Aronowitz also makes a great case when he states "If teachers were allowed to acknowledge student skepticism, incorporated kids' knowledge into the curriculum by making what they know the object of rigorous study, especially popular music and television, they might be treated with greater respect.... From local exams to the infamous SAT and ACT standardized exams, these exams created general stereotypes and prejudices between students who excelled and those who did not do so well on their exams. ... I personally did not excel on all of the standardized exams given to me that were mea...

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Research/Defense The studies and research that are available to the public show that home schooling is not disadvantageous in comparison to normal schooling. ... One study, at the University of Florida was conducted in which eight to ten year old children, some of them home schooled, were taped on video while playing. ... To study long term effects of home schooling on socialization, a different study was conducted with 53 adults of the first generation of home schooled children. ... A study done in 1992 by a researcher named Stough also showed these stereotypes to be untrue. ... Several...

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Touching more lives, affecting the outcome of so many futures a teacher is the epitome of a leader. Just as a leader has his or her own style, their way of motivating their students, also plays an important part in a students success. Spending more time with our children then most parents do, a teac...

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A) Explain what is meant by compensatory education? Many children are culturally and materially deprived, especially in low income areas. This means that they are lacking in important skills, attitudes and values in everyday life which are essential to high educational achievement. To help these children, compensatory education was introduced by the government so that young children can learn how to behave in society and enable them to have more resources such as books and other educational facilities. B) Name two programmes of compensatory education. ...

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