The purpose of this paper is to take a look at the role of the school counselor in relation to college preparation. ... What role does the counselor play in the academic achievements of students that place them in a position to attend college? ... The role of the school counselor is invaluable as they hold the key to information many students would not have access to. ... Another facet of the role of the counselor is the relationship the school counselor has with college admissions officers. ... That is why this facet of the school counselor role is so important. ...

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I have held many leadership roles throughout my school career: Vice President of National Honor Society (whose chapter received one of ten outstanding service projects in the U.S. with organ donation), representative at Missouri Girls State and Hugh O'Brien Leadership Camp, volunteer at Camp Blue Sky for a period of four years, followed by many other leadership roles. ... I feel that my greatest leadership role was being a cadet teacher and instructing a first-grade Mexican boy how to read in English. ...

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The role of an ideal Subject advisor should be to facilitate growth and support teachers in developing their subject content knowledge. ... Throughout the interviews the role of Teacher Unions were highlighted. ... It was felt that most of the positions are not filled within the district and that where this is done the incumbents were not properly qualifies to take on the role. ...

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The standards play a major role in reforming an underperforming school, and improve the overall performance of both teachers and students. ... The students can assume leadership roles in the classroom setting; this improves their confidence level, which in turn results in them acquiring relevant leadership roles. ... Teamwork encourages exchange of relevant ideas among the members, which plays a role in vision development. The school professionals should be encouraged to assume interdependent roles with the students. ... Adequate staffing plays a crucial role in enhancing efficiency in learni...

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As exemplified by Durkheim, education has consisted of both a civic and vocational role over the past century. ... Schools often ask parents to be involved with their children's studies, and while higher-class families play an active role, lower class families do not. ... Dennis Condron states school factors play an important role in generating the black/white achievement gap, while non-school factors primarily drive social class inequalities. ... There is also sex separation and gender role socialization in young children in early education. ... Discrimination toward women can also play...

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They develop a greater appreciation of their role in their children's education, improved their sense of self worth, and even stimulate the desire to continue their own education. ... Finally, because of their ongoing relationships with students, schools play a key role in encouraging and supporting efforts by parents to take a more active role in their children's education. ... Teachers can have parents play a more active role in their children's education by making sure that their first contact with them is a positive one. ... As their children's first and most impor...

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They have been shown propagate the socio economic reproduction by passing the socio economic positions and advantages to generations.They also play a role in providing socio economic mobility to students of lower socio economic status. ... University education plays to major roles in the society that of providing high quality education and also an important social and economic role. ... The role of the elite schools in providing social mobility provides surprising contradictions. ... The long history of racial discrimination locked out none whites from these elite schools but that has greatly ...

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The overall theme within the new infrastructure is that of a clear description of the role of any person within the institution. ... For example, he expressed that the roles of the administrative staff, faculty personnel, and enrolled students should be structured in an equal yet hierarchal manner in order to create a progressive academic system (Thelin, 2011). ...

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The role of education structures, families, local businesses and external agencies in mentoring young people embarking on successful career pathways, is well-documented (Teese and Lamb 2010; Lamb and Vickers 2006; Broadbent et al. 2012). ... The role of community partnerships in nurturing and supporting career pathways is also considered in the paper, as are those elements that contribute to strengthening successful partnerships between schools and community stakeholders. ... According to the original service framework the role of safeguarding young people was not the responsibility of a s...

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The role of education structures, families, local businesses and external agencies in mentoring young people embarking on successful career pathways, is well-documented (Teese and Lamb 2010; Lamb and Vickers 2006; Broadbent et al. 2012). ... The role of community partnerships in nurturing and supporting career pathways is also considered in the paper, as are those elements that contribute to strengthening successful partnerships between schools and community stakeholders. ... According to the original service framework the role of safeguarding young people was not the responsibility of a si...

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The government plays an important role in the Japanese educational system. ... "The role of the Ministry of Education is broadly that of co-ordinator. ... The juku, which plays such a large role in the overall academic picture, are outside the Monbusho's control. ... How can this be fixed though if the average classroom size in Japan is 50 students and the teacher is supposed to serve the role of teacher, leader, and friend to each individ...

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Along with sparking my interest in community service work, my brother's brush with death has played a significant role in defining my choice of career paths. ... I look forward to continuing to play an active role in emergency training while pursuing my educational goals at Dartmouth College. ...

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A school's role is primarily academic and instructional. Out of school programs play a unique role in supporting children's learning and development by providing opportunities for learning that are broader than academics alone - they focus on social skills, emotional development, creativity, and learning by experience. ...

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The lack of information and counseling also plays a major role in remedial education. ... Remedial education also plays a major role in the number of students who drop out in community colleges. ... California universities give community colleges the role of remediation due to the large amount of students needing basic skills education that universities cannot offer. ... The peer effect in higher education plays a major role in remediation. ...

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A paper like this one and the accompanying presentation, are very important because they serve to inform and raise awareness of a population that has perhaps been neglected in other courses: gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) adolescents. Sexual orientation, biological sex, gender identity, and sex...

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Football in particular played a vital role in the community, providing an outlet of pride in an otherwise middle class, average community. ... His writing on page 73 indicates that social structure played a vital role in Columbine life. ... Columbine's social hierarchy played a pivotal role in Harris and Klebolds' development into gun-toting murderers. ...

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Aronowitz wrote "As my analysis implies the fundamental condition is to abolish high stakes standardized tests that dominate the curriculum and subordinate teachers to the role of drill masters and subject students to stringent controls." (Aronowitz. 36) The role of the teacher in the students has been heavily disregarded. ... Schooling today continuously emphasizes the use of standardized tests to designate the future educational role of a student. ...

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Today, the SAT I play's an important role in young high schools student's college careers. ... Depending upon how high or low one scores on the SAT, and how high or low their current high school grade point average is, can play a key role in their acceptance to many of these institutions for higher learning. ... However, too often a student's performance on the SAT will play an extremely influential role in his or her admission into a college or university. ...

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Growing up, especially during my high school days at the prestigious Kings College Lagos, I spent most of my holiday breaks at my Uncle's place. My Uncle is a general merchant (Business Man as locally called in Nigeria) and owns a good number of factories and chain of businesses. I always visited so...

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Courtship/ Roles/ Marriage Courtship in Germany is much like any other country in where a woman and a man have interest in each other in which they pursue their feelings by getting to know each other by dating. When going on a date the gender roles remain basically the same as the United States, in which the male usually pays for the expenses unless the female desires to pay. ...

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Wandering around campus, sitting in lecture, riding the 50, the Rapid city bus that connects Grand Valley's two campus locations, to and from Grand Valley State University I noticed one thing in particular; there are more women than men. Turns out my observation was right. According to the 2013 cens...

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Introduction Student's behavior plays a major role in the learning atmosphere of the classroom. ... Definitions For the purpose of this study to determine if uniforms have a positive role on behavior we will conduct surveys of parents, teachers, students, and administration to ask how they feel the new uniform policy has affected students in the classroom (and on school campus). ...

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During my adolescent years, my grandmother passed on, my parents decided to divorce, and to top it off, my mother decided to move my siblings and I across the country to live near her family in Florida. The traumatic life change was especially difficult for me for I was never given an opportunity to...

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"Sometimes, all we need is a little shift in perspective to change our entire sense of who we are and where we are going." St. Albert's Catholic High School's production of "The Breakfast Club" taught the audience at the Arden Theatre a few valuable life lessons about social status and friendship. ...

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This article discusses the ways in which children's personalities are developed through learning academically and socially. It reviews situations from schools and the child's home and suggests ways in which the child is molded to eventually become the adult they are destined to be. The role of adu...

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