Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... The proposition introduces a new way of teaching the English language to immigrant children. ... "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 punish...

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Worse still, race and class are often the components leading to biased expectations, putting these students at a great disadvantage in learning and progressing through the educational system. ... Students who enter school speaking standard English as a second language may be hesitant in answering questions due to embarrassment, and are often incorrectly placed in slower classes, or labeled illiterate (Rathus, 1993). ... When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ...

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Price (59) surveyed 1884 institutions of higher learning and found 500 courses in consumer education. ... Using English and mathematics marks and high-school scholastic average, she produced a multiple R of .746. ... Among other important findings he concluded that bookkeeping duties of nonbookkeepers were easily learning, and he isolated routines in which knowledge of bookkeeping principles and theory were not required. ... Gross (21) found that a visual-association analytic approach developed early superiority over conventional procedures for learning the keyb...

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Most of their disadvantages are due to the schools that they are in and how they lack some of the fundamentals that are required in the learning field. ... Under this policy, that funding will exist until everyone is at the same level of learning (as long as the policy isn't changed). ... Minorities tend to be in the lower classes and a good percentage of these students have a limited English proficiency. Through this act minority students enroll in education programs in order to simplify a program operation, which enables students to learn English as quickly as possible. ... U...

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It is also used as an umbrella term to cover all types of learning by professionals. ... Therefore, the education nowadays have changed to a new level which focuses on the important subjects nowadays such as English, Mathematics and all subjects that involves Science. ... As the teacher plays the important role in both program quality and in learning outcomes, many countries are focuses in continuous professional development courses. ... This is because our educational system generally promotes surface and passive learning instead of deep and active learning which is crucial for creating a qua...

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Along with many of the following curriculum changes; country schools also had year 9 and 10, in secondary school, learning compulsory agricultural and dairy science. ... Education was done in the traditional form of rote learning, with children chanting the information until the memorised it (Swarbrick, 2012). ... 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). ... Furthermore, at the end of each academic year each student had a...

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All except two of the students spoke both English and Spanish. ... Gonzalez also told me that all of his students spoke Spanish at home and some spoke Spanish and English. ... Gonzalez taught 95% in English and incorporated Spanish from time to time. ... Gonzalez taught mostly in English, but he made sure all of his students understood what he was saying. ... First he'd say it in English and then he would repeat himself in Spanish. ...

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The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the English-speaking world, particularly in Commonwealth countries, and originated in England. ... Different interpretations of curriculum policy on required learning and course content. 4. ... The conflict stemmed from differences in interpretations of curriculum policy on required learning and course content (Gabarro, 1993). ... This rift was demonstrated in an exchange between Wesley Chase, a housemaster, and Betsy Drobna, the chairperson of the English department. ... She attacked Wesley Chase for impeding her evaluation of a non-...

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Children relate better to hands on experience, as this is a more enjoyable approach to learning for them, rather than information being force-fed to them. A formal approach is completely uncalled for at this stage of development in a child's life, as the learning outcomes will be achieved by the majority of children on reaching statutory school age, if they are permitted to grow and gain knowledge at the pace they set themselves. Emphasis should be placed on the day to day content of learning, not the outcome. ... This is interpreted within an educational context in a learning-throug...

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The task of a qualified teacher can be seen when Luzina talks about the duties of teachers and children "To each his task in life: to the teacher, the explaining; to the children, the learning"(Roy, 53). ...

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INTRODUCTION: To the Filipino, knowledge is acquired through education. Although they generally agree that education can be obtained inside and outside school, they believe that the primary sources of knowledge are the schools. Thus, the higher a person goes up the formal educational ladder, the more knowledge he or she acquires and expectedly, the more wealth he or she generates or produces. Being wealthy means having power, influence and social prestige. Thus, earning a college diploma means acquiring the key to economic and social opportunities. ...

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That learning higher math is necessary for learning to use a computer, that learning what someone else demands you to learn is more important than learning what you want to learn. ... Justice and Equality in Schooling Education has been a predominant social institution in Britain since as early as 1300AD, when 100 English towns were known to have schools; although it wasn't until 1850 when the introduction of schooling for girls was established. ...

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Becker's early work provided valuable information about teachers' use of computers in classrooms and suggested that integration of computers into classroom learning was an almost painfully slow process. ...

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