teachers focus more on testing than the information needed throughout life‚ and it judges kids on skills instead of knowledge. Standardized testing causes kids to have high anxiety. In the Midwestern states‚ a study was conducted using three elementary schools. The study was on the anxiety that mandated tests cause on children and teachers. One of the scales used to measure anxiety was the Children’s Tests Anxiety Scale‚ also known as CTAS‚ which assess children’s physiological and disengagement behaviors
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The Slums of Manila: Cutting-Edge Poverty? Because of the industrial revolution‚ the invention of the automobile‚ and the consequent development of freeways‚ cities worldwide have expanded into the countryside. As though it were a conspiracy of the automobile and fuel industry‚ the government‚ and private developers‚ suburbanization even now continues to damage the city. It has not only affected the physical fabric‚ but has also significantly affected the lives of its people. Most importantly
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Growing up in Lincoln Park Chicago‚ I went to a private school for preschool through 1st grade. Although it was a exceptional school for elementary kids‚ the education for middle school and high students was not as adequate. On Average‚ three or four teenagers graduated from the eighth grade class. When I was in 2nd grade‚ my parents made the decision to move to the suburbs. On June 27th‚ we all packed into our Honda minivan and drove the 45 minutes out to a new home in the town of Winnetka. Wishing
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the New World. Aluísio Azevedo depicts the conflict and synergism of the mixing of these two worlds in The Slum. The Slum is the story of a neighborhood where members of both worlds collide‚ forced to interact with one another and it becomes a microcosm of the entire country. The characters in this community each represent a facet of the two worlds. By looking at each character and the slum itself‚ it is possible to decipher Brazil. To gain status in Brazil there is a need to create the right impression
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I really enjoy Lauber’s analogy of elementary school siblings when discussing the responsibility of believers giving correction. This analogy really spoke to me because it reminded me of early years filled with minimal responsibility‚ a simplistic outlook on life and a excited viewpoint of faith. I can remember running around in children’s church viewing God as the coolest dads ever‚ and being a christian as an exciting venture; I was lucky to take part in. However‚ as time went on questions‚ pressure
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High school‚ the best times of our lives. But in every situation others don’t experience it as the time of their lives. In specific‚ the so called‚ “Loser‚ Nerds‚ Outcasts." Sometimes the perception that most high school movies convey for this certain group are the reality. In this article "High school confidential: Notes on teen movies" by David Denby‚ He describes the functions of an everyday American high school. David Denby uses very effective language and rhetoric to provide the minds of the
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Slums of Two Different sides of the World There are many similarities between Meirelles’s City of God‚ released in 2003 in Brazil and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire‚ released in 2008 in the United Kingdom‚ at the most the two films being comparable of main characters. These similarities are two different by two different sides of the world and how the main characters get out of the slums. These both films have a positive outcomes but have had rough upcoming to get out of the ghetto. The first
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Urban Slums: Reason for Concern? The definition of a slum varies from one form to another depending on the background or country from which an individual comes from. Someone from a rich country may define slums as old run-down buildings‚ whereas someone from a poor country will define slums as un-serviced haphazard constructions. The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen
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On the surface‚ Ken Jackson and C.P. Ellis led remarkably similar lives. As Studs Terkel records their stories‚ it is noted that both are born into low-income families with alcoholic fathers‚ neither one cared for school‚ and both got into their own sorts of trouble‚ for Jackson gangs and prison‚ for Ellis the Klan. And both men end up in relatively similar places too‚ Jackson works with at-risk youth‚ Ellis with unions and workers‚ with the intention of bettering their communities and stopping
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Correlation Analysis between two variables 2. Describe Correlation coefficient 3. Calculate Product correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination 4. Demonstrate Statistic Test on correlation coefficient 5. Interpret coefficient correlation based on the statistic test on correlation coefficient 6. Examine Rank Correlation by Spearman rank Introduction Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre took place on December 14‚ 2012‚ in Newtown‚ Connecticut. A 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot 20 school children
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