Independent school

It took a look at 513 students across grades 4-10 in 15 schools that were using the READ 180 program from the 2005-2006 school year. Out of the 513 students, 53% were general education students, 32% were students with disabilities, 12% were English language learners (ELL), and 4% were both ELL and had a disability. At the end of the 2008-2009 school year, data from two standardized achievement tests, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System English…

My personal philosophy of education as an educator is to create a classroom that makes students feel wanted. All children need someone in their lives that they can count on. They need that person that they know will be there for them and someone they can look up to. I believe I can be that person. My classroom will encourage happiness, friendship, growth, and safety. Happiness will encourage students to come to class excited to learn with me and alongside their peers. Friendships will be the…

have the right to home-school their children; the approval rates for homeschooling jumped from just sixteen percent in 1985 to forty one percent in 2001 (“Trends and Issues” 9). While critics remark that many parents do not have teaching credentials and that a lack of socialization for a home-schooled student from a young age can lead to isolation and poor social skills,…

public believes in is to make young children educated and ready for the world but that’s not true. The school setting is not what it seems and what is actually does is a horrible. Two individuals by the name of John Taylor Gatto and Richard Louv have spoken out against the current system people hold as infallible in the book Rereading America. Gatto is a retired teacher who has taught in schools for over thirty…

“Young, almost broke and attending college”. College is stressful for any incoming college freshman entering a new environment. However, statistically 89 percent of first generation college students are more likely to drop out of school than students who have college graduates in their families. Ana, from the movie Real Women Have Curves, and Sara, from the novel Bread Givers, show the struggles of the first generation college students. Even though Ana and Sara surpassed all odds against them…

Vitally, it is exceedingly requisite to be the arbiter of your own fate, and to pursue your own utterly independent objectives in life. In the short story “The Happiest Days of Your Life”, which is written by the author Penelope Lively, a young obedient and submissive boy is with his parents at st Edward’s Preparatory School in Sussex with the intentioned aim of observing the boarding school and if proceeding according to the plan he should be registered. However, the boy seems to be copiously…

how adolescent literacy is defined using reading, writing, and a variety of social and intellectual practices speaks to the way teenagers make sense of their world now and in the future. The students will use what they have learned in school and outside of the school to communicate. This includes speaking, reading, writing, listening, viewing and use of technology. Teenagers have established their own language through the use of technology. If you do not text, Facebook or use Twitter, you are…

My classroom will consist of many different elements however, not too much that it might overwhelm the students. Overall my classroom will consist of a class library, rectangle tables, a color map where the students would meet, a cabinet that holds school supplies, and a promethean board. Speaking from personal experience I am easily distracted by anything so I wouldn’t want to decorate my wall with a bunch of posters. No more than five posters would be displayed on the wall. The class library…

Behind was suppose to hold schools responsible for the students’ academic progress. There were monetary consequences for any school that did not improve or meet specific standards and had many qualifications for teachers as well. They were required to be highly qualified, which did not necessarily match up with being highly effective. This past week, President Obama signed off saying that No Child Left Behind will no longer be in effect. This reform is very evident in schools and most likely…

Nigerian government like any other developing African countries is trying as much as possible to keep her unemployed youths, especially graduates off the streets by engaging them in some sort of craftsmanship by formulating and the implementation of different economic policies. For example, the encouragement and the patronage of made in Nigeria merchandise by former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo when luxury goods, beverages as well as poultry products with the aim of boosting local…