------------------------------------------------- of Fundamental Movement Skills. 1 – Description of your kids: e.g. - What kind of activity do they like? -What kind of activity do they do after school? -What kind of activity do they do during the week? -What kind of activity do they do at the weekend? -How good do they think they are? Student 1 (Katie): The activities she likes are basketball and dance. She plays basketball for her school and they train after school twice a week. They also have matches every
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where a child goes to school just to be force-fed a curriculum focused on English and Math‚ just so they can pass a state test at the end of the year. That is the world that K-12 public students are forced to face with the Common Core Standards (CCS) initiative. The Common Core Standards is a “set of information and skills that students are expected to master at each grade level” (Greenblatt). The initiative should be revoked or dismissed from the United States public school system as teachers are
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Fallacy within the “App Store”: A Critique of “The Common App Fallacy” In “The Common App Fallacy” written by Damon Beres‚ he argues that students would have a better chance at getting into college by banning the College Application which‚ he says‚ does not help students conduct individualized searches for colleges but is rather a “cheap‚ money-making scheme”. The author informs the audience that due to the convenience the Common Application‚ lack of commitment to personal college applications has
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graduated high school in the United States of America‚ I have not been prepared for the real world. There are graduates that do feel like they are prepared for the real world after high school‚ but since each high school is different‚ there is no guarantee that the school a student is in will prepare them. This would not be as much of a problem if Common Core State Standards were brought into every state and changed to have more helpful and practical subjects taught in schools. The Common Core State
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Mr. Scheiner English Period #4 11/21/13 Argumentative Essay on Common Core “Without Common Core we (America) are not where we want or need to be.” The New York Times reported this in August‚ 2013. Currently‚ every state sets its own curriculum for its schools. The result is that the United States ranks “25th in math‚ 17th in science‚ and 14th in reading compared to students in 27 industrialized countries.” Without
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Foundation Course 1 Human Rights‚ Gender and Environment Indian Women’s Movement Aparna Basu∗ The roots of the Indian women’s movement go back to the nineteenth century male social reformers who took up issues concerning women and started women’s organizations. Women started forming their own organization from the end of the nineteenth century first at the local and then at the national level. In the years before independence‚ the two main issues they took up were political rights and
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Common core is the standardization of curriculum for students in public K-12 schools in the United States. It was developed with teachers and representatives from 48 states. Common core creates a more cohesive education‚ one that is more or less the same in every district and state. It does not dictate what or how teachers must educate their students but instead sets guidelines as to where students should be academically at the beginning of each school year. While there are suggestions of material
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unique. A student with autism or dyslexia should not be taught the same way as students who have no learning disabilities. Indiana‚ which adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)‚ is now eliminating those standards because‚ the state asserts‚ Common Core “takes control of educational content and standards away from parents‚ taxpayers‚ local school districts‚ and states” (Volsky). The Indiana legislators want to write new standards‚ which are governed locally‚ not at the federal level. NEED A TRANSITION
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Curriculum: At Front Street School they follow New York State Common Core Curriculum. At Front Street School two of the main Common Core Curriculum is based on Mathematics and ELA (English Language Arts). They specially use Engage NY. The Common Core Curriculum for ELA is designed to help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary based off of by listening and reading comprehension. These skills that Common Core force students to know are called decoding skills. These decoding skills
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the Youth Movements of the 1960s The 1960s are a decade that have become known as a time of “peace and music”; a time when large parts of the youth population came together to try and change the things that they did not find right in the world. However‚ it was a decade spattered in blood which had its share of horrific‚ brutal events. The 1960s were marked by extreme changes in social norms and culture that shocked the elders of society‚and served as a time for educational reform as well as social reform
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