fourth Amendment (1791), until now. It is equally obvious that the amount of violence and drug u...
