National Science Education Standards

According to the National Education Association, the National Assessment of Educational Progress tested children nationwide for reading skills. The results for reading tests for fourth-grade students were: Below the most basic level 38 percent; Proficient 31 percent, and Advanced 7 percent. These unacceptable scores are raising questions if children are reading enough, and according to the National Education Association, having kids read more is one of the crucial components of becoming a good…

Approximately 14 million children are in poverty in the United States of America (U.S.). That is 14 million kids limited of resources like a good education. Children in poverty have difficulties learning and getting the resources they need to be successful. Poverty is defined as, “the state of being extremely poor”. Poverty affects 14.5% of Americans. The cause of this is believed to be from the government. The latest case of recovery found was that the Republican controlled congress into…

One of the first things that become evident when researching the previous philosophers was the fact that each of them believed education should be for the benefit of their respective society, to make its citizens acculturated, knowledgeable members of their respective communities. The sole reason we have a public school system is because our society highly values education and what it does for the culture and its people. The arts have the ability to preserve and pass on specific things about a…

The article “Teaching Students with Hearing Losses” by Alice-Ann Darrow states that there are students with hearing loss that enjoy music and even learning about it. This article indicates different types of methods that should be used, it also includes different ways of music participation. The author explains how many people suffer from hearing loss. Darrow introduces different types of researchers that have to do with strategies for music training. There are plenty of difficulties that come…

The standards represented in this learning segment include the Next Generation Science Standards, National Science Education Standards, and Common Core Literacy Standards. The Next Generation Science Standard that is embedded in this learning segment include HS-PS1-1: use the periodic table as a model to predict the relative properties of elements based on the patterns of electrons in the outermost energy level of atoms. Lesson one assesses the students’ abilities to draw evidence in order…

post-compulsory education is significantly lower than other subjects ((Roberts, 2002) as cited by (Bennet, et al., 2013)). As a result, there are concerns for the future work force as there are “predicted shortages of people electing to pursue careers related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)” (Bennet, et al., 2013, p. 663). Therefore, it is extremely important to increase the number of pupils selecting physics for their A-Level studies and further education. Ateh &…

century’s main focus in education was to make it uniform. In the early 1840s and 1850s there was a Common School Movement which expanded public education to accommodate the waves of immigration. In order to give Americans equal educational opportunities, it was made that all children have access to schools that offer high, similar quality. To maintain that similar equality, it was required schools to use either identical or similar textbooks which would equate to the content standards used in…

Stoiloff supported the need for scientific integrity and support for forensics. She has also emphasized the need for resources to help create new forensic technologies. She explained the importance of higher education in forensics and that the media portrayal of forensics is misleading and even wrong at times. Her testimony also spoke to the need of leadership as well as funding for the forensic community. The amount is large, congress has allocated one billion just for DNA backlogs so much more…

Mexico City. It is a really good subject about seas, countries, towns, villages, rivers, lakes, islands, flags, places, the world basically, and maps, roads (Catling, 2001, 263). Geography is a linking subject; it unites the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. It is a synthesizing discipline, blending scientific and humanistic perspectives (Hardwick and Holtgrieve, 1996). So that, Geography is considered one of the social studies which contributes significantly to building…

proclaimed its political programme entitled ‘The Burmese Way to Socialism’, wherein the policy on education was given as follows: Education: The Revolutionary Council believes the existing educational system unequated with livelihood will have to be transformed. An educational system equated with livelihood and based on socialist moral values will be brought about; Science will be given precedence in education (my italics). Socialism was not new,…