study conducted by EducationNext‚ “moving to middle school leads to a substantial drop in student test scores in the first year of the transition‚ and the relative achievement of middle-school students continues to decline in the subsequent years they spend in such schools.” One aspect of the educational system that I think can be vastly improved is middle school. Although middle schoolers are faced with numerous challenges‚ the middle school curriculum does not allow students to explore their interests
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Superintendent Prebles‚ community residents‚ and members of the Forest Hills school board: For the past eleven years‚ I have attended this lovely school district‚ starting as a kindergartener at Sherwood Elementary‚ becoming a middle schooler at Nagel‚ and finally joining Turpin to complete my final four years. You have all worked tirelessly to create a fun‚ welcoming‚ and informative environment where all students can finally achieve success. However‚ even though you have accomplished much‚ there
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Are you going into middle school? Are you intimidated by the older kids and larger homework loads? Well don’t worry because I’ve already been through it and as long as you follow the tips in this guide you’ll be just fine. Middle school is difficult but it’s also exciting. When you’re in middle school your worldviews change‚ everything you thought you knew about school is questioned. Everything and everyone seems different no matter how familiar they are. All these drastic changes can be overwhelming
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Many children that are required to go public schools that require school uniforms could very easily be going through the same thing. They may come from a low-income family that does not have the money to buy school uniforms for them and their siblings. Lemouse of HealthGuidance said that children may need to shop at thrift stores for uniform clothing. It is not hard to shop at a thrift shop to buy regular clothing‚ but it is very difficult to find uniform clothing at a thrift store. But shopping
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you go behind the wheel. Driving schools offer driving lessons to prepare every driver for the road and you should make sure you get a school you can trust to offer you quality driving training to keep you safe and confident on the roads. So what then makes a good driving school? Qualified and competitive instructors - Does the school have approved driving instructors? If yes‚ what is the pass rate of the instructor that will be handling your
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Are your kids in school sports? Are school sports beneficial to your child? I believe school sports help students because they decrease obesity‚ help then build a strong and healthy body‚ and they increase happiness. School sports decrease obesity because of all the exercise. Without the sports‚ most kids would continue their obnoxious eating habits without burning the calories off. According to eatright.org‚ a teenage boy should eat 2‚220 to 3‚200 calories a day and teenage girls 1‚800 to 2‚400
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Principal Agent Problem Running a business can be a tricky expenditure in today’s society. As we know a business can only be successful economically if they are bringing more money than they are putting out. Owners of businesses realize that positive economic profit is essential to the livelihood of their businesses. As with every business‚ employees are hired to do specific tasks that the owner assigns for them. However‚ with employees comes the responsibility of managing them. This is where a
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School lunch is so much more healthy for you then the food outside of school. The fact that they put diet soda in the vending machine and make food taste like fake food is just great. If anything there should be regular soda and food that tastes good. School food is meant to be good for you but no one enjoys it anyways. So some aren’t eating ‚ or there just forcing themselves to eat. The foods should be ordered normally from a store‚ not from a special‚ high quality business. Everyone just loves
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Shocking School Sexism School uniforms have been a popular debate for years. Should we have them‚ should we not? Recently the school uniform rules have been changed and I find them simply outrageous‚ also most of these rules focus on girls; Skirts. Girls have been made to wear their skirts knee length. Why is this the case when most‚ if not all‚ girls hate wearing long skirts? The answer is boys. Us girls have to wear longer skirts to make sure they do not get distracted. We have to cover more of
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Kipp schools are becoming very popular in the US for pushing math programs and leading students the right direction. These schools will get 84% of the students up to or above their grade level in math. To get in these schools you have to be selected by lottery because there are that many students trying to get in. For the low income students they extended their school 3 extra weeks because they are the ones who forget what they learned during the summer since they aren’t able to obtain materials
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