Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Project: Teaching Middle School Middle School teachers help to expand what students learned during elementary school into what they will need to know for high school. The grades you teach vary depending on which school district you work for. For example, some school districts will say that teaching middle school grades starting at fourth and ending at ninth, however the most common is grades six through eight. Just like how different school districts have different middle school grade levels,…

In 2008, the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and the National Governors Association organized a meeting to discuss new education standards for the United States (Common Core Timeline). From that conference came the idea of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, often shortened to “Common Core.” About one year later, the United States officially adopted the education guidelines (Common Core Timeline). After the Common Core’s implementation, American parents and educators realized…

Atlanta, Georgia and a not Grady baby, Priscilla Davenport was born at Hugh Spalding Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and she is a proud product of Atlanta Public School system. She graduated from Joseph Charles Murphy High School in Atlanta. As she tried to follow her educational dreams, she attended DeKalb College and West Georgia College, which led her in pursuing a career in banking. As time moved on, she found her passion in real estate and became certified in Real Estate sales from Georgia…

Like the women, the blacks also had a hard time fitting in with the whites in schools and needed to overcome obstacles in order to expand. One of the most influential people in black education was Booker T. Washington. Washington would teach himself the alphabet even though it was strictly frowned upon that a black person got an education. He would spend his nights studying with a teacher from a local black school. In 1870, he started to do housework for an owner of a coal mine. The owner’s wife…

There are a few schools within a few miles of Sunset Hills, allowing parents to choose what school is best for their children based on their educational expectations. There are approximately five public and five private schools within five miles of Sunset Hills. Gc Middle College High School Gc Middle College High School is one of the closest schools in the area. The school only offers grades 11th and 12th. Like the neighborhood, the school consists mostly of students who identify…

Joshua Wilks is an Information System Technology major at Morgan State University. He has worked for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a research assistant for the DIVE program. The program researched liquor stores in baltimore city and how more than half need to be closed down because there are too many. In this program Joshua Wilks was a team leader and aided in the project being completed a month earlier than expected. He is prepared to work with customers after working with…

Title IX, however the same cannot be said for Olympic athletes. According to Title IX "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." This basically means that you are given an equal opportunity to go to school and…

sunlight are meeting the ground, a calm breeze soothes the field from one end to the other. At this point there is only one thing missing, the cattle. When the sun is finally on display for all to see, the cows wake and walk with their baby calves to the middle of the field to see what another day holds. Perhaps they wonder what wild animals will come through their field, or if they will be gathered on this day for yearly immunizations. The truth of the matter is that they do not know which…

or Professional Golf Association. The PGA Tour began in 1929, and it is still going today. One great player on the PGA Tour is Jordan Spieth. He, also has won many tournaments and is well known in the PGA Tour. Jordan Spieth had an interesting childhood, college career, and has accomplished many achievements playing golf on the PGA Tour. Jordan Spieth was born July 27, 1993. He was born in Dallas, Texas. Spieth is the son of Shawn and Chris. Both of his parents were college athletes, his father…

Applying for a Farm Bureau Scholarship Some kids play sports in high school. Others march in the band, star in school plays, or join the healthcare career training program. Me, I didn’t do any of those things, because, after middle school, I made the decision to devote my life and career to help better the industry of agriculture in the future. Thus, I didn’t spend my afternoons out on the field or on the stage in high school, I spent mine in barns, animal pens, and classrooms, as an avid…