for schools to switch to a four day school week‚ but not all of the benefits are for students. There are “Sixty-two school districts‚ constituting 34% of the 178 school districts in Colorado” and those sixty two school districts “schedule 7.5 hours per day for 144 days of school instead of the normal six hours for 180 days” (Dam). By switching to a four day school week‚ students grades and their attendance were improved. The school saved money and since there is only four days in the school week
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Recently‚ I made a list of what I think my perfect school would look like. As I began developing the list‚ I was struck by two things: Firstly‚ how most of it was about making school more student-centered‚ and secondly‚ that I didn’t mention technology once. For me‚ this second trend bears a little more fleshing out. I would never say that there is no place for technology in education‚ far from it… But I think the place of technology is to support a more student-focused‚ relevant and engaging methodology
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My Blue Bike It was blue. It intimidated me topoint of tears many times. After succeeding to ride my first bike was magic‚ riding my bike was freedom. My dad thaught me to ride blue bike. My bike was the coolest‚ most special‚ better than anyone else’s bike in the whole world. I loved to look at it‚ riding it was another story entirely. Daddy loved to just do things. My first moments on my beautiful bike were filled with wind through my hair‚ my dad’s hands on my back pushing hard as I’m hurling
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My first time experience I remember when I went scuba diving for the first time. It was the summer of 2002. My Dad‚ his two friends Mark and Bob‚ and I went on a scuba diving trip to San Carlos‚ Mexico with a group of scuba divers from June 21st-29th. It was June 22nd‚ a beautiful day. The temperature was at about 90 degrees and it was very sunny. I was on big nice scuba diving boat along with the other eight divers on the trip and captain and co-captain. The boat was headed to an island about
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While reading “My First Conk”‚ written by Malcolm X‚ many thoughts came to mind. It is truly astonishing how a human being will withhold an immense amount of pain just to create a new personal appearance. In this case‚ pain really is beauty! Malcolm wished for a different look to represent him in a positive way. The hairstyle known as a “conk” was very popular on white males‚ however they were predominantly worn on upper class African American men‚ specifically entertainers. The conk would represent
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Schools Should Have a Four Day School Week Some people say schools should have a four-day week for a variety of reasons. There are several good arguments for having a four-day week. One‚ is the students become more focused on school in a shorter amount of time. Another argument is that students have more time to rest their brain before going back to school. On the other hand‚ students can become more complacent about their school work if given more time. A counterpoint would be that students
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My First Skydiving Experience "Jumping is fun! Skydiving is not just falling; it is flying—the closest we have been able to come to free‚ unencumbered‚ non-mechanical individual flight‚" says Mike Turoff in the book The Skydiver’s Handbook. I totally agree with him because skydiving provides the maximum liberty that one can ever experience. In this article‚ I’d like to describe to you my first jump in order to show you how much fun skydiving is. First of all‚ I learned about skydiving via the
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My first Experience In a Mosque In this research‚ I am going to explain an experience that I encounter. What was like to be inside a mosque? I went to The Islamic Center of Passaic on Sunday 10/7/12 at 7:00 AM‚ the Sufi mosque is located in 152 Derrom Ave in Paterson‚ NJ. To start my research first‚ I went to the mosque in person and of course I needed their permission‚ so I spoke with Inman Mohammad Qatanani‚ which I thank him so much for letting me have the experience. I told the Inman my reason
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The Greatest Day I Have Ever Lived Have you ever had the feeling of yearning to gain something into your possession so desperately? Well‚ I had. It would probably be best to describe it as the dearest wish that any typical girl my age could ever had: the trendiest‚ most portable‚ and most recently released gadget on the market featuring the most advanced technology a phone could possibly ever been designed with in mankind’s history – the extremely popular iPhone 5s. Whenever I overheard
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It was the month of November and the year was 2008. I did not plan on going to the hospital on this day but my mother received a phone call. That one call was my reason for being waken up at 4 a.m. listening to my mom as she reused me to get dressed. One call changed my life forever. A person from the hospital called and said that my grandmother was not breathing normally. After we got to the hospital we find out that the cancer she was diagnosed with has affected her breathing‚ which caused tubes
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