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    profile of my future. What I do not find enjoyable, however, is that of the brain –boiling, heart –thumping aggravation that is caused by the schoolwork. This is stress, and I, with the many that find it the real test of students across the global educational system. A survey conducted by the American Psychological Association in 2009 found that nearly 45 percent of all teen participants found stress from school pressures. In a poll by NPR, along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard

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    Insert Creative Title Here: Creativities Role in the Educational System Katie Eliades April, 3 2013 JRP American Voices Period 3 Creativity is thought to be something more of a selective gift or personal trait rather than a skill. It is not magic it just needs to be taught and people need to have the time and the right environment. People are commonly found saying, “oh no I can’t help you with that project I’m not creative.” This statement however is similar to people

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    Why America's Educational System is Failing

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    The United States of America has placed low on the educational ladder throughout the years. The cause of such a low ranking is due to such heavy emphasis on standardized testing and not individual student achievement. Although the United States uses standardized testing as a crutch, it is not an effective measure of a student’s ability, a teacher’s competency, or a school’s proficiency. Cheating can be a common routine in a classroom—from copying work on homework to copying answers on a test.

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    Theories of learning play a role in choices instructors make concerning their teaching. According to Aliakbari, Parvin, Heidari, & Haghani (2015), learning theories are the core of educational systems in nursing, which help provide an environment for learning. Truly, it may be difficult for teachers to identify each student level of cognitive development and social influences, which affect learning. There are many variables that influence and contribute to students learning. Teachers must serve as

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    questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semi-literate.”. Perhaps the increasing amount of uneducated graduates and adults relates to the undesired response of wanting to learn or actually lies within how the American educational system is structured. Though education should be considered a top priority, it’s quite clear that most high school and college graduates, feel as if their education was completely cheated due to the lack of diversity and innovation from the government

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    Gender is a word used to identify the differences between males and females. Educational theory and provisions over the years was defined by gender, meaning that depending on your gender your educational needs were outlined for you, as compared to modern day were all genders receive the same education in Britain. Karen Bradley notes that ‘historically, debates surrounding women’s education have focused on what has been characterised as the competing demands of the private sphere of the family.’ (K

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    The differences of U.S. and South Korean educational systems and the enhancement of U.S. education (futuristic) Education, if looked at beyond its traditional sense, forms the fundamentals of our daily lives. How we act and what we believe are based upon the knowledge we gain through instruction and knowledge. Thus it’s simple to conclude that education has become the very key to a sustainable development of a nation. At a smaller scale, each individual 's future is also dependent upon their levels

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    Is the current structure of the America’s educational system holding us back from making progress? This topic is a current debate within educational and political circles, yet a solution to America’s educational crisis has not been established. One party feels that schools should be nationally controlled or moved to the private sector and only through aggressive reform can real progress be made. The opposite side of the argument feels we should hold onto America’s traditions, and the constant

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    1. Regardless of being a product of Private British school system, Dr Bateson criticizes British educational system expressing a lot of reliance on natural knowledge covering nature and mankind relationships to the animal kingdom at large. Bateson claims that the educational system should cover beyond the basic science and embrace ‘the true history on mankind and the role of civilizations’. Furthermore, Bateson denotes that Natural knowledge enables a person to identify his true position in time

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    outcomes arise from each of these styles. For instance, since the educational system of Japan is so strict and structured, students are gradually chiseled into very responsible and disciplined individuals who are very skilled when it comes to things such as standardized tests; however, much is unseen about this transformational process to the American eye. In Kyoko Mori’s essay “School,” her firsthand experience of the Japanese educational system is shared. She states that “You can never question the authority

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