" This is an important quote because it is encouraging students to not give up or worry if they don't pass this test sophomore year because they have enough opportunities to try their best to pass the test in their junior and senior year before they graduate. ... " This is an important quote because it lets the students know what they are expected to know what they are expected to know in order to take this exam. ... " This is a very important quote because Riordan has high expectations of students who take the test, pass it and graduate high school. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "The End of Solitude" by William Deresiewicz, the author makes several claims accusing the increase use of technology as the most major factor in our loss of "solitude" The author is quoted as saying, "Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone." ... The second reason this quote is false is that the ever growing Suicide rates among teens shows that people feel more alone now than any other time in history. ...

• Word Count: 780
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Truth about Thanksgiving "Readers might be fascinated if textbook authors presented two ore more of the various possibilities, but, as usual, exposing students to historical controversies is taboo" (87 Loewens). This quote personifies the perspective in which James Loewen has written this a...

• Word Count: 342
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In my body paragraph I plan to eliminate run-on's, extra commas, and quotes that contradict my argument. ... I polished my argument by adding a better quote from Ravitch's article in this section of my essay, However, Diane Ravitch in "The Success of Charter Schools Is a Myth " disproves Guggenheim's claims by illustrating that "it would be foolish to believe that teachers alone can undo the damage caused by poverty and is associated burdens " (3). ...

• Word Count: 1361
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Handling LGBT High School Students' Needs: Catching Up With The Here and Now Thompson's quote argues "the moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time, here and now.... Thompson's quote speaks to the plight of teens stuck in a school system unreceptive to their needs and insensitive to the wider social trend toward acceptance of LGBT identity. ...

• Word Count: 1280
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Staudohar of Monthly Labor Review . " Much of the bargaining [of contract specifics] is done through televison media, with carefully prepared reports and quotes made available to print and broadcast sources." ...

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Arianna Salgado, a leading undocumented student activist who has worked with government officials on immigration reform, was quoted in an article by Deanna Bellandi, where she states, "We deserve the same opportunities to continue with our higher education because we have the same dedication and commitments as our peers" (Bellandi). ...

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Low-income parents are a product of the same "sorting machine- (the public school system) (Oakes, 75, quoting MacLeod) that their children are now experiencing, so they don't have the skills necessary to teach their children differently than they were taught. ...

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He quotes the Education Trust president Kati Haycock; "Many educators believe that poor kids and Latino kids and African American kids just aren't capable of learning to the same levels as other kids," which is demonstrated in their placement while in lower levels of education. ...

• Word Count: 1872
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Sports programs are a big part of school systems and school environments today. These sports programs are starting at a younger and younger age every year. By the time that students reach the high school varsity and college age, sports have become a tremendous part of the student's life. Some may sa...

• Word Count: 2148
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundati...

• Word Count: 2573
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate