National Science Education Standards

Aquariums, zoos & marine parks can help bring the population of an endangered species up by breeding the endangered species because the breeding conditions in the ocean can be hard to reproduce in. Also zoos aquariums & marine parks can be used for education because some (most) schools will have field trips that can help kids learn about how to keep the oceans safe & how to preserve our oceans and planet.…

Technology is becoming more prevalent in education. Technology can be used as a great resource in the classroom. There are many studies today about the effects on technology on student learning. There are also many studies on peer feedback in student learning. Yu-Fen Yang and Wen-Ting Meng from Nationals Yunlin University of Science and Technology wrote an article called, “The effects of online feedback on students’ text revision.” This article goes through a research study to see if explicitly…

A typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between PreKindergarten and twoefth grade. Standardized testing is a form of testing used by our education system to measure the success of our school system’s students and faculty. The use of these tests became mandatory in 2002 as part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Although there are some individuals who support these tests, many parents, students, and teachers experience the negative effects each year. There was a time when these…

As a person seeking a post-secondary level of education, you have the choice of degree paths for a higher level of education that best suits your individual lifestyle. However, would you select, the less costly, less time-consuming option or the one, in my opinion, which seems to withhold more life-lasting benefits? When comparing your options when considering achieving some form of a college degree your options are to attend a two-year or community college to obtain an associate’s degree or…

I am a cancer epidemiologist and epidemiology methodologist beginning my second year as a tenure track assistant professor in the department of public health. This purpose of this statement is to provide a brief narrative on my background, accomplishments and goals in the three areas of academic evaluation: teaching, research, and service. I will do this by describing my experience and efforts in four interrelated areas of focus in my career: cancer epidemiology, healthcare delivery, electronic…

to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they must be to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society. (Sen 2009, p. 59) I spent four years of my medical post graduate education and service to the Seth G S Medical College and K E M Hospital, Mumbai Founded in 1926, Hospital & College are amongst the foremost teaching and medical care providing institutions…

understand and help others as well as my enthusiasm for science and human rights has led to my involvement in a Science Olympiad and Chistadora’s Manice program as well as several human rights clubs and organizations, including Girls United, the Black Lives Matter Campaign, GLOW (Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever), and a Human Rights clubs. During my time there, I garnered extensive experience in individual and group laboratory research settings, knowledge of national and international health issues,…

The fight over public education has reached a critical point since the beginning of the last decade and continues at an accelerated rate. The country has seen major conflicts in education pour out into the media and even the courts. These conflicts include a struggle for resources, mass layoffs of teachers, and major pushback by politicians regarding state tenure laws and unions. Another conflict is the massive expansion of charter schools, to include the expansion of school vouchers. Parents,…

Canada, like most countries obviously have a motive to protect their heritage and to make sure that the culture is not dominated by outside sources so with that in mind, one can claim that the arguments from the Canadian side are genuine indeed. On the other hand this kind of cultural global trade is usually encouraged and beneficial to both sides. In this particular case it is stated that 89% of the magazines in Canada are imported from the united states, which can show on a somewhat…

for over one hundred years, sexual education in schools. There are two main sides within this debate where people are either for comprehensive sexual education or for abstinence only sexual education. Each type of curriculum has its own support for why it should be taught; one of these two methods has had terrible results to show for its teachings. Informing teenagers of sex can include abstinence while providing more comprehensive education. The sexual education in the United States should be…