Your late, what's your excuse this time? No, no I don't want to hear it you can tell me later in detention, sound familiar? Well to half the students in my school it does. That was the usual answer that teachers distribute when students are late to class, which is permissible, but what about wh...

While I was reading through the issues, there was two that really struck home with me that the two presidential candidates talked about. The first issue that they talked about was Drugs. President Bush believes that we need to be more aggressive in teaching drug education, providing treatment and e...

In recent years, although tertiary education is certainly popular among Hong Kong students. It is unlikely that all students can easily catch the ways of studying at starting university. Therefore, we need to know actually what great differences between studying at university and school in order to ...

Violence is a disease that plagues us all. Whether it be violence on the street, at home, or on the television, it some way effects your life. Right now the conflict in the Persian Gulf is an issue that comes up far too often. This issue effects us, because everywhere you look o...

I have always had an interest in the medical field. I can remember when I was a little girl reading any and everything about the human body and how it works. I did not know that I would choose nursing, as a career but I knew that I wanted to help people in their struggle to fight the horrific disea...

For schools to become foundations of social justice, educators need to promote and practice what Ladson-Billings calls cultural relevant pedagogy. The three essential components of a cultural relevant pedagogy include academic achievement, cultural competence, and social-political consciousness. Edu...