Having a master's degree better equips teachers to deal with all types of children, from the socially disadvantaged to the learning disabled. All types of children are put into the same classroom; children are all treated equal, regardless of learning disabilities or socioeconomic disadvantages. ... Teaching in this way encourages free thought and creativity in a student. ... The U.S. should discontinue testing until children are older as officials do in Finland. ... There has been worldwide academic testing which proves that American students compare ...

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The Reagan administration went so far with cuts in education as to propose that the free-lunch and reduced lunch programs count ketchup as a vegetable (Toch, 23). ... Our current assessment tool is standardized or achievement testing. ... In some states these tests are used to determine teacher salaries and school funding. Because of this emphasis teachers have begun teaching to the tests, instead of real learning the students are only learning how to take a test. ... Unfortunately the types of workshops and classes are so broad many teachers abuse the system with irrelevant courses suc...

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Public schools from K-12 are government-funded institutions that provide free education for all children. ... Neoliberalism is the belief that society operates best when individuals are free to follow their private interests with limited government intervention. ... In David Hursh's (Date) article, it mentioned "how testing policies further legitimize program differences by forcing schools with low test scores (those composed primarily of students of color and students living in poverty) to institute more regimented methods of instruction"" (p. 157). This quote means that the testing po...

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The Education Act (1870) meant that free compulsory education was made available to everyone up to the age of 10. ... Children were educated under three different types of school. ... The aim was to give each individual pupil the opportunity to develop their skills within a free system of state education. ... This allowed pupils to be selected for different types of school depending on their intelligence level. ... However, this represented a biased nature of the 11+ test because the questions on the second section of the test were not fair. ...

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She began testing her educational method with special needs children and, because of her success, she wanted to see if "normal"" children would benefit from this style of education as well. ... She thought that "children are endowed with unknown powers, which can guide society to a radiant future," and that in order to allow children to fully develop, they need a free environment in which they can explore and learn from experiences. ... These types of motivators work to a certain extent, but they just "make the child dependent on adult approval. " (p. 221)They are driven by "external expectati...

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Merit goods would be under-provided in a pure free-market economy. ... In this instance, a commodity will be defined as a tradable good in a free market, available to those who can afford it, and with no discrimination between those who can afford it for access. ... The majority of the negative impacts of the free market economy have struck Pacific nations people and Maori badly, this economic model is based around the concept, "you can have what ever you want, so long as you can pay for it." ... The "gender gap" (the difference between gender performance by subject) may also be closed in t...

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