.... 14). After "five to seven years," the time "it typically takes... for children to acquire the second- language skills needed for cognitive and academic pursuits," the students are transitioned into classes which are taught in English (Sjoerdsma 504K2721). This is, of course, how bilingual education should work in theory. This is not, however, the case. Critics of bilingual education say that "the objectives of the classes are confused, the quality of instruction is poor," and the "transition" time, when students transition into regular classes, is murky (Schrag 14). Critics believe that the goals of bilingual education have been forgotten and r .....

.... presented, they did as well as what was expected out of them for the first time this year. Mistakes were made in the experiments and it was hard not to with the little time we were given to actually conduct the experiment, if we were given more time a more throe job would have been done. The class showed me that surveys are not the most accurate means of finding your experiment. When trying to conduct a survey there are so many variables to cope with it is incredible. My group showed ways around surveys in that it is easy to prove your point; you just give the survey to who agrees with you. Surveys are black and white and if you draw a conclusion .....

.... today have developed a unique way of handling their spare time. Since they have access to tons of reading's and internet material about anything they want to know, it is not that hard to accumulate enough information to destroy a whole city or even a state (or the world). They pick a certain topic of interest, gather up enough information and then go out on their days of "Destruction and Murder". I think most kids are pushed by peer pressure because maybe they are not very liked and picked on a lot and just burst. That is still no excuse to destroy the people who mean so much to someone out there. It's also seems like they know exactly h .....

.... the four basic arithmetic operators. So how do mathematicians take a function and turn it into a polynomial function? Lets find out. First, lets assume that we have a function in the form y= f(x) that looks like the graph below. We'll start out trying to approximate function values near x=0. To do this we start out using the lowest order polynomial, f0(x)=a0, that passes through the y-intercept of the graph (0,f(0)). So f(0)=ao. Next, we see that the graph of f1(x)= a0 + a1x will also pass through x= 0, and will have the same slope as f(x) if we let a0=f1(0). Now, if we want to get a better polynomial approximation for this function, wh .....

.... will reward those individuals who are competent and impede those who are not, whether expressed in terms of employment opportunities (job success) or just on a social level. One need look no further than their everyday activities in order to realize how important literary skills are. Without adequate literary skills one may not be able to identify on a label the correct amount of medicine to give a child, or read and interpret a sign giving instructions on what to do in case of a fire. These two examples bring perspective to literacy's importance. Nevertheless, recent surveys have indicated that, "4.5 million Canadians, representing 24 percent of t .....

.... “Those who have character which is in accord, not with one of these things, but with all of them, these, I contend, are wise and complete people, possessed by all virtues.� This quote can be of many qualities a person can have. A very educated person for example was Mother Theresa. She was educated in Socrates definition of education. She had her won nature and intelligence from birth. Mother Theresa’s education was her teachings. She was wise, her character helped many, and she sacrificed her life for others. The ways Mother Theresa sacrificed her life was by not getting married and giving up almost everything to help the poor. Her h .....

.... them with the skills and knowledge necessary for the labor force. Schools prepare students to be literate, informed and reasoning citizens. According to Philip Schlechty, author of Schools for the twenty-first century, “Public schools are the ties that bind this pluralistic society into a nation. Our Nation's thirty-sixth president, Lyndon B. Johnson, also believed that there is no institution more fundamental to American society and democracy than its public schools.�(36) Public schools are the cornerstone of America's future. The development of youth's knowledge, skills and social dispositions has always been critical to the country's .....

.... gathering of thoughts and ideas. Because the ideas are gathered together in this fashion, the following steps in the writing process will be made easier. After this is done, the ideas must be organized into outline fashion. This is to say that they will be listed according to different sections and subsections in respect to the structure of the essay. This will make the actual written portion of the essay easily structured. After this is done, a rough draft of the essay should be written from the outline and revised and rewritten afterwards. The rough draft is the preliminary version of the final essay, though it must be fully written and structured. .....

.... education. In the world today, writing plays an important roll. there are always reports to be writen speeches to e givin, and books to be wrote. Juniors and Seniors need to know the right skills top write these such things. Statistics show that most Juniors' and Seniors' do not show the right skills to perform a good job of writing. A recent poll in Time magazine show that seven out of ten Juniors' and Seniors' show no skills in writing whatsoever. With these new classes, we could show these classes how to do a good job of writing to compete in the work world. These Juniors' and Seniors' will have better chances at colleges, better advantag .....

.... class period. By implementing a block schedule there are now 90 minutes of class instead of the old 45. If students only have a 45-minute attention span and there is 90 minutes of class, then really the additional 45 minutes of time is actually being wasted. Another problem with 90-minute classes is that students are less likely to remember the same amount as they would in a regular class time. As humans we tend to remember the things we do first (primacy) and the things we to last (regency). The time in the middles is sag time and is remembered at a much lower percentage. So basically you start our remembering a greater percentage of things in .....