Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ... The best-known test that claims to measure academic aptitude is the Scholastic Aptitude Test. ... At the time many testers still believed that they could measure innate ability. They also thought that a measure of innate ability would predict college success better than traditional achievement tests did. ... The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R...

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Are standardized tests effective? This is a common question asked by many parents, teachers, as well as students in the test-taking world. Standardized tests take a lot of time, money, and tools but what is the real purpose for these standardized tests. Most schools that are involved in standardized...

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In a poll conducted by CNN/USA Today/Gallup, school vouchers are seen as a less effective measure to improve schools as compared to higher teacher pay and increased federal aid to local school districts (Holland). ... Though the evaluation of each measure has been carefully weighed, controversy arises among the opposing viewpoints of each argument. ...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act requir...

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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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To determine the effectiveness of these programs, one must document and measure both their implementation and their effect. ... Measures of smoking prevalence among adolescents are relatively insensitive tools for evaluating the effects of comprehensive tobacco control programs. ... Second, measures of smoking prevalence are generally only available once per year (though sometimes only every few years) and are subject to survey sampling error and dependent upon the mode of survey administration. ...

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Abstract Charter schools are relatively new and are not without controversy. The purpose of this study is to understand how the people most affected by the development of charter schools (the students) feel about them. After a literature search and hypothesis development we created a self report mea...

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Republicans rejoiced in those victories, but observers say that the latent anti-Latino temperament of these two measures has forced the party to undertake some damage control. ... "Some Latino leaders have tried to describe Unz's measure as immigrant bashing, but their case was weak. ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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This data will measure the parent and teacher perceptions of student-led conferences and the impact the conferences have on student achievement. The data will measure the influences student-led conference has student achievement on the Missouri Assessment Program test. ...

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Public Schools Should Require Uniforms More and more schools are making uniforms mandatory for students. Uniforms can help students in different ways. The children who cannot afford name brand clothes would not have to worry about getting picked on. Other students would be able to concentrat...

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Primary schools everywhere are beginning to cut music programs from their students' schedules. It is becoming less of an importance and becoming increasingly seen as a disruption to the students' lives and academics. "The required general music program in grades K–6 is less vibrant than it was at ...

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Thurgood Marshall High School is the newest of the six schools in Great Falls Illinois. The school opened two years ago amid national acclaim for being an important breakthrough in inner-city education (Gabarro, 1993). It was specially designed and constructed for the "house system" concept. Upon...

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Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundati...

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The birth of school uniforms can be traced back to the 16th century. During that time period, uniforms were 1st instituted at charity schools for poor children. It wasn't until the 19th century that English public schools began adopting uniforms and even later for uniforms to be widely accepted ...

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Today sports rule the modern media. They are no longer played for the fun of the game, but for the love of the almighty dollar. Athletes are striving to be better than the best and putting their bodies on the line to achieve it. To be the best today in the savage world of sports, some athletes are turning to different alternatives then just hard work, such as steroids. Steroid back in the 1950's among weight lifters and bodybuilders....

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! Introduction School was engineered to serve the economy and social order. It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions, it lasts. ...

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