This includes making slight accommodations for those students who have a disadvantage due to their background. ... The article from the Washington Post, Lesson Plans Becoming Obsolete, Cultural Differences Require Broader Teaching Methods, by Emily Wax, incorporates the issue of the achievement gap between minority students and their peers. ... No drastic difference should be seen through the teaching of minority students. ... An achievement gap in evident so in some cases the minority students might require more time or more practice with the class work, but it should still be the same wo...

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Minorities are often excluded from U.S. history. When included, minorities are offered a stereotypical view of their position in society. ... Second, minority students internalize the offered view that their culture is unimportant, or at very best, secondary. ... In fact, teachers, in subtle and blatant ways, discouraged minority students from higher educational pursuits. ... On average, minorities score lower than whites on standardized tests. ...

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In today's work force, men are slowly becoming the minority to well paid, highly respected jobs. ... As a male this may benefit me that I am the minority and the need for men in the workplace is crucial. ... In closing, I would like to include words from a less famous person, Robert M. ...

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Indicators of student effort include how often students are absent from school, how interested they are in their schoolwork, whether they try to do their best, whether they complete their assignments, and how much time they spend on homework and other activities such as work or watching television. ... We find these problems to be most common in urban areas where black minorities are the majorities. ... Jobs like city maintenance or cleaning services, which has less income than that which is desirable are usually what you find most minorities migrating to. Also certain jobs as McDonalds or ...

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This may include the basic knowledge of the sciences, the histories, the languages, math, etc. but also to learn essential "people skills" such as etiquette, group working skills, etc. ... Minorities do not have as much access to the better educational programs that are offered. ...

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It includes knowledge about the characteristics or development of learners, about the conditions that promote better learning, about how to accommodate the needs of students with diverse abilities and backgrounds and about how to evaluate learning." (1991, p.5) Basically it is the study of the development of each individual in the educational settings. ... With this knowledge, the teachers will be able to incorporate appropriate methods or approaches to minimise the percentage of forgetting and improve their memory as well as the effective atmosphere for learning which includes a smo...

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America was built on its diversity; therefore we should include multiculturalist ideas and work it into our classical education system. ... A simple education of western culture does not include everyone in the United States. ... It would rob minorities of knowing their history and culture, and the other would steal the foundations of America. ...

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She notes that "there's a radical and wonderful new idea here the idea that every citizen is capable of the kind of intellectual competence previously attained by only a small minority. ... Some of Deborah Meier's innovative approaches to education seem almost commonplace today interdisciplinary learning in small groups, real lessons that use the city as the classroom (a curriculum that includes such things such as mapping Manhattan or testing the water quality of the East River) and public "exhibitions" to demonstrate students' learning, rather than reliance on multiple-choic...

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They assist in solving the problem presented to minorities and the poor and provide them choice. ... Additional experiences to those discussed in the previous paragraph that led to my values supporting school vouchers include personal encounters with professionals in support the voucher system as well students that were utilizing the opportunity to better their education. ... As talked about earlier, one instance would have to include a great focus on the public education system as a whole in urban areas. ...

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What other factors contribute to the success or failure of minorities in regards to learning? ... For many years, some people were not ready to accept that the time had come for minorities to be accepted in society as equals with equal rights under the law. ... Minority students also benefited by being in integrated settings, which brought networking opportunities that had been previously closed to them (Byrd-Chichester 21). ...

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Quite generally, it includes any child who exhibits attributes, characteristics and/or abilities that fall significantly above or below the norm. ... According to Heward, the many acceleration options include "...grade skipping, dual enrollment in high school and college, early admission to college, subject acceleration and advanced placement testing," to name a few. ... A major drawback to curriculum compacting is that due to lack of funds, many teachers are not adequately trained and qualified to adapt and teach a special compacted curriculum to the minority of gifted students. ...

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The first one would be that students from racial and ethnic minority groups often cannot relate to their teacher since the majority of them are of Anglo European culture. ... And novelty is based on allowing students to learn traditional content using alternative or unusual strategies that might include working with an adult mentor, creating materials for other students to use, or using a problem-based learning approach. ...

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I think my mom would agree to this statement and her reasoning for helping me would include a majority of the list. ... Hornby and Lafaele later pointed out: "minorities are less involved, less represented and less informed, and are less likely to have access to resources, as well as more likely to have problems associated with language, transport, communication and child care" "(41). The gap in income for many minorities can cause many problems for these families of juggling both their schedules and the schools schedule on being involved. ...

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The history of education is filled with segregation, bias, and inequalities for the minorities and poor. ... There are also funds that are being allocated unequally resulting in an inferior education for many minorities and families in high poverty and there are consequences of the funding gaps and relate it to many of the inequalities in America. ...

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Status rates are higher than event rates because they include all dropouts in this age range, regardless of when they last attended school. ... The paper also discusses the extent to which these frameworks can be used explain differences in dropout rates among social groups, particularly racial and ethnic minorities. ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions, it lasts. ...

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Gender Inequality and Injustice in the Educational System TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 5 Thesis and its Purpose 6 Statement of the Major Hypotheses: 7 Part A: The Formal Curriculum 7 Organization of The Formal Curriculum 7 Content of The Formal Curriculum 8 Part B: The Informal Curriculum 9 Process of The Informal Curriculum 9 Structure of The Informal Curriculum 9 Chapter 1: Theoretical Paradigm of Conflict Theory 10 Chapter 2: Historical Background of Education 13 Chapt...

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Since the 1970s, Mexican-Americans in the United States have been identified as apathetic, indifferent, and disinterested in the process of attaining an education. Many Americans point to the high Mexican-American drop-out rates and the low number of Mexican-American professionals as a confirmation of this stereotype. This Latino group has struggled to dispel the characterization. In response, Mexican-Americans, as well as Anglo-Americans, have searched for ways to counter such misinformation. As a result, many communities have adopted bi-lingual programs, in order to help Mexican-American...

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