College tuition should definitely be lowered in order to help students enroll in the college of their choice without having to develop a significant amount of debt once they graduate. ... It is very clear that in such a diverse and competitive society that we live in today, college students must be able to receive the best education possible so that they can find a profitable job once they graduate and be able to live a high quality of life. However, if tuition increases do occur, then students won't be able to receive a proper education and would therefore not be able to follow their dre...

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Although, the future strength and quality of our country's intellectual, cultural, and economic life, could be adversely affected, very little is being done to correct the situation. ... If we are to regain our once superior position in the worldwide scientific community, and meet our needs in critical science and technology areas student interest, knowledge, and academic performance must be promoted in our classrooms, and the world must become our laboratory. Beginning now and well into our future the curriculum, instruction, and real world interactions of students must be designed ...

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Is web-based education the all of future education? ... The ex-president of United States of America, Clinton once stated in a whitepaper in 1997 that until 2000, every classroom and library in the United States of America will have access to Internet, every 12-years-old child could access the Internet. ...

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The traveller is on a journey, it has been to the past, is in the present and headed for the future and our traveller is asking questions of them all. ... I will discuss some of the issues surrounding possible directions for future education. ... How is this foundation relevant to the questions we are asking about the future? ... This should alert us to the fact that we need to fundamentally change our approach to schooling if we are going to be relevant to a future society. We need to face that the reason compulsory schooling was designed is obsolete and begin to look at what is needed fo...

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In my future classroom, I plan on having five well-written rules. ... In my future classroom, I plan on having specific procedures for instances where students need to use the drinking fountain and sink as well as procedures for using the pencil sharpener. ...

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This connection, if successfully positive, can develop resiliency, community links, social capital and an economic future for young people. ... For young Australians planning their career paths, being given clear and consistent information from a variety of supportive voices is a necessary element to preparing for the future. ... The fostering of what Cohen (1985) refers to as 'communities of meaning' (pp. 70) that awaken a young person's desire to formulate life-long goals and a realistic vision for the future is only possible in the presence of teachers, school leaders and c...

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This connection, if successfully positive, can develop resiliency, community links, social capital and an economic future for young people. ... For young Australians planning their career paths, being given clear and consistent information from a variety of supportive voices is a necessary element to preparing for the future. ... The fostering of what Cohen (1985) refers to as 'communities of meaning' (pp. 70) that awaken a young person's desire to formulate life-long goals and a realistic vision for the future is only possible in the presence of teachers, school leaders and co...

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If a student's family can barely pay for food and rent, taking a loan from a bank is probably not in their future. ... Self-fulfilling prophecy can undermine a student's educational attainment once placed in a lower track (Farley, 2000). It is quite likely that a student, once placed in a lower track, will remain there indefinitely unless otherwise challenged. ... Remaining in the original track of placement largely determines the educational future of the student. ...

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It has a weak campus model that is still being developed and is expected to increase steadily in the future. ... These degree programs are primarily in career tracks that reflect the employment outlook for the future. ... In this way, employees have an understanding of how to achieve their goals and the rewards that will be waiting for them once they do. ...

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Once the students have been identified and selected, a parental consent form is sent to the parents of each child. ... Once the child is identified and referred to the Reading Recovery Program, the teacher spends the first ten sessions trying to determine what knowledge about reading and print a child already has (This is done through reading inventory sheets such as those included in this paper). ... Clay urged that phonic instruction is unnecessary once the student acquires the ability to translate letters and letter patterns into phonological form. ... Can one put a price tag on a child&...

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In the near future, efforts to retain educators in the workforce must also accommodate a rate of retirement of senior teachers previously not experienced (Feistritzer, 1998). ... Unfortunately, simply increasing quantity may whiplash the profession by suppressing salary advancement, perpetuating public criticism of instructional effectiveness, and placing a "faculty" (people) that may be difficult to remove once employed. ... He was also appointed to the Committee for the Vision of the Future for UNIVERSITY during the strategic planning initiative undertaken four years ago and was a member of...

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She has no support from her co-workers and they all think she is wasting her time trying to invest in them and their future. Her co-workers blame it on the integration of schools and what once was an A-list school where they had high test scores and things has turned into a reform school because of them. ... She explained to the kids that they can't let their progress with her and her support to be the only thing that measures their success in the future. ...

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Once rules are recognized, and clearly posted in the classroom, the teacher must set out to get to know the students he/she will be spending the year with. ... Again, all this is vital for the teacher to establish in the first week of school in order to use the students" interests and needs into future lessons and to create a meaningful and comfortable classroom community. ... Rutherford sees that, she often redirects him back to work with some kind of comment such as, "William, once aga...

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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 testing make their teachers teach to the test. 'Teach to the test' is a common term for any method of education that is really focused on preparing the students for a standardized test. ...

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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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In the process of my late educational endeavor here at Ashford University as well as my ongoing and life-long job of first and fore-most being a mother, I've had the pleasure of raising and still raising three wonderful children. My oldest child is 22 years old at this time, athletic, a hands-on learner, struggled in his academic education in high school and his first year of college, however, learned the most important things in life through his own ways. My next son, academically smart and loved sports, though didn't have the motivation to give it his all; he chose the bare minim...

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Sex differences in education are a type of sex discrimination in the education system affecting both men and women during and after their educational experiences. There was an extreme gender gap in education, where women didn't even have the pleasure of going to school. Women took the role of housew...

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The focus of play at this age is the core of the whole future, since in them the entire person is developed and revealed in the most sensitive qualities of his mind - Rudolph Steiner an Austrian Philosopher and Theosophist opened his first school for the children of cigarette factory workers. ...

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The field of educational technology has links that go back for almost a hundred years, at least to the museum movement in the early part of the 20th century. The museum movement and the success of training and development work during the two world wars were major factors in the development of the field. Educational technology flourished in the 1950's and continues to play an important role in many colleges of education. The particular sub-discipline of educational technology we will explore in this paper does not have a long history. Information technology and teacher education (ITTE) i...

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Learning Theories in Practice Philosophical Position on Adult learning Table of Contents Introduction p 3 Identifying my philosophical orientation . ...... p 4 Beliefs and aspects that shape my teaching practice .. p 6 1. In order to learn, in...

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I was in classroom number 102 with Mr. Harry Gonzalez who taught Bilingual Kindergarten to nineteen students. The day I went to observe one student was absent. The classroom was pretty much split equally between boys and girls and all of the students were of Hispanic descent. Mr. ...

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