...2001”. He wanted to emphasize equal access to education and establish high standards and accountability. While in office, President Bush intentions were good however the Act itself has raised many issues and concerns with parents. Even though we all share the common goal, which is to better educate our youth, we must look more into depth regarding the pros and cons of the “No Child Left Behind Act”. The Act hinders our children, effects the ethics and morals of the school system, and our economy (Eugene Hickok, 2002). The thesis statement is the argument of demands of the reform “No Child Left Behind” have resulted in insufficient provision and implementation of services for special needs students in “failing” schools. The “No Child Left Behind Act” affects many, but perhaps the most affected are the children. The law was enacted to improve our children’s academic achievement, yet it has hindered them. Our children go to school 180 days out of the year and in those days they are expected to learn the necessary tools to help them be successful in the next grade level and in life. The Act raises concerns because it allows children to be promoted to the next grade level without meeting the requirements of the grade level they are currently in. This along is a major problem because how can we expect our children to master any grade level and they never mastered the skills in the prior grade. Issues like this will always affect our children forever. They will have to work extra harder...
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...Free College Education: Right vs Privilege In one of his speeches, Leonard L. Boswell, a former U.S. Representative for Iowa's 3rd congressional district, quotes “The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals” (Ersoy). Over the years, college tuition fees have increased immensely. Statistics show that the average in-state tuition fees at public four-year schools increased from $8,646 in 2012-13 to $8,893 in 2013-2014. In 2013-14, the percentage increase in tuition fee prices for out-of-state students was 3.1% which was slightly higher than that for state residents at public four-year institutions. There was an increase from $12,887 to $13,310. The $110 increase in average tuition and fees for full-time students in a public two-year colleges reflected a 3.5% increase from $3,154 in the years 2012-2013 to $3,264 in 2013-14. The $1,105 increase in average published tuition and fees for full-time students at private nonprofit four-year institutions reflected a 3.8% increase from $28,989 in 2012-13 to $30,094 in 2013-2014 (“Trends in Higher Education”). Furthermore, between the years 2001 to 2011, at least a third of states experienced funding cuts. During the recent recession in 2008, total public funding for higher education has declined by 14.6 percent (O'Shaughnessy). Consequently, the escalating cost of college tuition has threatened educational opportunities for...
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...If we would stop eating chocolate it would be an important message to slave holders. F. e., as 60% of Ivory Coast income is chocolate; stopping chocolate will damage its economy. Thus, government and authorities themselves will try to fix child slavery. We should stop eating chocolate made from Western Africa until they fix slavery. We should impose an embargo on chocolate from countries where are child labor. The UN and modern society stands against slavery, so if we eat chocolate made by children hands, we are partners in this because we get benefit from slavery. It means all speeches and laws against slavery are empty words. Poverty. Nothing changed from medieval ages. Children works in farms a whole week and do not get payments or their payment is 2 dollars a day. This is only one positive thing that they get but does it worth much. If children would not be slaves they could go to schools. Government has to provide education. Hence, literacy of people would increase and as a result it can decrease poverty and unemployment. What future can be if children do not have education? According to trade economics there is 15% of unemployment in Ivory Coast and this is only official numbers. If we stop eating chocolate from this country, government sunderstand that the only way to supply chocolate is give a job to adults. A special commission must be created to control this in such countries. If child labor disappears and will not exist anymore, only then trade can be reopened. Must...
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...myths of modern education that Orr identifies in chapter 1? Which of these six myths do you agree with most? Why? Myth one is that ignorance is a solvable problem that is escapable by the human race. Myth two is that enough knowledge and technology can manage planet earth, it can help change the way we do things each day and change the way us humans affect the earth. Myth three is that knowledge about the problem is increasing. Myth four is that higher education can rebuilt the earth, and rebuild the damages that we have caused to the earth. Myth five is we educate children for more success and mobility only; we are not really preparing them for the problems they will be facing in the future. Finally, myth six states that culture is what represents all human achievements. The myth I agree most with would be hat ignorance is a solvable problem. A lot of people have no idea how we can fix the earth and how simple changes in our life can slowly help. The ignorance people just need to be educated on how they can change and what they are doing now, affects the earth. 2. What is Orr’s reasoning for saying, “all education is environmental education?” Orr is saying that all education is environmental education because students today are taught that we are part of the earth and that whatever we do each and everyday, can affect it in the long run. In schools around the world today, there are more economical classes teaching about the changes in the economy, there are classes...
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...Name: Professor: l Course: Eng-103 Date:12/03/2015 Taste Education Taste education as propagated by Slow Food Movement is the act of bringing food back to its roots. The critical aspect in the taste education debate deals with the way culture relates to food. Taste education protagonists argue that there is disconnect between the younger generation and the sources of what they term as fair food systems. Ideally, the future is at stake regarding the young people not understanding the food systems in a much easier way. People tend to be very busy on a daily basis, that little time is spent on refining and expanding knowledge of food thereby appreciating food. As mentioned early, food must involve aspects of culture, pleasantness, and pleasure. The reason as to why the taste education debate is controversial is due to the increasing rate of fast and junk foods that have been identified as serious threats to the health of both young and the elderly. Younger people tend to lack the knowledge of cooking when they grow. It affects them regarding understanding the quality of food they are expected to eat. The underlying fact is that there is a failure on the part of the parents who are to blame for the lack of this knowledge. That begs another question; does it mean that the parents too lack the expertise to cook? On an analytical perspective, taste education is an aspect that truly lacks in our education systems and among the general human fraternity. There is a growing crop of...
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...DEFINING A CAREER IN A DOWNWARD ECONOMY Kimoy Byer Saint Leo University MBA 525 11 Dec 2011 ABSTRACT A career should be attained in life is what we are taught by our parents, teachers, leader and mentors. The question of “what is it you want to be when you grow up” follows us throughout generations. We aspire to answer that question at some point in our lives. Job opportunities are constantly on the horizon. With the creation and expansion of new organizations new jobs become open. These changes afford us the ability to have a variety of jobs to choose from as we define our career path. For many years we have been told that education drives success and the more proficient you are in field the more successful you will be. Society and the economy constantly change along with its expectations. Our country is facing an economic crisis, people are losing their jobs, their homes and unemployment is at its highest. Is it necessary to continue on the path towards a career during a downward economy? Should we continue to focus on the notion that education will bring success or, should we adjust our goals towards daily survival? Growing up we all had professional desires. Our childhood imagination of what we wanted to become when we grew up marked the beginning stages of defining our career roles. As we got older those roles changed partly due to our experiences and society’s expectations...
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...The hypothesis will often predict how one form of human behavior influences another. 3 hypothesis How do poor people affects our economy? If everyone has the same financial status, that means everyone will also have more or less the same propensity to consume which means the market will be structured accordingly. Believe it or not, but a lot of products will actually disappear, many industries will close down, and those people will be out of work - that will cause a drop in their income and cause inequality. People will refuse to do certain jobs- jobs they do not like, find boring, or consider below dignity. If those services are in demand by the society (street sweeping, grave digging for example) and there are too few people doing the job, then wages will soar. People will end up paying more for these services. High wages mean large labour costs to the entrepreneur. Except industries which are purely technologically driven, other industries will face a crunch of entrepreneurs as people will figure out that working as an employee has larger returns. But then, more employees will mean reduction in wages, and entrepreneurship will get a boost. The market will adjust till an equilibrium is reached. At this equilibrium, there will be employees as well as entrepreneurs, and normally, both do not belong to the same financial class. On the other hand, poor people also affect the economy by requiring subsidies, thus causing governments to spend and sometimes spend so much that they incur deficits...
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...stated that youth violence is a global problem happening between the age of “10-24”. Youth violence can be known as bullying, assault, any physical harm, or even robbery. Does it affect the people around you, but also does youth violence affects the economy, are the families living in the wrong neighborhood, or that the family has some challenge in life. In the article, Economics and Youth Violence: Crime, Disadvantage, and Community, it states that the young people affect the community. They increase the deaths, injuries, and destroyed property. The violence usually comes from minor low-income families or children that are roaming around the streets that are setting bad examples and they are picking...
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...eliminate child labor, and help foster ideas and the means for the economic and social protection of the poor, the elderly, the unemployable, women, and children. More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are growing. The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. Child labor is not an easy issue to resolve; while it seems like it would be an easy thing to just withdraw from the firms and factories that employ child labor, but it may do more harm than good. Many of these children are from very poor families and they work to help their families with food and their own educations. The desperate need for income some children seek and find very low paying jobs and in some cases even prostitution. Child labor affects over 250 million children, 30 percent or in Latin America. Poverty is the most...
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...Does a College Degree Matter 4/10/2015 DeVry University What does the word education mean to you? Education has many definitions, education is the act or process of educating or being educated from a school at any level. Many are asking is a college education worth it any more. Some are questioning if the value of education worth the time. Unfortunately this situation is a growing problem in our society, which needs a positive solution put in place so we won't be forced to make these difficult decisions later in life. Managing money should be a big focus in our school system. The benefit of college education, does outweigh the cost, though the cost of college is at an all-time high, it’s still beneficial. As a society we have been conditioned to accept the pursuit of a higher education as a primordial part of our development into professionals and ultimately breadwinners in our homes. The salary of a high school graduate is seventy-three percent lower than that of a college graduate in any given field of study(Abel.Jaison, 2014) The disparity in job opportunities for that same high school graduate versus that same college graduate can vary just as greatly. A degree, even when unrelated to the job applied for, demonstrates reliability and perseverance to a potential employer. We are therefore expected, often as young adults, to at least consider some college education before heading into the work force. Speaking from a realistic experience and standpoint...
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...political changes in the developing world, environmental changes, and population patterns. These entire factors will influence and affect the future of the world. Economic disparity Economic disparity amongst countries varies greatly. The South compared to the North displays how there can be a large difference between countries in the South and North. A large factor contributing to the economic disparity of the South has to do with the lack of a properly developed government and human rights violations. Mexico for example is known for its high poverty levels and below minimum wage pay rates. Many United States companies have moved their production and assembly plants to Mexico in order to save on the cost of labor. These Mexicans/Hispanics many work in these factories and make about sixty to seventy dollars per week. Neither the Mexican president nor the government has done anything to pass laws to offer employees a minimum wage pay rate. Along with a below minimum wage pay rate many of the citizens of Mexico have several children and many are single mothers living in below living standards. Economic disparity can be minimized by countries becoming industrialized and specializing and being competitive within trading markets. Many of the countries in the South lack the advancement of technology and education. With the appropriate technology and education a country face economic disparity...
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...Issue Over the last nine weeks this course has taught me about different social problems that our society live in, but tries to cover it up by pushing it under a rug. Although I know our society has issues, I just didn’t think of them in this way since starting class and doing the research we’ve done, have taught me so much. Many of society issues are social inequality, poverty, urbanization, discrimination against race, and culture. When learning about these issues, I’ve decided to do my paper on Poverty and Children in the United States. Poverty within the United States has become a major issue that affects our society and at hand families with children are coming face to face with this issue every day of their life. Poverty has become a major issue in our society today due to the result of our economy and the decision that one makes in life. And sad to say when the economy is always on the defense at failing, the children of our society have to pay a high price. There’s many reason and factors that can be related to one’s poverty. Some factors that can take place to which can place a child at poverty could be, single parent, unemployment, homelessness, abuse, or mother having more kids she can take care of. Over time history shows that poverty in the United States has raised a great deal. Many of us can’t even imagine how it feel to live in poverty, even if it’s looking us right in our eyes, we still try not to picture ourselves in that place. Poverty means can range from so much...
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...Rhonda Hammad Principles of Economics Extra Credit #1 Read a book dealing with an issue of economic policy and write a review addressing a)why you think the author wrote the book, 2)how effectively he articulated his position and 3)do you agree or disagree with his ideas and why. It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. The book I reviewed was “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” by Robert D. Putnam. In this book Putnam asks a series of questions of the future and economy. He wonders what stance the economy will be and what the future may hold for Our Kids. He answers these questions through a series of analyzed data and speaking to many people about social and economic...
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...higher price. Third, there are no barriers to movement of firms into or out of the market. Fourth, there is perfect information about market conditions that is available to all market participants; and lastly, economics is a fully defined system of property rights in which ownership of all products and productive resources is assigned. In economic theory, the law of supply and demand is considered one of the fundamental principles governing an economy. It is described as the state where as supply increases the price will tend to drop or vice versa, and as demand increases the price will tend to increase or vice versa. Basically this is a principle that most people intuitively grasp regarding the relationship of goods and services against the demand for those goods and services. When supply and demand are in balance, the economy is said to be in equilibrium between price and quantity. Health can indeed be regarded as a fundamental commodity that is essential to a person’s well being, leading to a demand for improvements in it. Health does have characteristics that more conventional goods have. It can be manufactured; it is wanted and people are willing to pay for improvements in it. However, its relationship with the demand for health care is not one-to-one. In the context of ordinary goods and services, economics distinguishes between a want, which is the desire to consume something, and effective demand, which is a want...
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...have landed in path of demise because of their lack of environmental awareness, failed marketing attempts, as well as strategic planning. Nowadays, one of the industries that we have seen take a plunge is the Daycares Market& Early Childhood Education. The main reason that this industry is experiencing this plunge is because of the decreased numbers of governmental funding to help parents pay for the services as well as the lack quality of services. Another reason is due to the time frames that daycares are open is not parallel to the time-frames parents are working at the moment. Because of these reasons daycares are not seeing the growth or sustenance of revenue as they were years ago, parents are looking at other options of child care, and a lot of daycares have evolved into low quality standards. The National Bureau of Economic Research states how “it is critical to develop an understanding of the way the child care market operates and how it relates to quality. The issue is important because the average quality of center-based child care provided in the United States is thought to be mediocre, especially compared to the quality of care provided in other developed countries” (NBER, 2002). One well-known day care/early childhood education provider is La Petite Academy. La Petite Academy has been around since 1968 and has over 500 locations in the country. The tuition has been known to be pricey which usually results in a variety of people overlooking the quality of the experience...
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