In Prussia, school was forced upon kids and was supposedly intentionally made to make sure kids could never grow up. ... Despite the amount of school kids are required to attend each year, the kids say that they are mainly trying to get good grades and not trying to learn the material taught. ... He believes the government wants everyone to learn the same curriculum and wants to control what a student does by influencing his or her choice making. ... School's today have bus systems in place for kids who cannot afford transportation to school or for kids who are not able to get to school ...

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Most households consist of both parents working or single parents, leading to many kids to come home to an empty house. ... I did a lot of one on one with the kids, I could always tell the kids whose parents didn't take the time to work with their kids at home. They often struggled more and lacked the confidence of those whose parents had taken the time to work with their kids. ... Much research has been done which proves that parents have a central role in influencing their children's progress in school. ...

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Primary school kids have only four classes, secondary kids have five to six, and seniors six to seven classes per day. ... Yes, Russian kids go to school on Saturdays. ... Since all of the kids go to school together, the school is to small to fit all of them in. ... School is over in the end of May, and June is the months where all the kids have exams to pass and those are very hard. ... Different cultures I guess do have an influence on me. ...

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My interest in Special Education has been something I have had in me for a very long time. My mother is a Special Education teacher and has made my sister and I a part of her class and her out of class activities for as long as I can remember. So I have had a lot of experience with those who have ph...

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Influences such as teacher actions, expectations, and effective learning methods play key roles in raising student learning and attitude toward school. ... There are also not enough parents that constantly push their kids to do better or strive for the best. There is not enough encouragement or care in their kids" futures that they desire themselves. ...

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I just used to writing anything in my free time as a hobby and thought that it really influenced my language ability. ... Some that I remember the titles are Grammar for Beginners, Speaking for Beginners, Vocabulary and Expression, English for Kids, Learning English through Singing (Kid Songs in Indonesian that I translated into English), and Commonly Used English Expressions. ...

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Risk factors associated related to the child's home environment often influence school aggression. ... Exposure to violence is psychologically toxic and may produce multiple social, emotional, and cognitive issues that significantly influences learning and teaching. ... Kids with social or violence problems should receive special attention outside of the classroom so other students are not disadvantaged. ... Availability of guns, alcohol, and individual's perception of risk and reward influence the likelihood of violence. ...

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This could be due to the fact that if there are kids in public schools, that emphasize standardized testing, not much is being done to encourage creativity and problem solving compared to the efforts put into routine memorization (Botches). ... According to education.com: Research shows that student achievement is greater influenced by the quality of their teachers. ... This just shows that once kids are faced with a lack of proper education, some of them give up hope. ... If not, it will snowball out of our control and continue hurting more kids and in turn our society. ...

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Most parents do not have a choice about where their kids go to school. ... In order for school choice to be successful, parents must know what school is best for their kids. ... Parents will decide to enroll their already high achieving kids into the private schools. Thus, public schools are left to deal with all of the low-income kids who are still unable to afford a private education. ...

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In media reports, the biggest reason given for kids shooting up their schools is because they were teased and taunted by other students. ... Therefore, it seems that teaching tried-and-true values, such as respect, would be a very positive influence on school violence. ...

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Who is to blame? In Janathan Kazol's essay, he explains the cost of an illiterate society. Three causes of an illiterate society are the parents, the teachers, and the government. Many American can read but with limited understanding. The cause of an illiterate society will not be those who cannot ...

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Starting early is the key to having kids have an understanding of one another. ... Content is presented in a manner that reduces all students' experiences of marginalization and, wherever possible, helps students understand that individuals' experiences, values, and perspectives influence how they construct knowledge in any field or discipline. ...

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Tons of different selections combined in that box I grabbed about two that influenced me, the one that automatically answered my question. ... As for elementary education, I definitely think teaching and being around little kids are the fun part of growing up. ...

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My religious up bringing has strongly influenced my desire to pursue studies in social justice. ... I also volunteered my time in an after school program helping under privileged kids with their schoolwork. ...

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It wasn't made for the benefit of kids and families, as those people would define their own needs. ... Most parents, when they say to schools, "Give my kid a quality education," mean, "Do something to him that will get him ahead of all the other kids." ... They mean, make him a winner in a race where most kids lose... ... Wherever such tracks exist, studies show that they correlate almost perfectly with family income, the richest kids in the top tracks, the poorest in the bottom. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "...

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This action researcher remembers thinking: these kids are considered the "top" students due in large part because of their parent's involvement. ... It's more than just dropping off and picking up their kids. ... A parent study in a socio-economically disadvantaged community that looked at parental behaviors and how they were influenced by multiple factors that included such things as how welcomed they felt at school, their educational expectations for the child, as well as their own educational aspirations (Overstreet, 2005) concluded that parents need to be educated and b...

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It pervades the whole nation and its influence is so strong that without it none of the schools or the other external forms would be of the slightest use. ... The Tokugawa Shogun-corrupt, decrepit, and highly traditional-forbade Western influence and only opened the ports of Japan to Western trade after "gun-boat diplomacy.... During the Khmer Rouge's spectacularly brutal reign, a time in which the "blood of Vietnam" spilled over Cambodia's borders to inspire frenzied revolutionary terror, formal education ended. 18 "My," a survivor of the Cambodia genocide, ...

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They don't want any outside negative influences for their children. ... We don't want to see one of these kids working the drive through at Wendy's when they are 40. ... These kids have no medical care; they are subjected to violence, poor living standards and a dozen other things. ...

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Economic stability, such as good nutrition to a clean environment, is important because it provides kids with what they need to succeed. ... Educational capabilities, which are a form of human capital, can influence a parents participation, as well as a general knowledge on school can help a child. ... Before the 1960s, family background influenced the access to education women had. ... Children create their own peer culture, learn the roles of adulthood, and are exposed to gender schemas early on; all that can influence the way boys and girls attain education from a young age (Lecture 2/13/1...

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The pros and cons of longer school days would be Benefit for parents who just want the kids out of their hair until time for bed but family time will be cut short. ... President Obama says kids in the U.S. spend too little time in the classroom, putting them at a disadvantage when competing with students in other countries. ... But state tests results showed that charter schools which typically have more in structural time- actually have a lower percentage of students exceeding state standards, suggesting that the influence of more time is unclear. ...

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Looking back on the last twelve years of my life, I realize how fortunate I was to have such an amazing experience. Elementary school was terrific, middle school was tolerable, and high school was unforgettable. I was influenced in one way or another by each of my teachers, whether it was intellectu...

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Recently an article on the newspaper states that the government is considering to order public schools to provide online lessons for children who want to be educated at home because some parents claim that their kids may learn much better if the "bad influences" would not come any closer. ...

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Rose started off high school in the "vocational track", kids that the system places in this track have written them off but as Rose proves this system can be tremendously wrong on who they place into these classes. ... MacFarland and Rose became close, MacFarland even influenced and then helped him get into college. ...

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On the other hand, the other side of the debate, in regard to educational issues, states that one should rely less on freedom, that the idea of freedom is really a facade to begin with, and to rely instead on the environment around us for our influences. ... In the 12th Edition of Noll's Taking Sides: Educational Issues, Skinner sees freedom resulting from the scientific reshaping of the environment that influences us (50). ...

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