United States Department of Education

in writing an application letter for a go-ahead to build a charter high school. I met with the Edvision application consultants, Cutler Bay Council, and the Charter school advisory committee. Throughout the entire month, I visited Florida department of education together with individuals from Edvision consultants in order to see the approval of the project go through. My research indicated that major high schools that served the residents of Cutler Bay had been receiving progressive poor…

The world of education as we know it is a place built on a foundation that is surrounded by enigmas and empty promises. It is for this reason that America has yet to find an effective solution that works for schools nationwide that is “progressive” as well as “consistent” in the field of education. The articles and the book that we have read so far in class have left me a bittersweet taste in my mouth. I think about how far we have come and how many steps we continue taking backwards. The issues…

The nineteenth century’s main focus in education was to make it uniform. In the early 1840s and 1850s there was a Common School Movement which expanded public education to accommodate the waves of immigration. In order to give Americans equal educational opportunities, it was made that all children have access to schools that offer high, similar quality. To maintain that similar equality, it was required schools to use either identical or similar textbooks which would equate to the content…

In the 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk” presented by President Reagan, the state of the American public school system as analyzed. At the time the report was written almost twenty-three million Americans were illiterate. On top of the illiteracy epidemic, standardized test scores had been decreasing since the Russians launched sputnik almost twenty-five years prior. Edward Graham of the National education association states, “Test scores were rapidly declining, low teaching salaries and poor…

So for the most part, standardized testing has been a very central part in our education system and has a big effect on the academic path of students. II. However, standardized testing should be completely removed from schools and the college admissions process. The goal of the No Child Left Behind Act was to improve the education system. Studies show that actually the complete opposite happened. The Act didn’t meet its goal at all. According to standardizedtests…

Introduction The United States is composed of vast ethnic and linguistic diversity. Our history, laws, and culture are a reflection of that reality. The economy, our citizens, and society overall experience benefits both large and small. On the other hand, those who do not speak English often face hardship and discrimination. Most people believe that education is a key to success in a developed country, but in an educational system that is predominantly administered and operated in English,…

children are trained to sing the alphabet forwards and backwards with no struggle, concepts such as the Pythagorean Theorem cannot just be memorized, but instead must be strongly understood. Since the start of the new century, schooling in the United States has started to level off, especially in math and reading, due to the loss of critical thinking skills. Not only does regurgitating details show a shortfall in students, but in the quality of teachers in this generation. The lack of dedication…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Agency Overview and Career Opportunities The United States Customs and Border Protection exists as a subordinate organization within the Department of Homeland Security. Although U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not exist prior to the Homeland Security Act going into effect in 2003, the Customs and Border Protection still possess a rich history of previous forces that evolved into the modern Customs and Border Protection. The mission, budget,…

Friendship networks are tools for international student to deal with stress. International students indicate a stronger preference for making friends from the same country or student from other nations over student from the host country (Furnham & Alibhai, 2). International student prefer playing with student from the same country with them or have a same religion. When they come to America, they usually use social network to find the account of another students who study abroad. The reason that…

Introduction
 The school to prison pipeline and zero-tolerance policies are a nationwide epidemic that is affecting our students beginning in their primary years of education, such as preschool through their post secondary education, or even post graduate level. Through zero-tolerance policies both students and educators are becoming victims to this social construct. Yes, there are plenty of questions to be asked of the students because they are essentially our future, yet a major component that…