What is the right language? ... My girlfriend's first language is Spanish and she learned English through an ESL (English as a Second Language) in elementary. ... Even though she was taught to learn English she still kept her language. ... Children's lives are too important for them to be the guinea pigs of our theories. We should not become attached to different theories of bilingual education to the extent that we lose sight of the reasons for education. ...

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I plan to study abroad in numerous countries during my college experience, in order to expand my knowledge of different cultures, traditions and languages. ... Also, for many areas, lack of communication is due to a language barrier within the community. Areas such as Brentwood consist of families from over 50 different countries, and with the differences between languages, it is hard for everybody to be heard. By traveling abroad and studying foreign languages, I feel that I will soon be able to contribute to improving foreign communication within my community, providing a sense of unity thro...

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Today, a college education has become increasingly important. Those who further their education after high school are more likely to be successful, for example, make a higher salary and attain greater career advancement. A college education has become the minimum requirement for a great deal of jobs...

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Model Building We selected potential variables using a combination of personal experience and published theories from education professionals. Both of these sources focused on a few main areas: parental education, socioeconomic status, the number of disabled students, and the English language skills of students. ... Our final model consisted of two quantitative variables (percentage of students on the free or reduced price meal programs, and percentage of students with disabilities), two qualitative variables (socioeconomically disadvantaged population significant [2 levels: yes or no], an...

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If black and white children spoke relatively different languages, as some aspects on English claim, on might expect black and white children with vocabularies of equal size to know somewhat different words. ... The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was designed as a measure of receptive language and has replaced the original Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) published in 1959. ...

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It is based on the Piagetian theory that "children learn actively and construct their own knowledge." ... Some of the aspects are all day kindergarten, beginners reading program which combine a phonic and whole language approach, reading groups which are constantly assessed by teachers, one-on-one tutoring, and co-operative projects in language arts and math. ...

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In the corners are resource stations, for language arts it contains dictionaries and a bulletin board or "wow" words made by the students, for science it contains the weekly science vocabulary, a skeleton and a few experimental tools, for math it includes extra manipulatives (counters and graphing supplies). ... Granda's classroom is as follows: morning announcements, language arts for two hours with independent reading, reading log, group reading and follow up assignment, P.E. and lunch, math, content area (Science or Social Studies) and then special area (Art and Music once a week each...

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Students should be rewarded in equivalence to their achievements, thus reversing the theory that students should as well be punished in equivalence to their wrongdoings. ... Although freedom of speech is allowed, according to the first amendment of the constitution, the speech must not include obscenities, defamation, abusive, obscene or harassing language, or disturbance. ...

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The controversy over school vouchers covers a wide array of arguments, from constitutional freedom to economic theories. ... In public education, we know ample areas of sciences, histories, mathematics, and language arts have been provided for the whole learning of the student. ...

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(Letts, 2001) In contrast to the functionalist theory, Marxism took a new perspective on the school environment; who argued that education is a function in which to maintain class inequalities in wealth and power. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "previous training". ...

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Whelan (2007) reported that states that provide educational support to a higher percentage of poor students and those with limited English language skills need to provide more services to allow them to reach the same level as other age appropriate students around the state. According to Whelan (2007), reports show "rural schools, located in the states with the most impoverished, minority, and English Language Learner (ELL) students happen to receive the fewest resources" (p. 1). ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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