These youths accounted for 11.2 percent of the 34.1 million 16- through 24-year-olds in the United States in 1999 (table A, figure A, and table 3). ... The status dropout rate of whites remains lower than that of blacks, but over the past quarter of a century, the difference between the rates of whites and blacks has narrowed (figure 2). ... In 1999, the status dropout rate for Asian/Pacific Islander young adults was 4.3 percent compared with 28.6 percent for Hispanics, 12.6 percent for blacks, and 7.3 percent for whites (table 3). ... However, when looking at just those young adults born i...

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According to the four levels if reading comprehension raised by Rosenblatt, there are literal comprehension, deduction comprehension, evaluation comprehension and appreciation comprehension. And most of our students are still remaining on the first level. ... They do not have to develop their thought ability or creativity, and just sit there following the teacher's direction. ... Maybe that is why many students complain about that there are too many new words. ... But when they read articles, they are still use...

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Technological Influences: In the math class there should be at least a calculator. ... For any student there are a variety of learning situations that can be ordered according to the principle of pre-requisite learning. ... Mathematical variability: Like the perceptual variability principle mathematical variability principle suggests children be exposed to a variety of variables so that essential ones become evident by there presence in all examples, non examples as well should be used. ... They saw there are five levels a student must past through. 5 levels Visualization Thei...

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