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- 1101: Austria
- ... and small groups in Vienna speak Czech or Slovak. Education and Health The Austrian literacy rate is virtually 100%. Between the ages of six and fifteen years of age, Austrian's are required to attend school. The school system gives eight years of elementary school. Outside of the rural areas, some students go to either a vocational school to train for a trade, or to a secondary school, where they prepare over an eight year period to enter a ...
- 1102: England: History and People
- ... for long the privilege of a small elite group, and education for everyone did not appear until the beginning of the 20th century. Everyone between the ages of 5 and 16 must now go to school. Children generally first attend primary schools, though many under-5-year- olds attend nursery schools or "playgrounds." They generally transfer to secondary school at the age of 11. Most attend comprehensive schools, which accept pupils without reference to ability and offer a variety of subjects. Others go to grammar and secondary modern schools, which they enter after taking ... system but are subject to government inspection. Some of these are known as "public" schools, which are generally attended by the children of the well-to-do, though some pupils receive government scholarships. Most public school pupils live in residential houses attached to the school. Considerable emphasis is placed on sports, especially cricket and rugby. Among the most famous public schools for boys are Eton (founded in 1440), Winchester (1380), ...
- 1103: Autobiography of Debrina L. Frazier
- ... Frazier my family is very small, consisting of my mother 43, my father 45, and myself 17. My parents both being college graduates have always stressed the importance of a good education. Mother is a school teacher and father is a contractor, so we are an upper middle class family. Mother is the strong willed “doer” in our family, while father is the silent “supporter. Section II: Life-Line Activities When I was younger, eight months to seven years old, I participated in beauty pageants and won seventy-two titles. I started dance lessons when I was two years old. I began public school at the age of six which was the biggest mistake of my young life. The children in school, especially the girls, didn’t like me and still don’t like me to this day because of all of the activities that I have been involved in. Through grade school I won state ...
- 1104: Academic Shortcoming and Study Habits of College Students
- ... academic program too hard, others fall victim to the temptations of the college environment, and a large group leave for personal reasons. Not suprisingly, the academic shortcomings of college students have strong links to high school. In the past, a high school student who lacked the ability or desire to take a college-preparatory course could settle for a diploma in general studies and afterward find a job with decent pay. Now that possiblity scarcely exists, so ... to survive. In spite of everything, however, many others find themselves facing ever-worsening grade-point averages and either fail or just give up. Like academic shortcomings, poor study habits have their roots in high school, where even average students can often breeze through with a minimum effort. In many schools, outside assignments are rare and so easy that they require little time or thought to complete. To accomodate slower ...
- 1105: In Step With Inclusion
- ... Congress passed an even more inclusive bill--the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The new version of the bill, signed by President Clinton in June 1977, expanded the law by defining “related services” a school should provide extending the ages of a developmental delay provision, expanding the use of paraprofessionals and teaching assistants when certified special education teachers are not available, requiring states to offer professional developmental programs, and more ... disabled students into the music classroom. This article serves as a successful example for inclusion of disabled students in regular classrooms. As a Music Educator for the past 26 years at the Elementary and High School levels I have witnessed firsthand the advantages and disadvantages of including disabled students in the regular music classroom. As a band director, I have had physically handicapped as well as severely learning disabled students participate in the high school marching band. For the most part these students contributed to the overall success of the program and cherished the opportunity of being able to participate. As was stated in the article by Renee Forrest, ...
- 1106: In Search Of Your Own Identity
- ... situation is by flaunting our differences. Paz talks about pachucos. They are a group of people of Mexican origin that are known for their language, behavior, and clothing. I remember when I went to high school and we had a pep rally, which landed right on September 16, which is Mexico s independence. A group of friends and I decided to wear red, white, and green to celebrate Mexico s independence ... t just my friends and I doing it, but other people as well. The pep rally was canceled because they felt that our clothing would distract and cause conflict with the other American students in school. As I was reading Paz, he mentioned that Mexicans dress a certain way to stand out. They know they are rejected by the American society. They do this to be different and stand out. The ... has mixed feelings about his own self. He mainly talks about affirmative action. What does the term minority student mean? Is it something we want to be classified as? I had an experience in high school in which a student denied a part of himself. His mother is Anglo and his father is Mexican. However, throughout school, when it was time to check on the ethnicity, he would check out ...
- 1107: 20/20 Vision, Not A Vision For Me
- ... it just wasn't my destiny. I always had a vision impairment. It was always a problem my family thought was normal. This all changed towards the end of my fifth grade year in Elementary School. My teacher continuously asked me questions referring to things on the board. I told her that my glasses didn't work, but she thought I was just trying to get out of doing my work ... That September I ended up with the same teacher from the year before. When she heard about my disease she apologized for everything she said that previous year. Throughout the rest of my years in school my teachers were pretty understanding about the problems and the things I had to do. I had to sit in front of the class which never seemed like the "cool" thing to do. This may ... stares on top of all my medical problems. Not only did I have a vision problem but I also had seizures that always seemed to occur at the wrong time. For years throughout Junior High school my nickname was blind and seizure girl. Even in elementary school when kids were thought to be innocent I was showered with names. Normal activities were hard for me and it seemed like everybody ...
- 1108: The Relationship Between Rheto
- ... logical for us to conform to an idea or concept that best supports our own. Without competition and the need for conflict, we as a community would not exist. An article found in Newsweek Technology School Conflict describes a similar but distinct case of controversy in schools. This can be shown as an example of how rhetoric and conflict occurs almost illegitimately in our lives. One way to establish this, as a social issue is to break it down and examine what the conflict really involves. This article talks about whether gifted children have the right to attend a public school outside their district, and if so where should the money for their tuition go. The two parties involved are the parents of these children and the school board. The conflict in this case is whether something is right or wrong, otherwise known as the prize to be won. This situation deals with more than just the boundaries of each district; it ...
- 1109: The Color Purple: African-American and Racism
- ... one above would have never been published. Lack of education was a way the South tried to keep the blacks in a lower class. In The Color Purple, Celie is not allowed to go to school because she is to be kept barefoot and pregnant. She still received an education by learning what her little sister was teaching her, though. It was believed that if the blacks were kept uneducated then ... were coming south and starting colleges for colored people. Booker T. Washington wrote, in his autobiography, ONE day, while at work in the coal-mine, I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia. This was the first time that I had ever heard anything about any kind of school or college that was more pretentious than the little coloured school in our town. In the darkness of the mine I noiselessly crept as close as I could to the two men who were ...
- 1110: General George Patton
- ... maps by the age of 7), George didn't learn to read until he was 12 years old. It was only at age 12 when George was sent off to Stephen Cutter Clark's Classical School that he began to catch up on his academic skills; he managed to find plenty of time for athletics as well. While at school, the path toward his goal became focused he planned on attending West Point as the next major step in the pursuit of his general's stars. When he graduated from high school, however, there were no appointments open to West Point in his home state of California, so he enrolled at his father's alma mater, Virginia Military Institute. As a first year "rat" at VMI, ...
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