WHAT STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES LEARNING MATHEMATICS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CLASSES by Marc C. Brown SHIRLAN M. JENKINS‚ Ed.D.‚ Faculty Mentor and Chair LINDA M. CRAWFORD‚ Ph.D.‚ Committee Member TINA R. BROWN‚ Ph.D.‚ Committee Member Barbara Butts Williams‚ Ph.D.‚ Dean‚ School of Education A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Capella University December 2012
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Why Shouldn’t School Dismiss Their Pregnant Students? Sexual abusing has become a hot discussion among people these days. People can no longer feel safe wherever they are – not to mention the girls. No one chooses to be raped. Those victims shouldn’t be judge as a bad person when they are all innocent. Well‚ maybe teenage pregnancy may not all because of rape. Some may have consciously chosen to have sex in their early age. Thus‚ this essay shall explore why school shouldn’t dismiss their pregnant
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The Moral Decay It is easy to for oneself to lose contact with morality when faced with enormous amounts of money. Not to say all of the socially inclined are morally deficient‚ but an image of moral decay is clearly painted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby showing the corruption driven by an omni-present green light that is money. Both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan‚ men of influence-men of money are mirrored opposites of each other; possessing general similarities in which certain differences
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Drop out risk factors in high school students Tyrone Galimore Parent‚ Child‚ and School Psychology 133A-AMEA Professor Melissa Harwin Tyrone Galimore Parent‚ Child‚ and School PSY 133A-MEA Professor Melissa Harwin Fall semester 2012 10/11/2011 Introduction The purpose of this Life Arts Project (L.A.P.)was to review the benefits of family involvement for children. For the purpose of this L.A.P. I am going to summarize some of the expectations that families
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PROS & CONS OF SINGLE-SEX SCHOOL ON STUDENTS Pros & Cons of Single-Sex School on Students INTRODUCTION Single-sex school has not been a stranger to us even from back in those old days. It practically shows how gender differences and effects caused by it had largely impacted on the society. People learnt how the attraction between Adam and Eve kind brings a lot of many things‚ including the separation of these two kinds through - one of the most important thing to the society‚ the education
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STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BRING HAND PHONES TO SCHOOL In this modern era‚ hand phones have already been the usual needs in our daily life. Hand phones are created to make human communication easier. Besides‚ hand phones nowadays are equipped with a number of useful features to improve our knowledge and social life or to entertain certain people with its multimedia functions. In my opinion‚ this kind of technology has its disadvantages for students if they bring it to school. Then‚ what are
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thing as school uniform. The students just wear whatever they like as long as appropriate to the norm to their school. But‚ this kind of things does not happen in our country. Why? Questions like “Should school require students to wear a school uniform?” have been put forward again and again. Based on what we can observe now‚ the Ministry of Education does not have any desire to give any changes to current system. This is because school uniform is important and it brings more pros than cons. In
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article‚ that even with a high school diploma‚ students find themselves unprepared for college’s academic challenges. He states that it is a tough lesson to learn the hard way “through experience” for many students now arriving on campus. To support his suggestion he includes a study that one in three students entering college have to enroll in remedial courses in order to continue with their level of education. Another point Pope makes is that of recently enrolled student‚ Christina Jeronimo; she said
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Moral Realism In this paper‚ I examine the connection between judgments of fact and moral judgments in an attempt to discern whether moral judgments are simply a subset of judgments of fact. I will look mostly at an argument posed by many moral realists that takes moral facts to be “supervenient natural facts which are independent of our theorizing about them”1 and in which moral judgments are determined by objective facts which relate to human flourishing or pleasure and pain. I will also‚ though
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Moral Hazard A few years ago when Hurricane Katrina wake‚ many people fled the ravaged Gulf Coast were spending disaster relief paid for by taxpayers‚ on tattoos‚ expensive handbags and making trips to their favorite places. In this case the damage has already done and people are using the debit cards issues by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). The debit cards are issued to buy the necessities like food and clothing. But the damage was done and people misused its money. FEMA swore that
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