...Why Change Something So Good? Why is suspension bad? Are schools not doing all they can do for disobedient children? Do we really need to change the way we handle these kids entirely? Throughout school’s history, suspension has been there as a convenient and familiar way to handle naughty children. Even today it still is the best way to handle a hurting and disobeying child. Although non-suspensions can be good for some kids, schools should continue to suspend, because, kids that are kept in school could do even more damage, isolation is a better way to for the kid to handle his/her problems, and keeps the other kids safe and teaches them discipline. If kids are kept in school more damage could be done to the school. 73% of parents who have had their kids suspended is happy that they are confined and away from peers. Most students that get into suspension get it while doing wrong with peers. Keep them away from the others and they can’t do as much damage. Although some people feel that suspension just feeds the fire in the student, do we really need some perceived as delinquents running around with the better kids in the school? Think about this, the rate of students that get suspended each year is about 20% since we have been suspending them from the school it has gone down by 1.27% each year. On that pace in 8 years the...
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...primary education, four years of Junior High School and two years of Senior High School – to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for tertiary education, middle-level skills development, employment and entrepreneurship. The Senior High School level comprises two years of specialized upper secondary education wherein students may choose a specialization based on aptitude, interests, and school capacity. Freeman ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: Once they reach senior high, students are made to choose among four tracks such as academic, technical-vocational-livelihood, sports, and arts and design. Students who finish Grade 10 obtain Certificates of Competency or a National Certificate Level I (NC I). Those who finish a Technical-Vocational-Livelihood track in Grade 12 may obtain a National Certificate Level II (NC II) if they pass the competence-based assessment of TESDA. The General Education Curriculum in the college level will be revised and may lead to fewer units with the removal of unnecessary remediation since K to 12 graduates have undertaken the basic education curriculum required in College Readiness Standards. With the new system, the tertiary level will now comprise of a year of General Education subjects and at least two years of major subjects. Salas said that they are already looking at those degree programs that will not survive and should be closed years from now. These programs...
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...What should you do when two epistemic peers have the same evidence and disagree? The debate about disagreement is a controversial one. Disagreements form when a person believes in something that another person does not believe to be true. This mainly occurs because when people adopt different attitudes. Philosophers, including Feldman, Kelly and Christensen, have tried to determine the best approach for dealing with disagreements. This is an important issue because it causes people to question themselves and ask: how much should one’s confidence in his beliefs be affected when one learns that others, who seem as well-qualified as you are, hold beliefs contrary to yours? It is important to note that in this article, the disagreements I will be discussing will only focus on “epistemic peers.” Epistemic peers are people who share the same knowledge, intellectual capacity and rationality. For example, Jason and Adam, two seniors in high school who grew up in the same town, took similar classes and received similar grades, would be considered epistemic peers. On the other hand, Jason and Albert Einstein would not be considered epistemic peers. In this case, Einstein would most likely be epistemically superior to the student. Scenario Imagine you and your...
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...context of this tragedy using Uustal’s framework for ethical decision making. Ethical theories and principles will be presented and discussed as supportive arguments. Event, Ethical Implications, and Concern: Earlier this month, on January 8, 2011, nineteen people were gunned down outside of a Tucson-area supermarket, six of them fatally, in a massacre-style shooting. The gunman has been identified as 22-year old Jared Loughner. Investigations have revealed that Loughner exhibited disturbing and troublesome behavior on a number of occasions preceding the shooting. At his college campus, his behavior was regarded as so bizarre by class Professor Ben McGahee and fellow classmates that McGahee repeatedly requested the involvement of the school counselor....
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...Chicago (CNN) -- The Chicago Teachers Union and the city's school board reached a tentative agreement Friday in their dispute over new contract terms that have closed public schools for 350,000 students. Despite the possible deal, union president Karen Lewis cautioned that the strike, in its fifth day Friday, is not yet over. Union officials will meet between now and Sunday to draft specific language on a "framework for an agreement." They will present the document to a special committee of union representatives, at which time a majority vote will be taken on whether to suspend the strike. “Our delegates were not interested in blindly signing off on something they have not seen," Lewis said. However, Lewis was optimistic that the deal would be finalized. “We think it's a framework that will get us to an agreement, but we are not quite there," she said, adding she is "hoping and praying" students will be back in the classroom Monday. Chicago School Board President David Vitale was similarly positive about moving forward. "We have in place frameworks around all of the major issues that should allow us to conclude this process and to conclude it in time for our kids to be back in school on Monday morning," he said. Lewis declined at a news conference Friday afternoon to discuss details of the agreement. A source close to the negotiations said some of the terms include: keeping the current length of school year and school day; giving principals the freedom to hire their own teachers;...
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...Miami School District Negotiation Paper Anonymous Organizational Negotiations MGT/445 August 1, 2011 Instructor Introduction The Miami school district has announced that as a result of unanticipated escalation in student enrollment, school boundaries for the upcoming year will be redrawn. Consequently, the school board signed on professionals to delineate new school boundaries, which were to be submitted the subsequent year. Compliant with the redrawn boundaries many students will be required to leave his or her current schools. As word of this news spread, parents began expressing their concerns to the school board. The objections put forth by the parents included effects on the quality of education, increased in travel to and from school, blending of economic and cultural boundaries, effects on property values, and social influences on children. In this paper a plan to address stakeholders concerns will be provided and the stakeholders will be identified. Next, this paper will determine what negotiation strategy to employ in an effort to effectively support the school board’s need to redraw the boundaries while addressing the concerns of the stakeholders. Finally, this paper will explain how ethics and culture affect the decision from the Miami School District. Stakeholders and a Plan to Address Their Concerns Numerous stakeholders are affected by these negotiations. According to Lewicki, Saunders, and Barry, stakeholders are the various individuals and organizations...
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...APPLICATIONS Students, This is the capstone course for management majors. In it you will get the chance to apply what you have learned in your required classes. In this class you will practice making and implementing managerial decisions. It will be challenging, interesting, and fun. I look forward to working with you. Dr. Alan Balfour COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course requires Management majors to integrate and apply the concepts taught in Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior Analysis, Human Resources Management, and Organizational Assessment into a capstone project resulting in a written report and presentation. COURSE OBJECTIVES/STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Utilizing internet resources, textbook research, critical thinking, and imagination, students will integrate and apply management skills by creating and operationalizing an imaginary organization. In implementing this task, students will work effectively in a team, communicate their results through written analyses, and make presentations. In short, they will perform the tasks of managers, rather than merely studying about them. In doing so, you will be required to demonstrate competence in subject matter content, critical thinking and decision making, teamwork, writing skills and presentation skills. ABOUT THE PROFESSOR: Dr. Alan Balfour earned a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Albion College, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School, and a...
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...Career Interview by Shril Reid, Date/Time of Interview: 02/10/2016, 3:00 pm Interviewee: David Weathers Digital Media Design Instructor Position/Title Texas State Technical College Company Being a current student of Liberty University Online, working on a Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Education, I have decided to pursue a career in education. My goal is to become a college instructor. Being new to the Phoenix area with limited education, I had no way to do a live interview. Being the logical person I am, I contacted a past instructor of mine from Texas State Technical College in whom I maintain and ongoing acquaintance with. His name is David Weathers and he taught in Digital Media Design as well as many other classes. However, with him being in Texas and my location being Arizona, I conducted a video interview with him. Although, he no longer teaches at this college he gladly did the interview about his position there and how he got it. David’s Professional’s academic/experiential background began with an Associate's Degree at Texas State Technical College in 2000, and a bachelor's degree at the University of Advancing Technology in 2002. Before his position at TSTC, he served as a substitute teacher for Bryan ISD for a year, as a volunteer technician for a TV studio for a summer internship. He reports that his main relevant experience for the Job was as a prototype modeler for a dental office. Where he used 3d modeling to design dental...
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...of U.S.'s primary and secondary schools. The NCLB Act incorporates the principles and strategies proposed by President Bush. These include increased accountability; greater choice for parents and students; more flexibility in the use of Federal education dollars; and a stronger emphasis on reading. In exchange for tens and hundreds of millions in increased federal aid, NCLB asked states to: Assess students in grades 3-8, and once during grades 10-12, in reading and math by the end of the 2005-2006 school year, using state-designed tests to certify that all teachers of core academic subjects are highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year, using state-set definitions to Assess students in science once during grades 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12 by the end of the 2007-2008 school year, using state-designed tests and to provide public school choice and supplemental educational services to students in schools that have been unable to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for two consecutive years. Accept nothing short of 100 percent student proficiency by 2014. State flexibility is a key element within NCLB. Each individual state is given the flexibility to determine a variety of factors, including the definition of proficiency, the starting point for progress measurement, and the amount of progress that must be made from year to year. States also have the flexibility to develop their own test to determine if existing teachers should be deemed highly qualified. According...
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... Abstract Females in school are exposed to all kinds of different rules that takes away their right to express themselves. During this essay you will find reasons why dress codes are difficult to follow upon female student. This essay will also explore some of the different controversial issues between schools and female students due to the dress code policy, and the different ways females use to fight back. School dress codes are more for females than males, because schools see women as distraction for males and others. Schools dress codes are messing with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives the students the right to express themselves, without hurting others. We will see how females fight back on what they believe it is taking their freedom of speech and freedom to express their unique personalities. Fighting For Freedom Women like to express themselves through clothing, shoes, hair, make up and all kind of different accessories. Regardless of what color, religion, what body size or shape they have, females like to personalize their style using fashion and new trends. While parents drill on their female children the importance to love and feel comfortable with themselves no matter how they look. Schools portrays women as a “distraction” for men and others. They are constantly making changes to the school dressing codes, especially for female students from kindergarten to high school because of their natural sexuality...
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...into our prisons rather than our schools. By showing kids that it is more important to be tough on crime than it is for a proper education is wrong. If these practices continue you can expect to see higher drop-out rates and larger prison populations. Education should be the U.S.’s top priority and we should take pride in the greatest education system in the world. Education provides students not with just knowledge but ethics, character development and self-esteem which are important skills for the workplace and in life. That is why it is imperative that we change our education system to a higher standard and emphasize quality education for all in the U.S. to provide a better future for all students. The U.S. is currently putting less into schools and education while putting more into prisons and defense. States are choosing to increase spending on prisons while the funding for education is constantly decreasing. “In 33 of 50 states, corrections- related costs made up a larger proportion of the general fund than in the previous fiscal year, while spending on K-12 and higher education decreased” ( Hawkins). The U.S. is silently making a decision to keep people incarcerated while caring less about a proper education. What they don’t understand is that a proper education is the key to keeping kids and adults out of prison. We need to work together to put education first in the U.S. so we can reduce our ridiculous incarceration rates. Current school policies of zero tolerance and...
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...personality and eventually was a walking zombie, my mother noticed the drastic changes in me and when I was 12 she took me off the medications and sent me to therapy hoping I work through it. As time went on I was still easily distracted, couldn’t follow directions, forgetful about daily activities. As a child I was never sure why I couldn’t pay attention or why my mind wondered off. My mom sent me to the doctors multiple times to even have my hearing checked out. As I got older overtime I noticed it was getting harder and harder to concentrate in class, my grades began to drop because I wasn’t as focused as I use to be. ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) is a disorder that effects approximately 3% to 10% of school children and of those 60% of those will continue to have symptoms into adulthood. ADHD affects more men than women but into adulthood is begins to balance out. Most children that suffer from ADHD usually experience chronic boredom, anxiety, chronic lateness and forgetfulness, impulsiveness, low self-esteem, mood...
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...The judge of the trial said, “Phelps is powerless over alcohol”(Michoces). Phelps’ rapid embrace of treatment was taken into consideration when the judge decided his punishment. At first, Phelps was sentenced to up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for his actions. His driver’s license was suspended for six months. The Judge’s final decision was to suspend Phelps’ sentence in lieu of 18 months of supervised probation. Phelps was prohibited from having any alcohol intake while under probation. Phelps’ attorney believed that he was eager to embrace counseling and would continue to train for the 2016 Olympics (Michoces) (Zaccardi) (Walker). Due to Phelps’ choices, he faced some consequences. For example, one of his biggest sponsors, Kellogg Co. decide to drop him as one of their celebrity spokesmen (“Pleads”). Phelps was also suspended from swimming with USA Swim for six months. While Phelps was on probation, he was supervised by the State of Maryland’s Drinking Driving Monitor Program. Phelps continued to receive treatment and counseling. Phelps was quoted saying, "The last three months of my life have been some of the hardest times I've ever gone...
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...Topic: One of the major challenges facing Malaysia today is lack of leadership. Discuss this statement and include in your discussion the factors behind this leadership deficit. 1.0 Introduction These decades, there are many challenges facing by Malaysia that need to be handle effectively in order for Malaysia to achieve its vision on 2020. Recently, the latest issue in Malaysia that got concern not only by Malaysian but also international community are ‘I want to touch a dog’ programme, Selangor MB crisis, changing Malaysian education system, GST (good and service tax) implement on 2015, lost of MH370, MH 17 incident and many more. These showed that Malaysia has lack of leadership in term of emotion awareness, lack of communication skill, information and knowledge and much more. Lack of leadership is one of the major challenges for Malaysia because an effective leadership are needed to handle these entire problems effectively. However, Malaysia undergo leadership deficit. Maintaining the political peaceful, economic growth, multi-ethnic citizen and develop higher education are examples of another challenges for Malaysia to manage nowadays. The concept of leadership is quite unclear and it is different from concept of management but both are important. According to Jackson (1993), leadership can be define as thought of as belonging to the individual rather than given by virtue of his or her position in organisational which can be seen as an ability to motivate others and...
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...UNDERSTANDING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Qualitative research, also called interpretive research or field research, is a methodology that has been borrowed from disciplines like sociology and anthropology and adapted to educational settings. Qualitative researchers, as you already have learned, use the inductive method of reasoning and strongly believe that there are multiple perspectives to be uncovered. Qualitative researchers focus on the study of social phenomena and on giving voice to the feelings and perceptions of the participants under study. This is based on the belief that knowledge is derived from the social setting and that understanding social knowledge is a legitimate scientific process. The following are the key characteristics of qualitative research: • Studies are carried out in a naturalistic setting. • Researchers ask broad research questions designed to explore, interpret, or understand the social context. • Participants are selected through nonrandom methods based on whether the individuals have information vital to the questions being asked. • Data collection techniques involve observation and interviewing that bring the researcher in close contact with the participants. • The researcher is likely to take an interactive role where she or he gets to know the participants and the social context in which they live. • Hypotheses are formed afterthe researcher begins data collection and are modified throughout the study as new data are collected and analyzed...
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