READING ASSIGNMENTS- Reflect on your reading assignments by answering 3 of the following questions. Use this guide to steer and focus your reading. You are expected to answer 3 of the 4 questions comprehensively in the blog posting for this Unit. 1. What were the reasons why the author stated that NCLB does not passed the test of equity for all students? Stan Karp states‚ the NCLB does not pass the test of equity for all students because it forces some students to take inappropriate and unhelpful
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moral objectives‚ and teacher selection and retention policies. The report finds that the inner-city private schools shared more in common with public schools in low-income communities than with affluent suburban private schools. Suburban public schools shared more characteristics with suburban private schools than with urban public
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Almost exactly 9 months after World War II ended‚ there was a greatly elevated birth rate in the United States. This generation of "baby boomers" was the result of a strong post war economy‚ in which Americans felt confident that they would be able to support a larger number of children. Many people in the postwar era looked forward to having children because they were hopeful that the future would be one of comfort and prosperity. This was especially true because of the recent events of World War
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Ayanna Boyd English 102-014 South Suburban College Writing Assignment # 2 October 13‚ 2009 College Life: Traditional vs. Vocational I knew when I graduated from high school a new beginning was ahead of me. College was the only thing that was important to me because I knew that I would have to get a good education to get a good job to start a great career. I would have never expected myself to bounce from a community college to a vocational school back to a community college. There
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The revolutionary thinking has waged a battle in opposition to the low-dense suburban intensification or sprawl. Yes I agree to the reality that the Urban Sprawl is behind all the issues posing danger to the environment. What are the associated issues? Can there be planned solution for a good cause? Sprawl generally conjures image of strip mall and mega store‚ traffic congestions‚ long commuting‚ lost open spaces‚ contamination‚ crowded school‚ higher tax‚ and the termination of downtown shopping
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accept this counterintuitive fact and ultimately bring ourselves back to cities to sustain our planet earth. Before we discuss why cities are cleaner than suburbs‚ we must first acknowledge how sprawl began and what made Americans fall in love with suburban lifestyle. According to Glaeser‚ it is largely due to public policies in the late twentieth century (193). Our government made a mistake by restricting developments in urban centers and encouraging new developments outside of cities. It caused the
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opportunities. It is almost as if they excluded the poor and minorities from employment‚ housing‚ and educational opportunities available in the suburbs. Dolores Hayden‚ author of Building Suburbia‚ states “racial segregation‚ always part of the suburban experience‚ usually managed through deed restrictions” (147). She also mentioned that the movement towards the suburbs caused gender discrimination as the men used cars to commute to their jobs in the city‚ but the wives had to stay back in the
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Introduction In this document‚ we will analyse the current market of lawnmowers in Portugal. By recognising this market and its products with distinct characteristics‚ we will perform a customer segmentation‚ which will allow us to divide the market into small groups. Through the segmentation of the lawnmower market‚ it will be possible to achieve a greater proximity to the final customer; create advertising media that target the identified segments; facilitate the positioning of the product; and
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Miller‚ and the film‚ American Beauty‚ directed by Sam Mendes. The pursuit of achieving the American Dream ultimately leads to the sacrifice of individual values and morals to achieve the societal expectations of the 1940s urban context and the 1990s suburban context. The American Dream is a social dream that is underpinned by its materialism where the individual must decide whether to follow its societal values or personal ideals‚ and face the consequences of their decision. In the play‚ Death of a
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