Other supporters argue that a working knowledge of two languages serves as useful preparation for a student's years after high school. ... Without the use of their native language, they don't have a base to build on."" ... Since the implementation of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, school districts across the nation have created programs that allow non-English speaking students to participate in intensive English language courses while learning other subjects, such as math, history, and science, in their native languages. ... Therefore, a major part of many bi-lingual educat...

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The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ... Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... The proposition introduces a new way of teaching the English language to immigrant children. ... The opponents ...

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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. ... The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - Revised (PPVT-R) was designed as a measure of receptive language and has replaced the original Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) published in 1959. ...

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Now that Women are competing on national television it has continued to break down stereotypes that women are incapable of being competitive, intense, physically strong, and skilled. ... They represent a national commitment to end discrimination and establish a mandate to bring the excluded into the mainstream. ... (http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/history.html) The original language of Title IX made no specific reference to athletics programs, effectively limiting the benefits of Title IX to academics. ...

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On September 2, the night before the first day of school, Governor Faubus announced that he had ordered the Arkansas National Guard to monitor the school the next day. When a group of nine black students arrived at Central High on September 3, they were barred from entering by the National Guardsmen. ... Finally, President Eisenhower ordered 1,000 paratroopers and 10,000 National Guardsmen to Little Rock, and on September 25, Central High School was desegregated. ...

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In its report, titled Pathways to Prevention (1999), the National Crime Prevention Council outlined the need to integrate protective factors that facilitate young people's ability to achieve and succeed. ... (National Crime Prevention Council 1999, p. 40) Successful career and transition programs are of the key components currently linking communities with local schools. ...

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Despite the physical, social and psychological benefits that are associated with taking part in regular physical activity, a large amount of adolescents are not meeting the national guidelines or more so, regularly being sedentary (Lee and Skerrett, 2001). ... The national guidelines suggest that children and young people aged 5 – 19 should take part in at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day (Chief Medical Officer, 2011). ...

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- Charter School: A publicly funded independent school established by teachers, parents, or community groups under the terms of a legally binding contract or charter with a local or national authority. ...

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However, a fundamental change in education didn't occur until 1988, whereby a national curriculum was introduced, in an attempt to give every school a fair chance in cultivating pupils. ... It is not simply the performance of students, which influences scores in language tests but their "previous training". ...

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In its report, titled Pathways to Prevention (1999), the National Crime Prevention Council outlined the need to integrate protective factors that facilitate young people's ability to achieve and succeed. ... (National Crime Prevention Council 1999, p. 40). ...

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As reported in the National Center for Education Statistics (Rahman, 2009), white students are still scoring higher than black students. Whelan (2007) reported that states that provide educational support to a higher percentage of poor students and those with limited English language skills need to provide more services to allow them to reach the same level as other age appropriate students around the state. According to Whelan (2007), reports show "rural schools, located in the states with the most impoverished, minority, and English Language Learner (ELL) students happen to receive the ...

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The strict language of these policies were intended to hold students accountable for their misbehavior at school; however, according to Skiba & Knesting (2002), the lack of consideration for context in these cases has resulted in the criminalization of what are considered by many to be normative adolescent behaviors. ...

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