According to a survey, "94 % parents reduce wardrobe battle with kids, 92 % easier to get kids ready in the morning, 93% save time in the morning, and 90% easier to shop for clothes" (National). ... Also, students can stay focused on school work instead of being influenced by brand names. ... Nevertheless, the proponents of school uniforms argue that uniforms introduce self-control, help students focus on their studies and reduce pressure on parents to dress their kids (Kelly). ... To increase the positive influences and dispose of the negative influences, we ought to empower the ...

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Researchers found that more middle-class parents have higher expectations and goals for their kids than parents of lower-class children, and that children from higher class families typically have higher IQs, GPAs, and test scores than kids from lower-class families (Chilcott, 264-65). Higher-class kids also are more often found in high academic tracks than lower-class kids are (Oakes, 64-65; Spring, 83). MacLeod pointed out that the reason many parents of lower-class kids don't set high educational goals for their children is because they don't want their kids to be disappointed if ...

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It is a stage when a child's surrounding can dramatically influence the pace and the degree of these advances. ... Similarly, a large percentage of the kids both in Canada and the United States remain in public schools instead of private schools. ... However, the chamber leaders and education personnel find it hard constructing budgets that can benefit the kids. ... The studies revolve around topics about the kids from their prenatal days to their first periods in kindergarten. ... She documents what issues facing the education for the four-year-old kids and also how they are of interes...

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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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Paulo was born in Recife, Brazil on September 19, 1921 and grew up in the Northeastern region of Brazil, where he experienced a multitude of events which later influenced his life's work. ... The teachers had come to class with a monologue set and ready to teach to the kids with or without questions. ...

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That is the Chinese influence in their country; there have been locals who work for Chinese companies that have complained about the disturbingly low wages they are paid compared to the Chinese coworkers and as well as some cases of abuse. ... The kids will be "brainwashed" to think and learn like a Chinese individual who in turn may get rid of their collective identity as a Zimbabwean citizen. ...

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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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The teacher is universally labeled as the influencer, the distributor of information. ... Aronowitz also makes a great case when he states "If teachers were allowed to acknowledge student skepticism, incorporated kids' knowledge into the curriculum by making what they know the object of rigorous study, especially popular music and television, they might be treated with greater respect.... Nor should the schools been seen as career conduits, although this function will be difficult to displace, for among other reasons, that in an era of high economic anxiety many kids and their parent...

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Moore believes that poor classroom conditions, incompetency among politicians and the selfless influence of corporate America all help the decline on public education; however, some of his arguments are not valid. ... This meant loss of libraries and not only made it more difficult for students to access information, but it also meant that " kids who come from environments where people don't read might [never] gather the kind of information that will decide their lot in life" (Moore 130). ... As of today, all families, with high or low income, have the opportunity to get finan...

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In some classrooms the teachers use computers to influence what they teach. ... For instance, elementry kids will learn how to read more effectively when using computers because they do not treat computers as books, but rather toys with moving pictures and sound. = Our nation is undoubtedly depends upon the computers and it would be extremely significant in determining our future in America. ...

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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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Many programs and extracurricular activities have been cut from our education system, which does not provide kids with productive influences. ... If criminals have a high education it can be a bigger influence on the crimes they commit. ...

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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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Receiving advice at the beginning of this course, the author was advised that teaching mathematics would be the most rewarding (and thus easiest course) because there is only one correct answer, and it's easier for kids to teach because they know when they get it right. ... language learners, citing the Whorf hypothesis that the inherent structure of a language influences the ability to think mathematically. ...

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