Look at the menu bar on the right. Click on the New York Times link. Go to the Education page. Scroll through the articles and find one that is interesting to you. Read it and tell us about it. What was the topic? Why do we need to know about it? What are your thoughts/reflections after reading it?
The article that I chose was about the recent allegations of Harvard athletes cheating in their classwork. I thought this information was interesting because of the way that the college handled the situation and is still handling the situation. All athletes have been instructed not to talk to the media and they have really been told nothing about the situation other than the basics. The president of the university stated that there wasn't a specific group to blame for the cheating scandal and there would not be a specific team to blame. I thought this was interesting because everyone who spoke in this article was mostly under the impression that "yes, this may have happened, but the Harvard name shouldn't be disgraced by it."
ReplyDeleteI thought this article was interesting and well written, I found it to be more interesting than I had expected and I actually learned a lot about how some scandals are handled at a college level.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/sports/ncaabasketball/harvard-cheating-scandal-revives-debate-over-athletics.html?pagewanted=2&ref=education
I read the article about drug testing for student athletes in middle school. I believe this is a ridiculous action that is taking place in some states. I understand the drug testing for professional athletes because they actually have something to play and they are grown adults on their own. I believe that middle schoolers don't have anyhting to really play for worth testing for cheating by the use of drugs. These students are still minors and have rights. If a student was to be taking a performance enhacing drug or steroid, I think the blame and fault should fall on the parents because more than likely they are making their kid to take the drug to perform better. A middle schooler shouldn't be expelled from the team or a club for that, it should be the parents who are in trouble. The major issue I have with this is that they are minors with certain rights, and they aren't playing for anything along the lines of pay, endorsements, or professional stature. The only thing they are playing for is a trophy. Drug testing for minors in middle school and high school is out of hand and should be left for the professionals.
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ReplyDeleteThis article talked about drug testing in middle schools. In the article, a school is discussed where the faculty makes it mandatory for a middle school student to take a drug test before being able to play sports or do an extracirricular activity. I believe that people need to be aware of drug use in younger people nowadays. The number of children doing drugs within the past few years has increased due to the availability and easy access of the drugs. It has also increased due to the fact that children are trying to grow up too fast. I think that drug tests should be mandatory, but only for sports. Drugs effect the way a person functions and how they think, therefore it could effect a team for the sport they play on. I do think drug testing is a good way to promote being drug free because many children are getting involved with drugs at a very early age. Although the drug testing many not change whether the child does drugs or not, it it making their drug abuse aware to their parents and faculty of their school.
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ReplyDeleteThe article I read was about a middle schooler whose parets did not want her to be drug tested for her sports she was playing. They said it was an invasion of privacy and too young to be testing for such substances. Personally, I think it's a little strange for them to object to such a thing for many reasons. First, if their daughter wants to participate in professional sports she will be required to do drug tests or not play. Second, if she does not do drugs, then why object since they know it will come out negative? Also, it is a privelage to be on the team not a privelage for the team to have her, so if she doesn't like something that they are doing, I think she should be the one to leave rather than them accomodate her. On top of that, it is only a urine sample, they are not asking for anything else, and urine samples are already required at doctor's visits, which assuming she attends the doctor regularly, should be used to this, and the parents have never objected it before at the docotr check-ups. Lastly, the test is not directly for her, the whole team has to take it. I know if I was a parent, I would want to know if the kids that my children are spending so much time around are getting invovled in illeagal substances so I can avoid those problems before they start.
The article I read was about an issue in Rhode Island regarding a father-daughter dance. A single mother called the school corporation, and complained that it was a sexist event. The corporation did some research and found that father daughter dances are banned in the area because it is a discrimination against gender. I believe that this event was made a much bigger deal than it needed to be. Although there is a law against discrimination, I do not blieve tbat a father-daughter dance should be characterized with a discrimination title. It is important to know aobut this article because an event like this could take place in our city. It is necessary to be informed about this event because people in our town may know how to deal with the consequences beforehand, so that people cannot complain and make a mess out of everything. Although I believe that sexist discrimination laws are very important, I do not believe that this event should have gotten so out of hand, and been characterized under discrimination.
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ReplyDeleteThe article I read was about a high school with high-risk teens that was recently required to add metal detectors to it's entrance. Students and faculty alike have seen the new medal detectors as a nuisance and they say it is detracting from the family atmosphere the school once felt.
I think we should know about this because sometimes there are dangerous and violent people that enter our schools with weapons. While I believe we should be aware of these threats, I don't believe it is in the best interest of students to implement a security check-point at all schools. To me it is something that only happens in the movies and I can't imagine having to walk through a metal detector on a daily basis. On the other hand I know that some schools that have a reoccurring history of violence would benefit from heightened security.
Reading this article made me more thankful for our school and everything we take for granted. We complain about having to wear polos, but I'm thankful that at least we don't have to walk through metal detectors. The article also opened my eyes to how lucky we are to live in the area we do and go to school here at North. When we see a fight we find it a HUGE deal, but what if we went to school and saw someone with a knife or gun planning to hurt someone?
I read an article that informed about the adding of per-kindergarten schools being added into poor areas in the upcoming year. The basis was that the city would take children in half day schooling and put them into full day for the parents that cannot pick their children up during midday. This school will be located in Brownsville and host children from the age of 6 months to 5 years. The article describes how there are 7,500 children with no education before Kindergarten and that sets the child up to not be as well off as their classmates. This is needed to know by us as everyday people because it is a new idea coming about that by the time we grow into adults and have our own children, they may live this way. It also informs us that pre-kindergarten students usually do better in school. After reading this I believe it will be better for us as a whole. First, more education means the better off our future is. I believe the earlier a person starts schooling, the better off a person is in their schooling. I believe it will make the children more motivated. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/nyregion/city-will-extend-hours-for-prekindergarten-in-poor-neighborhoods.html?ref=education&_r=0
ReplyDeleteThis article encouraged all middle schools to require students to take a drug test before participating in sports or extra curricular events. I believe this can be a great technique, if used properly, to prevent drug use at an early age. The world is rapidly changing and students are being exposed to risky behaviors at an earlier age. The idea of complying for drug-testing of middle school students would serve multiple causes; not only would it notify parents if there was a substance abuse problem, but it would also inform students at an early age that taking care of their health will serve them in the future.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/education/stuyvesant-high-school-students-describe-rationale-for-cheating.html?ref=education
ReplyDeleteThe topic of this article was cheating. The article said how cheating on important tests like the SAT's may not be an issue, but lower-level cheating on homework, papers, and regular tests was becoming a huge problem. Students in the advanced high school Stuyvesant were surveyed and the results were unexpectedly high for cheating. Students rationalize with themselves how cheating is okay. I think it's important to know because not a lot of people think about it, it's just something they do. Cheating happens in every school, this one just happened to be surveyed. By reading about another school's experience, schools can learn how to deal with the problems that they share. I wouldn't be surprised if North had major cheating issues as well. The way classes are set up now, it makes cheating really easy. Having assignments online and providing everyone with a computer is opening the door to new easier ways to cheat. Also with more advanced classes offered to young students the pressure builds causing them to make sacrifices in order to stay on top.
I read the article, "In a School Built on Trust, Metal Detectors Inject Fear". This article was about a community high school that recently acquired all students to go through a metal detector before entering the high school. However, many of the students and teachers are upset and call it both disruptive and intimidating. They think that it is hurtful and upsetting to have to walk under the detector every day. I think, though, that the metal detector is a good idea. I think that there have been too many situations of guns at schools to not have metal detectors. I know that they find it upsettting to have to go throught the test every day becuase they consider each other family and trust one another tremedously. However, I think that no matter how much trust is in a school that there will always be that one kid. That one kid who doesn't feel the same way about the school or who maybe has difficulty controlling his or her emotions. I think that simply walking through a metal detector instead of facing a shooting is far less painful. I don't think there is any amount of trust that can take away from the fact that shootings happen when people least expect them and procautions definitely need to be taken. This even makes me think about our school. It makes me wonder if every school should have metal detectors, because after all walking under a detector is far easier than facing a gun that is pointed at your face.
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Basically a professor/doctor was arrested, when prosecutors searched and found hundreds of child pornography photos and videos. After he was arrested, it seemed that things just got worse. As they searched mnore into his history, a student recalled that he would often invite students over for "late-night" dinners and that he showed his students an inappropiate comic. At this moment, he is remaining in jail and the trial is pending.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this, I was shocked and disgusted. I think becoming a teacher, and for that matter any profession, you must have a clean background. If you want to have a successful job, you have to keep yourself clean and out of trouble. It bothers me that people think that their history can't or won't follow them wherever they go. Well newsflash...it will! You work all your life and screw it up by making bad decisions. Doing something like this is literally costing you your life, because someone like him will never have a job again, unless it's at a gas station, or he could stay in jail the rest of his life. These are called consequences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/us/former-andover-doctor-in-child-porn-case-to-remain-in-jail.html?ref=education&_r=0
ReplyDeleteIn this article about segregation in schools, the author talked about how segregation is still present in schools across the nation. Motoko Rich said,"The overlap between schools with high minority populations and those with high levels of poverty was significant." It is always interesting to me to think about how segregation is still present in the world today. So many people fought for equal rights, but as a whole, the United States struggles with being fair. Personally I do see this type of segregation throughout the differnt schools. When it is said out loud or even read it really does seem terrible. How could we let this continue? It seems like the families that are wealthy do not fall into a minority. While all the while minorities struggle at inner city and dilapidated schools. Then since they never recieve a proper education, they cannot go on to be "successful". They may thrive in other aspects of life, but they never make it over the poverty line.
ReplyDeleteThis does not seem like the message America tries to convey. Our leaders want to give us hope. They want to show that anything is possible.
I do believe that everyone deserves an education. It is not fair for the lack of education to keep running through the family. Everyone deserves an equal chance to experience others and learn from a diverse group of people. By making schools more diverse btween races and incomes, the country as a whole would strive from the realtionships and throughts produced.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/education/segregation-prominent-in-schools-study-finds.html?ref=education
The article I read was about drug testing for middle school athletes. I don't think this is necessarily a bad idea for high school, college, or professional athletes. However, drug testing middle school athletes is a bit too far. In middle school there are not as many things riding on your athletic performance and not really any reason anyone should be worried if they are good or not. Middle school athletics are just for fun and to see what you would like to participate in during high school. Once you get into high school I think it would be a good idea for drug testing because you now have college scouts looking at you. If someone is taking a performance-enhancing drug, it is not really fair to anyone else who is doing their best without drugs. Same as college athletes and professionals. I think high school, college, and professional athletes should have to be tested. But, middle school is just too young to worry about those things.
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I read the article about drug testing for athletes in middle school. I do not think this should take place. I bleive that most students in middle school would not be taking drugs to make their performance better. I understand drug testing in professional leagues, because it is thier carrer, and if they do not play well they may end up no longer playing. In order to keep playing well, a professional athlete may take drugs to make their performance better, where as I do not think that middle schoolers would think about that.
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ReplyDeleteThis article is about a middle school in Milford, Pennsylvania requiring their students to take a drug test if students want to participate in athletics or clubs. The article discusses a family who is completely appalled at the fact that they would make their 12 year old daughter pee in a cup to participate in sports. They believed this was taking away privacy rights of their daughter and sued the middle school over it. I personally think there is not a wrong age to start testing kids for drugs or performance enhancement drugs. Kids in today's society are being told through the media that it is socially acceptable to do these things and if a school can attempt to crack down on this problem then more power to them. I do believe that there are kids in middle school who are already doing these things. It cannot hurt to get the awareness out there and maybe influence students to make the right choice.
The topic of the article read was about Doctor Richard keller, who has been acussed of having child pornography. He has been a doctor at both Philip's Academy and Boston's CHildren Hospital. It was recently found at his home at Phillip's Academy, that he owns upwards of a hundred child pornography DVDs as well as 500 photographs. He has recently been relieved of his job at the academy and Harvard. It is said he recently purchased a new home just north of Boston. As of now he in a prison cell until his court hearing on Monday.
ReplyDeleteI think that what the Doctor has atrocious. Owning pornagraphy, let alone child pornagaphy is disgusting. I feel he should be put in jail for what he has done. He made a mistake that should have persecutions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/education/andover-school-says-arrested-doctor-had-been-disciplined-for-pornography.html?ref=education
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ReplyDeleteThe article I read was about how a single-mother complained about mother-son baseball games and father-daughter dances being held at her daughters' school. In Cranston, Rhode Island, it is illegal for school functions to exclude or discriminate people based on sex/gender. The mother, complained first to the district, then she contacted the American Civil Liberties union about the problem. The ACLU then sent a letter to the superintendent that said that holding sex-specific events is prohibited by a specific law in RI, unless another event is held that is "reasonably comparable." The ACLU said that the events were not.
In my own opinion I do agree with the mom who complained. While I think that father-daughter dances are great and can be fun; it also excludes a good number of children who have single-mothers, or even have two moms instead of one of each. Similarly with the mother-son baseball games, it excludes single-fathers and sons with two fathers. I also think that it excludes the kids who have no interest in the activities being held. Not all girls are necessarily interested in dances, and not all boys are necessarily interested in baseball. I think that restricting the kids to activities that fit their gender-roles is wrong, and can cause the child to feel just as excluded. Not all children are the same, and I feel kids shouldn't have to be forced to conform to what society thinks they should be doing.
The article titled In a School Built on Trust, Metal Detectors Inject Fear, a Brooklyn school for "last-chance" teenagers had metal detectors installed. The article discusses how this affected students, teachers, and the relationships they built with one another. It was interesting to see the affects of the metal detectors on a very tight-knit school. The metal detectors caused students to feel alone and teachers were upset at seeing their students being searched. It was surprising to see how angry the teachers were and how much they disapproved of the metal detectors. I have never experienced or even heard about a school, especially one with troubled kids, whose teachers and students had such strong relationships built on trust and considered themselves family. Students seem to view teachers as the ones who give them bad grades and detentions instead of an adult who is looking out for you and wants you to succeed as these Brooklyn students do. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/nyregion/in-a-brooklyn-school-metal-detectors-inject-fear.html?ref=education&_r=0
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ReplyDeleteThe article I read was about how in Colorado a court ruling forces Universities to let the students carry conciled guns. This seems like something that everyone who wants to go to college in that state would want to know. I personaly think that its ok for the students to have the guns because it would help them protect themselves. I just don't think that people who want to murder someone would be detered by gun laws.
This article encouraged all middle schools to require students to take a drug test before participating in sports or extra curricular events. I believe this can be a great technique, if used properly, to prevent drug use at an early age. The world is rapidly changing and students are being exposed to risky behaviors at an earlier age. The idea of complying for drug-testing of middle school students would serve multiple causes; not only would it notify parents if there was a substance abuse problem, but it would also inform students at an early age that taking care of their health will serve them in the future.
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ReplyDeleteThe article that I read was about middle schools starting to conduct drug tests on student athletes. Personally, I think this is one of the dumbest things that I have ever heard of. Sure, there is always the chance that middle schoolers have somehow gotten a hold of drugs, but the odds of that happening are extremely small. For a middle school student to even have gotten a hold of performance enhancing drugs, the student would have had to have outside help. I personally believe that the only athletes that should be tested, are professional and college athletes. Perhaps even high school athletes in some extreme cases, but never a middle school athlete.
I read an article about hazing in fraternities and sororities at Binghamton University in New York. It talks about different occasions where people have been hazed, and that last year the school banned all people from pledging any sororities or fraternities due to all of the hazing. They had tried to stop it, but it was not working very well. I think that people need to know about it because hazing also happens at many other universities. I think that people knowing about it will help people be more cautious when thinking about pledging a sorority or fraternity. I have heard stories before about hazing at schools and I really do not understand why they do it. I do not know how those people can feel good about themselves when they are forcing others to do horrible things and putting them in danger. I think that it is just totally wrong for them to do it and they should get in major trouble for doing it. Another thing in the article said that hazing is a crime in New York, yet no one from Binghamton University (which is in New York) did not get charged with it. That is ridiculous and unfair. I just think that this article was very interesting and important for others to read. There is a lot of information to learn and know about.
ReplyDeleteThe article that I read expressed the fear that teachers and students have about their campus giving rights to bare arms on campus. Many teachers are very worried about the safety of themselves and of their students. The topic is that the teachers and students are worried that the weapons will be misused against them. They are worried for their safety and others safety. We need to learn about this because it effects many public areas. I believe that students should have the right to bare arms to protect their own safety. I also understand the fear that many people may have about other students carrying arms. I would not want to have constant fear of being shot. There have been so many random shootings in public areas and students should be able to protect themselves from this potential danger, but they should not be the cause.
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The article I read was about hazing in frat houses sanctioned by colleges. The hazing was a crime that threatened the health of students. We need to know this so we can stop the behavior as soon as possible. I think that if students are getting hazed they should leave the frat. I do not know why anyone would endure these conditions just to be allowed to go to college parties.
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Hey Mrs. Wilhelmus, I was gone both Thursday and Friday for school, so I am just now completing this! Thanks.
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The article I read was about how segregation in schools is becoming more popular throughout the country. The article talked about how segregation was becoming more known when comparing mostly white charter and black and latino-filled public schools. The text discussed how schools with a majority of latino and black students were given access to less resources and less funding when compared to schools with a majority of white students. The article also mentioned about how schools with a majority of blacks and latinos coincidentally were schools with a substantial majority of poor children. It is clearly evident the author of this article is persuading readers to see that segregation between schools of black/latino and white students is becoming more popular, and he is trying to spread the word to change this popular discrimination against minorities. My thoughts about this segregation are very persuaded after reading this article, and I most certainly agree with the author when he says segregation is alive more than ever. In my own defense, i have even seen segregation in my own school even towards the white race. It honestly amazes me how, even having a black president in the 20th century, school administrations can still segregate white and minority students in schools.