I realized there was something wrong with me when I noticed myself scrutinizing the extracurricular activities of my daughter’s friends‚ and wondering how they’d look on a college résumé. How would Model U.N. stack up against Mandarin? Would playing a violin or a lute stand out more? What about foreign service trips vs. summer “nerd camp” vs. Indian cooking classes? Archery‚ fencing‚ or diving—which would be more likely to catch the admissions officer’s eye? We were talking about a bunch of seventh-graders
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published in 1987. Research on learning styles‚ has provided teachers and also students with a different view of learning and how to apply it to classrooms and lives. Among the authors that have views regarding this topic are: Mathew Peacock (2001)‚ Rao Zhenhui (2001)‚ Joy Reid (1995)‚ Rita and Kenneth Dunn (1993)‚ Richard Felder (1995) among others. Educators and researchers have developed several instruments to assess students’ learning styles‚ but literature regarding this topic is full
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in their account and sometimes they want to add their teacher as friend in their account but the student have to think that they should add or not their teacher as their friend on Facebook. If the student add their teacher on Facebook‚ it will be easier for them to clarify doubt with their teacher because when they does not understand on what they doing on their homework they can messaging their teacher on Facebook if they don’t have teacher phone numbers’. Other than that‚ they also can talk
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Teachers Should Be Tested Like Students Education is an important component of life today‚ but it has also become one of the costliest activities for the United States government. In 1993‚ public spending on education was around 6 percent of the national income‚ totaling $375 billion; an amount larger than social security and national defense. However‚ educational experts and the public claims that such a huge investment does not correspond with the quality of education offered in schools
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SHOULD STUDENTS BE ALLOWED TO EAT DURING CLASS Imagine a classroom filled with students who are all eating their favourite foods. There are candy wrappers and potato chip bags littering the desks and the floor. Students should not be allowed to during class because you are disrespecting the students of the class. In spite of that‚ eating in class could possibly a life death situation for some people. Firstly‚ and most importantly students should not eat in class because students with
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Topic: Students should not be allowed to wear religious symbols Wearing religious symbols among the students nowadays is one of the most discussed topics in many schools across the countries and is currently battling over whether or not religious symbols should be allowed in schools. This issue is getting a lot of people up in arms. Some say there should not be the slightest hint or religion within the school system‚ while others feel that not allowing it is stifling the freedom of the
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Students should not be paid for their outstanding grades. Schools paying students for their. excellent grades seems ridiculous due to the education of others. Most people believe they shouldn’t since learning should always stay the same with hard work and effort. Others believe they should for hard work. The disagreement seems pretty fair to what plenty think feels right for every student. Students should learn for the sake of learning and not the outcome of money. Paying students for their spotless
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STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BRING HAND PHONES TO SCHOOL In this modern era‚ hand phones have already been the usual needs in our daily life. Hand phones are created to make human communication easier. Besides‚ hand phones nowadays are equipped with a number of useful features to improve our knowledge and social life or to entertain certain people with its multimedia functions. In my opinion‚ this kind of technology has its disadvantages for students if they bring it to school. Then‚ what are
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CASH FOR GRADES Wouldn’t you love to have your teacher pay you for an A on that test. Although some people would see this as a bad idea‚ it would help students a lot with their school work. Let’s face it‚ kids love money. So that would lead them to want to do some things to earn money. If students earned money for good grades they would be more focused on getting good grades then they would without being paid. The grade average for the school would show amazing results which would show how much
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country. The question has been posed “Should students be allowed to carry a gun on campus?”. As the Constitution states in the Second Amendment‚ we as Americans‚ should have the God given right to have a gun to protect themselves from danger. Today’s society is willing to put people’s rights aside to make up for some people’s discomfort of having guns on campus. This is understandable as school shootings happen for people owning guns‚ but allowing students to carry a gun on campus also allows them
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