...Gunn Dr. Aristotle Mante PAD 500 October 27, 2014 Abstract Education continues to be an issue that has the President of the United States ready to take action. Over time we have been looking at ways to improve our educational system to compare to other school systems around the world. The George W. Bush administration implemented the No Child Left Behind initiative, which is specific to Title I schools and geared to students with learning disabilities. In the pages to follow I will discuss the issue of Education and which of the four public policies supports this issue. Along with policy modifications that would positively and negatively impact the issue of Education. There will also be discussion around the relationship between government and businesses, and the role they play in the Education issue. President Barack Obama is taking a stand on Education for all Americans. While looking at the issues that are covered on the White House website, Education is one that speaks to the Constituent Public Policy type. Constituent Policies (Lowi, 1972, p.300) are intended to benefit the public generally or to serve the government. With regards to the issue of education, President Obama made it clear on the White House Website, that education is the key to obtaining future jobs. This issue will be beneficial to every child in America, because this starts with Early Childhood learning. This also includes childcare centers, Head Start programs...
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...commercial catches your attention. “Start your new life today!” You have seen it many times before but for some reason it hits you differently tonight, “begin classes now…” you stand frozen by the words for a moment, considering the possibilities before it hits you, “It could never happen.” You think to yourself. “We both work so much and we can barely pay the bills as it is; and what about the kids? We can’t afford daycare and definitely not if I cut my hours to go to school.” All the sudden you feel stuck, you look at your children asleep on the couch, you want better for them, better for yourself, but how? Where do you start? This is a picture painted in the hues of poverty, lack of education and despair; a picture painted all too often on the canvas that is our great country. Americans stuck in the grind, not a clue as to how...
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...the significance of a well rounded literacy education. Their approaches toward students’ gaining a literacy education are singular. Both countries are discovering the importance of the relationships between an early childhood education and a literacy education. Struggles are happening within each countries education system with the rise in population of Immigrants and poverty. Learning literacy skills to read symbols, numbers, alphabets, and words are necessary for individuals to live in any society. As you read further, you will learn of the importance and difficulties of attaining a literacy education for both Germany and the United States of America early childhood students. Every child that is born learns the first skills of literacy from their caregiver or parent. Children learn to speak by watching the adults around them. Miller (2007) believes these actions are part of cultural learning. (p. 18) Young infants are learning most of their behaviors unconsciously. Albert Bandura (cited in Boyd & Bee, 2006) defines the observation done by infants and children as observation learning or modeling. (p. 31) The first skills that are learned by children at home are the most important skills that help them become great students in the classroom. Literacy skills are not formed in the same manner as speaking. One does not learn to read by simply observing another person reading. Also, one parent does not have the same education level to teach a child as the next parent. ...
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...Educational Standards A. G. Com/172 Educational Standards Education is a vital good, like fresh food or medical treatment, and this has been proven since the 1800s. Although it is a responsibility of the individual States, the United States (U.S.) Government assumes the responsibility of deciding what constitutes “education” for school-age children in America (American History Journal, 2010). The American Government holds the sentiment that change to public schools’ curriculum is critical to advancement. This paper will discuss whether or not raising the U.S. Educational standard will give American students an advantage professionally. The History of the United States Education Department The American Educational Department was created in 1867 to gather information on schools and teaching. This information was used to help the United States produce effective schools. For over 130 years the department of education continues to provide information on what works in education to teachers and policy makers. In 1946, The United States Department of Education (ED) began vocational training in high schools. These training programs consisted of agriculture, industrial arts, and home economics, and were focused on better preparing students for future careers. In 1957, the U.S. voiced concerns that the...
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...THE FUTURE OF DISTANCE LEARNING Introduction Advances in technology: the internet, videotapes, DVD's, email, and video teleconferencing, has transformed the traditional correspondence course to a more viable alternative to the traditional and sometimes restrictive limits to face-to-face classroom interaction between student and teacher. Finally, there is an alternate delivery system of education that has and will continue to have a major impact on traditional “brick and mortar” educational institutions. This alternate delivery method is called Distance Learning. Distance Learning is defined as teaching and learning without the need for the teacher and student to meet at the same time and place. Due to a major increase in working adults returning to either finish theirs degrees or advance their careers in general, the need for flexible class schedules and the lack of available classrooms has stimulated the market for Distance Learning to a level similar to the proliferation of the dot coms of the late 1990’s. Some experts have gone as far as to predict that the "residential based model," that is, students attending classes at prearranged times and locations will disappear in the near future (Blustain, Goldstein, and Lozier 1999 and Drucker 1997). Prospective Distance Learning students should be aware of the negatives and pitfalls before committing to tuitions as high as the $545.00 per unit University of Phoenix charges for its distance learning graduate program.1 A student’s...
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...Gap A study in Graduation Rates between African-Americans and Caucasians May 18, 2010 Cross-Cultural Psychology Education and Racism are two problems facing our youth these days. While there have been enormous strides in both there seems to be a negative correlation between the two. As the education has gotten better in America for all students of all races, there seems to be a growing divide in graduation rates between the two of the primary races; Caucasians and African Americans. Can this be linked to a psychological feeling of inferiority in one race and the superior complex of another? Can it be an imbalance of support or funds toward one group as opposed to another? Or is it just a simple lack of intelligence for a specific group. I tend to believe that it is a combination of the former instead of the latter. Because of this I feel that in order to close the gap in African American/ Caucasian graduation we need to break the stigma of inferiority in the African American community and recognize troubles at and early stage to help prevent deviation from the learning process. I am an African American. male. I’m in my early thirties and currently am enrolled in some online classes trying to work toward my degree in Sociology. This is relevant because I have always been an avid fan of learning. Learning anything, it doesn’t matter. I had a great support system (parents, sister) that cared about my education and my well being. We weren’t rich but we weren’t...
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...Educations continue to play a vital role in the development of our society. Outsource jobs to other countries is increasing today and Americans are being affected. Outsourcing is a reasonable way of cutting cost because people are willing to work for lower wages. (www.en.wikipedia.org) In other countries the cost of living is lower than in America. This is one of the main reasons for jobs going to countries like Japan, China, India and others. The purpose of education is to appropriately prepare our children for their future. Outsourced is just a new way to challenged educators of society to be open minded in the quest of teaching. As an early childhood educator I believed that teaching starts in the womb. Parents can begin planning the future of their children. From the day we are born and even before our brains are ready to capture experience we start education. Learning is an experience of one that learns; knowledge of skills acquired by instruction or study. Education starts early parents play an important role in the development of a child’s mind. One of the ways to better prepare our children for the future leadership roles in society is by challenging young minds. The No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 was founded to better the education system in America. This program provided opportunities for all citizens of this country to play a vital a part of this organization called education. This standards-based education was one way to ensure that students are able to read,...
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...The Lack of Early Childhood Education in Minority Neighborhoods Gildon R Turner AIU Online Abstract This country prides itself in being a better place for people to come and work better and to get a better education. We are falling far too short on both counts more so with education. We are still not separated and equal. This paper will talk to you about the differences in the minority neighborhoods and why our government should be taking a closer look at the lack of early childhood education and how this education is an investment into our future. The Lack of Early Childhood Education in Minority Neighborhoods Early childhood education is an investment in our future. Haycock, K (2011) stated that, “In minority neighborhoods there are less early childhood educational facilities and if they exist low-income and minority students are less likely than their white and more affluent peers to have the teachers with the proper academic background to teach the subject matter they are teaching”. Due to the shape of the economy at the present time, it is even harder for minority children to receive this type of education. Most are one parent families and are not making the money it would cost to send their children to a good head start program. “So when black and Latino twelfth-graders perform at about the same level as white eight graders, it is not just a “minority” problem; it’s a national problem...
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...Unit 5 Individual Project ENGL107-1201B-27 American Intercontinental University Online 03/08/2012 Amanda Reynolds Abstract This paper will argue the need to reduce juvenile delinquency. It will consider ways to help reduce juvenile delinquency and why it is so important. This paper will give the reader insight about what needs to happen in order to help juveniles be successful and stay out of the juvenile justice system. There will be key agreements that will require the reader’s attention. Effective Ways to Reduce Juvenile Delinquency A 16-year-old teenager was arrested after a veteran police officer was gunned down in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Fox News, 2011). According to an article by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) called “Punishing Teen Criminal Like Criminals,” “juveniles were accounting for more than 500,000 serious violent crimes by 1984.” It is expected that while the adults committing homicides is to decline almost by twenty percent the juveniles committing homicides will increase by almost one-fourth. How can the American society mitigate the occurrences of juvenile delinquency? Many approaches have been taken to institutionalize juvenile delinquents and rehabilitate them. As the Mayor of St. Petersburg, Bill Foster said “we as a community need to standup and do a better job.” These occurrences will not stop unless there is a plan and execution established to make it happen. That is why juvenile delinquency must be tackled through...
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...and what’s popular isn’t always right- Gandhi 7 A. Teachers Facing Challenges 7 B. Changes in Solutions to Challenges 8 References 9 A Classroom in the Basement The Mixture of Students Who are these students that are placed in make shift classrooms, a hall storage closets, a portable outside or even the basement? They are the changing face of students according to the National Center for Educational Statistics of the 49,676,964 students nationwide, 55.9 % are White 20.5% are Hispanic , 16.9 % are African American, 4.5 % Asian, 1.2% Native American. (NCES 2004-2005) Ten million students speak a language other than English in the home. (Oakes & Lipton 2007) The previously mentioned statistics, show how student populations have changed to become more ethnically, linguistically, and economically diverse. It is important to recognize each and every student as an individual with needs and talents all their own. Creating a need for Multicultural Education, cultural background can have a significant influence on the way in which students receive, respond, and produce information. If we treat everyone the same we end up being exactly the same. This is possible if the student’s culture is not recognized. Unfair to Who The inequities many students, particularly students of color, face are both in and outside the classroom are rooted in their lived conditions of poverty, racism, sexism, just to name a few. These conditions pose a challenge to the nearly 84% of teachers...
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...profession will face significant changes in the near future. There is an urge to reconsider changes in the healthcare system to better outcome for patients and nursing professionals. Over the years patients needs become more complex with a great desire for more skilled, trained, and highly educated nurses to provide higher quality of care. The report of Institute of Medicine (IOM) together with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that started in 2008 and finish in 2010 elaborates on the impact and benefits patients and particularly patient care would have if these changes would occur. To achieve the suggested recommendations by IOM and RWJF, and to meet the future changes in healthcare, nurses must transform their education, nursing practice, and leadership roles. The Impact of IOM report on nursing education As a result of our aging population and more critical patient conditions, care shifted from acute to more chronic condition. Nurses are required to be reeducated to an expanding role, understanding care management system and quality improvement methods to deliver a high standard of care for the patients. “There is a strong trend for higher educational attainment with the coming generation of older adults…a factor associated with improved health and lower disability” (ANA, 2013). In the past an Associate’s of nursing Practice meet the requirements, currently and in the near future a Baccalaureate Degree of nursing education would be preferred. This would converse in strong...
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...March 25, 2012 Compulsory Education Should be Eliminated Compulsory education has a long-standing history in the United States. Many people in our society, especially public school teachers, administrators, and education association officials, believe it should remain in place. However, many parents and students would agree that forcing students to attend school, especially poorly run public schools, creates more problems than it is worth. It costs our state and its taxpayers billions of dollars each year, and many critics claim that students graduate unprepared for higher education and employment. For these, and several other reasons, compulsory education laws should be repealed, and compulsory education should be banned. The history of compulsory education dates back to the colonization of North America; in 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony had a compulsory literacy law for all children. If parents weren’t providing the “proper” education, colony officials could remove the children and assign them as apprentices to state-appointees (Rothbard, Compulsory Education in the United States section, ¶ 2). After the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts again started the country in the direction of compulsory education by including it in the state constitution. In 1789, compulsory school attendance was law in Massachusetts. The state of Connecticut followed suit in 1805, and in 1842 expanded the law by requiring all children under the age of 15 who had jobs to attend...
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...THE FUTURE OF NURSING Future of Nursing Future of Nursing The education that was taught to nurses up and well into the 20th century is no longer valid for dealing with all the health care issues in the 21st century. The American population is growing older and more diverse with cultural, social-economics, race, ethnicity, and religions. There is a larger shift in the nation’s health care needs for the 21st century. Health care issues today have many chronic conditions such as, arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, many mental health issues, and increasing obesity levels in the old as well as in the young. The registered nurse with a higher education will be able to function in unpredictable and complex situations. The registered nurse with a baccalaureate is able to demonstrate flexibility and critical thinking. The old, tired way nurses have been educated will be replaced with advanced learning in community-based, multidisciplinary patient care delivery system of the future. Nurses will no longer be in the back seat due to lesser education, but will be seated side-by-side with other heath care disciplines making educated decisions, quality improvements, and have great system thinking skills. The higher educated nurse will have great team leadership skills. Nursing education was primarily taught for health care challenges of the early 20th century. Education for nurses leading into the 20th century was the basics of keeping patients...
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...insurance coverage for 32 million more Americans and is known as The Affordable Care Act (ACA) (" The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.) The (ACA) produces a challenge for the health care system and how it will meet the increase demand and still provide high quality, safe, and effective care, to these growing numbers. In 2012 the Institute of Internal Medicine (IOM) issued a report on “The Future of Nursing.” This report was created in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with the intention to find ways to improve the quality of health care through nursing and helping the nurse to take on more of a leadership role as it faces the challenge of this new high demand. The report issued by the Institute of Internal Medicine, has had an impact on all aspects of nursing, starting with nursing education. Because of the recent health care changes the education that nurses receive will also be impacted and will face changes. In “The Future of Nursing” the IOM suggest that understanding of care management, systems level changes, and quality improvement methods, should be included in all levels of nursing education. There are a large amount of research studies that indicate a nurse with a higher level of education proves to deliver a higher quality of care, reduces the amount of errors, and improves patient outcomes. With the recent challenges the health care system is facing it is imperative that entry...
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...Frequently tensions exist between institutions in society. This is especially true with educa- tion because education is dealing with impressionable students who will lead the society in the future. That is one of the reasons why dictators are quick to seize the school system when they take over a country. Confidence in Education Citizens of the United States have a strong faith in the value of education. As a result, the United States has developed the most comprehensive education system in the world (Curry, Jiobu, & Schwirian, 2005). Our schools are expected to accomplish many purposes. The nation’s founders proposed a mass educational system that would be free to most citizens because they believed that diffusion of knowledge to the general population was important for building a nation. They wanted a consistent and systematic education that would produce individuals with a strong sense of civic duty. A literate citizenry was viewed as necessary in order to produce loyal Americans, develop moral training, and promote social stability (Altenbaugh, 2002). Thus, public-supported mass education became a foundation for the educational system of the United States. Following through on this early legacy, schools have come to be viewed as a key ele- ment in achieving the “American dream.” Schools provide the “credentials” that open doors to high-income and high-status occupations. In addition, the schools have been per- ceived as a major institution for addressing...
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