In recent years‚ the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has made progress towards its ambitious vision of all students graduating from high school as “caring‚ competent and critical thinkers‚ fully-informed‚ engaged and contributing citizens . . . prepare[d] to succeed in college and career.” Since 2012‚ for example‚ the reading proficiency of high school students has nearly doubled from 19% to 38%. Yet OUSD continues to face significant challenges‚ and consistently trails the State of California
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Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham Part A: Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham is a book about the workings of the mind and how to be access students by knowing how the mind works. In each chapter he leads the reader through the questions that we ponder‚ the concrete of what that looks like‚ how the mind works around that question‚ the data the backs that up and then finishes with the implications for the classroom. In chapter one Willingham discusses
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The culture of the UK is mainly determined by the culture of England‚ with the addition of local cultural traditions of Scotland‚ Wales and Northern Ireland‚ as well as‚ to a lesser extent‚ cultures of many countries‚ one of the former colonies of the British Empire. Large-scale changes in the culture of the UK occurred after 1945. The most notable examples of these changes can be a transformation of Liverpool‚ and then London‚ the center of the world of pop culture in the 1960s. "The Beatles" were
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Canada Prepares for WWI “In Canada‚ the summer of 1914 was like every other summer” (Swettenham‚ 2). Although great in size‚ Canada’s population had always been small compared to that of other countries‚ and was still only a growing nation. Canada was small and far away from any real threat of war‚ therefore how could they have thought to prepare themselves for a war the size of the Great War? It is shown through how Canada was a slowly developing country during the time of the war‚ how the Canadian
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Background & Overview of Research For over a century‚ residential schools played a major role in assimilating First Nations into what Europeans consider a "dominant society." (Keeshig-Tobias‚ 2003) As part of the British North America and Indian Acts in 1867 and 1876‚ respectively‚ the Canadian government felt it was integral for First Nations to improve their lives by educating them in what they felt were culturally acceptable. Many First Nations children lose their sense of identity‚ initially
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Boarding schools teach young people to become confident and well rounded adults " Boarding school is no difference from a society where I experience every situation‚ discover who I am‚ make friends for life‚ and become a successful young adult.” - A boarding school student A smaller class size‚ advanced courses‚ supervised study times and highly qualified teachers are the standards of boarding schools. With such characteristics and an ideal way to train students‚ how is it dangerous and unreliable
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I n t r o d u c t i o n t o A s h wo r t h H i g h S ch o o l Student Handbook Educating Minds. Changing Lives. AU01B Copyright © 2009 by ASHWORTH HIGH SCHOOL Professional Career Development Institute‚ LLC. 430 Technology Parkway Norcross‚ Georgia 30092 Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Accredited by the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation. Accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council
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Mandatory Drug Testing of High School Athletes Brandon had always wanted to play football for his high school team. He had always been one of the slowest and smallest boys in his grade. While in 8th grade‚ he was introduced to performance enhancing drugs. He was sold on the fact that they would make him stronger‚ faster‚ and maybe give him a shot to make the high school football team. During his first year of taking the performance enhancing drug‚ Brandon had increased strength and self-pride
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Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989) asks mathematics teachers to seek activities that “model real-world phenomena with a variety of function” and “represent and analyze relationships using tables‚ verbal rules‚ equations‚ and graphs”. The standards also urge teachers to give students the opportunity to be actively involved in math through data analysis and statistics that are integrated into the curriculum. My hope is to show that these types of activities can be incorporated into
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Manipulation is an essential part of both texts as the help reinforce this power and control of the ‘leaders’. This manipulative language sets the tone of novels‚ revolving around dominance and control. However‚ this manipulation also works to show the naivety of both the animals and the shoulders as they submit to these rules and therefore the dominant class. Orwell uses manipulative language as a means to signify power and strength by convincing them that he is a good‚ just leader. On several occasions
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