Superintendent

In Community Losses: The Cost of Education Reform, Susan DeJarnatt (2014), explores the concept of education as public good versus a private good in Philadelphia. She examines the current treeatment of public education as a private good, and opines that the current themes of privitization, school choice, and accountability metrics by standardized high stakes testing, fails to incorporate the “democratic equality” (DeJarnatt, 2014). She paraphrases Diane Ravitch, that the focus on education as…

In every modern civilization, the role of police has a significant importance. Policing has undergone an evolutionary process to develop to the well-established agencies that are existent today (Purpura, 1997). Police are tasked with maintaining public safety, enforcing laws, apprehending offenders and testifying in courts (Wilson, 2012; Purpura, 1997). Though the functions of police are the same across the board, the laws that govern how they administer themselves and enforce the law are quite…

The superintendent comments that he would like to start having a uniform code in some of his schools to have consistent enforcement on them all. Statistics in another article states that one in five public schools had uniforms in the year 2010. Some students that…

6.2 Developing Data Collection Techniques In this case study a principal wants to conduct research on increasing the number of computers inside the classroom and what impact this might have on student learning. First he needs lookup the cost of implementing this initiative using real world figures. Without having have knowledge of the overall cost he cannot make a properly informed decision. In addition, he needs to research for cost effectiveness of the products he may purchase. For example,…

An Introduction to the Topic According to the Atlanta Public Schools website, in 2018 62% of new jobs will require some post-secondary education (Why the Common Core? Section, para. 3). This means that more than half of the jobs available in the next few years will require something that a lot of people are unable to obtain. For some they may not feel that they are not “smart” enough to attend college after graduating high school because of the grades they received in high school. If…

“Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American Dream”. All three of my interviewees agree with Martin Luther King but it did not stop them from wanting the best from themselves and their loved ones. The American Dream is about getting the right education for opportunities, how you want to provide for loved ones, but most importantly is the idea that you want to improve not only your life but the ones you love to…

school boards would hold annual meetings to discuss the enhanced P.E. strategies put in place and to identify issues and concerns. 2. The superintendents who are somewhat of the CEO of education for the schooling district. The teachers will inform and local health advocates will inform them about the physical activity being put in place. a. With that the superintendents will develop ideas for funding for the new and improved, enhanced P.E.…

Archibald’s maiden voyage in charge of Inchgreen went as follows. Ac-cording to the ship’s log, she departed Glasgow on the 27th of October, reached Cape Verde on the 2nd of November, and subsequently lost her upper main topsail yard in strong that prevented replacement efforts for the following week. She crossed the equator on 29th of November, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th of December, and eventual-ly rounded the Cape of Tasmania on the 25th of January 1877 during a “very heavy…

There have been numerous studies conducted to determine whether or not, sports programs should be in schools. The majority of these studies have come to the conclusion that sports programs hurt students in their social and academic lives, as well as the district with the costs of hosting and traveling to the games. Therefore, school sports should be canceled to allow students to better prepare for tests or exams, lower costs for the school districts, and take away any distractions that they…

Labor and agriculture are two important factors that have built the South. Dating back to post-civil war, former slaves became freedmen in the South. With one-third of the population being slaves at the time, free labor was the wealth of the south. This became a large problem to former slave owners as well as the Southern economy. Almost instantly, the states begin passing laws and acts to bind laborers to the land in which they were already working. Southern land owners used the state’s power…