Independent living

Many people disagree whether they should put their child in an online school or a public school! You should put your child in an online school such as Primavera because you have better advantages with an online school. Primavera is an online school that is affordable, is right there on your computer, and is a school you can get ahead with! Primavera is rated one of the top 20 schools in America. I enjoy Primavera because I can get it done on my time, quickly and I can get ahead. Also, with…

Human Resource Case Analysis At times, employers have to make the decision between hiring employees or independent contractors. There are advantages and disadvantages to independent contractors. The case the student presented was regarding a grant writer position at a non-profit organization. The non-profit organization focuses on providing food to local food pantries and soup kitchens. This mission is crucial to Palm Beach County since there are no other companies taking care of this need in…

While this homesteading program has ended, the desire to own a piece of land where one could be independent and self-sufficient has not. Today people are digging up their front yards and planting gardens, unplugging from the grid, and striving for a lifestyle and an ideology that is totally different than the one they know. They are the modern homesteader. The term modern homesteader or just simply homesteader is the most common used by researchers to define a group of people “leading a…

DoDEA facilities are schools dedicated to military installations to educate students of military servicemembers and civilians living on the military installation. Academic performance will be represented as students SAT scores. DoDEA students SAT scores will be examined against that of students who attend traditional public school systems. According to the National Assessment of…

Independent contractors are usually people considered to be lawyers, doctors, accountants, or even auctioneers who in a manner of speaking are professionals who present their services to the general public. Still an individual can be considered an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or exact only the effect of the work and not the outcome of the performance. An employee would be defined as an individual who works either full or part-time under an agreement of employment,…

Education has come a long way, generations after generations have made efforts to improve it and incorporate it all around the world. Education has evolved and has open many doors to students and its evolution has marked differences in our world. Although over time experiences within education have often varied, it has also been universally acknowledged that education is the ultimate key to success. At least, this is true with the generation right before me… with my mother. My mother Teresa…

The structure of education has changed drastically since it first began. As education grew more popular and schools began to be built in more places, lessons became more uniform and policies began to be put in place to structure education. However, as education has changed throughout the years, so has the quality of the education. In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education, Paulo Freire uses the comparison of a bank to the current style of education in order to reveal several problems within the…

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore juxtaposes the lives of two men who grew up in similar environments but ended up taking diverging paths. The author Wes Moore perseveres through the hardships he faced and ends up a Rhodes Scholar, whereas the other Wes Moore is dealt a life sentence. The author poses the question, “Do you think we are all just products of our environments?” Due to their ostensibly similar upbringings, one may suggest that the antithetical outcomes of the two Wes Moores were…

What is Privatization? There are many definitions that you can find for privatization, and there are many positive and negative emotions that this word brings about. Parents, students, and especially educators are blinded to the impact of what privatization can have on the education of our society. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition is to remove (something) from government control and place it in private control or ownership. In other words change the ownership from public to…

With the progression of time, more and more students, along with their parents, are expressing their dissatisfaction with the American public school system. Turning towards institutions such as private schools, homeschooling and online programs, and charter schools, this leaves us wondering, what truly is the problem? The answer is simple. The problem with public schools is their inability towards seeing the true needs of students and accurately meeting them. Schools typically fail in…