When Great Meadows Middle School decided to restructure their curriculum, they chose to take an integrated approach to teaching across the content areas. While integration can be an effective way to teach middle school students, there are some inherent problems with implementation and maintenance of the system. ... No matter the level of integration, there are advantages and disadvantages to the approach and using it effectively requires a delicate balancing act between the needs to address the requirements of high stakes testing with the desire to engage students in what they need to learn. ...

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Iranian Educational system The Iranian education system consists of pre-school, primary, middle, and secondary schools. ... Those who pass the exam proceed to middle school. Middle school covers grades 6 to 8 for children from 12 to 14 years old. ... The secondary school covers grades 9 to 12 for children 15-18 years of age. ... Under the new plan, which was approved in 1990, the secondary education cycle is reduced to three years during which students are required to complete 96 units in order to be awarded the high school Diploma. ...

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Many children of middle or higher-class families enter school with knowledge of a hidden curriculum such as having basic reading and numeric skills. ... Statistics on educational achievement by race or ethnicity show that white, black and Asian children have better school rediness skills than Hispanics ages 3-6.Inlater education, Asian and white students still achieve higher scores than black and Hispanic students. A pattern of a lack of educational attainment continues with high school dropout rates amongst race. ... Children create their own peer culture, learn the roles of adulthood, and ar...

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(Microsoft Encarta 2002) The government abolished school fees up to the age of 10, theoretically establishing equality within society and gradually the process of schooling has been searching for a sense of equality. ... Hence "the instrument of communication" (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 73) is considered greater among those from middle class origins, than those of poorer linguistic backgrounds; which are often the working class. ...

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To add, she states that "researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles found students with high arts involvement performed better on standardized tests than students with low involvement" (Ruppert, 10). ... In addition, the outcome of the study was that it "demonstrated that students who are highly involved in the arts in middle and high school in the United States perform better on a variety of academic measures than do students who are minimally involved in the arts" (Critical Links 78). ... Sir Ken Robinson, who is an international expert on creativity and...

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According to the Philippine Development plan, the major education and manpower development objectives of the DECS are as follows: 1) To improve the quality and increase the relevance of education and training. 2) To increase access of disadvantaged group in all educational areas. 3) To accelerate the development of middle and high level manpower toward economic recovery and sustainable growth, as well as to enhance their employability, productivity and self-reliance. ... Most families would not incur the high average expenditures on board and lodgings, since most pupils and students gene...

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Very few children continued schooling after the age of ten. ... Most high schools and colleges did not accept females or African Americans. ... " Public Education united the country as schools were now open to the poor, the middle class, and the rich. ...

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Indeed, this cycle of inequality can begin at a young age, through the experiences in a child's environment. ... A study by Paul Willis and Jay MacLeod (Kornblum, 2000) found that students in inner-city schools were not encouraged to have high expectations. ... The government reported that 10% of tracking in public middle school verged on outright discrimination (Armstrong, 1991). ...

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