is the most important investment in the world is how much they give back to their families‚" says Gene Sperling‚ a former top economic adviser to President Bill Clinton (and currently advising Barack Obama). Sperling’s book‚ "What Works in Girls’ Education" (with Barbara Herz)‚ is simultaneously disturbing and encouraging. It’s disheartening to think of how far we have to go to get all kids into school—one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000 to accelerate progress on
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Students in the United States typically attend school for about six and a half hours a day for one hundred and eighty days. Many experts in the educational field believe that‚ right now‚ there is simply not enough time during the school day for children to learn the necessary curriculum. Many other countries spend more time at the school during the day but is the United States ready for that commitment? Today’s teachers and schools are under pressure to improve students’ learning because of both
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Home | About Us | pmtPHYSICS1. Two vectors of equal magnitude A on addition give a resultant vector of magnitude A. Then the magnitude of their difference vector is (a) (b) 2A(c) zero (d) 2. From the top of a tower 40 m high‚ a ball is projected upwards with a speed of 20 m s1 at an angle 30 with the horizontal. The total time of flight to hit the ground is (g = 10 m s2)(a) 8 s (b) 4 s (c) 6 s (d) 3 s3. To a boy in air‚ a fish in water viewed normally from air appears to be at 0.6 m from the surface
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Jockers did not just impede my education; she treated me horribly. At one point in the school year‚ we studied the Iroquois Confederacy‚ five Native American nations local to upstate New York. For one project‚ we had to create a toy or tool used by the Iroquois and provide background information
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Education is the key to human survival To Kill a Mockingbird is the perfect book to ensure that young adults enter the real world prepared for the challenges they will face. Harper Lee shines a light on many important morals that are continuously overlooked in society today. This novel benefits high school students because it teaches them valuable life lessons such as being open-minded‚ unprejudiced‚ and understanding. It is crucial to continue teaching this novel as a part of the high school education
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Abstract Nouns An abstract noun is a noun which names anything which you can not perceive through your five physical senses‚ and is the opposite of a concrete noun. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all abstract nouns: Buying the fire extinguisher was an afterthought. Tillie is amused by people who are nostalgic about childhood. Justice often seems to slip out of our grasp. Countable Nouns A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form
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BODY Games in the past were viewed in the light of fun and leisure‚ but now it is slowly being recognized as a tool for learning where students are being engaged and immersed on the subject being learned (Annetta‚ 2008‚ p 229). This explains the steady application of video games in aiding different teaching approaches and experimenting with its use. According to Garris et. al (2002‚ p 441) there are several reasons for the popularity of video games as an educational tool; first‚ is that its use
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Environmental protection and economic development have become enemies in recent years. We all know that both of them are important. But we often can’t strike a balance between them. Some people hold the belief that economic development should never be at the cost of the environment‚ whereas many others are of the opinion that economic development is the most important‚ no matter how much it costs. As far as I am concerned‚ environmental protection is much more important than economic development
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marsh‚ and meadow. But now‚ in scarcely a century‚ an equilibrium that endured for thousands of years is rapidly being lost due to environmental degredation and resource values are steadily deteriorating because of human activities. While there is an appearent lose of wildlife and environment that exists in The Lake Tahoe Basin‚ there is also an insurgance of environmental conservation that has become increasingly powerful in the attempt at stopping these adverse affects on the environment from happening
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Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) refers to education and training that graduates students for a useful employment (Finch and Crunkilton 1999). In other words‚ TVET would make people more productive in designated areas of financial activity (e.g. occupations‚ economic sectors and specific work tasks). It has the possible to develop trainer’s capabilities and increase people choices. Also‚ the TVET opportunities should be distributed fairly between all the community spectra. However
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