"Juveniles are like the rising sun, on whom our hope is placed." This is one of the most familiar aphorisms of the former Chairman of China, Mao. Nevertheless, it turns out to be a provoking sarcasm nowadays whenever we read newspapers - teenage crimes have reached a severely mounting state in Hong...
Hostile environment sexual harassment occurs when there is unwelcome sexual conduct such as touching, teasing, name-calling, sexual posters, pictures or jokes, which create an atmosphere that negatively impacts a student's daily routine. ...
Local High School Deputy Principal Not Meeting Student's Needs Today marks the beginning of what could be the most morally contentious event of the Singapore American High School's history: the day a student finally had the balls to bring his case against the local Deputy Principal, David Norcott...
Does School Kill Creativity, by Sir Ken Robinson, is the most viewed TED Talk; it has garnered 8.5 million views on YouTube and has been downloaded over 200 million times internationally since its premier in February of 2006. On their website, TED states they are, "a nonprofit devoted to spreading i...
When given a vast amount of material and being told to understand it with a minimal amount of guidance and support, a person may get extremely overwhelmed and not hesitate to consider giving up. In the story "Lives On The Boundary", The author, Mike Rose, talks about his past when he had just starte...
A popular reform movement with the moniker "cultural literacy" has been proposed (and widely published) by E.D.Hirsch, Jr. and collegues. Its approach maintains that for one to be well educated, one must own certain information or facts about our world, i.e., be "culturally literate". His premises (from his 1987 book, Cultural Literacy ) are: • In an anthropological perspective, the basic goal of education is acculturation, the transmission to our children of the specific information shared by the adults of the group or polis. • literate culture has become the common currency f...
You miss one hundred percent of the shots that you don't take" (Gretskey, 2008). These words stated by famous athlete, Wayne Gretzky, depict how we shouldn't be afraid to take risks because we are afraid of the outcome of those risks. These words delineate apprehension prior to entering fieldwork experience with the HYPE students these past couple of weeks.. I was so apprehensive to work with these students, as these students were very close in age to me, and I was accustomed to working with students in the elementary grades. Like many others, I had no prior experience working ...
