Essays on State School

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mudgeeraba Qld 4213 Contact Details: Phone: 07 55 650 333 Fax: 07 55 650 300 E-mail: Enrollment: Mudgeeraba Creek State School realizes its primary obligation is to provide adequate and accessible services for children within the catchment region of the institution. The school has a limited capacity to handle children from outside its catchment area. It current capacity can hold up to 900 learners. The institution currently has 629 pupils (293 girls and 336 boys) The children entering Prep annually should not exceed 125 in the five classrooms unless there more than 125 kids in the catchment region. Any ...

Part 1

General Information There are approximately 900 students in the Mudgeeraba State School (The State of Queensland: Department of Education and Training, 2016). They are all from the Prep level to year 6. There are many cultural and sporting events that all school’s attendees as well as staff are extremely proud of (The State of Queensland: Department of Education and Training, 2016). The partnership among community, school and home is cherished and considered extremely important for the children’s development. In order to apply to the school, the following process is conducted:

Filling in of the enrolment form downloaded from the website

Local students are given priority, so residence ...

Part A: Language arts program

Samples: In this question, there are two samples: that of eleventh grade students who took Western Australian state school exams after the introduction of new language arts program, and that of eleventh grade students who took the Western Australian state school exams before the introduction of the new language arts program. In this regard, it is noticeable that the two samples are independent samples, because measurements are supposed to be made on each of the sample. The samples would have been drawn from two different populations: in this case, the first population is the one that undertook the new ...

There is a common misconception fostered by many Britons that with the growing diversity and the growing influence of globalization in the country Great Britain has become a classless society. This myth is further reinforced by the proclamations made by different political dignitaries like former British Prime Minister John Major who expressed the desire to create a 'classless society of opportunity' after he came into power back in 1990s (Lewis, 2013). Not only John Major, another Prime Minister of Great Britain Tony Blair also proclaimed in his speech in 1999 that "the class war is over" (Marsden, 1999). But in ...

Introduction

Education is a vital component for the growth and success of Britons, but with a wide range of schools to choose from, it is no easy task for parents to make the choice of school for their children. The choice becomes more difficult when the school system is categorized into two types, private and state. There is no doubt that private school has certainly some advantages over state schools and state schools are outperformed by private schools in A level and GCSE results. But having said that, neither all the private schools are best in education quality nor all the state ...

Introduction

It is not surprising to know that girls are better students than boys. From common knowledge, this is now a statistically proved claim in most parts of the world, including the United Kingdom. There have been numerous studies undertaken in the past few decades that have focused on this question, and nearly all the results point to the same conclusion: as far as school education is concerned, girls outperform (always have) boys. The aim of this paper is to analyze some of these studies, their methodologies, and the corresponding results, from the perspective of theories in education. Though the ...

Reading: Learning and the Importance of Knowing: Student Perspectives on Centralising Indigenous Knowledge in their Preparation as Teachers

Question: What is the importance of knowledge in understanding the indigenous perspectives on the social practices of racism, dominant cultures superiority, ignorance and the blame factor?

Reading: The Challenge to Deculturalisation: Discourses of Ethnicity in the Schooling of Indigenous Children in Australia and the USA

Ethnicity is a phenomenon that surfaces in different institutions worldwide. The education sector is among these institutions. In the United States and Australia, indigenous children are susceptible to ethnicity in their schooling. The discourses of this ethnicity are significant to the schooling of these children. Settler societies in Australia and the USA evoked differential opinions concerning indigenous populations and incoming populations. In most cases, these opinions and invasions disrupted the organizations and operations of ...

One of the most critical and tumultuous times in a teenager’s life comes when they beginning choosing a college. There are many terms on which to base college choices. Some choose a college based on distance. Others pick a college because of the major, or because it is known for its social institutionalization. Many pick colleges based on tradition while some base their college choices simply upon the fact that they were accepted. One small factor that many students tend to ignore is how the college is ranked, because they do not think it’s an important component. However, if a student wishes ...

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Recently, testing children has grown more aggressive and widespread because the concerning issues have arisen hence pressuring parents to conduct these tests to their children. For example, most kindergarten tests their children before enrolling them, which is also applicable in colleges. Surprisingly, assessing infants and young children is a practice that has been going on for more than 30 years ago. Even though some infant and children assessment are useful, conducted research conclude that most assessment and tests turn out to be less reliable. The research recommended that screening tests are not appropriate for measuring the readiness to exclude children ...

My essay looks into the intention of the implementation of the First Amendments Clauses regarding religious matters, the actual implementation, and the impacts of the implementation. I analyzed the pros and cons of the First Amendments Clauses implementation, and came up with a recommendation.

The intention of the first Amendment clauses was to have a multi-religious society that accommodates divergent belief systems and one that has a distinct separation between the government and religion to avoid favors on religious lines and coercion. In the process of the research, I have learnt that the implementation of the First Amendment Clauses is like a double-edged ...

Many high school students worry about getting into college because of the competition. Everybody wants to go so they can get a good job. This means every college gets too many applications. They have to reject some students to be accepted. Everyone wants to go to the best school. Going to college now means it is harder and harder to get in. So many students wish to go so competition for college is the hardest for students in history. Every student wants to go to the best school. Not everyone can go to the best schools like Harvard or ...