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supported by a school district that is led by a Superintendent and School board that has the vision and know how to give students what they need to succeed. This is shown in a High School that Works report entitled Improving Schools Requires District Vision, District and State Support, and Principal Leadership. In a report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), they oversaw a study of 35 superintendents and school board leaders. The study found in order for a school district…

Ann Duffy, Sad Joke on a Marae by Apirana Taylor, District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp and Barton Fink directed by Joel Coen. I expected all of my texts to be able to reflect one another as they were all from a similar time period. In particular, I expected District 9 and Sad Joke on a Marae to draw similar points as they are both texts that illustrate alienation towards indigenous people, with Sad Joke on a Marae being about Maori, and District 9 being about the treatment of blacks in South…

For some time, schools have been debating whether they should get rid of sports to help students improve their education. Many studies have found that schools that provide after school athletics are shown to have a lower academic rate. Therefore, school sports should be cut off because they are a distraction from school work, cost a great deal of money, and cause fatigue. Many student athletes know that their extra-curricular sports may take away from their education. According to the article…

Imagine a fourth-grade student that does not have a consistent home. The food the school provides at breakfast and lunch is the only ration of food they receive for the day. Snow days are agonizing not knowing if they will have food for that day and hoping to return to school only to eat. Students are beginning to notice that they wear the same two shirts and pants to school every day, and exclusion from groups of friends is evident. Teachers send the student habitually to the nurse to get…

Detective Murphy is a no nonsense type of man. A gruff demeanor that demands to get down to business no matter what. I’m sure it’s only heightened by being called to a crime scene for a robbery and shooting, in the middle of a Friday night. He’s just finished a round of furious questioning to gather my side of the story on what’s occurred tonight. After police arrived to the store, they were able to catch and arrest the man who robbed the store. Who I now know as James Smith. Jack was rushed…

citizens. The Boley Public School District is one of the smallest public school districts in the state of Oklahoma. For the most recent data available, it tied with Sweetwater for the smallest high school with 15 students. For a combined district, K-12, Boley finished first, just ahead of Clarita (58) and Sweetwater (60), with (51) students. Boley is also home to BBQ equipment maker, Smokaroma, Inc, and the John Lilley Correctional Center. The Boley Historic District is…

socio-economic factors on district-level student achievement on new, Common Core-aligned standardized assessments. We posit that educators may use our methodology and model to control for socio-economic factors, and more equitably compare school district performance. Purpose We used a least-squares regression model to determine the predictive power of socio-economic status (SES) on student achievement on Common Core-aligned standardized assessments in the State of Connecticut. The purpose of…

from the case of Dina Holder, a teacher at Brentwood Union School District, who was accused of tearing a 5 year old student with Down syndrome from his chair and then proceeding to kicking him as he lay on the ground. She was charged and pleaded no contest to misdemeanor child abuse and was still able to hold her job at a different school until her removal was ordered. This seemly utter neglect for student safety occurs in all districts throughout California and is a direct result of the set…

In the film District 9 by Neill Blomkamp, Prawns, known as aliens, come to our planet looking for a new place to call home, for their planet was dying . Unfortunately, the Prawns don't realize that their planet may have been the safer option compared to nesting on Earth . The government in South America is scared of the Prawns and contain the Aliens in projects on the outskirts of the city . The government created the MNU as a force to be able to control the Prawns in case they were a threat to…

While professional HVAC service technicians know that Emmaus, PA homeowners should have their AC ducts cleaned every two to three years, most of our friends, neighbors and area customers never give their ductwork a second thought until a problem shows up. So, how do you know when to schedule inspection and cleaning? Burkholder's Heating and Air Conditioning Customer Service team offers these four signs it is time to make that call. 1. What's that smell? Do you have an unpleasant smell…