for high-stake purposes such as “determining which students will pass or graduate‚ which teachers will be fired or given raises‚ and which schools are reorganized and given more funding‚” (NCTE). In the short research brief‚ “How Standardized Tests Shape – and Limit – Student Learning‚” standardized testing has been shown to have three fundamental effects which includes: changing the nature of teaching‚ narrowing the curriculum‚ and limiting student learning. Standardized tests change the nature of
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THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT SHAPE STRATEGY NOTES Competitive Forces 1. Rivalry Among Existing Competitors 2. The Power if Buyers 3. The Power of Suppliers 4. Threat of Entrants 5. The Threat of Substitute Products/Services The extended rivalry that results from all five forces defines an industry’s structure and shapes the nature of competitive interaction within an industry. Understanding the competitive forces‚ and their causes‚ reveals the roots of an industry’s current profit-
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“The Machine is Us/ing Us” is a short video created by Michael Wesch. The video reveals how technology has advanced throughout the years and how it has affected our daily lives. As displayed in the video in the beginning‚ about how he writes in paper and shows how difficult it is to do the things that we can do digitally way more easier and faster. Later in the video‚ it shows how easy it is to change texts digitally and how hypertexts can be linked and shared with the entire world. This is something
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO STUDY Economic development has been defined as the process whereby the level of national production (that is national income) or per capita income‚ increase over a period of time (Nwankwo and Ejekeme‚ 2007: 34). Specifically‚ economic development involves on increase in the size of the secondary sector of the economy and a corresponding decrease in the realistic importance of the primary sector. In a more conventional approach‚ economic development
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USA Holidays Memorial Day is a legal holiday‚ observed annually on the last Monday in May in most of the United States‚ It honours the nation’s armed services killed in wartime. The holiday‚ originally called Decoration Day‚ is traditionally marked by parades‚ memorial speeches and ceremonies‚ and the decoration of graves with flowers and flags. Memorial Day was first observed on May 30‚ 1868‚ on the order of General John Alexander Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of the American
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At the dawn of the twenty-first century the United States stood as the lone superpower with the ability to reach any corner of the globe. Journalist Robert Kaplan wrote about the American military‚ and how the planet was divided into area commands and there was no corner of the globe that was unaccounted. (Kaplan‚ 4) The U.S. military’s ability to reach any country on the planet is only rivaled by the influence the United States wields on the political scene. In the last century‚ American government
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From 1990 to 1993‚ it was actually 3 years of big disaster specially because of the Gulf War‚ but also because of other many factors‚ like: the general decline in the world economy‚ aircraft fuel price increases‚ wages‚ work rules and work patterns‚ chapter 11 bankruptcy airlines‚ excess capacity‚ a very capital intensive business and too many years as regulated airlines. In fact‚ during the Gulf war and recession in 1990-92‚ it took them four years to return to profit‚ even though traffic recovered
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To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Throughout the history of the United States‚ America had a burning desire to expand its boundaries. The United States acquired most its land during the nineteenth and early twentieth century with a brief hiatus during the Civil War and Reconstruction. However‚ the means by which America grained new lands
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2012.7.25 Traditional Education and Modern Education Education has been a means of transmitting one’s culture from one generation to another. As the oldest industry‚ it is the main instrument used by society to preserve‚ maintain and upgrade its social equilibrium. A society’s future depends largely on the quality of its citizen’s education‚ so having a good educational system is very important. Traditional education and modern education is a hot topic among many people‚ especially
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How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt? Do you think that you could hike over 4‚000 miles in 55 days? The Nile river is the longest river the the whole world measuring over 4‚000 miles. That’s a very long hike. That is like hiking from STL to Seattle and back. For the Ancient Egyptians traveling up and down this long river was a way of life. The Nile shaped Ancient Egypt in at least 3 ways. The Nile ba provided precious water in a vast desert for sustaning crops‚ provided transportation for trade‚
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