principal suggests that one of your students who performed poorly this year repeat second grade next year. Given what you know about the research on retention‚ how would you respond? I would ask the principal to reconsider his decision and to examine the student’s situation more carefully to make an informed decision. First I would present the scientific results on retention students. According to the scientific study‚ retention has negative effects on students rather than positive. It’s a misconception
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Students in Financial Crisis: How Academic Advisers Can Help Reed T. Curtis‚ University of South Carolina Editor ’s note: This is the eighth in a series of articles written by students enrolled in Jennifer Bloom ’s graduate seminar on academic advising at the University of South Carolina for the 2007 fall semester. As part of her course syllabus‚ Dr. Bloom required each student in her class to submit an article to The Mentor or other publications for consideration. Introduction Given
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Student Success Goals Paper Oct. 12th‚ 2010 Goals Paper Life is full of opportunities‚ its what and how you decide to go about these opportunities that decides your path in life. For people like me that like to plan ahead and make goals to a brighter future it is a simple task. I have established three different types of goals‚ two that will lead me to my long term goal of getting a job with the orange county sheriffs office. My personal long term goal is to move out of my home and live either
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Availability Many freshmen students at the University of Oklahoma find it difficult to find parking spots available by the dorms. Although‚ there are many parking spots available all across campus‚ there are not many available for the freshmen who actually have to live in the dorms. Either students have to drive around hoping and praying for a parking spot to open or they have to find a parking spot that is completely far away from the dorms. This would not be a problem if students were not required to
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Cause and effect Student Athletes The demands of being a student-athlete in high school or college can be extremely challenging in terms of budgeting your time for your academics/school work‚ and what little free time that remains for social activities‚ or one ’s personal life. In this essay I will discuss the effects about being a student athlete because many people think that student athletes have there life easy but in actuality they have to deal with things that regular students would not be dealing
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in our students in the classroom setting and it looks bad on the school and parents. Engagement is actively participating in the classroom by asking questions when you do not understand something‚ answering questions‚ participating in group activities and more. The lack of engagement in the classroom is bad for parents and school system‚ since students need to have responsibility for their education. The teachers are fighting intensely to get students to turn in their work‚ or get students to ask
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MASC Hyannis Essay Student council has afforded me with so many opportunities and MASC Hyannis will only add to these amazing experiences. These experiences are ones that I will remember for a lifetime and help me grow as a person. As a student council representative‚ I have done my best to become involved and contribute to the council. In August I participated in StartSTRONG which opened my eyes and eased my tensions on high school. I learned all about what the MHS Student Council has to offer
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Working with Refugee Students in Secondary Schools A Counselor’s Companion 1 Minnesota Department of Education English Language Learner Programs 2010 Working with Refugee Students in Secondary Schools A Counselor’s Companion Today’s challenge is to find ways to nourish the spirit of the “world’s children” in our lives and teach them skills for dealing with the ever-increasing demands of a stressful and complicated world‚ and life itself. Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings:
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Monitoring Student Social Media Accounts Schools in many districts have decided to start monitoring student social media accounts when they see signs of cyberbullying or even self harm on the students accounts. The goal of this project was to protect students and to prevent cyberbullying. Schools should not monitor students social media accounts because students should learn about online safety‚ it limits free speech‚ and bullies online tend to be bullies offline. First‚ some students and parents
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be more beneficial for the students because recess is a student’s only free time during the school day. I think that at recess‚ students should be able do what they want as long as it is appropriate and necessary. As an eighth grade student I think we should be able to have our cell phones out during recess. Our class is mostly responsible and can be trusted to not do inappropriate and nonessential things. This would be a privilege and can be taken away from students who decide not
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