It is due to the "No Child Left Behind Act", which, contrary to its name, is leaving more children behind [Bla14][Moe14]. ... Enacted in January 2002 under the Bush administration, the No Child Left Behind Act was enforced to make schools better by enacting the theories of standards-based education reform, which is based on the belief that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education [Moe14]. ... According to Webley, under the No Child Left Behind Act, teachers are always called out of class for a meeting and usually the meetin...

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(Giddens, 2008) With all these social purposes of education, individualistic purpose of education is to compose the differences which comes out while child development with social order. ... With the recent research done by "Mother Child Education Foundation" on Turkey it shows that during the education term of 1997 and 2005 student loss is .78, on male students .77 and on female students .12. ... Regarding to offensive judgement of gypsy they now called as Roman. ... Because average roman child, when they are at marriage-age they are already dropped out the school and already in workin...

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After the surveys were analyzed and correlated it is clear that there are some connections to certain behaviors (i.e. reading to their child, coming to school functions, having a positive relationship with their child's teacher, and a feeling of responsibility for the academic success of their child) of the parents that translate to the academic success of the child. ... Is there a correlation between their behavior and the academic success of their child? ... Often parents are seen in the school only when they are called in for disciplinary reasons. However, when parents show regular and...

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Parents would be called, meetings would be held, kids would be so scared they would be afraid to go out and socialize for fear of what others might say. Does this seem fair to do this to a child who is just getting out into the real world and trying to learn what it is about? ... Personally if I were a parent I wouldn't want a Math teacher teaching my child about right and wrong. How would the teacher know what my viewpoints were and what I would like to instill in my child? ... I"ll tell you why, because the school felt that they were better at setting rules than the child's par...

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What 6 to 8-year-old child would recognize the difference between "voluntary" prayer and the mandated school curriculum? ... He also found out that his children were laughed at, were called racial slurs, and were physically harassed by the other students. ... According to historic events it looks like that when prayer was introduced into the learning environment of a child, it caused a huge amount of hostility. ... A child would of just have been confused what the teacher would have been doing because that's not mommy or daddy showed them at home. If a parent finds out that the sch...

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Teen pregency and violence is going down and that is part of the program called "True Love Waits". ... (Bush said) He says being a parent he knows that it is not always easy and gets hard everyday, but when a man and a women have a child, being a father or mother becomes their most important job in life. ... He also says "no parent in America, no matter their income, should be forced to send their child to a school where violence reigns. No child in America, regardless of background, should be forced to risk their lives in order to learn. His proposal is that he will form a new partnership o...

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Parents who have children with Autism often wonder the best way to support their child throughout school. They ask questions such as: What challenges are my child going to face throughout the day? How can I best help my child through these trials? What is going to be most beneficial in helping my child further grow and develop mentally, physically, and emotionally? ... They call me mean names like weirdo" (Humphrey and Lewis 34). ...

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Revisions made in 2004 called for increased accountability at both the local and statewide levels, which improved the special education programs at many schools (Peterson). ... A fed up mother with a special needs child, writes, "Stop cutting funding from those who need it the most" (Resmovits). The burden that those who are opposing these cuts face is how to prove their child's needs are not being met. Even though funding is decreasing for these programs, a disabled child's basic needs are still being met by the public school system. ... With a residential medical staff, ever...

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What role does preschool have in gendering a child? ... Research Method The research method used by researchers was participant observation, which can be defined as: "(a) qualitative method of research (that) calls for the Sociologist to join a social group for an extended period and to record his or her observations of that group systematically" (Argosy University, 2012). ... Conceivably, the most definitive way of gendering a child is through their attire and accessories. ... Dressing up to go to school, especially when the outfit was chosen by parents, will most definitely gender...

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The way I plan on doing this is by teaching my students using a philosophy called progressivism. ... If a teacher does everything for the child, he or she will be comfortable by doing nothing; on the contrary, if the teacher does absolutely nothing and delegates all the responsibility to the student, they will become overwhelmed and stressed, therefore, not learning as much as they can. ... I will get to know each student's' individual capabilities and recognize that there are factors to bad test taking, like anxiety, ADHD, etc., and try to accommodate to the child's needs. ... ...

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At a country school, one child was delighted tell this author (perhaps unwittingly) about his cultural perspective of the meaning of numbers. ... As a parent helper in a year one class the author was given the task of helping each child to measure and record their height in centimetres and then their weight in kilograms. ... In recognition perhaps of an inflexibility within teaching mathematics, writers such as Parker (93, in Orey, 1998), Richards (1991, in Gibbs & Orton (1994), Durkin and Shire (1991) and Roberts (nd) support the NCTM (1989, in Orey, 1998) call for more powerful connections b...

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Such feedback provides information which is used for purposes of improving on the child's performance or modifying the content, context and methods of teaching, as well as in making a variety of other decisions. ... The task is difficult and calls for dedicated objectivity and handwork on the part of the teachers, counselors and everybody involved in the education of the child. ... Reports based on continuous assessment by the teacher help parents to know about their child's progress on a regular basis, not just at the end of the year. 6) TO HELP DETERMINE WHAT KIND OF REMEDIATION...

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This supremely important thing we must call the spirit of civilization.... An entire generation grew up on Smiles and Masanao's key theme: every person has the duty to work hard to cultivate his or her talents for the benefit of Japan and the world.4 By the 1880s, a so-called "People's Rights Movement" enthusiastically challenged the divinity of the emperor and invoked natural rights, theories learned from the translated works of European philosophers. ... "6 The Fundamental Code of Education made education not a matter for parental decision, but a child's right. ...

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The first is called Project Based Learning and it will teach more social and emotional skills than the standard curriculum in elementary age children. ... Suzie Boss, in her article "Project-Based Learning: A Short History" states "Maria Montessori, the Italian physician and child-development expert pioneered learning environments that foster capable, adaptive citizens and problem solvers.... There has to be a way to combine the old way with the new and I think Brad Gyori of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy has found a great way to teach with a combined curriculum called...

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The article "Beyond the Justice of the Market " by David Hursh (Date) declares that neoliberals called for "education to be transformed from a "government' to a market system"" (p. 156). ... For example, the establishment of the No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB) enables the assessment of public schools through standardized testing. ... For example, the Renaissance 2010 Act "'calls for closing 60 public schools and opening 100 small schools, two-thirds of which will be charter or contract school run by private organizations' using non union teachers and school employees " (Hursh, ...

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Accountability should be a core value in schools, teachers should teach students to become responsible partners in their own learning and no child should ever be left behind. ... By merely looking into the current status and origin of banking education, this way of connecting to students, if it can even be called that, can lead to oppression and lack of creativity because if one only accepts what they are told this does not leave any individuality, transformation, progressiveness or creativity.  ...

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Although her parents always told her and her siblings one day they would move into a house they can call their own with running water, real stairs, a basement, and at least three washrooms, this was not that house. ... As a child, he was bullied by other classmates because he seemed stupid and because he was the only African American. ... Ben's mother was a foster child who married at age 14 to a man who later married another woman. ...

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Another fear of public school supporters is that they will lose money for each child unschooled. ... Each child who chooses to home school becomes a dollar sign to the public school system. ... Daniel Pink discusses what he calls "The Home-Schooling Revolution." ...

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A so-called "good" education in our country is only accessed by a certain segment of the population. ... "Parents with more economic and cultural resources are much more likely to be involved in the diagnosis and accommodation of their child's disabilities" (Ong-Dean 5). ...

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My students will have what I call "privileges" and they will keep them as long as they don't abuse them and they stay on track with what is happening in our classroom. ... The last idea that I agree with the most is that of the Developmental Studies Center; The Child Development Project. ...

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The Paideia Propasal: an educational Manifesto by Motimer Adler, in my opinion, is a very well written book. It contained easy, well flowed text. It enlightened me in more ways than one. According to this writter this book sends out a message about how our schools are in dire need of reform, to ...

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This child seems to be no older than in the 6th grade, and the boy begins to sob to his mother about how he didn't want to stay at the school. ... He came into class whistling, and then proceeded to take the boys outside the classroom to read them a poem, and announced that they can call him 'Captain O' Captain'. ...

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Scholarly research shows that the emphasis placed on testing and standards, mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, is causing teachers to focus entirely on basic skills in reading, writing, and math (Banks & Banks, 2010). ... In my state, where per-pupil-spending is already extremely low, and funding for education has been excessively cut in recent years, it would not be easy to get each district to reallocate their funds into what I would like to call the "Multicultural Education Project....

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Abstract: Metaphors help to develop our minds and ourselves as training teachers. All teachers need a metaphor which conveys the meaning of who they are and how they see themselves within the classroom. Through the use of a detailed and well thought metaphor, teachers can enhance their views on bo...

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