Demographic Survey

This study examined the effect of national board certification to reading proficiency scores and reading levels of second and third grade students. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards enable teachers to pursue national certification that consists of four components: A content knowledge assessment; reflections on student work samples, a classroom video and analysis and documentation of the teacher’s impact on teaching. The national board certified teachers in the study administered the name of the test, a state mandated reading diagnostic test at the Beginning of the Year, Middle of the Year and End of the Year. These benchmark reading tests were utilized to determine a correlation between national board certification and reading scores in second and third grade students. These series of reading test also measured

How Can These Challenges Be Addressed. The changing of disability rates, the size of the economy and efforts at privatization may affect how much of an economic burden these programs will impose in the future. As a result, household financial wealth in the world's major economies will be roughly $31 trillion lower in 20 years than it would have been if historical demographic trends had persisted. Raising the retirement age, easing restrictions on immigration, encouraging families to have more children, and achieving faster economic growth will have little impact on this shortfall. To fill it, households and governments will have to increase their savings rates and national economies will have to allocate capital more efficiently, thereby boosting returns (Farrell, 2005).

L. Ms. L told me that her job is to supports, supplements and extends classroom teaching, and works collaboratively with other teachers to implement a quality reading program that is research-based and meets the needs of students. She also performs assessment and diagnosis that is vital for developing, implementing, and evaluating the literacy program in general. She is instrumental assessing the reading strengths and needs of students and provide that information to classroom teachers, parents, and specialized personnel such as psychologists, special educators, or speech teachers, in order to provide an effective reading program. Ms. L also acts in the capacity of providing leadership as a resource

In order to best describe the cultural landscape of Stafford County and Fredericksburg city, one must analyze the historical conditions that shaped the modern landscape, which will provide insight into present-day demographics as well as future projections. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, settlements in Virginia rapidly spread westward from the Tidewater Region. Navigable rivers provided the means of movement, as settlers sailed into the Piedmont. While large plantations were initially established in a dispersed and decentralized pattern, several towns of small size began to prosper as sites of tobacco shipment inspection. The exploration of the Rappahannock River dates to 1608, when Captain John Smith visited the falls and encountered indigenous Native

In early childhood education classrooms, teachers utilize assessments for a variety of reasons. Assessments are used to detect strengths in weaknesses in a specific area of study as well as the differences in the students’’ learning the classroom (Stiggins, 2007). Teachers utilize this information in order to direct instruction in the classroom to best benefit the students in it. There are various types of assessments for education, many geared toward early literacy skills. Two of the more common literacy skill tests for early childhood education are the Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT) and the Early Reading Diagnostic Assessment (ERDA), both of which assess reading for young students. Using the information from the GORT and the ERDA, a teacher can create a pre-assessment and a post assessment for phonics and phonemic awareness.

Marshall County Schools are located in Marshall County, Alabama. The county is surrounded by Madison and Jackson Counties to the north, Morgan County to the west, Cullman, Blount, and Etowah Counties to the south, and DeKalb County to the east. The majority of the schools are found in heavily populated rural areas. Marshall County is unique due to the fact that there are four city school districts in addition to the Marshall County School System. This poses a challenge concerning funding within the county. This is due to the fact that the city school systems are located in four of the largest cities within the county and compose approximately 90% of the tax base revenue for the county. Our county school system is made up of primarily rural communities that lack a viable tax base. This combined with the fact the Marshall County has such a high poverty rate in general (currently slightly above 81%) has left the county school system with little in regards to a local feasible and workable revenue source.

According to the US Census Bureau, as of July 1, 2015 the estimated population of the United States was 321.4 million. Of this number, the percentage of people who identified as Black or African American alone was 13.2 percent. There were no estimates for people who identified as Black or African American in combination with one or more additional races. (Population). According to the 2010 U.S. Census, on April 1, 2010 the U.S. population was 308.7 million and out of that number, 13 percent or 38.9 million people identified as Black or African American alone and one percent or 3.1 million people identified as Black or African American in combination with one or more additional races. These two groups combined total 42.0 million, or 14 percent

I started off by gathering research for the demographic factors that would be easy to find for both cities by looking at the US Census database as well as the American Community Survey database. I was able to get through this process fairly quickly because the US Census publishes ‘quick facts’ about each city and I was able to do a side by side comparison between San Jose, CA and St. Louis, MO. After filling out the main demographics, it was time to fill the table with health prevalence rates, number of uninsured people, food insecurity and etc. I was able to find a lot of the health rankings through BRFSS. CDC and County Health Rankings (refer to table for specific information). I used County Health Rankings in the case where I wasn’t able

In the United States each state has their own system to regulate teacher certification. Each state has a set of state guidelines and procedures for certifying teachers. Equally, all public schools are expected to employ teachers that meet certification requirements by individual states. The high commitment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is for more school accountability and to hire “highly qualified” teachers to improve the learning outcomes of every student and monitor student achievement (Boyd, (Goldhaber, Lankford, Wyckoff, 2007). As a result of No Child Left behind North Carolina hold teachers to specific criteria in order to become “highly qualified.” Teachers must hold Bachelor’s degree or higher; and Hold full certification in teaching in the state of North Carolina. Teacher must have a major and coursework equal to the total of twenty-four semester hours from a four-year accredited college or university in their perspective content area. Also, teachers that hold an advanced degree, National Board Certification or pass the PRAXIS in their perspective content area (NCDPI, 2006).

Do parents trust their teens the chart below shows that most teens are trusted but is that really the case.I’m here to see if they really trust them or the parents are putting on a show.My prediction is that teens can be trusted and parents over react and are just being paranoid but maybe i'm wrong maybe hormones really do get the best of us.My first pice of evidence is the chart below I got this sorce from a website called

Motion by Mrs. Taylor; support by Mrs. Pasko to approve Benchmark Training for Assessment Systems 1 and 2 from Heinemann Professional Development. The total cost for this training will not exceed $7,200.00. Remaining funds carried over from the 2016-2017 Early Literacy Grant will cover the cost of $3,600.00 for the K-2 Benchmark Training and remaining funds carried over from the 2016-2017 Title II, Part A grant will cover the cost of $3,600.00 for the 3-8 grade Benchmark Training in accordance with allowable expenditure guidelines for use of federal funds for teacher professional development.

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The data is from the 2014 American Community survey conducted by the US Census Bureau. The data is measure on a county level and accounts for all members of the county. The variables of focus are the population of the county and foreign born population to calculate the foreign born percentage of each county. Other variables of interest are the working age population and the number of people unemployed to calculate the unemployment rate. Additionally, there is data on mean income per family in the county as well as percentage of families below the poverty lines. Hopefully a combination of these variables will help give a better picture about what has the greatest impact on the percentage of families in poverty. Most of the data is available

In chapter one, I read about the fifteen standards developed by The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Subsequently, I read about the eight principles of balanced literacy instruction and how effective teachers utilize them. In chapter two, I read about the reading process which contains the following steps: prereading, reading, responding, exploring, and applying. In addition, I also read about the writing process which contains the following steps: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. In chapter three, I read about the different types of assessments for literacy development, including classroom assessments, diagnostics tests, high-stakes testing, and portfolio assessments. Lastly, in chapter three, I read about how these two processes are reciprocal processes in that they are both constructive and mean-making processes.

In this article, Nazim Habibov and Robert Weaver from the University of Windsor analyzed data from Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey (GSS). The GSS is a cross sectional and nationally representative survey of the Canadian population. They wanted to test if there is a correlation between social capital and self-related health, so they employed a simultaneous equation instrumental variable technique to account for endogeneity. The dimensions covered are social networks and social support, civic participation and social participation. Also, the survey covers sociodemographic classifications such as income levels, education, age, and sex. So, Habibov and Weaver gathered information from the 2008 Data Cycle 22 from GSS which was collected through a computer assisted telephone interview calling random households. The range of survey stretched all ten Canadian provinces for ages 15 years to 74 years old.