So many of our youth are below reading and math levels, are not able to comprehend, or are not able to read at all. ... I was accepted into the Urban Teacher Scholarship program and became directly involved in reading instruction for a class of 25 students during the summer. ... I also mentored and tutored during my free time and used my summer vacations to gain more experience working with children. ...
I've been following and reading publications distributed by the Triangle Coalition for over a year now. ... McAdams also designed and led the district's Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and implementation in the spring/summer of 2012. ...
Summer camp businesses will also likely be destroyed if there is a cut in summer vacations. ... "If children are hungry, sick, or abused they will not be able to concentrate on reading, writing, and arithmetic ." ... But even still, if they have to be in school longer, there has to be something other for them to do besides reading and math. ...
Lets visualize a class of thirty students ranging from the age of six to eight years, now, all these children are incapable of reading, writing legibly, and in two or three cases unable identifying the letters of the alphabet. ... I know your thinking that teachers are able to have three months off for summer vacation, two weeks for Christmas holidays and every holiday in-between, why should they be paid more for only working eight months out of the entire year, but think so are the students. ...
He finds more pleasure in reading his books than in spending time with his parents. ... His father found him reading in the closet. His mother found him reading when he was supposed to be asleep or playing outside. ... Rodriguez himself admits that he did not understand too much from his reading, but, when he finished it, he crossed the name of the book off his list. ...
The results showed a small benefit in reading and math for grades two and three. ... The improvement was marked by in increase of 4 percentile points in reading and 6 percentile points in math (Peterson, 7-8). ... The motivating factor for becoming a teacher might well-be, having the summers off. ...
There are three factors over which parents can exercise their authority: student absenteeism, reading materials in the home, and excessive television watching. ... Schools can increase parent involvement by setting up programs like workshops to help parents provide learning experiences at home, provide summer enrichment programs for parents and children, and by having parent involvement in the classroom. ...
Many children of middle or higher-class families enter school with knowledge of a hidden curriculum such as having basic reading and numeric skills. ... He also found that the black and white achievement disparities grow mostly during the school year, while class gaps widen mostly during the summer. ...
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. ...
