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Reforming The High School System

Pages: 10 (2967 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Essay Document #:70939676

… which consists mainly of passive learning, and advocated a more active learning approach. The style of learning he said worked best at shaping student was something similar to the Socratic method of dialogue and inquiry. This made student more engaged. Instead of sitting in their desks like passive receptacles waiting for information to be downloaded into their brains, they become more … is what high schools need now more than ever. Considering that the U.S. Department of Education has found that every 26 seconds a student drops out of high school for a total of 7,000 student per day quitting school before they graduate, one can see that there is a veritable mass exodus of children from the education system … reformed by focusing on character education, and the way to do that is to use the methods of the ancients—Aristotle and Plato—to help student learn more both about……

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Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. Stardom and celebrity: A reader, 34, 2007.

DoSomething.org. “11 Facts about High School Dropout Rates.”  https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-high-school-dropout-rates#fn1 

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018.

Kristjánsson, Kristján. \\\\\\\\\\\\"There is Something About Aristotle: The Pros and Cons of Aristotelianism in Contemporary Moral Education.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Journal of philosophy of education 48.1 (2014): 48-68.

Lickona, Thomas. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The return of character education.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Educational leadership 51.3 (1993): 6-11.

Micheletti, Gabrielle. “Re-Envisioning Paulo Freire\\\\\\\\\\\\'s “Banking Concept of Education’.” Inquiries Journal 2.2 (2010): 1.  http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/171/re-envisioning-paulo-freires-banking-concept-of-education 

Plato. Allegory of the Cave.  https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf 

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Chicago Public School System Issues

Pages: 4 (1328 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:89040340

Chicago Public School (CPS) system is the most understaffed in Illinois, where throughout the state the average student to staff ratio is 11 to one. In the CPS system, it is 16 to one—16 student to every one teacher, and that is just going by averages (Sepeda-Miller, 2018). As Laraviere (2019) puts it, “the 20 most adequately staffed … (Sepeda-Miller, 2018). As Laraviere (2019) puts it, “the 20 most adequately staffed school districts in Illinois have 100 staff members for every 500 student.” Yet in CPS, it is just 29 staff for every 500 student (Laraviere, 2019)—which means when compared to the best that Illinois has to offer, Chicago looks like the worst. That is a serious shame … no maximum limit on classroom size in the CPS system (Guerrero, 2019), and some classes can grow much larger than already woeful average student to teacher ratios. What all this means……

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Blatchford, P., & Russell, A. (2019). Class size, grouping practices and classroom management. International Journal of Educational Research, 96, 154-163.

Guerrero, M. (2019). Understaffed and overcrowded: Chicago teachers on strike. Retrieved from  https://depauliaonline.com/43619/news/understaffed-and-overcrowded-chicago-teachers-on-strike/ 

Laraviere, T. (2019). Is the teachers' union demanding enough? Retrieved from  https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/teachers-union-demanding-enough 

Leone, H. (2019). Chicago Public Schools’ enrollment drops another 6,000 students, extending long downward trend. Retrieved from  https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cps-chicago-public-schools-enrollment-decline-20191108-u7qkibaptnb7ljyob3frclgldy-story.html 

Sepeda-Miller. (2018). Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois? Retrieved from  https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2018/jun/21/troy-laraviere/cps-most-understaffed-district-illinois/ 

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Trading Classroom Authority For Online Community

Pages: 3 (1036 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:29778738

Should Teachers Allow student Access to Internet in Classrooms
Why Kids in Classrooms Today Do Not Need Any More Wild West in Them: “Trading Classroom Authority for … out, children cannot succeed—academically or professionally—without developing grit, resilience, and determination. Rorabaugh’s argument is that bringing the Internet into the classroom and allowing student to engage in self-directed learning can help to build that grit, resilience and determination as it allows them room to spread their wings … the journey for answers. Rorabaugh states that it encourages active participation rather than passive reception of information from a teacher. With the Internet, student are like sleuths in a digital Wild West, and giving them that opportunity is like giving them training in simulated combat: they are … they also are very vulnerable to misinformation and still require a great deal of guidance. Even Dante the poet…[break]…levels of education, such as college, online learning……

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Domhardt, Matthias, et al. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Resilience in survivors of child sexual abuse: A systematic review of the literature.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 16.4 (2015): 476-493.

Perkins-Gough, Deborah. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The significance of grit: A conversation with Angela Lee Duckworth.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Educational Leadership 71.1 (2013): 14-20.

Rorabaugh, Pete. “Trading Classroom Authority for Online Community.” Hybrid Pedagogy, 5 Jan 2012.  https://hybridpedagogy.org/trading-classroom-authority-for-online-community/ 

Tough, Paul. How children succeed: Grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

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Social Media Campaign Discouraging Binge Drinking Among Teens

Pages: 5 (1634 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:37851693

… to map the effect of binge drinking amongst teenagers in high school and their academic performance, the authors found out that high school student who engaged in binge drinking were more likely to not only skip class, but also ignore their homework or classwork. Thus, the authors … were more likely to not only skip class, but also ignore their homework or classwork. Thus, the authors came to the conclusion that “student who initiate binge drinking have poor school performance and engagement, which may interfere with achieving their future academic goals” (Karen, Wei, and Scott, ……

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC (2019). Binge Drinking. Retrieved from  https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/binge-drinking.htm 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC (2020). Underage Drinking. Retrieved from  https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/underage-drinking.htm 

Grenard, J.L., Dent, C.W. & Stacy, A.L. (2013). Exposure to Alcohol Advertisements and Teenage Alcohol-Related Problems. Pediatrics, 131(2), e369-e379.

Karen, P., Wei, Q. & Scott, L. (2017). Binge drinking and academic performance, engagement, aspirations, and expectations: a longitudinal analysis among secondary school students in the COMPASS study. Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can., 37(11), 376-385.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism – NIAAA (2020). Underage Drinking. Retrieved from  https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/underage-drinking 

Rothoni, A. (2019). Teenagers’ Everyday Literacy Practices in English: Beyond the Classroom. New York, NY: Springer Nature.

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Shortages Of Health Care Providers

Pages: 7 (2037 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Essay Document #:32789324

...College student Informatics Telehealth and the Health Care Shortage
Snavely (2016) shows that the looming nursing shortage is due to hit America hard in the coming years, and that shortage is now evident more than ever with the arrival of the novel coronavirus in America—especially in hard hit areas like New York City, where the hospitals are being overrun by patients infected by the virus. Shortages of health care providers is a major concern in the US, especially since the US is meant to be a world leader among other nations—and yet an element of its critical infrastructure, health care, is sorely lacking in support in the form of providers. Now that the country has gone into lockdown mode, it is only making matters worse from an economic point of view: going to school for medicine is expensive and individuals and families may reassess their commitment to the field if they see……

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Clemmer, T. P. (1995). The role of medical informatics in telemedicine. Journal of Medical Systems, 19(1), 47-58.

Demiris, G. (2003). Integration of telemedicine in graduate medical informatics education. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 10(4), 310-314.

Foster, M., & Sethares, K. (2017). Current strategies to implement informatics into the nursing curriculum: an integrative review. J Nurs Inform, 21(3).

Haddad, L. M., & Toney-Butler, T. J. (2019). Nursing shortage. In StatPearls [Internet]. StatPearls Publishing.

Hasbrouck, L. (2016). Strengthening local health department informatics capacity through advocacy, education, and workforce development. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 22(Suppl 6), S3.

IOM. (2010). The future of nursing. Retrieved from  http://nacns.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/5-IOM-Report.pdf 

O’Brien, J. (2003). How nurse practitioners obtained provider status: Lessons for pharmacists. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 60(22), 2301-2307.

Snavely, T. M. (2016). A brief economic analysis of the looming nursing shortage in the United States. Nursing Economics, 34(2), 98-101.

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Joe R Feagins White Racial Frame

Pages: 2 (694 words) Sources: 2 Document Type:Reaction Paper Document #:51042323

… in daily life. It can be subtle or overt. Professors, being unaware of their own biases or how their framing can affect their student, may make statements that their student can classify as racial mistreatments. Here is a video link……

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Feagin, Joe R. The white racial frame: Centuries of racial framing and counter-framing. Routledge, 2010.

Picca, Leslie H., and Joe R. Feagin. \\"Two-faced racism: Whites in the backstage and frontstage.\\" (2007).

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Program Rationale On Vaping

Pages: 1 (402 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:92801156

… of teens in high school are exposed to e-cigarette advertisements on a regular basis. In the words of NIDA (2016), “among high school student, 56.3 percent are exposed to retail ads, 42.9 percent to internet ads, 38.4 percent to TV and movie ads, and 34.6 percent to … on the need to quit vaping. This is more so the case given that as NIDA points out, 42.9 percent of high school student are exposed to interned ads promoting vaping. It would be prudent to counter the message of the said ads with actual facts. It ……

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC (2020). Quick Facts on the Risks of E-cigarettes for Kids, Teens, and Young Adults. Retrieved from  https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/Quick-Facts-on-the-Risks-of-E-cigarettes-for-Kids-Teens-and-Young-Adults.html 

County of Placer (2019). Placer, Others See Increase in Teen Vaping. Retrieved from  https://www.placer.ca.gov/Blog.aspx?IID=8 

National Institute of Drug Abuse – NIDA (2016). Teens and E-cigarettes. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/infographics/teens-e-cigarettes

 

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Social Media S Negative Effect On Emotions

Pages: 8 (2307 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Essay Document #:82396601

...College student Introduction
Nowadays, almost everyone who has regular access to the internet has a social media account. Social media sites like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram are very popular around the world. The sites allow people to sign up for accounts that they can use to socialize with friends and acquaintances online. When the social media sites first emerged, many people hailed them for connecting long lost friends and for enabling individuals to share about their lives. However, despite these known benefits of social media, it is now emerging that frequent social media use can affect a user’s mental health and their wellbeing. For instance, a number of studies have already shown that there is a direct relationship between frequent use of social media and depression and low mood (Berry et al., 559). This work is an investigation of the possible negative effects of frequent social media use. It explores different……

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Berry, Natalie, et al. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Social media and its relationship with mood, self?esteem and paranoia in psychosis.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 138.6 (2018): 558-570.

Conick, Hal. Marketing\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Ethical Line Between Social Media Habit and Addiction. American Marketing Association, 2017.

Do?an, U?ur. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Effects of social network use on happiness, psychological well-being, and life satisfaction of high school students: Case of facebook and twitter.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Egitim ve Bilim 41.183 (2016), 217-231.

Goldhar, Thomas. The Negative Impacts that Social Media Have On Our Self-Esteem. Medium.com, 2018. Web.

Hu, Elise. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Facebook makes us sadder and less satisfied, study finds.\\\\\\\\\\\\" In Isaac Gillman Online lives, offline consequences: Professionalism, information ethics and professional students. Interface on the Internet 9.1 (2009) 484-485.

Konnikova, Maria. “How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy.” Annals of technology. The New Yorker, 2013. Web.

Kross, Ethan, et al. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults.\\\\\\\\\\\\" PloS one 8.8 (2013): e69841.

Orben, Amy, Tobias Dienlin, and Andrew K. Przybylski. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116.21 (2019): 10226-10228.

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White Collar Crime And The Department Of Education

Pages: 4 (1318 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:56412463

… High School in Long Island City in 2015. The principal of the school, Namita Dwarka, had been adamant with teachers that they help student to pass so that they can meet their graduation quotas (Gonen, Edelman & Golding, 2015). Several teachers and some student began to speak out about the pressure they were getting from the principal. Mary Bozoyan was one of them. She blew the whistle … criminal activity that really goes all the way up the chain of command to the Department of Education. The major issues concern falsifying student grades but more importantly the quid pro quo conditions placed on schools and states by the federal government, which wants to show the … punished are those who dare to object.
Part of the problem is that Dwarka was not applying pressure on teachers to pass failing student because she wanted to make herself look good. She……

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Edelman, S. (2015). School ‘retaliates’ against disabled teacher for criticizing principal. Retrieved from  https://nypost.com/2015/11/01/school-retaliates-against-disabled-teacher-for-criticizing-principal/ 

Gonen, Y., Edelman, S. & Golding, B. (2015). City finally decides to probe rampant grade-fixing. Retrieved from  https://nypost.com/2015/08/03/city-finally-decides-to-probe-rampant-grade-fixing/ 

Granata, K. (2015). Queens Community Demands Removal of High School Principal. Retrieved from  https://www.educationworld.com/a_news/queens-community-demand-removal-high-school-principal 

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Process Of Writing An Academic

Pages: 3 (1016 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:94821952

Explanatory Process
Academic essay writing is one of the most important practices in the learning process for student. Academic writing basically refers to the writing a student has to complete for his/her high school, college or university courses. While academic writing assignments have different names, they have the same objective in the learning process. The main goal of … assignments have different names, they have the same objective in the learning process. The main goal of academic essay writing is for the student to demonstrate what he/she understands and can think critically regarding the specific topic (Whitaker, p.2). In addition, academic writing provides a student with an avenue to develop his/her critical thinking skills, research skills, and ability to evaluate and organize information. This skills are important in … an avenue to develop his/her critical thinking skills, research skills, and ability to evaluate and organize information. This skills are important……

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Murray, Rowena. “Writing for an Academic Journal: 10 Tips.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 6 Sept. 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2013/sep/06/academic-journal-writing-top-tips

Steenbergen, Candis, and Robyn Diner. “A 12-Step Guide to Research and Writing for Students: One Essay at a Time.” Third Space, vol. 4, no. 1, Nov. 2004,  https://journals.sfu.ca/thirdspace/index.php/journal/article/view/resources_12stepguide/153 

Whitaker, Anne. “Academic Writing Guide.” City University of Seattle, City University of Seattle, Sept. 2009, http://www.vsm.sk/Curriculum/academicsupport/academicwritingguide.pdf

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