Students check out textbooks, study the chapters, take a test and return the book. ... On average unschoolers test 80 points higher on their SAT's than students who attend public school (Cloud and Morse, 2001, 47-54). Other children have been unschooled to further their abilities in other studies. ... Statistics show that unschoolers typically receive higher scores on SAT tests and many of them have more patient social skills. ... Unschooling broadens home schooling to include online education as well as to independent study programs. ...

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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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I sat with friends all from the same middle school. ... At the beginning of my second marking period, freshman year, my Social Studies class would be my first attempt at the requirement. ... During ceramics I and II, and three independent studies in ceramics, the class. she taught me how to make clay, how to throw on the pottery wheel, how to sculpt, and glazing methods. ... Never had I been a strong writer; English and Social Studies had always been some of my biggest challenges, but this essay was something I enjoyed greatly. ...

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As I sat on the couch in my living room on September 11th 2001, and watched the second plane fly into the World Trade Center building, I was struck by a profound sense of wrongness. ... I even see this every day at school, when students don't study for a test and then fail, or when an athlete doesn't show up for practice and loses their role as a starter. ... I believe Walker Percy, author of "The Loss of the Creature" stated the idea best, when in speaking of a student in a class room he said, " the person is not something one can study and provide for; he is something one struggle...

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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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• Grade Level: High School