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- 61: Columbine High School
- Columbine High School Imagine knowing that you've done something wrong or not even that, just the fact that someone was prejudice against you. You are innocently sitting in class, the library, or just walking down the hallway ... Colorado, this is not an imagination, it is reality. Why should students have to experience something so tragic and life altering at such a young age and in a place where you should be safe, school? The answer to the question is simple, they shouldn't, no one should. School. A place of education, a place where most people met they friends, and discover what they want to be. School ...
- 62: How To Produce A High School Newspaper
- How To Produce A High School Newspaper I sat nervously in front of the classroom while my hands shook uncontrollably. I sat and watched each member of my staff walk into the classroom one by one. Lumps formed in my throat ... about this and go home? The first day of class was the most nerve wracking and scariest day I have ever had to experience during the course of my short-lived newspaper career. Coordinating a high school newspaper staff and creating a newspaper every three weeks is a lot of fun, but on the other hand, it involves a lot frustration. Much goes into producing a high school newspaper, but ...
- 63: ... and from since a child, she knew she wanted to be a writer. She submitted her first story to a magazine at the age of 10 and made her first sale at 13. Throughout her high-school years, she wrote as a regular author for young people's publications, particularly the well known Seventeen Magazine. Duncan is best known for her suspenseful novels. She was drawn to this type of writing because ... captured its magic on film. His remarkable photographs of elephants climbing onto the circus train, Emmet Kelly, the clown, in a bubble bath and the Flying Wallendas teaching their four-year-old to walk the high wire provide stunning illustrations for Duncan's colorful essay about "a life that was fashioned out of sawdust and star dust." Duncan's most popular teenage novels have had to do with psychic phenomena, ...
- 64: Albert Einstein
- ... magnets and their properties. Einstein later said: " That Experience made a deep and lasting impression on me." Later in his life as a kid, Einstein's uncle, Jacob, introduced him to mathematics and specifically, equations. School was an unpleasant experience for Einstein. He was disgusted by how war strategies were taught at school and he had disgust for the military discipline that then reigned in most German schools. The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once one of his teachers told him: "You ... Years and Graduation: Einstein's relatives in Northern city of Milan in Italy, offered help to the family. At the time Einstein was at the age of fifteen when he decided to drop-out of high school and join his family to travel to Milan. However he was expelled from school by the principal; he (the principal) said:" on the grounds that his presence in the class is disruptive and ...
- 65: Albert Einstein 2
- ... magnets and their properties. Einstein later said: " That Experience made a deep and lasting impression on me." Later in his life as a kid, Einstein's uncle, Jacob, introduced him to mathematics and specifically, equations. School was an unpleasant experience for Einstein. He was disgusted by how war strategies were taught at school and he had disgust for the military discipline that then reigned in most German schools. The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once one of his teachers told him: "You ... Years and Graduation: Einstein's relatives in Northern city of Milan in Italy, offered help to the family. At the time Einstein was at the age of fifteen when he decided to drop-out of high school and join his family to travel to Milan. However he was expelled from school by the principal; he (the principal) said:" on the grounds that his presence in the class is disruptive and ...
- 66: Columbine
- School violence, is an issue that is hard to deal with. There are things that may be done to decrease it but it does not seem like it will ever go away. Parents send their children to school to learn, to have fun, to pass notes, and to meet new people, not to be shot at and never have the chance to come home ever again. They should not have to think or be afraid of sending their child to school and never seeing them. Last year one of the worst school shootings took place at Columbine High School. Not only did it effect the famlies of the victims and of the killers, pretty much ...
- 67: School Safety
- ... geographic regions or family backgrounds, nor do they have a single catalyst. Those who have committed such heinous acts have done so for different reasons, at different times, in different schools. But these acts of school violence have at least one thing in common- they have spurred all of us to take a look at what can be done to better protect children and teachers at school. Protecting our children is not simply a matter of public policy. It is a matter of strengthening basic values, of teaching children right from wrong, of instilling in them respect for others. We each have ... to work to end youth violence and to keep schools safe for children and for those who teach them. Youth violence in many schools has reached universal proportions. It is not only happening in our high schools, it has also made its way into our elementary and middle schools. Everyone seems to have a different perspective on why there is such a problem with school safety. Some say it is ...
- 68: School Violence
- By: Kristy E-mail: holyfoley98@hotmail.com Violence in society is more prevalent today than ever before. Media and entertainment have opened up violent images for children to see. Availability of weapons to school age children seems incredulous. News stories of elementary school children bringing guns to school and killing classmates are sickening yet true. What is happening to our country? What is happening to our schools? It is no secret that academic performance has declined over the last thirty or forty ...
- 69: Native Americans and the American Dream
- ... Carson received and possibly took for granted. One advantage that was critical in making Ben what he is today, was access to a good education. Ben was fortunate enough to have ended up in a high school where the teachers actually cared, and took interest in his studies. "Another influential person in my life was an English teacher named Mrs. Miller. She took a personal interest in me in ninth grade English and taught me a lot of extra things after class." (Pg.64 Gifted Hands) Ben also had the option of going to many different schools. If one school did not meet his intellectual needs, he could always transfer to one that did. Ben attended many schools over the course of his education, from the Detroit public schools to parochial school in Boston. ...
- 70: College
- ... the country when President Clinton gave his State of the Union Address in 1999. In this address he stated many educational goals such as a mandatory third grade reading goal and the reformation of the school system in order to equip it for the twenty -first centuries. Along these same lines the President has called an end to social promotion. President Clinton proposed not just to hold back failing students but ... says "This is not about being punitive with kids, ...this is about caring so much about children that you will not let them fail" (McCormick, Social Pschye, pg. 27). This is the way to produce high self-esteem in students. Let them know their success is cared about. There are many reasons to justify Social Promotion but none of them really make sense in the long run. "We are giving educators a pass for lack of performance --and we are putting kids on the street with pieces of paper that are essentially worthless..." Each year young adults graduate from high school, and have no skills to maintain a job. The remedial training required by companies for these graduates in subjects like Math and English are outrageous. " More than twenty percent of all businesses provide ...
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