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- 31: Home School
- ... was provoking detractors. At this time, most of the country began moving toward public schools (Clark, 1994). One of the first things early pioneers did was set aside a plot of land to build a school house and try to recruit the most educated resident to be the schoolmarm. This led to recruiting of graduates Eastern Seaboard colleges to further the education oftheir children beyond what they could do at home (Clark, 1994). As the popularity of the public school movement began to rise behind Horace Mann many states soon passed compulsory-education laws. These were designed primarily to prevent farmers, miners, and other parents form keeping their kids home to work (Clark, 1994). Ironically ... desire to use them to spread Christian morality, with its concern for the larger good over individualism (Clark, 1994). Massachusetts enacted the first such laws in 1852 requiring children ages 8-14 to be at school at least 12 weeks a year unless they were too poor. The laws proved to be effective, from 1870-1898 the number of children enrolling in the public schools outpaced the population growth. Except ...
- 32: Teenage Violence: A National Plague
- ... your eyes and give you a sense of how extremely troublesome violence is among our children. Please picture this: A 14 year old boy has moved to a new city in the middle of his school year. He is very upset because he has left all his friends behind and he disregards the fact that he could probably meet new friends if he would only try. He is in the 8th grade and he feels afraid of the other boys at his new school. He acts tough and has been in two fights in the last week. Because he is getting a reputation for as a (quote) "tough kid" he thinks that carrying a knife will make him safer ... being a 14 year old, how do you handle this situation? This is not an uncommon situation for children anymore. Crime frequents in and around schools and is threatening the well-being of the students, school staff and communities. Parents send their children off to school everyday all over America and they worry everyday if their children will return. As a parent you worry about your children becoming victims of ...
- 33: High School Seniors Chooses Between Community College or A Job
- High School Seniors Chooses Between Community College or A Job Community Colleges is not suitable for High School seniors who will graduate from High School and who are in needs of monies. When these certain students does choose to attend Community College over a job are likely to be drop out of school. Freshmen drop out rate reaches 40%- ...
- 34: Teenage Violence
- ... your eyes and give you a sense of how extremely troublesome violence is among our children. Please picture this: A 14 year old boy has moved to a new city in the middle of his school year. He is very upset because he has left all his friends behind and he disregards the fact that he could probably meet new friends if he would only try. He is in the 8th grade and he feels afraid of the other boys at his new school. He acts tough and has been in two fights in the last week. Because he is getting a reputation for as a (quote) "tough kid" he thinks that carrying a knife will make him safer ... being a 14 year old, how do you handle this situation? This is not an uncommon situation for children anymore. Crime frequents in and around schools and is threatening the well-being of the students, school staff and communities. Parents send their children off to school everyday all over America and they worry everyday if their children will return. As a parent you worry about your children becoming victims of ...
- 35: Ben Franklin
- ... of their children, always listened to the guests; he was a very bright child. Benjamin taught himself to read when he was only five years old. His parents wished that they could send Ben to school, but they were very poor. Once three very important men visited Josiah and told him of a new law which said that children must attend school. Josiah sent Ben to the Boston Latin School because the only expenses were books and fire wood. At the Latin School all the children were expected to learn fables by heart. The fables had lessons which the school master thought was an ...
- 36: High School vs. Middle School: A Comparative Essay
- High School vs. Middle School: A Comparative Essay There are two distinctive differences, that make high school much more difficult, when you make the jump from middle school to high school: you have to work much harder and you get more freedom as a reward. High school is far more involved ...
- 37: School Violence
- By: Kristy E-mail: holyfoley98@hotmail.com Violence in society is more prevalent today than ever before. Media and entertainment have opened up violent images for children to see. Availability of weapons to school age children seems incredulous. News stories of elementary school children bringing guns to school and killing classmates are sickening yet true. What is happening to our country? What is happening to our schools? It is no secret that academic performance has declined over the last thirty or forty ...
- 38: School Safety
- ... geographic regions or family backgrounds, nor do they have a single catalyst. Those who have committed such heinous acts have done so for different reasons, at different times, in different schools. But these acts of school violence have at least one thing in common- they have spurred all of us to take a look at what can be done to better protect children and teachers at school. Protecting our children is not simply a matter of public policy. It is a matter of strengthening basic values, of teaching children right from wrong, of instilling in them respect for others. We each have ... is not only happening in our high schools, it has also made its way into our elementary and middle schools. Everyone seems to have a different perspective on why there is such a problem with school safety. Some say it is the parents fault, some say it is the media, and others blame the schools. Yet, the question still remains. What can be done to make schools safer for the ...
- 39: Educational Policy In Malaysia
- ... the society and the nation at large. One of the most significant reforms initiated in recent years is the formulation of new legislation on education, which will affect the process of educational reforms from pre-school to higher education. The Education Act 1996 replacing the old one of 1961 aims at consolidating the national system of education and widen the scope of education in the country. All categories of schools, with ... system of education, which is characterized by the use of a common medium of instruction, a nationally excepted curriculum and common public exams. It will also cover such areas as upgrading and enhancing of pre-school education, teacher education, special education, private and technical education. It gives the education greater prominence, ensuring relevance and quality in the system of education. EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION The Ministry of Education is directly responsible for the ... Education is concerned with professional matters, and both are directly responsible to the Minister of Education. "The Ministry was restructured in 1995" and under this new structure there are six principal Departments, such as Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education Department, Department of Higher Education which coordinates governance and policy formulation of public universities and higher education institutions in the country; Technical Education Department which is responsible for conducting research, ...
- 40: Parental Pressure within High School Students
- Parental Pressure within High School Students I. I became interested in this topic because my entire academic life has been filled with pressure from my parents. This pressure was mainly in school and grades, and in high school, the amount of pressure increased dramatically. This is because my parents now realized that everything in high school counts towards college. When I first came to high school, my grades were not as good ...
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