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to it. The testing system according to the author has been used as a means to close down schools and judge both performance of students and teachers without taking into account other factors. Ravitch states that this system requires that schools be given yearly-standardized exams to monitor the progress of the students. These tests are meant to show if students meet the adequate yearly progress goals. If schools fail to meet these requirements for five consecutive years it is then restructured…

Co- teaching in public school can be very hard. Some teachers think that it is their classroom and they do not need help teaching it. Other think that co-teaching is wonderful but they do not have they extra help to co-teach. There are so few extra teacher and little money throughout the school systems that there aren’t funds to have another teacher in the room. The schools want teachers to co-teach, but it is very hard when they don’t have extra…

(Hilliard). Will you become a part of the solution for standardized testing for the people? Standardized testing is a good idea to test the students on how much they have retained from the class and the teacher. Standardized testing helps compare school districts and how teachers teach their students, but it devalues the goals of teachers who may have different. What the lessons and tests say is important may not be important for the teacher or what the state thinks is important. As a student,…

to find someone with more extensive background to be a support to our school. I would make sure to find a way to have available the professional development and resources my teachers needed to be successful with their ELL students. Most of my leadership decisions would be based on the population of ELL students. The current school where I am teaching has a very limited number of ELL students. However, I have taught at a school where the majority of the student population were ELL students.…

entertainment and interest within K-12 education resulting in students becoming unmotivated and disinterested in schools, leading to little or no increase in overall educational efficiency. Nelson Fabian, former Executive director of the National Environmental Health Association,…

Teaching Statement As Special Ed teacher it’s my duty to recognize students’ needs in the educational system and try to link all the issues that related to the child and solve it. In fact, every child has the right to learn and educated equally with all the students. No matter what is his background or which country he came from. As many people know that children with disabilities need someone to understand their needs and put an effort trying to help them. Sometimes there is a lack between the…

Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, and countless others court cases America’s ideology on education has evolved into all students have the right to education. Although America views on education has improved there are still policies, cultural biases and stereotypes, and opportunity gaps still have negative impacts on minorities and special needs students. In recent years, zero-tolerance policies has increase suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests in schools across America.…

000 Americans commit suicide every year. 60% of Americans are affected by it in their lifetime. Those statistics inspired a local school district to hold their own Suicide Awareness Day. "I feel like they are getting that this is a real problem. It's not something that you could just ignore, it's something that happens to real people," said Campbell-Savona High School Freshman, Emily Smith. The school's student council organized the Suicide Awareness Day. The students sold t-shirts,…

assure that teachers were teaching effectively and students were retaining what was being taught. These test scores were compared to students from across the Nation. The student range extended to students from private schools with a lot of money and students from state funded schools. The information gathered was used to determine a student’s strengths and weaknesses, which showed teachers what each child needed help in. However, these tests were given too much power in our education system.…

teachers to teach better. In addition, the law hoped the stricter standards would help improve Title I schools from failing, which has a major effect on the students with disabilities (Wei, 2012). In low performing schools, the amount of students with disabilities increased, so the teachers…