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- 951: Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
- ... love,” from Maria his mother. (Dictionary of Scientific Biography. p. 291.) As Dmitri grew older, it became apparent to everyone that Dmitri understood complex topics better than others did. When Dmitri turned 14 and entered school in Tobolsk, a second major family tragedy occurred-his mother’s glass factory burned down to the ground. The family had no money to rebuild the factory, except for the money that Dmitri’s mother ... had saved for him to attend a university. Maria wasn’t about to give up her dreams that she had for her son and she knew that Dmitri’s only hope to go on to school was to win a scholarship. Maria constantly pushed Dmitri to improve his grades and prepare for his entrance exams. At a very young age, Dmitri had already known that he wanted to study science and ... family and moved to St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg was in the same state as Moscow, but the family found an old friend of Dmitri’s father working at the Pedagogical Institute, his father’s old school. After a little persuasion, Dmitri was allowed to take the exams and passed with grades that landed him a full scholarship. Dmitri entered the university’s science teacher training program in the fall of ...
- 952: How Cultures Affect Teenagers
- How Cultures Affect Teenagers As a teenage girl in Cairo, Egypt is locked away in her home, studying madly for a upcoming high school exam. A teenage boy rushes down the fields of Brazil handling a soccer ball and his future. Another teenage boy in Rajasthan, dessert in Northwestern India is guided seven times around a sacred fire as ... and the other will not experience marriage until his dreams of being a soccer player is over. All teenagers have goals in life from reaching fame, to being a star or achieving high marks in school. A teenage girl named Aman lives in Cairo, Egypt studying long hours at home preparing for upcoming exams at her high school. Exams are very important to her and the rest of her classmates in her school. "There is a obsession to pass high school in Cairo, Egypt." (Turning 16, 1991) This quote explains why most ...
- 953: Chinesse Education
- ... in which education has played a major role. In 124 BC the first university was established for training prospective bureaucrats in Confucian learning and the Chinese classics. Only members of the upper class could attend school. Peasants and factory workers did not have the time to attend school; therefore as of 1949 only 20% of China was literate. The Communists who controlled China considered illiteracy a major stumbling block in their promotion of political programs. They then combined political propaganda with educational development ... education was started. Out of this review came standardized testing and the reinstitution of entrance exams to get into schools and these exams were also used to get in the civil service. Chinese children entered school at age six and stayed for six years. They would study the Chinese language, math and other basic subjects. After going to an elementary school children would enter a middle school. The subjects the ...
- 954: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ... 200. All candidates must posses a valid driver's license and muss pass a polygraph examination, a drug test, and a color vision test. They also must be graduates of a state-accredited resident law school, or a resident 4-year college with an accounting major and at least three years' work experience in this field. After being accepted into the FBI, agents are given 15 weeks of intensive instruction at ... four-year college degree. They include Personal Security Specialist, Intelligence Research Specialist, Computer Specialist, Management Analyst, and Language Specialist. The technical positions require individuals to be over 16 years of age and have a high school diploma. Examples of these jobs are Fingerprint Examiner, Evidence Technician, Computer Operator, Telecommunications Equipment Operator, and Accounting Technician. The craft/trade/maintenance positions also require an individual to be over 16 years of age, to have a high school diploma, and have technical training. The Laborer, Utility Systems Repairer-Operator, Maintenance Mechanic, Carpenter, and the Automot ive Mechanic, are all examples of these jobs. The clerical positions, which are always in need, require ...
- 955: Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
- ... a product of their environment? In Jonathan Kozol's book Savage Inequalities, he speaks of children who are deprived of the right to a descent education. But how can this be the case. Is one school given more money than another? Funds for public schools come from property taxes. In wealthy communities where property values are generally higher more money is allocated, than in a poor communities with lower property values ... textbooks. Members within the communities also have the opportunity to contribute money into their schools via fundraisers. This allows the schools to give their children the technology and materials needed. This in turn allows the school to use funds for other things such as renovations and simple luxuries like air conditioning and an advance curriculum. Yet some poor communities can not even afford to provide a playground or a lunch area ... teachers who have no regards for there future, how can they be expected to want more for themselves? Kozol describes schools in which children attend unsupervised classrooms and where some classes are held in the school gymnasium. When children observe their environment and what opportunities are available to them and see no future they are easily disillusioned. When these underprivileged children compare their environment to others, and see the discrepancies, ...
- 956: Rose And Graff
- ... the times the students are taught the same concepts but through opposite understandings and in a bias fashion. Mike Rose met many struggling students at UCLA s Tutorial Center, the Writing Research Project, and the school s Summer program. He first describes the loneliness students feel upon arriving at college, and that as they try to find themselves, they all to often lose themselves because they are bombarded with ideas that are so foreign to them. He introduces his audiences to Andrea, a bright young girl out of high school who, despite hours of memorizing in her textbook, could not obtain a passing grade on her Chemistry mid-term. How is this possible if she spent so much time studding? Rose explains that she failed ... for a student to know the material, but rather, to be able to apply it in a various amount of problems. Yet the problem Andrea faces is that she was never taught this in high school. Rose writes of other students he tried to help as they sat in front of him with eyes that were both sad and confused. From young, jocks, to a twenty-eight year old mother, ...
- 957: Theme and Setting In Coming of Age
- ... in Mississippi is to stand up and fight for what you believe in. Setting In Coming of Age in Mississippi, one of the most important settings in Anne’s childhood would have to be the school. She talks so much of school and her teachers throughout her childhood. She often speaks of competition with Darlene over their grades, how she became homecoming queen, and how she started a trend with her tight jeans. She had many antidotes from her school life. She spoke of her embarrassment at lunch when she had such a poor lunch. She talked about how Adline and Junior would follow her around at school and how it embarrassed her. Mostly ...
- 958: Effects of TV on Children
- Effects of TV on Children Sitting in school, a schoolchild sits anxiously watching the clock. The teacher is talking to the class, but the child just can’t wait to get home. When the bell finally rings, they run out of the classroom ... By sitting down and watching TV for a couple hours, the child is entertained, but is also not thinking. Information in spoon-fed to them, so when it comes time to read a book in school, some can have a hard time grasping ideas. They are so used to having images flash before them to provide understanding; they have trouble moving their eyes side to side to gather the information for ... has shown that teachers today are using many more multimedia devices to capture the students attention. Being so used to seeing information provided by the TV, they are more responsive to learning with it in school, and are more likely to remember it. Many links are showing up in studies between Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and watching too much television in elementary children. This disorder is becoming more common in ...
- 959: Being A Teacher
- Being A Teacher Teachers in the past lead restricted lives because their conduct was expected to set an example for the students. For example, consuming alcohol and smoking tobacco was forbidden in school board contracts. Participation in political activities was also frowned upon. Teachers were expected to avoid teaching subjects that might be considered immoral or unpatriotic. Female teachers were classified as “old maids.” Fortunately, today teachers are ... has to go to college and, depending on the grade he or she wants to teach, earn a degree. One must get an undergraduate degree in the area of study if going to teach high school. Otherwise he/she must get a degree in education. In addition, one must go through an internship and be a teacher’s aide for practice in student teaching and planning. After receiving the education required ... kids are sick without any problems. In addition, teachers get summer and Christmas off to be with his or her family. The insurance for the children is also good and so are the discounts on school supplies bought for the kids. A teacher also gets tax breaks. He or she can receive an average of a five percent increase on his or her salary for coaching a sport or for ...
- 960: Nature vs. Nurture
- ... birth. Freeman. (1928) The Minnesota Adoption Studies of 1974 included the Transracial Adoption Study to test he hypotheses that black and interracial children that are reared by white parents would perform on IQ tests and school achievement measures as well as other adopted children. Results were that black and interracial scored as well as adoptees in other studies. The high IQ scores of the black and interracial children showed that genetic ... racial differences do not account for a moor portion of the IQ performance difference between racial groups. The study also found that black and interracial children reared in the culture of the tests and the school perform as well as other adopted children in similar families. Marie Dkoday and Harold Shell's {1949) report of a longitudinal adoption study of IQ is one of the most frequently cited articles in developmental ... by white professionals, when compared with their siblings who we reared by their biological parents, the adoptees scored about 14 points higher than the average IQ and were less likely to be held back in school (Schiff, Duyme, Dumaret and Tomkiewicz, 1982). Two of the largest adoptive studies were conducted by Horn, Scarr and Weinberg. They concluded that individual differences in IQ are substantially influenced by genetic differences among individuals ...
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