General English standard of students Question 1: How bad is the situation? 1. HKEAA recently completed the first administration of the TSA of Primary 3 students to assess their performance against professionally defined competences in Chinese‚ English and Mathematics. Surprisingly‚ there are 25% of students who fail in English. 2. In the 2009 HKCEE and HKALE English examinations‚ there are some unacceptable mistakes such as some students spelled banana wrongly to ‘’banna’’ and ‘’bananna’’
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ESSA requires the establishment of statewide entrance and exit procedures for English learners to ensure that English learners get the resources they need while still learning English. This also benefits these students by providing them with the stability they need if they move between schools or districts. LEAs must monitor the progress of all ELs in achieving English language proficiency (ELP) and in acquiring content knowledge. • LEAs should establish rigorous monitoring systems that include benchmarks
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The movie My Fair Lady satisfies the four elements that define fine arts. These elements include music‚ dance art and drama. Although the movie is set in a different time period‚ it still manages to successfully convey the important facets of fine arts. The movie My Fair Lady is a 1960’s musical‚ originally adapted from a play‚ Pygmalion. There are several different types of music included in the film. For example‚ one of the romantic songs is "I Could Have Danced All Night"‚ which is sung by Eliza
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The Beauty Standard "Does this make me look fat?” Everyone at one time or another has experienced this iconic question in some way. Your best friend may have asked it‚ as she was getting ready for a date or maybe you muttered these words to yourself as you stared disapprovingly into a mirror; either way‚ this six-word question alludes to a standard of beauty that everyone strives to meet. A standard of beauty that is almost impossible to meet. The definition of beauty has evolved greatly over
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Guidance on the national occupational standards for supporting teaching and learning in schools National occupational standards for supporting teaching and learning in schools: unit titles and their elements The national occupational standards for supporting teaching and learning in schools (STL NOS) can be found on the national database of national occupational standards (www.ukstandards.org) or downloaded from the TDA website at www.tda.gov.uk/stlnosunits. Unit title Elements STL1
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Double Standard Women of our time are beginning to break into this male dominated news industry. A recent survey from Ball State University showed that 99% of all broadcast newsrooms have female employees and that now women make up more than 40% of the total broadcast workforce (Papper‚ 2005). That same survey unfortunately showed that only 10% of local sports reporters are women and that 7% of local sports anchors are women (Sheffer‚ 2007). These numbers show that women are breaking into the
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Hunter Tipton Mr. Aaron Gottbrath English IV Final Paper May 1‚ 2012 The BBCOR Standard There are mixed reactions to the acronym BBCOR in the baseball community. If someone would be to ask a pitcher what they thought about the BBCOR bats‚ many would say that they love the new bats. If someone were to ask someone that is a batter‚ they more than likely would say that they don’t like the new bats. There are those that look strictly on the statistics and say that the new bats are great because
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Vanity Fair Vanity Fair: a novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray ‚ satirizing society in early 19th century Britain. The book’s title come from John Bunyan’s allegorical story The Pilgrim’s Progress published in 1678 and held in a town called Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is the most famous novel of realism in English literature of the 19th century‚ which was written under the pseudonym William Makepeace Thackeray and published in 1847. The story begins with
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Is the Court System Fair? Lynette Price CJA-224 9/03/2012 Professor John Pierce Throughout generations‚ the public joke of how attorneys are like sharks‚ they “circle around their prey before they head in for the kill” has been proven through ruthlessness and relentlessness to acquire and win a court case‚ especially if the possible case is high-profile (a Hollywood star‚ a nationally known football player‚ singer‚ a television show icon and etc.) The stigma of working in one of the top
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of child labor from international corporations should not be supported. Human life and dignity should be our greatest value and the protection of children are our number one priority. Consumers should not be purchasing items from countries and companies that quietly tolerate child labor‚ because this kind of ignorance by consumers is being taken advantage of by big companies to increase their profits.
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