better academic performance of students in their pursuit of university education and in other higher institutions with the aim of producing competent manpower for the growth and development of the nation. Recent trends in this tier of education in Nigeria show poor academic results from our children. The preponderance of mass failure in the final examinations conducted by various examination bodies (WAEC‚ NECO NABTEB) has led to the hue and cry by all and sundry over students’ poor academic performance
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The Gender Achievement Gap Rena Godfrey Capella University ED5540 Strategies for Eliminating the Achievement Gap Quarter & Year: Fall 2013 Email: godfreyrena@gmail.com Instructor: Marge Zuba‚ Ed.D. Gender Achievement Gap One of the most interesting and actively debated areas in educational research concerns the gender-based achievement gaps in math and science. Despite research efforts and statistical data backing up the notion that girls are falling
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statistics can be trusted. According to the CAP‚ a report proposes a resolution to diminish the achievement gap. This simple solution is universal preschool‚ making high quality‚ early learning available for all families. A study shows that going to a preschool of high quality could allow low-income children to decrease their academic gap by 41%‚ African American children to almost close their achievement gap in reading‚ and Hispanic students to completely close the educational gap between them and
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get hard and challenging. It is also used for education‚ social security‚ health‚ and other things needed in our country. The wealthy are most likely able to afford these increases in taxes. This doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t tax the less wealthy/poor and middle class. That’s why their taxed less‚ cause they don’t have as much financial health that other people may have. Other countries around the world tax high and are doing well in growth. Since the 1970s‚ income for the wealthy people have increased
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RUNNINGHEAD: FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS Falling Through the Cracks: Low Student Achievement in Urban High Schools By Ashelley Wilder‚ BS Coppin State University/University of Baltimore Dr. Bridal Pearson‚ Ph.D December 8‚ 2010 Abstract Retention and the decision to dropout are two of the many pervasive attitudes that undermine the success of students in urban high schools. The achievement gap between urban and suburban students has been an issue of growing concern among researchers
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WORKING WITH THE POOR As a Social Work student‚ I have been exposed to different faces of poverty especially during this school year. These exposures have taught me a lot of life lessons and helped me grow as a person. One of the realizations I had with these exposures is how poverty differently shaped the lives of the poor. Thus‚ I had different views of poverty. If you dig deeper into the causes of illegal activities‚ one of these is poverty. Once‚ I had given an opportunity to interview
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Richard Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire” can be described as an autobiographical text in which the author includes some self analysis in comparison to what he describes as the only description of “myself”(Rodriguez p.547): The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. What Rodriguez is doing by writing this essay is to add further notion of the “scholarship boy syndrome” for future scholarship boys. His motif for doing this could be to make the reader reflect on the advantages and disadvantages
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of teaching and learning of sciences and mathematics in particular. The main concern of the educationalists has always been in the improvement of the achievement level of students (Bajah‚1984;Akpau 1993). For a nation such as ours aspiring for scientific and technological take –off the need to pay due attention to our students’ academic achievement in mathematics cannot be over emphasized. Ada(2001) said‚ today’s science is tomorrow’s solution to tomorrow’s problems too. Jegede and Brown (1980)
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Question: Should States be permitted to establish different academic goals based on a student’s race or ethnicity? Ever since America became a nation people have been trying to fight for their rights. Setting proficiency goals based on their race or ethnicity is a step backwards in our society. If this was permitted it would expand the ethnicity gap between groups. In addition it may propose an opposite effect on the results‚ of the academic performance of students. Lastly this policy enhance stereotypes
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Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus Author: Muhammad Yunus Copyright: 2003 Introduction Banker to the Poor narrates the life of Muhammad Yunus and his conception of the micro-lending institution‚ Grameen Bank‚ to provide help to the poor. Yunus had a dream of providing help the poor to be able to help themselves. He believes that if the poor can receive financial help in the form of very small loans and are taught some basic principles of financial management‚ they will learn
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