What is the right language? ... My girlfriend's first language is Spanish and she learned English through an ESL (English as a Second Language) in elementary. ... Even though she was taught to learn English she still kept her language. ... "If we accept that a child cannot learn unless taught through the language he speaks and understands.." ... "Three national data bases suggest that there are long-term positive effects among high school students who have participated in bilingual-education programs. ...

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The next example was Hawaii pidgin english, pidgin positively affected the plantation life socially, politically and economically because it allowed for interaction between different racial groups within the same plantation even though they didn't have a common language to speak. ... Therefore the use of Pidgin was very useful because it allowed for communication within diverse languages and cultures, promoted a democracy,increased participation in government, and boosted the economy through trade and business deals. As a result the money accumulated from the pidgin language helped pro...

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Other supporters argue that a working knowledge of two languages serves as useful preparation for a student's years after high school. ... Without the use of their native language, they don't have a base to build on."" ... Since the implementation of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, school districts across the nation have created programs that allow non-English speaking students to participate in intensive English language courses while learning other subjects, such as math, history, and science, in their native languages. ... Therefore, a major part of many bi-lingual educat...

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Today's teachers and schools are under pressure to improve students learning because of both State and National requirements. According to the National Center for Education Statistics; here's a breakdown of the 50 state's minimum amount of public school instruction time per year. 29 states: Require 180 days of instruction 12 states: Require between 160 and 178 days 6 states: Figure requirements by instructional hours Kansas and Ohio: Require the most, 186 and 182 days, respectively Minnesota: Has no requirements Many children in Chicago Public schools have gone from having th...

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The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ... Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... The proposition introduces a new way of teaching the English language to immigrant children. ... The opponents ...

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Bagby grasps young readers by speaking our language. ... The Republicans call for vouchers and the Democrats call for charter schools, where as everyone else is looking for national standards in schools. ... The majority of the federal budget goes towards the "big-ticket items" such as Social Security, national defense, and medicare. ... Bagby goes on the explain that Social Security is basically on its way out and that the money being paid now for social security is really being used by the federal government to loosen up our debts with other countries and our big problem, our national debt. ...

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According to the National Education Association, 55% of all public schools suspend students for no more than a week for bullying others. 45% of that 55% only suspend bullies for a day. 10% of all public schools neglect to suspend students for bullying. 77% of all victims of bullying have spoken out and claimed that despite how many times a student has been convicted of bullying, they continued to receive the same punishment over and over again. ... Although freedom of speech is allowed, according to the first amendment of the constitution, the speech must not include obscenities, defamation, a...

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If black and white children spoke relatively different languages, as some aspects on English claim, on might expect black and white children with vocabularies of equal size to know somewhat different words. ... The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was designed as a measure of receptive language and has replaced the original Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) published in 1959. ...

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Time, to put it in language older folks can understand, to get totally hopelessly drunk," (Elson 1) journalist John Elson bluntly states the reality that most American teenagers face in an article he wrote in 1991 for Time Magazine. ... Like national Prohibition, it has been counter-productive. ...

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I was proud to represent the great state of Georgia in Phoenix, Arizona at the Academic Decathlon National Championships. ... At my high school, I was President of the Spanish club and I worked along side the Foreign Language Club and orchestrated an "International Coffee House" in which people performed songs, dances, and introduced games and foods to the high school. ...

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On September 2, the night before the first day of school, Governor Faubus announced that he had ordered the Arkansas National Guard to monitor the school the next day. When a group of nine black students arrived at Central High on September 3, they were barred from entering by the National Guardsmen. ... Finally, President Eisenhower ordered 1,000 paratroopers and 10,000 National Guardsmen to Little Rock, and on September 25, Central High School was desegregated. ...

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Michael Jordan: A Lesson Achievement There are ten seconds remaining on the clock. It is game six of the 1998 NBA finals, the Chicago Bulls lead the series three games to two, and the bulls have the ball. Who will take the final shot for the Bulls? Of course none other than the greatest basketball player of all-time; Michael Jordan, the king clad in the reigning colors of royalty: red and black and wearing the universally recognizable number twenty-three. Jordan has the ball at the top of the key, he gives Utah's Byron Russell a quick fake, and Byron bites. ...

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In its report, titled Pathways to Prevention (1999), the National Crime Prevention Council outlined the need to integrate protective factors that facilitate young people's ability to achieve and succeed. ... (National Crime Prevention Council 1999, p. 40) Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ...

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However, a fundamental change in education didn't occur until 1988, whereby a national curriculum was introduced, in an attempt to give every school a fair chance in cultivating pupils. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "previous training". ...

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In its report, titled Pathways to Prevention (1999), the National Crime Prevention Council outlined the need to integrate protective factors that facilitate young people's ability to achieve and succeed. ... (National Crime Prevention Council 1999, p. 40). ...

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As reported in the National Center for Education Statistics (Rahman, 2009), white students are still scoring higher than black students. Whelan (2007) reported that states that provide educational support to a higher percentage of poor students and those with limited English language skills need to provide more services to allow them to reach the same level as other age appropriate students around the state. According to Whelan (2007), reports show "rural schools, located in the states with the most impoverished, minority, and English Language Learner (ELL) students happen to receive the ...

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