...apparent that Mountain Valley Middle School students were not achieving at an adequate level in Literacy. The school joined the Western Maine Literacy Initiative and set the goal to develop and teach research-based strategies intended to help the students navigate non-fiction text in all classes. The 2007 and 2008 Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) results showed steady growth in the area of literacy. When the results were released in 2009 only 4% of eighth grade students did not meet literacy standards with 81% meeting and an unprecedented 18% exceeding the standards. The data from the 2009 NECAP showed only 42% of Mountain Valley Middle School students were achieving at the proficient benchmark in math. The NECAP data also indicated students were not adequately responding to constructed response questions. It was decided for the 2010-11 school year that dedicated research and implementation of strategies and instructional methods would be put into place to drive toward better instruction in mathematics. Students would also be taught tools to better navigate short answer and constructed response questions. The RTI initiative was viewed as a good place to start making pedagogical changes to the school environment to make the necessary changes that would allow students to be more successful in their learning endeavors. School Profile Mountain Valley Middle School (MVMS) is located in the town of Mexico, Maine. It is part of the Region School Unit #10 (RSU10) based in Dixfield...
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...Schoi School Funding Issues Brittany Henderson AED 200 Shandrina Griffin Stewart 5/23/2013 I live in the state of Oklahoma where our funding for education is not up to par. We are short $1 billion dollars in school operations funding and $3 billion dollars sort in facility funding. In Oklahoma there are many options for parents when it comes to educating their children. There is private, public, year round, home, and virtual schooling available. This is good because parents can put their children where their education needs can be met. However, this can also be bad for funding here in Oklahoma schools. Oklahoma’s education board picks one day closer to the beginning of the year to count each school’s enrollment number. They get paid for every one of those students whether they stay there all year or not. This is a negative effect on Oklahoma’s schools because if a school starts with 300 students and then rises to 500 students they are not getting funds for those other 200 students. The other schools that those students transferred from are. It seems that a lot of my classmates felt that the choice options did not seem to have a negative effect on school funding. A lot of them see it as fair because although the schools could be losing money for new students they are getting paid for those who leave their school as well. Or even if it evened itself out to where the school lost a certain number of kids but gained the same number. I can see the point but I feel...
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...it should be chosen wisely and in a healthy manner. Nutrition is a sensitive case especially when it involves children and adolescence. Schools should provide healthier and nutritious meals for the students. Both breakfast and lunch programs should be improved and directed to healthier choices for all students. Recently, there has been a big improvement to the breakfast and lunch programs in many schools across US. Although they still needs some work, these programs are already changing many children’s lives dramatically. Nowadays, most schools provide fast food such as donuts for breakfast and pizza, French fries and burgers for lunch. This problem is seen in most schools around the nation but specifically in areas with economical disadvantages. The economic situation defiantly affects the school food choices but this problem should be overturned. If we look at research done regarding this case, minorities such as African American and Hispanic children are at higher health risk due to the food decision they make. This case is tightly connected with their economical issues because most minority schools are seen to be serving unhealthy breakfast and lunch programs. This problem should be taken seriously and solution should be proposed. This is why the new programs target schools around areas that are economically challenged and schools with more minority students. Being healthy is very important to kids. Not only to live longer but also to pass it down to the next...
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...Environmental Issues and Schools of Thought An environmental issue greatly affecting the Florida Gulf Coast counties are the protection of the shores and beaches. Through recent years there have been oil spills in the gulf that have threatened numerous environments, endangered species, as well as hurt the tourism industry. The most threatening spill was the famous BP oil spill of 2010. This spill devastated numerous species of wildlife and hurt businesses for years. Although this is an ongoing threat, the greedy oil industry is still pushing for more offshore drilling which is forcing activists of all organizations to step up and fight their plans for more drilling. There two schools of thought that should be taken into account for people dealing with this issue. The first is pluralism. The state's elected leaders need to see both sides to this issue so they can vote and make an elected decision. If they were to see both sides to this environmental problem then they could come up with a strategy to have both sides agree to the plan. Without the idea of pluralism there would be no way to understand all aspects of this issue. The other school of thought relative to this issue is ethical extensionism, which means that all things in nature should be extended moral standing. People with this view will this these animals that have no say in the matter, but should be thought of in any decisions made. They are just as important to Florida's coast as humans are to the boating...
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...Karissa Ramirez School Law and Policy Issues Professor Criscione Table of Contents Introduction Student free speech Teacher free expression Freedom of Expression Rights: The Tinker Standard The Fraser standard The Hazelwood standard Faculty free speech Conclusion Introduction Free speech in public schools is important because it allows students and teachers to speak their minds on school grounds, wear jewelry or buttons, wear t-shirts with messages or color their hair a certain way. However, with the protection of the First Amendment that is guaranteed by the United States Constitution, it is sometimes not enough for students and teachers since there are limits to their speech or expression. It is evident that there are issues that have impacted free speech in public schools such as student and teacher free expression, freedom of expression under the First Amendment including the Tinker, Frazer and Hazelwood standard, and faculty free speech; in dealing with these cases it has helped shape future decisions of public school officials. Student Free Speech Student free speech rights have advanced since the twentieth century because previously students had no First Amendment rights. On the other hand, sometimes student’s rights are reduced or eliminated in certain situations. The Supreme Court has also maintained that the First Amendment rights of minors can be restrained in regards to school safety. School officials are also allowed to prevent, “student expression that presents...
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...Cultural Issues Within Public Schools Western society has many cultural markers which make up the society as a whole. Due to rapid expansion by both native residents and those who migrate here, the cultures temperature has changed and is still evolving. Change is not always easy and there is a constant attempt to gain balance. Racial divide is a longstanding cultural norm within the public school system. It is a ugly mark on our culture both in and out the school system. Racial tensions begun with the segregation of “whites” and “black”; this also included other races grouped in the minority category. Eventually schools were integrated but not without disproportionate education levels among the races. White students were known to have both better quality books and educators, even within the same school, than “minority” students. Today the racial culture has simmered a bit, however, disparities are still present among both the races and economic classes. This creates a dynamic that goes beyond the school system and effects every other aspect of our society. The unequal education levels creates a huge divide within the job markets, thus directly impacting the economic pulse and furthering the class divide. In addition to the impending economic divide, race plays a huge part in classroom relations among both students and teachers. Students have always had to find a way to relate to those of different races, which has not been so easy throughout the years. Each...
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...Issue of Extending The Traditional School Calendar Can you believe the recent arguments about schools throughout The United States? States have had many arguments on the academic school year length. Many people would argue that shortening the academic school year length is a wonderful choice: however extending the academic school year is more beneficial. Shortening the school year will hinder a student's education and overall readiness for the world. The academic school year should be extended for not only more academic learning time, but to better our students for the global world if The United States is to remain a dominant economy in our world. Our traditional school calendar was designed for the earlier time periods of The United States’ farming economy as stated in “ Shortchanged by the Bell”(Ubinas & Gabrieli.) . With the school’s calendar schedule of 180 days, six and a half hour days of school ( Nisen.), it is not enough to comply with today’s high-tech economy. This upholds the need for more academic learning time. With the 30 minutes to an hour class periods, students are unable to learn and understand all material they should know by the end of the school year. Ideally, increasing learning by 30 percent would mean more individualized support and a more well-rounded education in a broader array of subjects (Ubinas & Gabrieli.) . Particularly at Mundy’s Mill High School the time for first period needs to be extended. Especially if you have math...
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...CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM. INTRODUCTION: Education has remained an instrument of change and national development. It is a social process and the medium for the acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes for survival in a changing world. The strengthening of democratic institutions witnessed the world over including Nigeria and the rapid increase in globalization has become more prominent in the 21st century. Nations desire closer cooperation, improvement in the quality of life, respect for the rule of law and Human Rights and peaceful co-existence among communities and nations constitute global issues of concern. In responding to these issues Nigeria has been part of the global deliberations on Education for All (EFA) which have been reflected in the national education policies and programs. This led to the restructuring of the Universal Basic Education curriculum in Nigeria, where the NERDC has introduced a new 9 year basic education curriculum for distribution in schools. Part of the restructuring of the secondary school curriculum included some controversial content such as Civic education, Entrepreneurial studies, Trade subjects, ICT etc. ISSUES ON THE INCLUSION OF THE CONTROVERSIAL CONTENT IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM. Problems associated with this content are as follows: 1. Teachers’ understanding of the ICT curriculum 2. Infrastructural facilities for trade subjects and ICT 3. Evaluation of trade...
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...development of the child. There is no such thing as the perfect family. Every family is unique with its own combination of strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes families get overwhelmed by what seems like an endless list of challenges when it comes to juggling work, school and individual family members' needs. Over the past 20 years single-parent families have become even more common than the so-called "nuclear family" consisting of a mother, father and children. Today we see all sorts of single parent families: headed by mothers, headed by fathers, headed by grandparents raising their grandchildren. Life in a single parent household - though common - can be quite demanding and stressful for the adult and the children. Structurally, family/homes is either broken or intact. A broken home in this context, is one that is not structurally intact, it could be as a result of divorce, separation, death of one parent, economic status and illegitimacy. According to Frazer (2001), psychological home conditions arise mainly from illegitimacy of children, the label of adopted child, broken home, divorce and parental deprivation. Such abnormal conditions of the home are likely to have a detrimental effect on the student performance in the school. However, the child also faces more indirect conflict with high academic achievement from areas like; finance and family background. Families that are faced with financial challenges can have negative influence on the student intelligence and social life....
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ISSUES IN PHYSICAL XML DATABASE DESIGN Damien Fisher (3065680) Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Wong Submission Date: October 29, 2003 Abstract Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of XML, a markup language for representing semistructured data. Some of this popularity can be attributed to the success that the semi-structured data model has had in environments where the relational data model has been insufficiently expressive. It is thus natural to consider native XML databases, which are designed from the ground up to support XML data. Developing a native XML database introduces many challenges, some of which we consider here. The first major problem is that XML data is ordered, whereas relational databases operate on set-based data. We examine the ordering problem in great detail in this thesis, and show that while it imposes an unavoidable performance penalty on the database, this penalty can be reduced to an acceptable level in practice. We do this by making use of type information, which is often present in XML data, and by improving existing results in the literature. XML data is frequently queried using XPath, a de facto standard query language. The importance of XPath is increasing, due to its use as a primitive in the more powerful emerging query language, XQuery. It is widely believed that the one of the most promising approaches to evaluating...
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... Area Vice President, Public Entity School Security On July 15, 2015 the New Jersey Legislature approved the final report of the School Security Task Force which the purpose of the Task Force was to study and develop recommendations to improve school security and safety and to ensure a safe learning environment for students and school employees. This report and its recommendations will guide all New Jersey Public Schools with improving security, physical and cyber. The Task Force was charged with the identifying physical and cyber vulnerabilities and potential breaches of security in New Jersey’s public schools. Afterwards their research they were to make recommendations to improve school safety and security. The Task Force’s charge was to study a number of issues including, but not limited to, the following: 1. Placing screening systems at school entrances; 2. Stationing police officers in each school building; 3. Improving response times to emergency situations, including lockdowns, active shooter incidents, and bomb threats; 4. Requiring advanced student and visitor identification cards; 5. Using biometric, retina, and other advanced recognition systems for authorized entrance into school buildings; 6. Installing panic alarms in school buildings to alert local law enforcement authorities to emergency situations; 7. Securing computer networks to prevent cyber-attacks; 8. Scheduling periodic patrols of school buildings and grounds by local law enforcement...
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...ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/ece-214-week-1-assignment-nutrition-issues/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES Proper health and nutrition is of critical importance to the growth and development of young children, yet many American children suffer from nutrition issues. Choosing either malnutrition or obesity, address the following: 1. 1. Discuss the short- and long-term impacts of this nutrition issue on children’s growth and development. 2. Describe a specific child (within the early childhood age range of birth to age eight) who has this nutrition issue. This may be a child you know or you can describe a fictitious child. In your description, address how the child’s school day is affected by the issue and describe three specific ways the early childhood teacher addresses the issue in the school or center setting. 3. Describe three specific ways to combat this nutrition issue that involve collaboration among school, family, and community (e.g., parent education, school breakfast, and lunch programs, etc.. The paper should be three to four pages in length, in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used...
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...Miami School District Paper MGT/445 Miami School District The purpose of this paper is to help understand negotiation strategy that can be used to assist the Miami School District. It will also deal with understanding economical and cultural differences that rezoning can cause. The school district has made the decision to redraw the school attendance boundaries. This decision is based upon a higher number of applications for enrollment. This decision while a positive for the school system could pose unclaimed issues for parents. Another issue may be in effect on the students and their ability to deal with a new school. Many parents have banded together to oppose the rezoning of the school district. They are basing this on quality of education at new schools, increased travel for children and issues with socioeconomic differences. Objections Many parents are unhappy with the school districts plans for re-zoning the schools. Most opponents feel that re-zoning will decrease the education their child receives. One key issue is the lack of knowledge concerning the faculty of the new school. Another reason is that busing students to schools increases travel time to areas away from their home. It is possible that traveling far away from home can cause a hardship on the student as well as the parent. Lastly, some parents in more affluent areas will choose to register their children in private schools rather than have the mix with lower economic status students. Parents also feared...
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...Miami School District Negotiation The Miami School District is negotiating on redrawing the school boundaries for the upcoming year because of an unexpected increase in enrollment. The following reasons are what affect the issue on redrawing the boundaries in which affect the parents, children, and the community. The reasons are quality of education, increase travel time, crossing economic and cultural boundaries, effect on property values, and social effects on children. The plan essential to meet the needs and wants of both parties in negotiation will address or meet what is important. Stakeholders Stakeholders are the individuals who are essential in which the redrawing will affect. The stakeholders who affect or have an issue with redrawing the school boundaries are the children attending or want to attend the school district. The parents with who attend the school district and the employees who works for the school district. The communities around the areas of the schools that are affected from the district that needs to be redrawn. Even though the issues from these parties are important the school boards needs to create a win-win strategy. Negotiation Strategy The negotiation strategy in which the school board need to create is needs to meet both the concerns for the stakeholders and their own party. Without addressing both parties the redrawing of boundaries can create a win-lose situation in which can affect the school board in the end...
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...March 2015 Defective Education System in Native American Reservation and Its Impacts Native Americans have suffered through many issues since they lost their lands to the U.S. government. Especially the Indian teenagers, they are not only losing their traditional culture, but also a proper environment for them to get education and be prepared for life. In Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, he uses two teenagers’ scope to describe the life in Native American reservation in Spokane. The two boys, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, tell the stories of conflicts with family members and struggles among their peers. In Indian education, Victor narratively tells the fights, discrimination and confusion he and his friends went through. High rate of violence, substance abuse and mental health problems appear among Indian students in the reservation schools. It is clear that the defective education system and school environment in Native American reservations leads to those severe issues. Violence is one of the key issues that appear in Native American reservation schools. In Indian Education from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, the main character Victor witnessed a fight between Randy, the new Indian kid, and Steve. Randy was transferred from a white town. Within an hour after he first arrived his new school, Steve Flett picked on him by calling him names. Many students gathered around in the playground to witness the fight. During the...
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