Antagonists to inclusion establish that provision of quality education for special needs students within the general classroom demands the necessary resources for both teachers and students (Lamport 65). ... On the contrary, allies for inclusion accentuate that the program is not likely to deter student improvement but instead, it is a better way to assist special students succeed. ... Hence, supporters of inclusion view it as a means of enhancing student improvement through encouraging special students to attain a deeper understanding of material rather than memorizing facts. In this context,...

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The practice today supports developing higher-order thinking skills of students. ... Hence it is the need of the time to accept that "the student does think"(p.321) and to redesign syllabuses according to the needs of the students. ... Students are trained to "shut out the world from [their] classrooms and[their] minds.... Teaching methodology attempts to facilitate students to read about literature rather than learn to read literature. ... Students lack the necessary skills to use and process relevant information and analyze and appreciate literature independently. ...

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This method encourages the characteristic critical pedagogical challenge of the status quo, while still requiring ideas to be translated and conveyed by means of structured 'discourse practices' (Cherryholmes: 1988). ... In these cases, a vulgar pragmatic approach to EAP learning becomes a most valuable tool to students. ... How can such contradictory ideals be paired and delivered to students without causing confusion? In a world where individuals are so fervently encouraged to be just that, 'individual', a system of critical pedagogy in university seems ideal. ... I a...

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Factors such as social-economic growth or family environments might affect student's attendance. Therefore, the lack of Educators motivation is another factor that can result on students absent as a result; students fail to engage and commit to achieve academic goals. We must understand that education is a subject that involves more than just teachers and students. Community must take part of the process as encourage link providing safe and clean environments that will lead students to attend schools, and parents should be the main force at homes that help to reach students goals and acad...

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As a student who has passed through every grade level of the Texas public education system, I find the need to challenge public high schools to implement effective sex education courses which will accomplish three things: teach students how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, teach students how to properly use contraceptives, and teach students how to access resources regarding their sexual health. Students need to know how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases, which are becoming more common, every year, in students from age 15 to 19. ... The emphasis...

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I'm a mature student and also a student teacher. ... From past experience, it seems that many classrooms - whether elementary, secondary or university level, are directed mainly to the linguistic and logical-mathematical learning style students, which leaves students who process information with the other intelligences to struggle with new concepts. ... This led me to the foundational research of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory as applied to teaching practice and student learning. ... The results showed substantial improvement in not only letter grades, but in ove...

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It is a universities responsibility to prepare students for such situations. ... Although some people believe that the primary mission of universities and colleges should be to increase students' knowledge or develop their character, however universities should primarily prepare students for the workforce as it benefits the students need to be guided before entering the professional career, and it benefits the institution, students and the economy as a whole. ... In conclusion, college and university education should focus on solving all the possible problems a student can face in the ea...

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It encourages and provokes alterations, whether they are progressive or oppressive. ... Bush has claimed in the past that it was the revelation of God that encouraged him to commence his controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003. ... Such a potential action not only limits a student's understanding of our world, but also constricts the religious worldview of those who are educated in a creationist view from a singular religion. A powerful tool of change within society, education is able to broaden the mindset of a nation, encouraging acceptance and provoking open-thought. ... Education has p...

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Unschooler's hold that such instruments of traditional schooling are not conducive to a student's utmost learning, and that the removal of such educational features represents a method that allows each student to discover their desire to learn from within. ... The process becomes quite different when students are forced to learn through processes that stifle their creativity and love of learning by inducing unnecessary stress into the equation. ... Unschoolers are finding that when a child is allowed (and encouraged) to explore a topic when fueled by their own interest and incentives...

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The attitudes of peers toward students with disabilities have also been investigated (Full Inclusion). ... Although, some found that students with severe disabilities were accepted by non disabled peers. ... Principals however, demonstrated a lack of their knowledge about students with disabilities and often perceived little chance of success in general education, particularly students with the label "mentally retarded". ... In these classes any student who could not conform would likely to be unsuccessful. ... Although, findings assessing academic outcomes associated with inclusion were ...

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The school counselor encourages that Mrs Maughan to have a conversation with the involved girls and Christina's parent. ... Teachers and students have agency, whereby some people will access it and some will not. ...

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The recent growth of mega church events aimed at college students has sparked conversation about whether these annual gatherings preach a sound doctrine. Passion Conferences are an annual spiritual awakening of 60,000 college students with Jesus as the centerpiece. ... Passion conferences are built on the mission of "calling students from campuses across the nation and around the world to live for what matters most." With such a specific target audience, fulfilling the Passion mission is entirely contingent upon how the event directors make the conference culturally relevant to college st...

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Managers prefer that before entering the workforce, graduating business students have competency skills (Boiral & Gendron, 2011, 347). ... The collaboration between business leaders and educators on their preferred skills from graduating business students is valuable. ... Self-interest could prove to be beneficial for business leaders, if leaders encourage educators to change the way they teach business. ... Because of quickly changing business strategies, academic curricula are not meeting business demands for those students entering the workforce (Livesey, 2009, 454). ... Academia and busine...

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The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... By 1997, 3.1 million students were suspended annually as a result of zero tolerance policies; and in 1998, 87,000 students were expelled under the same regulations. ... A very small percentage of students suspended and expelled faced such consequences as a result of violent behavior. ... In the interpretation of this policy, Shanon was no different than a student who came to school carrying a loaded gun. ... In Palm Beach, Florida school police charged ...

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After his defence, recorded by his students Plato and Xenophon, Socrates was sentenced to death for his crimes; however, many primary source accounts encourage a secondary, insidious reason for why Socrates was really executed. ... The trail of Socrates and the consequential theories and recounts assisted in the development of the initial hypothesis and encouraged the further continuation of the subjective nature of societies constructs such as a unanimous moral compass. ...

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This process would naturally encourage movement along this status continuum, optimally reaching the achieved status, where adolescents have progressively shown commitment to a specific identity. ... Rotheram-Borus (1989) examined 330 Caucasian, African-American, Puerto Rican and Filipino students in an integrated USA high school. Caucasian students in senior grades showed significantly higher moratorium scores and perceived themselves as more likely to have explored and be committed to their ethnic role than the other minority groups. ...

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The knowledge that young individuals have about health and the skills they retain enables them to act in ways to encourage better health. ... Due to education, it will allow students to learn about the consequences and allow it be conducive that individuals will be influenced positively to improve their knowledge about mental health. ...

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Anti-Muslim hate crimes have incrementally increased; these vicious attacks have an ample spectrum, anything from street harassment to murder - with the most recent and devastating atrocity being the murder of 3 college Muslim students, by a crazed terrorist homegrown in the USA. ... "Building Blocks" is a kindergarten through fourth grade level program designed to educate students in an age-appropriate fashion about "diverse religious traditions" and teach "the skills necessary to live in a pluralistic...society" (5). ... Globally, educators have the authoritative ability to el...

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Severity of the problem Supply and demand of teachers for America's schools has entered an era of persistent imbalance, reflecting concerns with unacceptably low salaries, low regard for the profession, and safety for self and students. ... Abbreviated preparation practices rely on mentors to address other concerns that include lack of curriculum materials (including teachers" manuals), feelings of isolation, negative attitudes of others towards students with special needs (an increasing demand on general educators), scheduling, time-management, and working with paraprofessionals. Strat...

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The Society for Human Resource Management makes every effort to be the leader in encouraging diversity in the workplace. ... Diversity training on campuses has over and over again been viewed as part of students' adjustment method to a way of thinking and therefore has a crucial focal point on mindset shifts. The main purpose is to organize students for efficient community involvement in the broader community by imparting multicultural understanding, comprehension, and skills. ... It ought to be encouraged and managed appropriately. ...

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American society then perpetuates a standard of learning that is disguised as "proper" or "correct" but in reality, students are learning the "white way" submerging them into the dominant dialect in hopes of gaining social or economic prestige or acceptance (Villanueva 40). ... Through Villanueva's narrative discourse in stride with theoretical exposition, he illustrates how a rhetoric reform and our understanding of social oppression can expose a new way of thinking that does not encourage a form of hybridity or the a shedding of one's identity....

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Unfortunately, journalists and reporters, writers of fiction and non-fiction shows, creators of video games and writers of popular songs, are encouraged to produce creative work addressing not social responsibility, but rather the public's perceived desire for constant titillation and increasingly shocking material. ... The studies they discuss indicate watching music videos and other media has been shown to increase adversarial sexual beliefs and have a negative effect, and also make college students have a greater acceptance of anti-social behavior after viewing media displaying similar...

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Good morning fellow students and welcome to the global youth forum. ... Adolf Hitler transcribed these words in his book Mein Kampf (1926), in which he first advocated and encouraged the use of propaganda to spread the ideals of National Socialism – among the racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Bolshevism. ...

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While this may encourage a lack of personal sympathy and the alienation of those at the bottom of the pyramid, it can surely be argued that governments even in capitalist states take steps to regulate the actions of companies in a neoliberalist society. ...

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There was increased concern in the 1970s and 1980s with how to deliver mental health counseling for minorities, migrants, refugees, sojourners, and foreign students, closely related to the emerging human rights movement in the United States, as well as the growing migration of non-European minority groups into European countries, (Tseng, 1999). ... According to the customs of North American society, it is encouraged that people speak out about their private relationships and feelings. Various television shows in which people are encouraged to divulge their personal thoughts, feelings, and beh...

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