Essays on Education

... in Spanish, the top-ranked newspapers publish a separate Spanish edition, and many top civic leaders speak fluent Spanish (Anderson 1). According to a 1995 survey of businesses in Miami and surrounding Dade County, more than half did at least 25% of their work in Spanish. Also, 95% of those surveyed businesses agreed that bilingualism has great importance in the work force (Anderson 3). Not only will our system help our children to get jobs; it will also help them to make more money. A geographer from University of Miami did a study and found that the Dade County Hispanic inhabitants who know English and Spanish earn more than those who know only English do. ...

... in school commits a disciplinary action, instead of being indiscriminately punished, that student would be sent to see the school psychologist to find out the causes of the students misbehavior and deal with them accordingly (Frandsen 92). Though studies of educational surveys, there were nine major factors that increased learning. These nine factors can be placed into three groups: student aptitude, instruction, and psychological environments. Student aptitude includes (1) ability or prior achievement as measured by score on educational test; (2) development as indexed by chronological age or stage of maturation; and (3) motivation or self-concept as shown by ...

... can allow us to maximize the time and efforts of the good teachers. Teaching is interacting with students, not taking attendance or duplicating handouts. There could be many, less skilled, educational support jobs in the schools of the future (Layton 1). There is also a need to provide the teachers and students time together when and where it is most needed. Currently we have very rigidly structured school days. Often this rigid structure will interrupt a dynamic lesson, or leave a student with nothing to do while the rest of the class finishes. To maximize each student's time and each teacher's interactions with their students, we need a flexible, demand dr ...

... all objects in the universe. Calculus was invented to help solve problems dealing with "changing or varying" quantities. Calculus is considered "mathematics of change." There are some basic or general parts of calculus. Some of these are functions, derivative, antiderivatives, sequences, integral functions, and multivariate calculus. Some believe that calculus is too hard or impossible to learn without much memorization but if you think that calculus is all memorizing then you will not get the object of learning calculus. People say that calculus is just the revision or expansion of old or basic equations and I believe that also. In economics and ...

... (and that is also what they taught other kids as well). All these factors kept running through my brain. I need to mention here that we are one of those narrow-minded, right-wing, sold-out, fundamental born-agains!! So we attempt to ask our God about the choices that we make in life. We did just that, and after some real soul searching, just began having a 'peace' down deep in our hearts about this crazy homeschooling thing. Hard to explain, but it just 'felt right'. So, our decision was made. We would begin our daughter in 2nd grade the next fall. How excited we were as we attended the much-needed cirriculum fairs to come our way! What fun it was to meet ...

... our schools; the halls rang with the lastest gossip on the next big showdown. This problem slapped a school full of apathetic kids into a lively bunch ready to get involved. Involved in what? A controversy that all had opinions on, but how could you not have an opinion? It was the talk at all of the dinner tables, bars, and stores in town. Kids went home scared of the racial tension. Parents whined and cried of violence in the school. The parents whined and cried, and at the same time forgot to remember that it was they, not the kids, who had taught the very prejudices that were “ disrupting the education process.” My opinion is simple and elemen ...

... years of school to succeed in life. It is important to enlighten a national culture on traditional values that were established in the past may they be good or bad. In Virginia Woolf's case she was locked out of a male dominated university lifestyle where women were considered unnecessary of attaining knowledge. In her time period, at the University of Oxbridge, Woolf witnessed how only male students were taken seriously about education and even when a young woman tried to enter the library alone she was taken for a ignoramus and sent on her way. A civilization cannot further advance at any kind of distance without researching its misjudgments in the past and ...

... has not been to school for at least 30 years, he cannot understand how difficult it is for a student to complete such a large task in such a small amount of time. Completely opposite from the "you wanted MORE homework?" teacher is the "indefinite-deadline teacher." This teacher assigns a mild amount of homework, with few - if any - large projects. A conversation with this type of teacher generally follows this pattern: Teacher: Do you all have your assignment done? Student: No… can we have another day to work on it? Teacher: Well… I guess so. (A whole class period of talking, with no work being done.) The next day also follow a very similar pattern. ...

... people; only the social, or slang, words do. Slang is usually created by children or teens who seek social status (Morrow 137). Because kids are the source of new slang, some adults look down on it with the assumption that kids are unintelligent and simply rebelling against established English grammar and diction. However, most of the adults did the same thing when they were children. Adults have been frowning on slang for generations (Crystal 104). Conservatives also look down upon slang because slang is not used by people of high status. If they hear someone speaking in Jive, they will be angry because Jive is not the way that high class people spe ...

... a chance in losing its superpower reign of the world. Therefore, it is not only a social concern, but also a major economical issue. Another alarming concern is the high rate of student dropouts. Now, instead of all students receiving a poor education, some are not getting one at all. The main cause for this is the students'lack of interest in school. So much of the teaching that goes on today is based on rote and memorization. Not all learning can be exciting, and sometimes memorizing things is necessary. Although teachers should find other ways of getting the information to the students. When students are taught like this, they get bored and tired of scho ...