Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. It could be suggested that for many countries this is the key focus of their youth policies. ... (National Crime Prevention Council 1999, p. 40) Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ... Ben-Shahar (2007) asserts that possessing a tangible career focus is synonymous with having hope and envisioning the achievability of one's personal succ...

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Values such as private property, free market, and free speech seem to be dominant over others, of which we will focus on teaching. ... This is very evident in the current efforts of our government to improve education. ... Those on the left argue that we "need to improve the living conditions of families and communities so that they can focus on education rather than on survival." ... The third view as accepted by the current administration is the usage of scientific methods to improve education. ... It's an excellent idea, but one that is unlikely to be accepted because it would take the...

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Banks have made a profound impact on my view towards multicultural education and the nation's current trend of standardization and high-stakes testing. ... This focus on basic skills is taking much needed time and attention away from multicultural education, and the teaching of social justice skills. ... In his writings, Youngjoo Kim (2010) compares the phenomenon of standardization and testing in current national policies to the story of Procrustes from Greek mythology. ... Third, we need to change our current accountability system for teachers and students from an achievement-based syst...

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It amazed me how many children between the ages of 11 and 17 would speak about being kept poor because of the wealthy, and would dismiss their current education and the possibility of furthering their education. ... Families on welfare must be made aware of the importance of focusing on education and that opportunity will be because of an education and not because of one's current social or economic status. ...

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According to Sir Ken Robinson in "How Schools Stifle Creativity", he argues that everyone is born with natural talent, but that the education system is currently stifling that creativity and pointing the world toward imminent disaster. ... The author points to the education system sticking to linear, or one-dimensional, values that focus on standardize testing. ... This brings into play the commercialization of education and the amount of money that is being spent on the current standardized tests and teaching for these tests. ... Minds seem to wander when they are not interested ...

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"Standardized testing is currently used to the accountability function of using student scores to assess the effectiveness of teachers, schools, and even entire districts. ... "Schools across the country are cutting back or even eliminating programs in the arts, recess for young children, electives for high schoolers, class meetings (and other activities intended to promote social and moral learning), discussions about current events (since that material will not appear on the test), the use of literature in the early grades (if the tests are focused narrowly on decoding skills), and entire su...

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The benefit of reversing the current system of learning new material in school and trying to do work at home is simple. ... With the current system, after students leave school, they are essentially on their own to figure out their work, which can lead to frustration, failure to perform properly or just never completing the work. ... Focusing on higher level cognitive abilities and more targeted versions of material in class is the best way to help grow the basic knowledge already presented at home. ...

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The areas of concentration most frequently offered by vocational education programs focus on business, trade and industry, health, agriculture, family and consumer sciences, marketing, and technology. Currently 15,000 secondary schools offer vocational education courses, including some programs offered through area vocational centers, which serve students from a number of local schools at one central site. ...

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This is one of the reasons why, schools should take a look and revise their current disciplinary policies when it comes to bulling, in order to prevent permanent damage on the victims and their families. ... Most school focus on assisting the victim and disciplining the bully and determine that is enough to conclude the corrective action to the problem. It should be strongly encourage that bullies also receive counseling services along with their parents in order to identify the reasons for their actions and try to focus on how to solve the problem and prevent it in the future. ...

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District Offices should also understand the Community dynamics associated which are Rural at its base and to focus on Poverty Stricken Areas. 2. ... There is also an element of understanding the Community dynamics associated which are Rural at its base and to focus on Poverty Stricken Areas. ... The ideal school principal should also be focussed on quality teaching and learning and not be involved in labour relations issue which could negatively impact on the above. ... District Structure and Relevance The district is not efficiently managed in its current state. ... District capacity will on...

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Digital technologies form an important part in the education of a majority of the current student population – whom Prensky (2001), as quoted in Gu, Zhu, and Guo (2013), referred to as digital natives. ... According to Prensky (2010), majority of the current students are digital natives who find traditional teaching methods, such as 'tell and test', not interesting. ... This makes it imperative to revise current teaching-learning activities and infuse them with digital technologies in order to motivate students to learn. Best practices with digital technology include project-b...

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These kinds of leaders are not only concerned and fully involved in the process, but they also focus on helping every member of the group to succeed. ... This trend is projected to continue given the current state of our country. ... Expert Authority Orientation This factor focuses on credibility as an educational leader amongst all stakeholders. School leaders are knowledgeable about educational best practice, ensure necessary resources are available, provide a safe, stable environment that encourages a focus on academics, communicate effectively with school-community members, and advocate fo...

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Each framework focuses on something different than the other; however, they all serve the same purpose and that is to assist in a course design that is suitable for the students. ... Bloom (1956), Anderson and Krathwohls (2000) taxonomy focuses on a learning hierarchy. ... The main focus of this framework is to increase knowledge (cognitive domain), develop skills (psychomotor domain), or develop emotional aptitude or balance (affective domain). This framework provides instructors with a focus for developing their course learning objectives. ... In addition to this criticism while Bloom&#x...

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Abstract Educational psychology is currently dominated by a curious mixture of neobehaviorial and cognitive information-processing psychology. It is from this curious mixture that we, educators, have drawn our current views of curriculum, teaching methods, instructional design and development, learning, testing, the nature of students, classroom management techniques, learning skills, educational research and so on. ... Research in educational psychology focuses on the processes by which information, skills, values, and attitudes are communicated between teachers and students in the cla...

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Abstract World Wide Web, or so called Internet, as a technology of information transmitting and a new media, has become the focus being paid much attention by the whole world in the twenty first century. ... In this paper, the current situation of information technology and Internet use in China education is described in the introduction section, author's opinions and views will be stated according to the questions raised above. Discussions are based on the current situation of education in China and author's own experiences as an educatee in the last fifteen years. ... Education is...

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Freire offered alternate way named problem posing that concludes his all thoughts about current system of education. ... The writer tries to make parallels in the reader's mind, which, being human, is against every one of that bears the names like "oppressor", and the such, to get the reader to feel regret for the current educational framework. He makes a few focuses inferring that bad education is the reason behind the vast majority of the issues in world. ...

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However, the officials only fail to comprehend what part of the educational system needs a critical focus with the sums of money. ... Need for Present the Research Current research on the topic is relevant for the so that the state government can have a glimpse on what needs to be done to make early childhood education a reality. ... The ideas covered in the "Congressional Digest" article focus primarily on the programs already initiated by the state government. ... White concludes that the current society lives in a time when child care policies have become the highly esteemed factor. ... An ...

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Sloinski (2001) elaborated on these finding a good bit before focusing on his own, as they provide a basis for his study. ... (Sloinski, 2001) This in turn will lead to "more teachers seeking out opportunities to professionally collaborate with others outside their schools, and thus, more teachers will participate in innovative instruction based on current research and theories." ... The focus of my budget spending has turned in a direction similar to the Web-based collaborative tools talked about in this study. ...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. It could be suggested that for many countries this is the key focus of their youth policies. ... Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ... Ben-Shahar (2007) asserts that possessing a tangible career focus is synonymous with having hope and envisioning the achievability of one's personal success story. ...

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The support network I have chosen to do is the royal institute for deaf and blind children. The institute has many centres located around nsw, but the one I"m focusing on today is the tingara centre, which is currently located at 160 Floraville Road Floraville. The RIDBC is Australia's major dependa...

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Primary school teachers and the education system provide more focus on the female students who are more willing to learn and give them the resources necessary to succeed in academics. ... Largely due to their naturally slower development in attention and focus, by the time these boys reach high school, they are playing "catch up" and relearning how to develop proper study habits and utilizing the resources that the girls have had all along. Lee Bryant notes that "governments have introduced girl-specific courses into schools to encourage their interest in subjects that were seen...

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Total Quality Management has as many names (Total Quality, (TQM), Quality Improvement, Customer Focus, etc.) as it has definitions. In essence, most definitions contain elements of the following as described by Siegel and Byrne (1994): "Total Quality Management is a philosophy and set of principles that uses leadership, quantitative methods, systems thinking and empowerment to continuously improve an organization's capacity to meet current and future customer needs" (p.18). ... Quantitative methods focuses on data-based decision-making, rather than intuition or guessing and includes th...

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Focussing mainly on story reading, Heath was able to collect evidence of considerable differences in community styles of literacy socialisation. ... Given the current relationship of mutual power and influence between parents and educators regarding a child's educational experience, effective communication is a critical factor towards productive collaboration on behalf of the student. ...

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If special education is to be successful and meet the needs of the students, then a higher focus must be placed on this situation. ... In the current educational climate, special education teachers often feel unsupported, ill-equipped, frenzied, and lacking authority. ... While most states have some caseload requirements, currently no national standard exists for limits on a professional's caseload. ... Furthermore, many have belittled computerized IEPs; saying that they are not individualized documents focusing on a child's needs. ...

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An effective learning program focuses on promoting equality among the participants in the learning course of action. ... The Current Status Before beginning a school improvement plan, surveys were given to all stakeholders; this included administrators, faculty, students and parents of the high school being evaluated. ... The majority of teachers, however, did not feel that the current status in the school focused on practical teaching sessions. ...

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