seminars‚ conferences‚ or attaining advanced degrees; but in most cases‚ there is a wealth of knowledge in the very building in which they teach. Many administrators have caught on to the concept of Professional Learning Communities (PLC). Basically‚ a Professional Learning Community is a group of teachers who work together to share ideas and concepts‚ and to analyze data in relation to instruction. The goal is to discover new teaching strategies and to improve instruction. Research has shown that
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is trying to make community college free for all.Most of my friends will be going to community college next year. Some are going there because it was the only option for them to further their education‚ others because they did not have enough financial help to go to a four-year college. So wouldn’t a free community college have a good impact on them? Supporters of this idea say that it can persuade more people to go to college and get more financial diversity into the community colleges. What they
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Causes of Stress in Community College Students In our society‚ various factors can attribute to the cause of stress which can affect or destabilize the functioning of an individual. However‚ many from various sects of life go through stress once‚ twice or more in their lifetime. Colleges provide for new students the idea of unlimited freedom which inspires the student and make such individuals zealous and very motivated‚ but little is said about the demand and responsibility that is expected
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“FREE” Education Two years of FREE community college! In theory‚ this sounds like a really good idea‚ and would give numerous people‚ who would otherwise not have the option to continue his education‚ the opportunity to get a good start on his college degree. President Obama has proposed a two year‚ free community college plan. in his speech given at Pellissippi State College in Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ President Obama stated‚ a college education should be “as free and universal as high school is
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The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) THE HISTORY OF CARICOM: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)‚ originally the Caribbean Community and Common Market‚ was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas which came into effect on 1 August 1973. The first four signatories were Barbados‚ Jamaica‚ Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. CARICOM superseded the 1965–1972 Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA)‚ which had been organized to provide a continued economic linkage between the English-speaking
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Benchmark Essay Courtney Ceurvels Purple 6/12/12 Students shouldn’t be required to perform seventy five hours of community service. This is because the work wouldn’t be done well if the students were forced. Also time would be taken away from clubs‚ sports‚ social life and school work. Then again it will make the town look better. If students were forced to do volunteer work to complete schooling then it would most likely not be done well. Being forced the students won’t get the same lesson
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Multidisciplinary CDA: A plea for diversity. In R. Wodak‚ & M. Meyer (Eds.)‚ Methods of critical discourse analysis. (pp. 95-121). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Reviewed by Ola El-Wassify Helwan University Cairo‚ Egypt Ola.el-wassify@hotmail.com Van Dijk‚ in this article‚ aims at creating principles and workable instructions for doing critical discourse analysis (CDA). He is focusing on the socio-cognitive interface of discourse analysis. Also he is stating that CDA is flexible with approaches depending on what
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understood that it was something that would be important when I was older. In Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction and What is Literacy? James Paul Gee discusses the contribution that primary socialization has to an individual’s primary discourse and later ability to acquire other forms of discourse. The primary discourse in my household was similar but not precisely the same as the dominant discourse of this country. My family was a typical working class family‚ and even prior to pre-kindergarten
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dispossession. People are injected with an unsound sense of future by political economic configuration. Economic precarity‚ as a political discourse features temporary‚ insecure and low-paid jobs. Even‚ to say‚ the human life is turned into capital under bio-political governmentality. In the chapter ‘Sexual dispossession’‚ the authors’ analysis of the norms and human rights discourse is very attention seeking. Athena‚ in term of subjectivation‚ writes‚ “… the desire and law are inextricably intertwined. In this
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American Community Survey An Overview of the American Community Survey Have you ever thought about how‚ or why‚ new roads‚ schools‚ after-school programs‚ or hospitals are placed in communities? What makes communities attractive to new businesses or tourists? Why there is no ATM or video store on a street corner? The answers often lie in the numbers: numbers that reflect what our communities look like‚ how our communities have changed‚ and how those changes impact our daily lives. Most importantly
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