...33% of students who are currently on free school meals achieve 5A*-C at GCSE, however 61% of students who are not on free school meals also achieve 5A*-C grades. 90% of the failing school are from deprived areas, and 79% of children from a higher professional family are more likely to go to university, whilst only 15% of children from unskilled and manual backgrounds go to work. Sub cultures are a group of people within society who share the same norms, values, beliefs and attitude that go against the main stream in society. This is usually different from or opposed to the main stream culture, for instance an anti-school subculture is more likely to be formed by pupils in lower streams. This is backed up by “They have examined the way in which labelling is linked to other processes within schools that result in class differences in achievement” (Item A) “These processes include self-fulfilling prophecy, streaming and the formation of pupil subcultures” (Item A) Therefore working class children will underachieve and middle class children will continue to progress. This can disadvantage working class children because of the use of home and school contracts. The education triage for working class are labelled as “hopeless cases” which then produces a selffulfilling prophecy and failure, which then leads to working class children going under stereotypical ideas. However, some labelled students go against their label to prove teachers wrong, which pushes them to do just as well...
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...the failing of schools is getting worse. The reformers of public education are not making much of an effort on this failing educational system. The movie explains public education system is about keeping the teachers unions happy, and having them line their own pockets at the expense of our children’s education. Charter schools being the hot spot where motivated parents are trying to send their children, however there is a limited space and a lot of applicants, the children are placed in the hands of luck. The American Federation of Teachers has been the most powerful and active teachers union. The teachers of today are a lot different from the teachers of the past decade. Today most teachers are unmotivated educators who have quit doing their job precisely. Teachers unions have guaranteed a life time job security to teachers. It doesn’t matter if you are resulting in high test scores in your classroom or low ones. It has become close to impossible to fire an underserving teacher due to tenure. Tenure was first brought up in Universities protecting professors from being fired for non-educational reasons. This has carried on to public schools. Teachers are to teach a certain number of years and after they are granted tenure. Teachers unions have only helped themselves in this matter, bad teachers cannot be fired. The “lemon dance” is the only option for principal’s to get rid of bad teachers and trade them in with better ones (Davis Guggenheim). Charter schools were created to...
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...The Effects of School Safety: Rough Draft Students generally feel safer on school campus because of the various safety precautions enforced by schools. School safety is in fact an important factor in the well-being of students all around. While many could argue that some school safety practices are too much or an invasion of personal privacy, school safety has more positives than negatives such as better relationships with teachers and peers, better academic progress, and help students to make better choices in life. Throughout school years students find themselves in search for belonging on a daily basis, having a better relationship with teachers and their peers can help students to see that one does not need to succumb to situations that will lead to behavioral issues. When students feel threatened in any way or form it is easier for them to develop a behavior issue in order to keep themselves from becoming the target. “Connectedness, belonging, and community all refer to students' sense of being in close, respectful...
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...How do you know if you are getting a good education? For some of us, having good teachers means getting good grades in school. In the documentary, “Waiting for Superman”, it demonstrates the importance of good teachers and the impact they have on students. If schools get more involved in the education of their students, children’s future would be affected greatly. Schools main focus needs to be providing a better education for children. In “Waiting For Superman,” the superintendent was trying to do away with bad teachers in his school due to them not teaching effectively. However, he was not successful because of “Tenure”. This ensures a teacher’s job for life after being a teacher for for three years, even if the teacher is doing a bad job. Some states do not have tenure, but the ones that do are reconsidering the terms and extending the time when a teacher can get this privilege. However, teacher unions continue to care more about teachers and their future instead of putting their main focus on what is good for the students....
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...How can we close the Achievement Gap? When we are thinking about our school system it isn’t difficult to think about different gaps, which we should reach. Gaps that we should break down to get a stronger education system, with better qualified teachers, which can lead our students to a grounded education. In the education system you can find negative stereotypes, which make the way for success for students even more difficult. Stereotypes can effect students in their personal goals but also make them feel less valued. Also, bad teachers in the school system aren’t making things better, which get protected from unions, but on the other hand teachers have no freedom. To find a way out of this dilemma between negative effected students and unsatisfied teachers who lose all kind of motivation, we should encourage students and teachers in their work away from unions, so that we can to attend our achievement gaps as soon as possible. Stereotypes are everywhere in our society, also in our schools. Although stereotypes can help students to do better in certain materials, stereotypes affect students and perpetuate and exacerbate gaps. Students who are in a negatively stereotyped group often underperform because of the pressure and worry they get in qualifying exams and aptitude tests in math, and these intensifies worries. According to Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, the author of “ Framed!” “Notions about innate ability don’t just hinder the performance of negative stereotyped...
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...Do Teachers Deserve Better Pay Teachers do not just work from 8-3 with summers off, most arrive early, stay late, and take papers home to grade, while spending the summer preparing for the next school year. (Meador). For the longest time there has been a huge controversial topic on whether teachers deserve better pay or not. Something that needs to taken into consideration is that not all teachers are good teachers and the ones who have made an impact on students should be rewarded and recognized. At the end of the end the better teachers we have the better grades and happier students there will be. Teachers should be paid more because of the hard work they’ve put into leading the future leaders of the world as a career. We can not expect...
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...What would happen if school was going all year? Some people think it would be better if school went all year long and it is up for debate. School going all year long is better than going for parts of the year because students wouldn’t “lose” their knowledge,it would be better on the teacher, and there would be more breaks. Everyone has felt the feeling of summer ending and going back to school. The first day of school a student might feel like they forgot all the knowledge they got from the previous school year. If there was year round school then they wouldn’t have that feeling. They will be more likely to remember what they learned from a past school year and use the information to their advantage. The students will do better on the tests because they know the information. The students need the first few weeks of school to even begin to take in knowledge. They went from playing in the sun to sitting at a desk for hours. Those first few weeks of school would have been wasted because they are not as focused. That is wasted time for both student and teacher. Teachers put a lot of work into each lesson they prepare for their students. Some students...
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...institute. This is usually a certain qualification or certificate at the end of a certain period of study. To help market the school we need to ensure that the qualification gained by studying at the school is something that the student will benefit from either by gaining employment or moving on to a higher qualification. This means studying the education market and knowing for sure what the market needs. The qualification gained by the student has to be something the market needs. This means carefully studying the job market and the educational institutions market. 2- Consumer expectations: The marketing strategy should concentrate on bringing to consumer’s attention the number of past student who made it into higher educational institutes or gained employment because of qualifications or certificates gained at the school. Marketing should emphasis the facilities at the school. 3- Consumer satisfaction: The marketing of the school should find and publish evidence of consumer satisfaction from schools recent history. This can be in the form of testimonials from former students about how they benefited from studying at the school. These testimonials can be in the form written testimonials or short videos of former students telling about how satisfied they were with their period at the school. 4- Competitors action: The school should study what competitor schools are doing and adjust marketing...
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...an education crisis the youth of the country lose out on this crucial stage of development and face being unprepared for the challenges they may face. Often youth in this situation battle to find employment after school. The education system woes are hardened by the fact that a large portion of the government budget goes towards building and developing this sector, whilst this seems to reflect a positive outlook for education there is a shocking conclusion. South Africa puts more money towards its education system in comparison to other developing nations, as...
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...Rancho Solano Preparatory School: Proposed Change for a Better Future Traditionally it is believed that you can get a better education from private school rather than public school. Private schools are smaller therefore have a better flow of communication within their network of faculty, parents, and students. Back in 2014, the Rancho Solano Preparatory School (RSPS) went about some drastic changes that affected the school board, students, teachers, and parents. Providing students private education for over sixty years, RSPS has been well established within the community. Parents and students used to look forward to attending RSPS because of how prestigious it was and the school’s well known history. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. There is no law against people who make poor decisions and the past cannot be changed, however mistakes can be learned from to make way for a better future. A change within the school board subsystem of RSPS would make room for better information flow, a better workforce structure, and for other subsystems already in place to run more efficiently. The major organizational subsystem that needs to be changes at RSPS is the school board members. On January 6, 2014, Dr. Audrey Mernard (head of RSPS) announced to her staff that they would be closing campuses in Peoria and Gilbert (Illinois) due to a “strategic direction” that is best for RSPS (Moore, 2014). This was the only explanation given to the faculty and there was no debate...
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... Effective Leadership Results in School Improvement Kimberly D. Nash Strayer University June 17, 2013 Effective Leadership for School Improvement "Educational leadership can be madness or it can make a contribution to improve our schools. It can be a frantic effort to fix everything or it can be concentration on a few important items. It can be a futile exercise of power or it can empower individuals to help themselves. In the face of dramatic social change, a troubled sea of governance conflict, and excessive demands being made on schools, it can be said that one who aspires to school leadership must either be mad or a supreme egotist." (Bainbridge & Thomas, 2001) I would add that whether you are either, the goal should be achieving positive results. There is no easy solution to improving schools and school systems, but it has to begin with effective leadership. School leadership plays a key role in improving school outcomes by influencing the motivations and the capacities of teachers, as well as school climate and environment. Effective school leadership is essential to improve the efficiency and equity of schooling. (Pont, 2008) Effective leaders are the ones who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer teachers, parents and students an opportunity to work together to improve their schools. One of the most important goals of leadership...
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...Autistic children have a right to have an equal education as a child without a disorder. Public awareness of autism has increased, and more and more children are being identified as having ASD. Early diagnosis, treatments and positive behavioral support is needed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Parents of autistic children need to have their children treated throughout the child’s life to ensure that they are getting all the help available to them. This will help the teachers have a better handle with the child to further the child’s education in the classroom and at home. Parent and teacher communication is the key to making the child have a better life. Autism is defined by the Autism Society of America (ASA) as: “Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain, impacting development in the areas of social interaction and communication skills” (Definition of Autism). Children with autism have problems with communication, both verbal and non-verbal, interacting socially, and activities including leisure and play. “Autism is one of five disorders that fall under the umbrella of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), a category of neurological disorders characterized by several and pervasive impairment in several areas of development” (Autism Defined). The majority of the signs of...
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...evolution of American Education. John Dewey helped to form that classroom and its settings. He taught that education is a social and interactive process. He also said that social reform should take place in a social institution, which a school is considered a social institution, therefore a school is not only a place to gain knowledge but to also gain life skills. Dewey also made a point to explain that the knowledge a student will gain depends upon that student as well as the teacher. The teacher should be able to relay information to a student in a way that will help them realize the connection between the information and their experiences that will allow the student to retain the information. Teachers should be a guide for the student. The most famous line of the widely publicized report declared that "the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people" (U.S. Department of Education, 1983). A Nation at Risk is a report that was released by Terrel H. Bell. This report showed that the majority of students could not read, write or do math at their current level. Because of this growing problem many reforms were to take place to achieve better standards. The reforms that were proposed were to include four courses in English, three in mathematics, and three in science, three in social studies, and one-half credit in computer science. If the student wanted to attend college it...
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...parents when the teacher provides a copy of disclosure document to make sure parents understand how the classroom will run, how the children will be graded, classroom rules, general information to help the parents understand the classroom, and includes information directly from the State Education office on what the state expects student to learn. The teacher also provides a copy of the national standards for Social Studies, which will help parents and students prepare for the country reports which will be assigned later in the year. General effect of being sensitive right from the start of the class will help to builds a good relationship between parents and teacher. Making the disclosure document available to parents will help the parents understand what to expect in the school year. Parents have better understanding how the class room works and what the student will be taught in the school year required by the state. Helps both parents and students to understand class room rules and what the teacher expects from each student’s behavior and parents can influence their child to behave their best in the classroom. Also parents will be more knowledgeable about what the teacher expects from each students academically to achieve good grades, which will help parents to prepare their children for tests, quizzes, and do homework. Furthermore it helps the parents to know how the teacher grades, like what areas and the work students will be graded on and what the teacher is looking...
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...enrich learning? Although most students do not use textbooks, using tablets and notebook computers is a better way for students to manage their textbooks. For one reason, eBooks are cheaper than hard copy textbooks. Secondly, if students start using technology at an early age, they would handle technology better in the future. Also using technology in school opens up a world of possibilities, that \textbooks could not achieve. Therefore, technology should be used in classrooms. Most of the time, ebooks are cheaper than the hard copy books and whenever you buy some kind of tablet, they give individuals eBook discounts up to seventy percent off if you are using the device for school or college. Procon.org also states, “Physical textbooks cost more then eBooks so using tablets is a great idea and is less on the districts budget”. With this deal, schools will be able to provide tablets without going above their school budget. According to a student, he only spent eighty dollars on his digital copy. The used hard copy would have cost him two hundred dollars. With this information, eBooks is the better deal for both students and the school system. If students begin using technology at an early age such as kindergarten, they will be better equipped to handle technology if or when they use it in future classes or there work place. Now teachers are worried that some kids will either lose or accidentally break electronics. However, if students learn...
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