...Alternative Schools are a Better Choice for Students Christy Price AIU Online Alternative Schools are a Better Choice for Students What are alternative schools? Alternative schools according to the World Book Encyclopedia (2003) are, “… any public or private school that differs from traditional schools in curriculum, purpose, or teaching methods.” The definition comes from the 1960’s when free schools were created and contained smaller groups of students and teachers. During this time the general consensus was, kids would learn at their own pace and teachers were not meant to be viewed as authority figures but should be mentors to the students under their care. In comparison to public schools, which were seen as oppressive, free schools were a suitable alternative for many students (Miller 2002) For some students alternative high schools are the better choice for their education. Students who attend alternative schools do not lack the ability to learn they just have different learning needs than other students. According to the Waterville Alternative School (2003), located in Waterville Maine, public schools are created on a “one size fits all” basis. That is, there is one set curriculum, schedule, and teaching style. Each student is expected to learn at the same pace; however, this is not the reality. Thus, alternative schools have been created as a way to meet each student’s individual needs. Alternative schools are appealing to some students for a number of reasons...
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...Which is the better choice Fresh, Frozen, or Canned foods? Healthy eating, daily exercise, and keeping a healthy weight is most important of someone who is health conscious and cares about there body and well being. Making healthy food choices can be difficult in today's world. Additions in the food industry and how our food is prepared and packaged have changed dramatically. Anyone who goes to the supermarket now has the option to purchase canned, frozen, or fresh foods. So which one do we choose? Each of these options vary in different nutritional value, taste, and health risks. It is important to know what we consuming and what may be a health risk and what may not be. I will never forget the time when I tasted vegetables that were freshly picked from mothers garden how delicious they were. The taste, colors, and how they looked, at young age, would set a standard of the quality of food that I would choose to eat for the rest of my life. I did at sometime had the chance to try canned vegetables but I was not pleased. Comparing those fresh delicious vegetables to the taste of a canned vegetable that was probably sitting in that can full of water and oil for who knows how long, was incomparable. The look of the canned was simply unattractive, old, wet and squishy. Comparing that to the bright color, snappish texture, and overall taste of a fresh vegetable was incomparable. But having to choose from fresh, frozen, or canned can be confusing for some people and knowing...
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...Too Many Choices: A Problem That Can Paralyze a Customer The salad options at a Woolworths supermarket in Sydney, Australia. Too many choices can trouble consumers. The article’s statement is linking idea of many choices in supermarkets negatively with accumulated marketing experience over the past century. Surely there has been no time in marketing history where the idea of choice has changed more noticeable. A quick reflection on a typical supermarket reveals how marketing has revolutionized this specific store and the world as a whole. Most people commute to buy in the store which suggests a choice of different products and different departments. During the workday, chances are high that the particular customer from a downtown will go down to the nearest supermarket in order to make his or her choice regarding some product. Upon leaving home, family members will be reached through different networks of supermarkets that use the same technologies of marketing. Each of these common occurrences would have been inconceivable at the turn of the 19th century. In the beginning of the article the author attempts to bridge that negative attitude through her personal example with her son who was trying to make a choice at an ice cream store. She wants to describe a negative influence of many choices and her son's fear that the next option would have been better. Nevertheless, I should admit from my personal experience that when I was at the same age and at the same store,...
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...group members learned a core skill “Brainstorming”, and gained an understanding about how brainstorming can lead to making better choices. PO Attended the group on time and had a moderate level of participation in group. PO demonstrated an understanding of the topic by completing the payoff matrix and brainstormed the benefits of two behaviors that he is working on to make a change. Response to treatment appears to be positive, willingly participated in the group discussion. PO brainstormed on how to deal with his anger issues, stated “I let a lot of things to get to me, but I am working on myself every day to be a better person by taking advice from my authority figures and think positive....
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...Article Review Assignment “Too Many Choices: A Problem That Can Paralyze a Customer” MRKT 3013 Dmytro Smirnov University of Central Oklahoma February 19, 2015 Presented to PROFESSOR: GRANT AGUIRRE, J.D., PHD. Too Many Choices: A Problem That Can Paralyze a Customer The salad options at a Woolworths supermarket in Sydney, Australia. Too many choices can trouble consumers. The article’s statement is linking idea of many choices in supermarkets negatively with accumulated marketing experience over the past century. Surely there has been no time in marketing history where the idea of choice has changed more noticeable. A quick reflection on a typical supermarket reveals how marketing has revolutionized this specific store and the world as a whole. Most people commute to buy in the store which suggests a choice of different products and different departments. During the workday, chances are high that the particular customer from a downtown will go down to the nearest supermarket in order to make his or her choice regarding some product. Upon leaving home, family members will be reached through different networks of supermarkets that use the same technologies of marketing. Each of these common occurrences would have been inconceivable at the turn of the 19th century. In the beginning of the article the author attempts to bridge that negative attitude through her personal example with her son who was trying to make a choice at an ice cream store. She wants to describe...
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...factors in determining whether or not they will become a productive member of society. That is why when considering an education the quality of the education is almost as important as the education itself. So when private schools came into the picture the debate then began between public and private schools. There have been many discrepancies between the values of a public school as opposed to a private school. Advocates of private school argue that the education received in one of these facilities is more valuable and rewarding than any other educational opportunity (Greifner, 2007). On the other hand, supporters of public schools feel that the students are better-rounded, both scholastically and worldly, when in public schools. Many feel that public exposes students to all types of diversity and situations that will make them better adapted for the real world (Kennedy, 2007). Statement of the Problem It seems most people are of the opinion that private schools are superior; the issue is simply if it is worth the money. However, this may not be the case. Therefore, how does one gauge the superiority of a school? This very difficult question has no easy answers. The most common and maybe the only way researchers can create and measure the effectiveness of a school is by measuring achievement. The American Heritage Dictionary seems to define achievement as “something that has been accomplished successfully, especially by means of exertion, skill, practice, or perseverance” (Lubienski...
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...forgone in making any choice. The economic way of thinking has to do with: making choices at the margin. A choice made ________ is a choice whether to do a little more or a little less of something. at the margin A resource is anything that: can be used in production. Manny is attending college and majoring in economics. Manny is improving his scarce resource of: human capital. Which is not an example of a resource? Production (Land, Labor, human capital, and capital ARE resources) Margo spends $10,000 on one year's college tuition. The opportunity cost of spending one year in college for Margo is: whatever she would have purchased with the $10,000 and whatever she would have earned had she not been in college. The best measure of the opportunity cost of any choice is: whatever you have given up to make that choice, even if no monetary costs are involved. For which of the following decisions would marginal analysis be most relevant? Should I eat another donut? If an economy has used up all opportunities to make someone better off (without making someone else worse off) then it has achieved ________. efficiency . Who wrote The Wealth of Nations, a book that many credit with establishing economics as a discipline? Adam Smith Gains from trade arise because of: specialization in production. If equilibrium exists: there will be no remaining opportunities for individuals to make themselves better off. Economists...
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...a good bottle of wine, she and her friend Adam, a sta- tistically oriented management consultant who has worked with super- market chains, hatched an interesting idea. Without changing any menus, they would run some experiments in her schools to determine whether the way the food is displayed and arranged might influence the choices kids make. Carolyn gave the directors of dozens of school cafeterias specific in- structions on how to display the food choices. In some schools the desserts were placed first, in others last, in still others in a separate line. The location of various food items was varied from one school to another. In some schools the French fries, but in others the carrot sticks, were at eye level. From his experience in designing supermarket floor plans, Adam sus- pected that the results would be dramatic. He was right. Simply by re- arranging the cafeteria, Carolyn was able to increase or decrease the con- sumption of many food items by as much as 25 percent. Carolyn learned a big lesson: school children, like adults, can be greatly influenced by small 1 2 INTRODUCTION changes in the context. The influence can be exercised for better or for worse. For example, Carolyn knows that she can increase consumption of healthy foods and decrease consumption of unhealthy ones. With hundreds of schools to work with, and a team of graduate student volunteers recruited to collect and analyze the data, Carolyn believes that she now has considerable power...
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...concepts throughout this course that I found relative to my personal life. Among all the concepts that I have learned in the Microeconomics course, “Opportunity Cost”, “Sunk Cost”, and “Supply and Demand” have the most impact on my daily life. “Choice and Opportunity Cost” is one of the most important concepts of Microeconomics that I found it relative to my everyday life. Similar to many other students, limited time during the school semester, forces me to make choices about what to study, when to study, and how to estimate the opportunity cost of every choice. Applying opportunity cost concept in my day-to-day life helps me better schedule my study time. For instance, I usually choose to study during weekdays because the opportunity cost of studying on these nights is lower than studying on Friday or Saturday nights, when usually more exciting events are happening. On the other hand, if my alternative on weekend is to stay home and organize my closet and do my laundry, I would choose to study, because to me, the value of studying is more than the value of above alternatives. So, opportunity cost and making choices depends on my alternatives. In most of the cases, I find that money paid for goods and services is a better approximation of the opportunity cost. Due to the increase of the gas price in the past couple of years, the demand for SUVs decreased and as...
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...leads to poor health. For this reason, education, frequent check-ups, and changes in eating habits, will reduce unhealthy eating. The harmful eating practices of African Americans are taught at early ages. This unhealthy trend has lead to African Americans being the leader among those who die from attacks such as strokes and heart attacks. With this in mind, education is imperative to this ethic group. Education on how to properly prepare meals will increase the knowledge of making better food choices. Also, it will introduce how unhealthy eating is really harming the body. Schools can introduce breakfast and lunch foods that teach young African Americans the difference between unhealthy and healthy foods. For the adults, grocery stores can offer information on the product of choice to show if there is a healthier version along with healthy recipes. Educating on better food choices doesn’t have to stop there. Those African Americans who are on government assistance could be educated on better food choices by the government. For those who are on government assistance it should be mandated to attend healthy eating courses as a condition to receive the government assistance for food. This will begin to educate those African Americans who are on the assistance to consume...
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...The rising obesity rate amongst school aged children and the need for better quality foods, not less expensive easy-access meals, raises an important question: “Should changes be made to the regulations for foods that are served in public schools or should responsibilities lie exclusively on educating parents about making better food choices for their children?” Parents and the community have a responsibility to help prevent childhood obesity by empowering children with the knowledge and tools they need to succeed in the fight. The World Health Organization presented key facts and figures on childhood obesity to include a few of the following: • “The number of overweight or obese infants and young children (aged 0 to 5 years) increased from 31 million globally in 1990 to 44 million in 2012. In the WHO African Region alone the number of overweight or obese children increased from 4 to 10 million over the same period. • The vast majority of overweight or obese children live in developing countries, where the rate of increase has been more than 30% higher than that of developed countries. • If current trends continue the number of overweight or obese infants and young children globally will increase to 70 million by 2025”. (World Health Organization, 2014). While these statistics are staggering there are numerous things not only parents but communities, doctors, farmers, schools, local and state organizations and corporations can do to assist with the fight against childhood...
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...Summary School choice describes programs that allow students to choose to attend any of various participating private and public schools, usually based on a system of vouchers, tax credits, or scholarships. These programs are generally intended to give parents more input in which primary and secondary schools their children attend. In the United States, school choice sometimes refers to the social movement instrumental in promoting these programs. The goal of school choice is to create competition between schools for education dollars, which may give public schools an incentive to perform better than without competition. However, opponents have argued that the free-market theory does not work in the educational realm, and that allowing school choice will hurt more students than it helps. School choice in America comes in a few different forms. The different options could be put into these categories: vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, magnet schools and even home schooling. # Support Proponents argue that if parents were given a choice where public funding should go, they would pick the better schools and under-performing schools would have to improve or lose funding. The main premise of school choice proponents’ arguments is that the school should be the focus of reform. Some school choice proponents hold that if a school is failing the student, it should be replaced. Due to the expanded market and subsequent demand for privately run schooling, school choice proponents argue...
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...complaining, and procrastination. No organization or individual can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability. Who is this book for? Anyone who’s ever heard questions like these; “when is that department going to its job?” “why don’t they communicate better?” “Who dropped the ball?” “Why do we have to go through all this change?” “when is someone going to train me?” These questions seem innocent enough, but they indicate a lack of personal responsibility. Miller prefers the term “personal accountability,” which he believes goes right to the heart of many of the problems we face today. He believes that turning our thinking around and asking more personally accountable questions is one of the most powerful and effective things we can do to improve our lives and our organizations. The question behind the question (QBQ) is a tool that’s been developed and refined over the years that helps individuals practice personal accountability by asking better questions. Each day as we journey into the unexplored wilds of our personal and professional lives, we have countless choices to make. And what are we choosing? Not our next action but our next thought. Chose the wrong thought and we’re off in the emotional negative world of blame, complaining, and procrastination. But the right thoughts leads us to a...
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...famous poems ever written. It is also one of the most misunderstood poems. Many people have been faced with “a fork in the road”. This may include a choice between two decisions, a choice between jobs or careers, or a choice between other things. Because you can only choose one, there is the “road” you did not take. In the future, you may look back on these decisions and may have regrets. The Road Not Taken is about these decisions. The first stanza of the poem states: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. (Lines 1-5) This, if taken literally, talks about a traveler that cannot choose between two paths in the woods. He has to take one but cannot choose. He is “sorry” that he cannot travel both which implies regret on his decision. He “takes the other, as just as fair” which states that he took the other path. This is a play on words because it could mean that he could view the other path as equal or it could be a fair choice. It states that both roads are equal which implies a good future for both. The poem continues by stating “and perhaps having the better claim, because it was grassy and wanted wear.” The speaker is still unsure because the other one is “perhaps” better. The other path is just as appealing because it wanted (or lacked) wear because not many people have walked on it. The speaker still cannot make...
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...Write a 400- to 700-word response in which you describe choice theories and how they relate to crime. Describe the common models for society to determine which acts are considered criminal. Explain how choice theories of crime affect society. Post your response as an attachment. CheckPoint Criminal Acts and Choice Theories Two theories of many that cause crime are choice theories and trait theories. In comparing the two I find those choice theories refers to the decision making when the individual is thinking about committing the crime. For instance, the choice theories states that a person commits a crime voluntarily or rational and evaluates what he or she is attaining and if it is worth the risk. As opposed to trait theories, which refers to the personality of an individual? Trait theory focuses mainly on measuring and identifying the characteristics of each unique individual. When contrasting both theories, is that in choice theories the individual commits the crime by choice and trait theories is driven by biochemical conditions. It is also believed that choice theories that disciplining is the most successful way to decrease crime. However, trait theories believe treatment for such criminal behaviors is the most effective way in reducing crime. The relationship between trait theories and drugs, alcohol and crime is that the consumption of these substances can alter the biochemical system on a person in which can and will influence criminal behavior...
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