Once the Leadership Team is set up, we will meet and then briefly discuss why we each wanted to be on the committee. Secondly we will state concerns we have and lastly express how we think things could improve. Several survey’s will be written to cover all of our school’s
In tier 3, schools guarantees that all students in need of intensive support would receive this help in addition to core instruction and not in place of it. The authors believe Response to Intervention (RTI) is “our best hope for giving every student the additional time and support needed to learn at high levels” (Burns, Appleton, & Stehouwer, 2005). However, the article reference misconceptions the school and teachers have concerning the implementation of RTI and how RTI will benefits the students versus creating extra work. Therefore, the schools “are implementing RTI from a compliance perspective, doing just enough to meet mandates and stay legal. For some schools, their efforts are driven by a desire to raise test scores” (Buffum, Mattos & Weber, 2010).
Should the reader trust that the statistics are accurate, or could they be the author’s invention because he is opposed to all legalization of drugs? If no sources are acknowledged for statistics, he author casts doubt on his entire argument. Each of your paragraphs should include these three elements: your point, evidence from the work, and explanation of why the evidence supports your point. • Conclusion: Here you can summarize your main points, restate your thesis statement in fresh words, and discuss the success or failure of the author to convince the reader. Is his or her work significant?
Creating this bigger gap in funding only hinders a school from achieving academic excellence and eventually causes teachers to lose jobs and schools to shut down. Furthermore to cover shortfalls at least 22 states have scaled back K-12 funding and at least 24 have made cuts in higher education for fiscal year 2012 including reducing, or eliminating, personnel and programs vital to the most vulnerable populations: lower-income and minority students (Ceasar., Watanabe., T., & Times, L. A., 2011). Students are being pushed through a system that allows them to chose their electives such as, the time spent learning how to cook and drive, which counts as much toward a high school diploma as the time spent studying mathematics, English,
“Many states and school districts are finding it increasingly difficult to implement performance pay programs. Mounting budgetary constraints and research that has shown that these programs have little or no impact on student performance.” (Blazer & MDCPS, 2011) No teacher will take less pay and work just as hard or harder to educate students. Teachers will flock to higher performing schools to get paid. I viewed it as the school system might as well open “Gladiatorial Games” outside achieving and over achieving schools. I have witnessed 20-year teachers either leaving the same school they have been at for years to go to a new achieving schools or retiring to avoid dealing with the Merit pay system.
You may elect to print out your article and do a first reading that uses strategies such as underlining, annotation, summarizing, and exploratory writing to make sure you understand the basic arguments. Go back to any sections that need clarification. On a second reading, start to pay attention to what Gawande is doing. You may want to outline the writing and describe the writer’s strategy. Notice how Gawande uses facts and personal experience (in most texts) to support claims, as well as other types of evidence.
English 10 Psychology professor at Clark University, Wendy Grolnick, and Santa Monica based writer, Kathy Seal, are coauthors of a newspaper article titled “Shortchanged by pay to learn”. In their article, the authors demonstrate their disbelief in the effectiveness of extrinsic motivation on students and argue that intrinsic motivation leads to better academic achievements on students. In fact, the authors state that “those who want to improve test scores and motivate students should stop throwing money at the problem so literally.” The authors directly state their beliefs on the matter, and frankly, I agree that school districts should promote the building of intrinsic motivation on students. I believe schools should encourage the building of intrinsic motivation on students because it has shown that students that participate in programs that build on intrinsic motivation do better in school than those students who do not. In the article “Shortchanged by pay to learn” co-authors Grolnick and Seal indicate that intrinsic motivation is a good alternative to improve student test scores.
After the economy started going down many people were losing their jobs, unemployment rates started to go up and people were forced to go back to school. Businesses were laying off people, closing doors and the ones who stayed open would not do any hiring. When business did hire new employees, they lowered the wages tremendously. Many of the people who lost their jobs were forced to take lower wages, go to school part time while losing their homes and filing bankruptcy. Although many people qualified for grants to pay for school, books & supplies without having to take out student loans.
This is a issue that is leaving many critics concerned. On the other hand, Philadelphia’s citizens have been moving out of the city and moving toward the suburbs, leaving behind the lower-class and working class people who are unable to move out. Because of the loss of revenue streams from businesses leaving the city, the city has had to cut back on developmental and allocational expenditures and focus the majority of spending on redistributive expenditures like healthcare, housing and community, and public welfare. One concern that was the most shocking was the significant drop in Philadelphia’s spending on education. How is a city expected to strive forward when the younger generation is not receiving the same caliber of education as other cities?
Re-birthing Dreams Shocking statistics suggest a new kind of recession in today's age of knowledge: specifically, the decline of American college graduates, which is caused by students dropping out of school. As David Leonhardt informs the readers of the New York Times, the majority of dropouts are lower-income students. In his article, "The College Dropout Boom," Leonhardt addresses the issue further by explaining why the poor leave college, how they need help, and how dropping out negatively impacts their lives. Leonhardt's extensive propositions are united by a common thread: money. In other words, the contemporary pressure for money influences many lower-income students to enter college with inadequate funds, which ultimately forces them to drop out of college.