At the beginning of my second marking period, freshman year, my Social Studies class would be my first attempt at the requirement. ... Stewart assigned a research paper about Western Civilization in the 16 hundreds, it was a chance for the whole class to get their Information Literature paper out of the way. ... I could use a past research paper from senior year and he could go in through the schools gradebook and have it count as the information literature paper. ... During ceramics I and II, and three independent studies in ceramics, the class. she taught me how to make clay, how to thro...

• Word Count: 1531
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• Grade Level: High School

The studies compiled by Mullis, Owen, and Phillips, indicated that most students seem to develop basic skills, which involve low-level cognition. ... In addition, the study indicated a decline in performance on tasks requiring high-level cognition (Patrick 2). ... He goes on to note that a similar pattern of deficiency in knowledge achievement is revealed by the NAEP studies of mathematics, history, literature, geography, and civics. ... Increase the amount of time in which all students, at all levels of schooling, are systematically engaged in studying and learning core subjects. .....

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Another study, Options Solutions Educational Consultants (OSEC, 2015), states that being in a high school will teach a young person to be a good student. ... The academic literature suggests that gap years provide a great opportunity for young students to develop skills and confidence, which will make them more competitive in educational and career markets (Heath, 2007). ... Orly (2012) learned from experiential studies that taking a gap year provides many opportunities to gain confidence. ... "Studying skills will have been diminished by taking a gap year, making it hard for a student to adju...

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The upper classes were taught literature and military arts on a strong basis of Neo-Confucian learning while the less privileged studied reading and writing and arithmetic at schools called terakoya located in urban areas and supported by nobility or the government of the city in which it was located. ... In a Case Study Project conducted by the United States government it is explained that Monbusho is Japan's Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture. ... Education in social studies has slipped back toward the old training in morality that it was supposed to replace" (158). ... In...

• Word Count: 1948
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, parents should use the home environment to foster good study skills, complete homework before play, and to offer praise for good work. ... Instead they should use community resources such as the library or church workshops where they may offer tutors or study aides. ... Though workshop topics may cover anything from children's literature to diabetes prevention, the district always devoted several springtime sessions to giving parents strategies for helping their children prepare for the math, science, and writing sections of the TAAS. ... Moreover, when community and bus...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, when parents show regular and ongoing support and concern about their child's studies, their child tends to embody that same sense of care and ownership over their own education. ... Review of Related Literature Lack of parental involvement is one of the biggest problems facing our public schools today (Desimone, 1999; Epstein, 1991; Hill, 2004, Ladson-Billings, 2001). ... A parent study in a socio-economically disadvantaged community that looked at parental behaviors and how they were influenced by multiple factors that included such things as how welcomed they felt at school, t...

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Letting God Back In As long as there were test that I forgot to study for I was praying in high school. ... The classes were held during the day and you had a choice on which denomination to study. ... The court had to rule this way because the students were required by state truancy laws to go to school and attendance was monitored by state officials to make sure that children were either in these religious classes or study hall during this time. ... The same status isnot held by other religious literature including the Quran and other holy books. ...

• Word Count: 1458
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• Grade Level: High School

The evidence in the scientific literature indicates that the answer to that question is yes. For example, a 2006 study of Texas middle school students participating in a sex education program designed by medical school professionals found that these students expressed an intention to delay sexual activity until after high school (Sulak et al.) ... Another study looked at two middle school sex education programs, one that emphasized risk reduction by promoting delayed sexual activity and the use of condoms, and another that emphasized risk avoidance by abstaining from sex until marriage (Doskoc...

• Word Count: 1729
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One particular study in New York City schools used conflict resolutions and peer mediation training to reduce student fighting. ... Violence-prevention literature and experts consistently associate at least seven characteristics with promising school based violence prevention programs: 1} A comprehensive approach 2} an early start, long term commitment 3} strong leadership and disciplinary policies 4} staff development 5} parental involvement ...

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These initiatives are aimed at improvement through high standards, great expectations, and accountability, yet real improvement has not been borne out in the literature. ... Nichols, Glass, and Berliner's (2012) study about the NAEP test scores in reading and math pre- and post-NCLB concluded that students were making greater gains in math before NCLB legislation than after it; reading achievement has been unchanged pre- and post-NCLB. ... The narrowing of the achievement gap between higher and lower income groups has not occurred according to some studies (as cited in Nichols, Glass, & B...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Army, and went on the graduate from NYU with a degree in Literature (without having a high school diploma). ... Most of the children at this school were of southern European decent and, he was told, they were studying to be auto mechanics or beauticians, therefore didn't really need to do well in these classes he was teaching. ... What he thought would be English he was to teach, turned into classes on Economic Citizenship and Social Studies, but most often turned into the task of "keeping students occupied". ... There isn't any talk of the two groups switching studies and it is a...

• Word Count: 1906
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• Grade Level: High School

I was studying a lot for the middle school graduation test and offers exams in many subject areas, including history and literature, science and mathematics and foreign languages. ... I was really motivated all my grades were perfect and I was just studying for the exam. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This book should be taught because it runs parallel to these events, which tenth grade students are currently studying in a different class. ... The course of American Literature is also similar, because it too tracks equally in history with American Cultures. ...

• Word Count: 1863
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• Grade Level: High School

Both general and special education teachers consistently reported that homework problems seemed to be "exacerbated by deficient basic study skills" (Bryan & Burstein, 2004, p.217). Many students lack the necessary study and organizational skills. ...

• Word Count: 2339
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Introducing students to a variety of ideas and viewpoints in school encourages them to think critically, creatively, and humanely. The copious range of subjects taught in school assist in enforcing all of these attributes in students; however one subject in particular highlights the focus on creati...

• Word Count: 2168
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• Grade Level: High School