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    ways that got me to think for myself. I know that children who are in the same situation as me never got the help that they needed and honestly; without the help of my ELL teachers, I would have never become the person I am today. This is why the education system in America should be changed because, using the stories: The Secret to Raising Smart kids and Marita’s Bargain, I believe that hard work and more school days would benefit children from actually learning. In school, students rewarded by getting

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    The report also recommended that nurses ought to be highly educated and well trained. This would require the improvement of the education system that they have to go through (Donelan, Buerhaus, DesRoches & Burke, 2010). In order to ensure high quality healthcare, the education system should be improved to enable nurses to acquire more competencies such as leadership, collaboration, teamwork, evidence based practice, system improvement, health policy and research among others. There should be opportunities

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    declares “The most important job in America is the education of our young people”. Those teaching and being taught have accepted the responsibility of molding America’s tomorrow. We are stepping into ‘the hot spot’ as both the teacher and the taught, learning and giving lessons based more on character formation than fact memorization. You, I, personally are the teacher, life and its lessons, are the teacher. We are all the taught, but often, our education is invested into those who will be the future

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    The United States’ education system prioritizes subjects such as science, technology, engineering, and math because the world is becoming increasingly technological, which means that a much greater portion of the future job market will be in STEM related areas. From a government standpoint, placing greater focus on STEM subjects in schools makes sense because it will translate into greater economic prosperity later on, but the sole aim of education should not be bolstering the economy. Instead, the

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    Teachers are overloaded and overwhelmed with the daily, weekly, monthly, and annual progress monitoring requirements placed upon them by their departments of education and schools alike. With the constant forms and reports necessary to document their efforts and effectiveness, many are on the verge of burn out and disillusionment with the dream of truly being educators. Reaching out to a coworker who is worn and tattered by the regularly increasing demands for greater performance and one more mandatory

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    The current system is designed to create a large number of obedient factory type workers with a small number of special and specifically educated elite at the top to control them. With a shift to technology and globalization, the stagnation within education leaves a dearth of workers for the jobs of the future. Educational systems are producing workers for yesterday, not the present or the future. In order to create students ready of the demands of the 21st century, educational

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    Academic Objective As a future student of George Washington University, I am interested in this institution because I want to attend an institution where theory and research work together harmoniously. I would like to learn from professors whom are experts in their field and I can stretch also strengthen my academic experience. I want to learn how to expand my personal thinking in class while probing further into my research interests. Finally, I want to be able to network with professional experts

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    Am I Making the Right Career Choices? What is my life’s work? Well, I plan on dedicating my life to changing the lives of others. Spending every extra minute possible giving back to the community in some way. I feel as if I was made to strongly impact the lives of anyone I cross paths with. Becoming a teacher is one of the many ways I feel that I can achieve these goals. Teaching is so much more than just standing up in front of a classroom and spitting out a lesson plan day after day. Getting

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    much less their mental and educational needs. With the introduction of compulsory school laws, which require all children between a certain age to attend school, interest in education for the disabled began. Between 1948 and 1968 the number of disabled children in public schools grew from 357,000 to 2,252,000. In 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was established. The next year, the number had grown to about 4

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    18 in perceptions of an educated population, just above South Korea and behind Italy” (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-08-25/most-educated-countries-according-to-perception). There is no single solution that can cure the education system without causing other problems in the students and teachers lives. However, if the US were to have year round school, they would have more rigor to learn, and wouldn't be behind other countries. “During the first Algebra II test that fall

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