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- 21: Are You Ready For Some Football
- ... Also in peewee you have team meetings to discuss defensive and offensive strategy and sometime just to bond with your teammates. Usually this takes place once a week. Continuing involvement in football happens at the high school level because it is the most easily accessible program to teens. A teen will usually continue playing football in high school if they enjoyed playing or they really excelled at it in the peewee level. The good thing about playing high school football is that you don t have to be the best player ...
- 22: What is an Education?
- ... description of what an actual education may be, there is a great deal more to the process of becoming educated than the actual instruction and schooling one may receive. If you asked a person in high school or college exactly why he is in school his response would probably have something to do with "getting an education." Is that really why he is there? The next question you may ask is "what are you going to do with your ...
- 23: Excellence In Education
- ... shoot for. The interpretation of the term excellence is, however, less obvious. How do we regard excellence? Is it the college bound student with a broad liberal arts education? Is it the student who graduates high school trained in a specific trade? Many in the field of education cannot come to an agreement on how our schools can best achieve excellence for and from our students. One of the many authorities who ... students, Ebel does briefly describe his idea of a good teacher . Good teachers, according to Ebel, have learned from past experiences. Such teachers provide immediate recognition and rewards for student achievement. Ebel in praising the school s role in moral education, calls teachers models of excellence and humanity (4). Ebel discusses moral education as another of education s special missions, second only to the teaching of useful knowledge. The author ...
- 24: Biligual Education
- ... language instruction for their children can request that the children be removed from the English-immersion classes. The request will be granted if they can find parents of twenty of more children on the same school who want the same thing. If they can not find enough parents, they are allowed to transfer to another school that will provide it. Like many other initiatives or bills, Proposition 227 had raised many issues in the State and the entire nation. These issues vary from legal human rights, including freedom of choice, to ... been the main source of cheap labor in America. The opponents of the Bill state that it will prevent Mexican children to fully learn the language, therefore preparing the student to meet greater challenges in school and eventually drop out of school. With a lesser level of education, therefore, the children will not be able to quality for the better, high-paying jobs, that are available to the white population. ...
- 25: Leon High School Coach Billy Bob Evans
- Leon High School Coach Billy Bob Evans For as long as I can remember the head volleyball and basketball coach for Leon High School has been Coach Billy Bob Evans. I knew he would be a perfect candidate for my interview. He has achieved many great goals in his career, and is highly honored in our community. ...
- 26: Graduating From High School In New York
- Graduating From High School In New York In order to graduate from a public high school in New York State, students must go through many required courses and activities that students in other states may not have. The suggestion of adding a new requirement for graduation, a certain number ...
- 27: Hitler
- ... Baby Adolf's nickname was Adi. When he was about five in 1893 his brother Edmund was born. In 1896, his sister Paula was born. In 1895 Adolf entered the first grade. He went to school in the village of Fischlham. ?HITLER'S BOYHOOD? At age six , the days of doing nothing and sitting around stopped when he entered School. His father also retired on a pension from the Austrian Civil Service about the same time. This meant more supervision and discipline under his teachers and also his father, Alias. His father at the time ... the family sold the farm and moved to a small town of Lambach, Austria. The family would make many moves after that. This meant less chores and more free time to Adolf. Adolf attended a school in an old Catholic Benediction Monastery. The monastery was decorated with carved stones and woodwork that included several swastikas. Hitler did good in school and was in choir. As a boy he liked priests ...
- 28: Homeschooling
- ... was provoking detractors. At this time, most of the country began moving toward public schools (Clark, 1994). One of the first things early pioneers did was set aside a plot of land to build a school house and try to recruit the most educated resident to be the schoolmarm. This led to recruiting of graduates Eastern Seaboard colleges to further the education oftheir children beyond what they could do at home (Clark, 1994). As the popularity of the public school movement began to rise behind Horace Mann many states soon passed compulsory-education laws. These were designed primarily to prevent farmers, miners, and other parents form keeping their kids home to work (Clark, 1994). Ironically ... desire to use them to spread Christian morality, with its concern for the larger good over individualism (Clark, 1994). Massachusetts enacted the first such laws in 1852 requiring children ages 8-14 to be at school at least 12 weeks a year unless they were too poor. The laws proved to be effective, from 1870-1898 the number of children enrolling in the public schools outpaced the population growth. Except ...
- 29: High School/College Contrasts
- High School/College Contrasts I have spent four years in high school and only two and a half months in college, but I have already noticed a lot of differences between the two. Some of the changes were good, but there were also some bad ...
- 30: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... learned most of the skills, duties, customs, and beliefs of the tribe through an informal apprenticeship -- by taking part in such adult activities as hunting, fishing, farming, toolmaking, and cooking. In such simple tribal societies, school was not a special place... it was life itself. However, the educational process has changed over the decades, and it now vaguely represents what it was in ancient times, or even in early American society ... from one another, each reflected a concept of schooling that had been left behind in Europe. Most poor children learned through apprenticeship and had no formal schooling at all. Those who did go to elementary school were taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. Learning consisted of memorizing, which was stimulated by whipping. The first "basic textbook," The New England Primer, was America's own contribution to education. Used from 1690 until ... purpose was to defeat Satan's attempts to keep men, through an inability to read, from the knowledge of the Scriptures. The law required every town of 50 or more families to establish an elementary school and every town of 100 or more families to maintain a grammar school as well. Puritan or not, virtually all of the colonial schools had clear-cut moral purposes. Skills and knowledge were considered ...
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