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- 191: Life Of Shakespeare
- ... You may see pictures of the various buildings associated with Shakespeare's youth provided by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The Birthplace Trust also provides maps of present day Stratford Education. Records for the Stratford grammar school (The King's New School - dedicated by Edward VI) from the time Shakespeare would have attended have been lost, but attend he undoubtedly did since the school was built and maintained expressly for the purpose of educating the sons of prominent citizens. The sons of burgesses attended free. The curriculum commenced with the hornbook in order to learn the English alphabet, ...
- 192: Public Education Vs. Home Scho
- Public Education vs. Home Schooling Education in our public schools has been on the down slope for over twenty years. With an increasing amount of school shootings, drugs, and other dementia, many parents today are home schooling their children. Although most people deem public education more suitable, many statistics and facts show that home schooling is equally beneficial. There are advantages ... founded our country, have been replaced. For example, public schools teach evolution rather than creation, a highly debated topic among parents and politicians. This humanistic view may be due to the removal of God and prayer in public schools, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. Since then, SAT scores have plummeted, while teen pregnancies, suicides, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, and illiteracy rates have increased dramatically. Many believe disciplinary problems begin before a child s introduction to public school. In Washington, D.C., the principal of one elementary school banned regular recess due to drugs and violence. The children played outside only within an enclosed eight-foot concrete barrier. At times, play was ...
- 193: Spy Games - Creative Essay
- ... Thursday we had decided to draw up entire new names and careers for ourselves. Agents usually have more aliases than friends, so we decided to change ours every month. It was kind of hard juggling school work and memorizing new alias information each month. Yet when we were out in the `real world' doing maneuvers it all seems worth it. The table was round, so there really was no one at ... alias was John Inglis, and I went to one of the local high schools. As a part time job I supposedly worked for McDonald's. Everybody's main story was that they went to high school. It helps give credibility to your story. Perhaps the only thing that varied from person to person was their name, and their part time job. After some more talking, we decided on our next target ... daily income was. "One more thing" Jen said. "One of the sales people was Tammy Contenda. Maybe she can give us the information were after". Tammy Contenda was a girl we all knew from high school. Although she was fairly popular, none of us could be considered her good friend. Acquaintances is perhaps a better word. None the less, we had our lead. Now all we had to do was ...
- 194: Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home and School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards the Dance
- Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home and School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards the Dance The short story "Red Dress" by Alice Munro is about a young girl's first high school dance. Her home and school environment determined her attitude towards the dance. This girl's home life was bad. She was constantly put down mentally by her mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie, to the point that ...
- 195: The Crazy Horse Electric Game
- ... balance and Sal hits a good pitch. Then out of pure luck and talent, Willie stretches himself out and robs Sal of a sure triple. Willie becomes a minor legend. On their way home from school Jenny and Willie hook up. Then on the weekend, Jenny, Johnny, Willie and his family decide to go to the lake. Willie and Jenny set the table for a picnic when Johnny is out skiing ... and problems walking. He ends up doing crazy things, like acid, and drinking. He talks to a counselor whom he really likes. Willie does not want to go into a Special Ed class that the school is referring him to. He feels hopeless, and even jealous of his girlfriend for her athletics. He tries to play racquetball, but his dad gets frustrated with him. That night he hears his parents arguing ... and stay out of Lacey's (The bus driver) way. Willie finds out when Lacey says Human Relations Management, that he is a pimp. The next day Lacey and Willie go to look at the school. Willie goes in while Lacy stays in the car. It is a private school, and the owner, Andrι, offers free tuition as long as Willie will help keep it clean. Andrι explains that the ...
- 196: A Story About College
- ... very important part of maturing. Though, the physical separation from home is for some a difficult transition to college life. What are those things one takes for granted while living at home, and attending high school? What changes does one face upon entering college? Just think of all the times the alarm clock did not go off, and mom was there to make sure school was still reached on time. When the alarm clock fails to go off at college, then the first class of the day is simply missed. At home breakfast is made to order: eggs, bacon, pancakes ... ten random visitors is considered boring. At home, family was the only people living inside the house. In college the entire floor becomes family. The phone is the link of communication between friends in high school; e-mail becomes a second language in college. Conversations at home are often revolve around the evening news; while at school, it is totally the opposite. For the college student Western Europe could be ...
- 197: Bouldering
- ... to work from dawn to 9:00 PM, receiving very few breaks during the day. During his breaks he would study his spelling book, teaching himself to read. While working with his stepfather, a local school opened up for black people. But because of Booker's value to his family in the mines, he continued to work there at the request of his parents. Eventually, he talked his stepfather into letting him attend school a few hours during the day. Booker, however, ran into another problem. His stepfather wanted him to work until 9:00 AM and the young Booker found it difficult to reach school in time. He therefore did something that he was not proud of later in life. Washington learned to change the clock every morning from half past eight to nine so he could arrive at ...
- 198: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... specifically to academic achievement: * Goal 3: By the year 2000, American students will leave grades 4, 8, and 12 having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history, and geography; and every school in America will ensure that all students learn to use their minds well, so they may be prepared for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment in our modern economy. * Goal 4: By the year ... from national subject matter organizations to establish standards in their respective areas. Many of these groups looked for guidance from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics who publishing the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics in 1989. The NCTM standards "redefined the study of math so that topics and concepts would be introduced at an earlier age, and students would view math as a relevant problem-solving discipline rather ... past and present curriculum has been on content, on the knowledge to be acquired by each student. Our language, literature, history, customs, traditions, and morals, often called Western civilization, dominated the learning process through secondary school. If students learned the information and performed well on tests and assignments, they received credit for the course and moved on to the next class. The point here is that the curriculum centered on ...
- 199: Bilingual Education
- Bilingual Education Hello! My name is John Kephart. I am the superintendent at Brook School of Learning in Miami, Florida. Hola! Me Ilamo es John Kephart. Yo superior mejor en Brook School of Learning en Miami, Florida. Our school is based on the sole purpose of preparing our children for the future. As a result of the growing population of Spanish and Latinos in our community, the need to learn both Spanish and ...
- 200: The Use Of Pencils As Weapons
- Violence in our schools has always been a problem, now more than ever before. Each year many students are injured and some are even killed during so-called school-yard brawls. In fact, more than 1,000 students are seriously injured per year during school violence in California alone. (http://www.geocities.com/area51/stats/7403.html) In most cases of serious injury, weapons were involved, including common school supplies such as pencils and pens. Historically, the school systems response to possession of weapons on campus has been at the very least confiscation of said weapons and suspension of the possessor, more commonly ...
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