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tests, teachers and schools have lost sight of the true purpose of education: to teach young people the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Diane Ravitch, educational historian and policy analyst, believes that public schools are focusing more on test scores rather than the more important goals of education, such as “character and love of learning” (Ravitch 112). Her use of logos and anaphora throughout her article help her to articulate her opinion on the public school system. To begin,…

and schools. In the first five chapters of the book A Global Context: From the Puritans to the Obama Administration it talks about thinking critically about history, globalization and religion in colonial education, nationalism multiculturalism and moral reform in the new republic, the ideology and politics of the common school and the common school and the threat of cultural pluralism. Some important people and events talked about in the first five chapters were Noah Webster, charity school and…

the best schools? The problem is all of these things are true, but these best schools create a flock of students who cannot think for themselves and what they want, and…

defunding of the Head Start program in Prince George’s county. Serve acts of physical abuse lead up to the program being reevaluated and finally defunded. One instance included a child crying and being so ill supervised that they were able to leave the school and walk home. “According to the report, the child was unsupervised for about 50 minutes, and Head Start did not know where she was for about 75 minutes” (Wilkins 2016). These issues at hand have to be identified before it escalates to the…

federal control over education. The State of Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s website summarizes NCLB by saying “Under the 2002 law, states are required to test students in reading and math in grades 3–8 and once in high school. All students are expected to meet or exceed state standards in reading and math by 2014. The major focus of No Child Left Behind is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to…

Men are nearly twice as likely as women to work for a private household. Among women, public sector employment increases with education. For those with less than a primary education, there are few opportunities in the public sector, but 73% of working women with secondary or more schooling hold such positions. Perhaps the strongest indicator, other than level of education, as to whether a woman would work in the public sector instead of a private sector position, is the density of the population…

According to John Quincy Adams, “ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” As an aspiring school leader in Belize, my obligation as a teacher is to lead my student in acquiring life skills that will help them to be productive citizens. I believe that there are certain qualities a person possess that can determine what kind of leader he/she will be. As a teacher, my students see me as the best leader they have ever known so I must…

professionals. The part music could play in a woman’s life was determined by gender roles. Public performance was viewed as immodest so the typical women’s etiquette determined the role music played in their lives. One interesting fact is that many private female academies placed a greater emphasis on…

more than 8 hours a day. A survey in 2012 to 10,000 teachers reveals that on average teachers work 11 hours a day. Usually, teachers also have to work at home planning lesson and grading papers. Teachers also assist to staff meetings generally after school hours that can last from 1 to 3 hours once or twice a week. Importantly, lunchtime for teachers is also compromised. Teachers have to be present in…

different answer from the previous one. When I was younger, I wanted to be a teacher, but then it started changing as I grew older from a singer to a pharmacist and now back to a teacher. Throughout high school, most of my volunteer work dealt with teaching children how to swim or being a Sunday school teacher. While looking at my volunteer work on my college application, I realized that I really enjoyed the spontaneity and jocularity that stems from being in the presence of children and decided…