Instagram, and the use of email and text messages. According to “Online Bullies Pulls Schools Into the Fray”, Hoffman briefly discusses how schools handles situations involving cyberbullying. Even…
Jessica Brumbach Professor Petit-Frere Rough Draft Informative Essay 9/25/14 American Education: How smart are we? Have you ever wondered what rank the U.S gets in education compared to other countries? Well, being one of the top countries in the world with our economy, military, and trade, we end up ranking a measly overall score of 14. Pearson PLC, a popular learning company, calculated this by testing math, reading, and science in 15 year old students. What’s the difference between…
back to late middle school. Eighth grade was the point in my educational career in which writing began getting a bit more serious. English was one of my favorite subjects, and I always heard that you would always need it regardless of your career choice. My teachers stressed the importance of good grammar and different writing styles and techniques. Many things have contributed to my writing styles today and most of them came from my teachers throughout middle and high school. I seem to recall…
Literature classes in high school. The writing skills that I had learned in both classes dealt with analysis papers pertaining to a specific prompt or style. I also had been exposed to lots of literature, specifically short novels and poetry that I had to interpret. My high school AP English classes prepped me for the college level writing class at High Point University. In the AP English classes I took, the classes graded on a scoring scale of 1-9. It was very challenging to get high scores on…
the dishwasher and headed upstairs for bed, I thought about the books I wanted my mom to read to me tonight. Once I reached my bedroom, I walked over to my little wooden bookshelf and began to sort through a variety of different works— from the informative National Geographic children’s books, to the classic Little Golden Books. By the time my mom had reached my bedroom, I had selected four books for her to read: two National Geographic books— one about sea creatures and another about bugs —…
surround American schools. Thousands of students opt out of state tests. Political candidates gain support for trashing Common Core. These indicators reveal the obvious hate of the new high level standards Common Core places on students. Although common core is often viewed as detrimental by both students and teachers alike, common core is actually beneficial on the whole and effectively ameliorates students’ learning experience. The most important consequence of common core is the high…
11th-grade American History, is well-liked and respected by her class and she has learned to incorporate a lot of non-traditional curriculum into her class. Morris Area Secondary is a public high school in Morris, MN. The school has four hundred and ninety-five students enrolled, making it a pretty small school. Among those students, eighty-nine percent are white, and five percent are Hispanic. It has seven class periods with each one being around fifty minutes long, along with time set aside…
do research. College research is harder than the papers that are completed in high school. Research is a process. In college you can't just get…
This investigation will show how high school students feel unprepared for college and life. Research proves that students graduate and lack experience in billing or filing taxes. Adolescence live relying on parents and guardians when students could have the opportunity to do it independently. Can these types of classes help graduating students? With qualitative and quantitative data, articles, interviews, and case studies; students can graduate with a problem solved and a better chance of being…
see a bunch of students struggle to deal with their problems alone. I go to a small school with a lot of openly LGBT people and to see the struggles some of them had to go through was awful. Teachers should have the knowledge necessary to help their students. I hope that I have learned more ways to help other people gain knowledge on the LGBT community. I…