Download or read book Cuba s Academic Advantage written by Martin Carnoy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth analysis of how an entire educational system delivers higher student achievement.
Download or read book Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
Download or read book Negotiating Opportunities written by Jessica McCrory Calarco and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.
Download or read book The Student s Advantage written by Wyne Ince and published by Wyne Ince. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello, Finally, every student has access to the advantages needed to succeed in school and in life! This timely, student-friendly guide will show you--or your son or daughter--the value of education as well as their importance to the process and to the world. Do you--or does your child: Struggle in school or maybe just get by in school? Have trouble getting motivated or find it difficult to care? Have doubts about your (or his or her) ability to succeed? Feel clueless about choosing a career? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you need this book! Written by a teacher who understands the challenges of getting an education, The Student's Advantage: Your Guide to Getting the Most Out of School and Creating a Fabulous Future! examines the problems students grapple with in school, provides concrete solutions, and opens the doors to your personal and academic achievement. What you will learn from this book: If you're tired of just putting in time, if you want to be someone you and your family can be proud of, if you don't know how to get out of the rut but sincerely want to, this book provides the stepping stones that lead out of the woods of mediocrity and into the daylight of brilliant success. Full of practical tools for becoming a stellar student and for choosing a fun, fulfilling, yet profitable career, The Student's Advantage is your personal guide to the life and future you desire. All too often, students do not really understand why they need to learn. With US academic performance in decline, particularly in science and math, the time has come to tackle the question of why students are not doing better, and to emphasize to students the "why" of learning, making clear to them how education will affect their adult lives. This book is a practical guide that will motivate middle and high school students by providing a vital understanding of the keys to succeeding during formal education, the importance of investigating potential career interests, and the need to take an active role in preparing for the years ahead. Now is the time to change your life for the better. This book is your start.
Download or read book The Public School Advantage written by Christopher A. Lubienski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.
Download or read book The Student s Advantage Parents Guide written by Wyne Ince and published by Wyne Ince. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Parent: This guide will explain what you can expect from the book, how it is structured, and the educational principles on which it is based. It will also walk you through the book’s major components and how to implement them. As the parent, you will need to provide certain things for your teen or preteen to gain the book’s full value. The Parent’s Role in Fostering Good Studentship Every conscientious parent wants their child to do well in school, but not all parents know how to make that happen. They tell their child to study hard and to take school seriously, but that usually isn’t enough. They then may resort to nagging, scolding, or threatening, which only makes things worse. Many loving parents had trouble in school themselves and really don’t know the solution to their child’s problems. Kids need three things to turn around a losing streak in the classroom: 1) They need to be motivated, to be given reasons why they should study and work hard. 2) They need to be shown that they can be successful if they do this. 3) And they need to be shown how to do it: what studying and working hard in school actually means. This book will address all three issues. But by itself, it is only a book, a bunch of information buried between two pieces of cardboard. To get the knowledge out of the book and into the head and heart of your student, a facilitator is needed. That facilitator is you. (Or it could be another adult whom your child respects acting in the role of a mentor. The Student’s Advantage: Your Guide to Getting the Most out of School and Creating a Fabulous Future will empower students who have been struggling in middle and high school to maximize their capabilities and will inspire good students to transform themselves into great students. All too often students do not really understand why they need to learn. With US academic performance in decline, particularly in science and math, the time has come to tackle the question of why students are not doing better, and to emphasize to students the why of learning, making clear to them how education will affect their adult lives. The Student's Advantage: Your Guide to Getting the Most out of School and Creating a Fabulous Future is a practical guide that will motivate middle and high school students by providing a vital understanding of the keys to succeeding in school, the importance of investigating potential career interests, and the need to take an active role in preparing for the years ahead. The Student's Advantage demonstrates through dramatic examples the indisputable power of motivation and commitment. The Student's Advantage is not exclusively a goal-setting workbook, merely a manual of study habits, or just a career-search guidebook. It draws together all of these crucial areas in a highly interactive and engaging manner, yet remains a straightforward reference that will inspire and motivate. The Student's Advantage aims to give students momentum on the road to academic success. Each comprehensive chapter is easily referenced, with the Student’s Success Roadmap offering corresponding exercises. Practical devices like the Seven Learning Secrets and overviews of various careers are presented in a candid and accessible fashion. Thanks.
Download or read book Grounded written by Christopher Schaberg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic considers the time leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing global plummet in commercial flight. Mobility studies scholar Christopher Schaberg tours the newly opened airport terminal outside of New Orleans (MSY) in late 2019, and goes on to survey the broad cultural landscape of empty airports and grounded planes in the early months of the novel coronavirus’s spread in 2020. The book culminates in a reflection on the future of air travel: what may unfold, and what parts of commercial flight are almost certainly relics of the past. Grounded blends journalistic reportage with cultural theory and philosophical inquiry in order to offer graspable insights as well as a stinging critique of contemporary air travel.
Download or read book The Bilingual Advantage written by Rebecca M. Callahan and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using novel methodological approaches and new data, The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Central Methodist College (Fayette, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yearbook written by University of Denver and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning Online written by George Veletsianos and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's it really like to learn online?Learning Online: The Student Experience Online learning is ubiquitous for millions of students worldwide, yet our understanding of student experiences in online learning settings is limited. The geographic distance that separates faculty from students in an online environment is its signature feature, but it is also one that risks widening the gulf between teachers and learners. In Learning Online, George Veletsianos argues that in order to critique, understand, and improve online learning, we must examine it through the lens of student experience. Approaching the topic with stories that elicit empathy, compassion, and care, Veletsianos relays the diverse day-to-day experiences of online learners. Each in-depth chapter follows a single learner's experience while focusing on an important or noteworthy aspect of online learning, tackling everything from demographics, attrition, motivation, and loneliness to cheating, openness, flexibility, social media, and digital divides. Veletsianos also draws on these case studies to offer recommendations for the future and lessons learned. The elusive nature of online learners' experiences, the book reveals, is a problem because it prevents us from doing better: from designing more effective online courses, from making evidence-informed decisions about online education, and from coming to our work with the full sense of empathy that our students deserve. Writing in an evocative, accessible, and concise manner, Veletsianos concretely demonstrates why it is so important to pay closer attention to the stories of students—who may have instructive and insightful ideas about the future of education.
Download or read book Flip Your Classroom written by Jonathan Bergmann and published by International Society for Technology in Education. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what a flipped classroom is and why it works, and get the information you need to flip a classroom. You’ll also learn the flipped mastery model, where students learn at their own pace, furthering opportunities for personalized education. This simple concept is easily replicable in any classroom, doesn’t cost much to implement, and helps foster self-directed learning. Once you flip, you won’t want to go back!
Download or read book CliftonStrengths for Students written by Gallup and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps aspiring college students discover where their strengths truly lie and how to develop them to reach their full potential at school and later in the real world.
Download or read book Traditional and Innovative Assessment Techniques for Students with Disabilities written by Festus E. Obiakor and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This finely curated collection of thirteen chapters presents ideas and research on different disability topics from key leaders in the field of the assessment of children with disabilities. They help us to properly understand and compare traditional and innovative assessment techniques for students with disabilities.
Download or read book Colleges and Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Business Advantage Intermediate Student s Book with DVD written by Almut Koester and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, new multi-level course for the university and in-company sector. Business Advantage is the course for tomorrow's business leaders. Based on a unique syllabus that combines current business theory, business in practice and business skills - all presented using authentic, expert input - the course contains specific business-related outcomes that make the material highly relevant and engaging. The Business Advantage Intermediate level books include input from the following leading institutions and organisations: the Cambridge Judge Business School, IKEA, Emirates NBD, Isuzu and Unilever - to name but a few. The Student's Book comes with a free DVD of video case studies.
Download or read book Reports from Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
