» for years one of the main objectives of the government was to change our educational system which is known to encourage parents to give their child tuitions while young and stress them to earn admission to a state college. Our actual educational system gives place to elitism which leads to an alarming rate of failure among the students as most of the average students cannot cope with the pace of the educational system. ... This examination will give rise to a stringent classification: the "best" in the academies, the "average" in the secondary schools and those wh...

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In a trees and forestry lesson, the teacher can take pupils to a forest and learn about trees in a real atmosphere, pupils will also experiment using the natural resources. ... Giving all pupils a continuous access to multimedia capable internet connected computers is currently quite fashionable in specific schools in Zimbabwe. ... This gives pupils a wider base for specialization and practical learning. ... Enoh (1995), says that it is only in a democratic community where there is give and take and free interaction between individuals and social group exists. ...

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There will be times when I must be like a willow tree, standing tall and strong, yet be flexible. ... I want the parents of my students to feel appreciated for all the help they give their child, I will do this by sending home a weekly newsletter and thanking them for the help they give their child with homework and other projects. ... Commitment to community is a reciprocal action, the community supports schools through taxes to educate our leaders of tomorrow; in my classroom I will have students give back to the community throughout the school year by participating in volunteer ac...

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The failures of American education and its society have sent philosophy on a downward spiral that has left the intellectual climate of our country a barren desert, with a few remaining trees to remind us of the forest that once grew. ... Without proactive steps towards educational reform the embers will die out, as will the few remaining trees, and finally the possibility of a worthwhile liberal education will be merely a relic of the past. ... Its inability to provide students with any kind of guidance through its labyrinth of studies gives rise to the "carnival barkers- (339) that become ...

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Keeping this book in the curriculum gives students to address all the problems that the, "n-word," comes with. ... They were called this word while they were lynched; they were called this word while they were hung from the big magnolia tree....

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As far as my personal opinion goes, I believe charter schools are still in it's infancy, we should give it more time to develop before we can actually decide rather charter school is a good idea or not. ... Comparing to the amount of them that are running efficiently and actually making improve in the students grade, are like saying that all apples on an apple tree are Superb apples, with not a single one rotten. ... So we should give this idea a try, before we shut it out, based on these few mistakes. ...

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As far as my personal opinion goes, I believe charter schools are still in it's infancy, we should give it more time to develop before we can actually decide rather charter school is a good idea or not. ... Comparing to the amount of them that are running efficiently and actually making improve in the students grade, are like saying that all apples on an apple tree are Superb apples, with not a single one rotten. ... So we should give this idea a try, before we shut it out, based on these few mistakes....

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But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid"- Albert Einstein. ... Teachers may notice signs of a learning struggle, but with how strict the standards are becoming they aren't able to slow down and give individual guidance that's needed. ... Other kids will give up, figuring they aren't good test takers, so why bother studying.... Being unable to pass a national standardized test gives these students a false hope in education. ...

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Reading the authors" works in this unit gave me a broader knowledge of how children overcome obstacles regarding education and go on to be affluent persons. Teachers made a very notable contribution to this success, pushing the students to analyze, explore options, and to never sell yourself short. ...

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Just in the beginning of the story describing everything he sees on his way to school on the bus that you could picture it in your head "drifted through the neighborhoods with trees, parks, big lawns, and lots of flowers" (183). ... He then goes on to explain that, "he had little training in English, so his lesson plan for his day work had us reading the districts required text, Julius Cesar, aloud for the semester" (184) and this gives us insight into Rose's English class. ...

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Introduction Somewhere between Vygotsky and Piaget; somewhere between Newton determining the laws of the universe alone with his apple tree, and Andrew Wiles proving Fermat's last theorem with the aid of his colleagues around the world; somewhere between learning the 3Rs by rote under a strict schoolmaster beating down the slightest whisper, and the neo-pragmatist's "knowledge is conversation" ideal mathematics lesson of total discourse; somewhere between these opposite ends of their various spectra lies the true role of language and conversation in the mathematics class. ... If all...

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At least once in someone's life, they will hear the notion "money doesn't grow on trees.... A comprehensive nine-year study of testing and evaluation concluded, "Available evidence doesn't give strong support to the use of test-based incentives to improve education....

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Karanja says that Dedan disguises himself as a white man to get what he wants and of which Karanja concludes: "Dedan can change himself into anything- a white man, a bird, or a tree. ... Thus, he gives up entirely and attempts suicide. ...

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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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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...

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