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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Most parents do not have a choice about where their kids go to school. ... In order for school choice to be successful, parents must know what school is best for their kids. ... Parents will decide to enroll their already high achieving kids into the private schools. Thus, public schools are left to deal with all of the low-income kids who are still unable to afford a private education. ...

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I always wanted to like school more, because I knew that those kids who did, were doing way better than me academically. ... I knew I wanted to become a teacher because I realized how much teachers influence students. ... Those teachers had such great influences on me, that I knew I wanted to influence others. ... I grew up in a school district where kids were encouraged to be different and not simply just a copy of another. ...

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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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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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The pros and cons of longer school days would be Benefit for parents who just want the kids out of their hair until time for bed but family time will be cut short. ... President Obama says kids in the U.S. spend too little time in the classroom, putting them at a disadvantage when competing with students in other countries. ... But state tests results showed that charter schools which typically have more in structural time- actually have a lower percentage of students exceeding state standards, suggesting that the influence of more time is unclear. ...

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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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On the other hand, the other side of the debate, in regard to educational issues, states that one should rely less on freedom, that the idea of freedom is really a facade to begin with, and to rely instead on the environment around us for our influences. ... In the 12th Edition of Noll's Taking Sides: Educational Issues, Skinner sees freedom resulting from the scientific reshaping of the environment that influences us (50). ...

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In yet another case, a twenty year veteran teacher was arrested for driving under the influence not once but three times. ... Removal of a incompetent teacher can take several years and hundreds of thousands of dollars so the option is rarely utilized...The present system is more about contracts than kids " (Kalahar). ...

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