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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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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Ouija Boards GENERAL PURPOSE: To inform SPECIIFIC PURPOSE: My audience will understand the history‚ use of‚ and the effects of Ouija boards. THESIS STATEMENT: After I give my speech‚ my audience will thoroughly understand the history‚ how to use‚ and the effects after using an Ouija board. ATTENTION GETTER I. Have you ever wondered what happens when you die? A. Does our soul live on after we die? B. Glen Crosten said‚ “Many people wish they could say something they never got the chance
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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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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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Use laptops in school While some research demonstrates that laptops can be an important learning tool‚ anecdotal evidence suggests more and more faculty are banning laptops from their classrooms because of perceptions that they distract students and detract from learning. The current research examines the nature of in-class laptop use in a large lecture course and how that use is related to student learning. Students completed weekly surveys of attendance‚ laptop use‚ and aspects of the classroom
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Coding is a unique ability that most people don’t have‚ in fact out of the 7.5 billion people in the world there are only 18.5 million people in the world that know how to code‚ that’s only 0.25% of the population. To me‚ 0.25% is not that much‚ but that begs the question‚ should school’s consider to try to raise that number? first I want to say that there is an immense difference between coding‚ white hat hacking‚ and black hat hacking. The differences between these three is that coding is a programmer
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