School types

submitted to Northern Illinois University’s Institutional Review Board for approval. Once approval is granted and a middle school has agreed to participate in the study, a letter will be sent home to parents explaining the study and that their consent is required for their child(ren) to participate. All students whose parents return the consent form will be discussed among school staff in order to make pairs. Teachers, social workers, and paraprofessionals will pair students with either a…

movable type printing press revolutionized the publishing industry by allowing books to be more easily produced, which lead to education reformation, as well as cultural and economic growth in 15th century Europe. Gutenberg’s movable type printing press was an ingenious yet simple means of mass producing a text. It is important to note that Gutenberg’s Printing Press does not necessarily refer to a printing press owned and operated…

In high school, I prided myself on my grades. I was an honors student who got straight A’s, was very involved, and held several leadership positions. Over time, I realized that regardless of how many accolades I received, those successes would be short-lived and would only benefit me. Contrastingly, how I treated other people had the potential to make a long-lasting impact. Once I realized this, I began to place a higher value on my role as a friend to go to for advice, rather than just being…

According to Bloom’s taxonomy, the most important lessons in school occur when any of the highest four levels of thinking take place in the classroom: application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Bleggi). Most of the time, additional resources that are not given to the teachers are needed in order to have the students understand applications of what they have just learned. One other practical consequence of decreasing the number of high schools available is that individual class sizes are…

and their ideas of a good time were luxurious gatherings and dinners. Those who were poor spent a majority of their time working and when they did have free time, went to festivals and taverns. There weren’t too many educated individuals. Luckily, schools had just started to pop up all over Europe and taught grammar, arithmetic and reading. Unfortunately, books were very few. There was a craving for knowledge on subjects such as astrology, botany and literature, so books were a profitable…

US Department of Education defines Magnet schools as public or charter schools that contain a specialized curriculum (2014). These curricula can vary from subjects such as science like the Bronx School of Science, or flight training at Rancho High School Academy of flight. Both programs qualify as magnet schools, however, the Bronx school is a magnet school within itself. Most programs exist within schools that provide a normal high school. These programs are more plentiful as they do not…

enforcement of secondary education. The only education most people received was their primary or grade school education, as we call it today. You were more likely to continue if you had money, and were a male. Secondary or higher education was expensive, and the average person most likely couldn’t afford to send their children; most low class families were big, and they were lucky to all finish primary school at all because the children old enough to work were made to get jobs to help support…

¨[June Etta Downey is] endowed with an unusually alert and discerning mind and with a maturity of judgement extremely infrequent in students her age.¨ Spoke former president of Yale University, James Rowland Angell, whom Downey had worked under for her doctorate degree. Her contributions to the Science of Psychology left her with many honors and achievements by the end of her life time. Not only did she contribute to the field of Psychology, but to the advancement of women in society. She made…

blame anyone (including myself) or anything for the hurdles in my life or academic endeavors. I believe that is it possible to learn to combat some my bad habits when it comes to studying and building a sound itinerary for my academic future. High school did not prepare me for “the real world” the world of working professionals. It did not arm me with the skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, nor did it direct me to tools where I look for those skills on my own. I accumulated good…

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