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similarities between the residential school system and the Canadian pubic school system, there are many major differences. Residential schools were introduced back in the 1870’s, they were made to change the way native children spoke their languages and how they viewed their cultures. The residential school system in Canada was operated by the government, where the native children were aggressively forced away from their loved ones to participate in these schools (“1000 Conversations”). The government

Mayor Rahm Emmanuel in 2012. The failure to have a timely outcome that each party could agree upon force the teachers of Chicago public schools to strike for nine days at the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year. This strike was detrimental to the public school system with as much as 26,000 teachers and other personnel in the nation 's third-biggest school district (Belkin & Banchero, 2012). Rahm Emmanuel: What he is wants to give When renegotiating the contracts with the Chicago Teachers Union

and development.2 Research indicates that school encompasses a significant portion of a child’s time, cognitive, physical and social development, and as such, has the responsibility to promote a healthy lifestyle for children.3 Because of the nationwide concern surrounding childhood obesity, recent federal wellness policy for public schools mandate that nutrition education, physical activity and other wellness promoting programs must be part of the school environment.4 The purpose of this review

American School System, and to justly state if the authors claims are well-researched and based on facts or if her arguments and claims are biased and opinionated. More specifically, this memo will acknowledge the two central ideas of contemporary education reform today: choice and accountability. Advocates of school choice believe that it provides families with alternative options to choose their children’s education that works best for them while encouraging competition to better schools. However

School uniform has been a controversial issue in the United States. A lot of researchers have debated for centuries on whether or not wearing a school uniform is good. In the United States, most public schools do not require students to wear uniforms. However, students are required to wear uniform in private schools. While in most of the countries, either in a public or private school, required to wear uniforms. They even have summer and winter uniforms according to the weather. Most of the people

Home-Schooling vs. Public Schools Not so long ago, home-schooling was something that most people had not even considered as a schooling option. In 1969, Raymond Moore and John Holt laid the groundwork for one of the greatest educational movements of our time. Since that time, the option of home schooling has expanded. The three different views about education are those people who believe that home schooling is the best form of education; those people who believe that public school is the best form of

The Debate Between School Dress Codes and Uniforms The debate over school uniforms and dress codes has been going on for years and is still widely debated and talked about in the education system. Each side of the argument has many supporters. There are many pros and cons to each side so it is hard to really know what the right choice is. In Three Cups of Tea written by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin education is the main focus of the book. Although most of the book takes place half

accountability with maintaining a positive culture. This is currently a hot topic in many states and there are states that are looking to adopt this program and some states are dropping it. In some schools this type of program has proven to raise student achievement, but people argue that although these schools have had success, there is little evidence that shows that the results are sustainable for long term success. Keywords: student achievement, merit pay, teacher accountability Performance

Neo-Liberal approach to education believes that the value of education lies in how well it enables the country to compete in the global market place. It is believed that this can only be achieved if schools become more like businesses by giving power to parents as consumers and competition between schools to drive up the standards in education. Hence, the

Society was to be based on Egalitarianism (Shuker, 1987), but there is still a difference between private & public schools. Two of top five reasons parents give for choosing a private school are :  Small Class room Sizes  More Individual attention (Kelly & Scafidi, 2013).  In 2012, Education Minister, Hekia Parata, decided to increase  the class size as quality of teaching mattered more because teacher quality is far more cost-effective than reducing class  size (“Editorial: Size Matters