Stories such as this are repeated over and over in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States: In January 1961, James Meredith, an African-American, applied for admission to the University of Mississippi. ... (Law) The history of Supreme Court rulings concerning school desegregation is one of initial unwillingness to dictate solutions, followed by growing impatience with the speed of integration in many jurisdictions, culminating in detailed and sometimes drastic orders for complete and immediate desegregation, and finally some backing off in the 1970's from hard-lin...

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The best-known test that claims to measure academic aptitude is the Scholastic Aptitude Test. ... If the test measures things that are taught in school, that is usually a sufficient rationale for its content, but test like the Stanford- Binet and the Scholastic Aptitude test also try to test skills to include therefore involves inane direct way. ... The tests are also methodological bias. ... Standardized tests as well as other tests can lead to prediction bias. ... Summarizing the history of parent's involvement in education, Moles (1993) points out that the role of parents, as educa...

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Music does not only affect students, but it has affected history as well. ... Music is a large part of our history and has infiltrated every part of history. ... History has, however, affected music as much as music has affected history. ... This is just one example of how history has affected music out of many occasions. Music has helped to start new schools and programs throughout history. ...

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Remedial education or basic skills is education designed to help students gain academic skills, needed to be placed at a college level. Providing students with remedial education has always been a widespread problem. In 1849, the University of Wisconsin was the first school to offer remedial educat...

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Within this policy every school will be given a national test annually to provide to each student. This test will consist of information that every student is expected to know and comprehended up to that level. These tests will make the schools accountable for the performance of every student and the improvement of the school as a whole. ... Also the results of the testing must be broken down into certain categories: poverty, race and ethnicity, disability, and limited English proficiency so that no group is left behind. History The demand for education is contagious and readily tr...

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In 1996 the OCR issued its Clarification of Intercollegiate Athletics Policy Guidelines, a three-part test to ensure that institutions are in compliance with Title IX. In order to meet the requirements, an institution need only pass one of the three following tests: Provide both men and women with substantially proportionate participation opportunities based on their rates of enrollment as full-time undergraduate students. Demonstrate both a history and a continued practice of adding additional programs which provide participation opportunities for the underrepresented sex. ... Accompanying t...

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In 2002, the federal government created the No Child Left Behind Act, which challenged schools to achieve results that were driven by the students test scores on state examinations (Hirsch, 2009, p. 158). ... Students that come from a low-income New York City family are not considered for being tested to be eligible for the gifted-and-talented program. ... Within these public schools, general programs, including the basic subjects such as math, English, writing, science, history, and physical education, are provided to all children. ... Students in the public schools are given standardized tes...

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"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."" -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Throughout the thousands of political speeches given during our country's history, there might not be a better anthem for political participation on an individual level. After letting JFK's...

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Since the implementation of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, school districts across the nation have created programs that allow non-English speaking students to participate in intensive English language courses while learning other subjects, such as math, history, and science, in their native languages. ... Klein's program, as well as many others across the nation, offers raises in pay or other financial incentives to help "lure talented bilingual education teachers who can pass the test [or prove their linguistic abilities]." ...

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Anabolic Steroids were developed in the late 1930's to treat hypogonadism, a condition in which the testes do not produce sufficient levels of testosterone for normal growth, development and sexual functioning. ... In some professional sports there is no testing for such substances as steroids. ...

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I will begin by looking at a brief overview of the history of schooling. ... On the one hand, there is the world of the printed word with its emphasis on logic, sequence, history, exposition, objectivity, detachment, and discipline. ...

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Students were drilled in their education of reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, English grammar and composition, object lessons, vocal music, elementary science and drawing (The Education Act, 1877). ... This meant less pressure was put on students as well as teachers to get through the required test information in the final year at primary school. ...

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Such subjects are Math, History and some Science classes. ... "The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punished for speaking Spanish, but that others say is a return to sanity" stated Don Terry in his article Bilingual Education Facing Toughest Test. ...

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