Fairfax County Public Schools

Police brutality in the United States has become an issue that has gained the public 's attention in countries across the globe. Police brutality has been defined as the use of any force exceeding what is reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. Police officers are entrusted with the protection of their community, although recently they have abused their power as a way to brutally assault often innocent civilians and get away with it. As of April 27th 2015 police throughout the…

children” (Michael Grove). For children just beginning their journey in school their enthusiasm to learn is profound. They are excited to learn anything and everything. For most schools this includes the basics such as math and reading, but for Morningside Elementary School this is not the case. The children at this particular school in Salt Lake City, Utah, are able to learn a second way to communicate. This language immersion school teaches the children a second language of either Spanish,…

The setting is a high school within the Virginia state school district Fairfax County Public Schools. This particular high school has been reported to service “two thousand students”. The role of the social worker in this setting is multifaceted. Role of the Social Worker Within the interdisciplinary team, made up of the board, principal, vice principal, teachers, special education teachers, teachers’ aids, school nurse, social workers, guidance counselors, school psychologists, other…

At Steve Jobs childhood, he was introduced to engineering and design by his adopted father Paul, who originally was an engine engineer. Steve’s family moved to Silicon Valley at that time of technology booming. At high school, Steve was interested in things other than electronics, like art and music. “Blue Box” was the first project for Steve Jobs with his close friend Steve Wozniak, that project allowed making free long distance calls using frequency. The sad thing is that somebody stolen their…

practices that they must wield to be successful. I have also written several short stories and a scholarly literature paper that professors encouraged me to submit to different organizations. I often think, when I am feeling low, tired, or bored with school, to just quit. I tell myself, you could finally be writing that great novel everyone has always told you that you could and should write. But doing that would be scary, and staying with a pattern is easier, even if not exciting, or seeming to…

in the same group. A similar digital divide exists in U.S. schools, with schools in high-poverty areas less likely to have computers, high-quality educational technology programs, or Internet access availability for their students. Left uncorrected, the digital divide could lead to a society of information haves, computer literate and skilled, versus a large group of information have-nots, computer illiterate and unskilled. Public interest groups want to narrow this digital divide by…