Other times I have written down words that I didn't know the meaning of and looked them up on the internet for my benefit to improve vocabulary. Some of the major improvements of my vocabulary happened in those writing courses I took in my first three semesters at STLCOP. ...
I had learned Vocabulary, Grammar, Structure, Public Speaking, Accent, and Pre-TOEFL for about one year. ... 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. ...
Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ... 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. In that case of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test show much larger black white gaps than others. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was ...
Recently on the news all I have been seeing is protesters protesting about the FCAT. Chants are continuous with comments that their kids aren't allowed to graduate or move on to the next grade level. What these angry students and parents fail to mention is that fact that not only did they fail this ...
As I stroll down the aisle and up the stage to acquire my diploma, I will have the same exhilarating feeling that I had experienced three years ago. When I graduate next June I will have graduated from two schools: high school and Chinese school. Subsequently, I will be fluent in three languages: ...
In front of my house there was a tree that flourished beautifully. "It comes from a healthy seed," my father told me. "With tenacity and strength, the weak and tiny seed has grown into an exuberant tree." Listening to my father, I began to understand the meaning behind the seed. However, I left ...
The beginning of my junior year of high school was one of the most insane, traumatizing, and depressing years of my life. Yet, it was also one of the turning points where my life began to do a complete turnaround. But I suppose that's jumping the gun a bit. I was born and raised in Stoughton, WI wit...
I started to learn to read in pre-kindergarten 4 while attending San Vicente School. I remember the words of the day and the tiny storybooks we would read. The first book I remember reading by myself is Goldilocks and the three bears. My mom would always read me the Little Mermaid. In addition to Th...
Richard Rodriguez is a Mexican-American or a "chicano" as he says others called him sometimes. This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. He started school in America with a very small English vocabulary which made i...
Language is very difficult for myself and others like me. My parents and the generation before me had a hard time learning other languages and to communicate well with others. During my twenty years of growing up I have seen many difficult situation and problems that I have encountered. One of th...
Schroedinger's Cat Erin Schroedinger wrote about an experiment performed on a cat in a box. He proposed different possibilities that could happen while the cat was in this box. Years of scientific discussion led to the conclusion that you should just open the box and look. It's amazing how long ...
In the corners are resource stations, for language arts it contains dictionaries and a bulletin board or "wow" words made by the students, for science it contains the weekly science vocabulary, a skeleton and a few experimental tools, for math it includes extra manipulatives (counters and graphing supplies). ...
Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading and math tests, as well as on tests such as the SAT I. ...
Education is about respecting the world enough to realise that you can make a difference, and by making a difference the world will then be rescued from its peril. Education provokes quick, resolute and effective thought and this, in conjunction with the character of a person can save the world from jeopardy. Which occurance would be inevitable if not for the new ideas and efforts of the next generation. Education is also about respecting and loving your children enough to provide for them the freedom to explore and experience the world as an individual. Education ...
The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...
