Professional Organizations and Impact of Teaching

The NEA wants the artist to express how they feel by showing it with their art. In source C “NEA Issues New Obscenity Guidelines Arts” Parachini, Allen explains that, “The NEA action may have been intended to both placate a disgruntled arts community, and to create the appearance for endowment political critics that the NEA acted decisively to define what constitutes obscene art it will refuse to fund.” The point here is the NEA wants the community and citizens let their artists and art programs express how they feel with the love and dedication they have in mind. The NEA defends and will do the best they can do to make sure an art goes up that is under the program. They will also try not to let the art go down due to someone having a disturbance on the work. That is the reason why the NEA allows their art program to express how they feel.

Scholarly journal, also called as academic/scientific/refereed journal or very often peer-reviewed journal, is a peer-reviewed/refereed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research (Blake & Bly, 2000).

publication was targeted to an academic audience, but hoped to join the voices of New

The purpose of the NDEA was to improve and strengthen all levels of the American school system and to encourage students to continue their

The NEA is a federal government agency with the initial goal help people learn to appreciate and give their attention to art by putting it somewhere they could not ignore it, in the public. The NEA still serves as an organization today, although it has focused itself to giving Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts and exercise their

For the Professional Learning Community (PLC) experience, I chose to observe a PLC. For this assignment, I observed an eighth grade English PLC. This PLC was comprised of three English teachers and one student teacher. There was not a written agenda for their PLC, but they seemed to have an order to how their meeting was held. The began by discussing the unit that they were completing which was using Greek Mythology to review and analyze student’s reading comprehension and summary writing abilities. They stated that their students seemed to be really interested in the unit and did well with the reading comprehension. However, they had noticed that some students were forgetting to state the title and author of the text within the summary and most summaries lacked elaboration, but most students were knowledgeable about the basic structure of a summary. As most students understood the basic structure, they decided that they were going to transition onto the next unit which focused on informative essay writing, but modify the unit in order to teach students the importance of including the title and author within a summary and

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the federal government specifically designed to support and enhances the art community for minority groups. The NEA was founded in 1965 and has controlled the art community ever since. This has aided in censoring works of supposedly obscene and controversial art. The elimination of the NEA, or making it a private organization, would free much needed public tax dollars to go to more important parts of the nations budgets, as well as open the art communities up for the freedom to exhibit the controversial pieces of art work the NEA deems inappropriate.

A con to repealing NEPA stems from the idea that federal and non-federal projects alike could take place anywhere without any environmental mitigation measures or considerations if it was repealed. This would cause a “free-for-all” in our country, and environmental disaster would result from the even quicker human-induced environmental change. The removal of NEPA would also impact other agencies’ environmental compliance requirements, as many of those requirements are implemented under NEPA.

        The NEA also supports many more programs for the benefit of public education. The organization provides funds for school and library programs, not to mention that the NEA also

In the beginning of the story Nea saw the world differently from how her mother and her sister see it. Nea didn't know much of the world but the one she knows of where she had grown up in. During the story Nea tries to understand why Sourdi made the choices Nea thought it was wrong. For example in May-Lee Chai story Nea tries to save Sourdi from being harassed, she thought she was doing the right thing by trying to stab the man that was bothering Sourdi, but instead Sourdi and her mother got mad at Nea for trying to save her. The

Whether stabbing a man with a paring knife or getting a friend to punch her sister's husband in the face, Nea always manages to start trouble for her and her sister, Sourdi. She doesn't do it on purpose, it's just that Nea will do anything to protect her older sister. The issue stems from when the family lived in their native Cambodia; Nea was only four and Sourdi carried her across a minefield on her back. Ever since that moment, Nea has felt indebted to her older sister and has been determined to protect her at all costs. However, the costs seem to be high as her identity has become tied to this notion of debt. In May-Lee Chai's "Saving Sourdi," Nea's identity is shaped

The short story began by showing us a little personality from both characters. Nea being the one who does not think about any consequences for the actions and she would most likely express what she is feeling at any given moment. When Sourdi and Nea were alone working at their

As education issue became the central theme on the media, it forced policymakers to act. However, funding of an agenda was an issue, which would be one of the problems of NCLBA agenda setting. Even though both Republicans and Democrats wanted to act, they had different opinions about how to accomplish this. The Republicans did not support federal funding for educational problems, whilst the Democrats argued that federal government must provide funding (McGuire, 2008). Players such as The National Educator’s Association (NEA) and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) voiced their opinions in a democratic tone to involve the federal government to fund the education, but the conservative groups such as Christian Coalition and Heritage Foundation struggled to prevent government intervention (McGuire, 2008).

In the book Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School renowned educators Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan set out to transform the future of teaching and public education by proposing the idea and importance of investing in Professional Capital. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, capital is defined as “Relating to or being assets that add to long-term net worth.” The autho 's notion of Professional Capital lies upon the integration of three kinds of capital – human, social, and decisional. This book provides powerful and evidence-based action guidelines for classroom teachers, administrators, schools and districts, and policital leaders on how Professional Capital can transform the future of teaching and public education.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides guidelines for documentation style. This template is based on commonly used guidelines from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th edition) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd edition). For more information about MLA style and publications, go to the MLA website at: www.mla.org.