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Blog Post #7

  

What Accounts for Finland's High Student Achievement Rate?

1. Finland is the top ranked school system in the world
2. correlation between country's schooling and their overall economics
3. high graduation rate, equal education access among students, high achievement on international benchmarking tests, and moderate per-pupil spending
4. Education is a civil right
5. K-8 grade and highschool are mandatory
6. The average acceptance rate into schools of education is a mere 10%.
7. They abolished standardized tests
8. 2-3 hours less of education than american schools
9. also helpful because finland has a small population

 

1.       URL: http://asiasociety.org/education/learning-world/what-accounts-finlands-high-student-achievement-rate 

2.      When was the information published or posted? 6/15/2010 

3.      Who is the author/publisher/source/sponsor? asia society.org/  

4.      Can you verify the accuracy of the information? (Does the author show where the information is coming from by citing sources?) yes. they use movies to prove their points

 

BLOG POST #6- interview and expert

PART A:
1. A description of the background the source (person you interviewed) has (e.g. What have they studied? What do they do for a living?)

I interviewed Kristin Jung who has been a first grade teacher at Walker elementary School for the past twenty one years.  She studied child education in college.

2. Explain why they are a reliable source

Kristin Jung is a reliable resource because she is a teacher and therefore has had a lot of time to learn about children and how to teach them.  She is also very experienced because she has worked with first graders for the past twenty one years.

3. How and when did you interview them?

I interviewed Kristin Jung through email from April 12th through April 19th. 

PART B:
1. 3-5 interview questions you asked them and under each question write notes of what they said.
      Why don't children go to school?
- There are a lot of families who pull their kids out of school to take family vacations.  This can be very disruptive to a child's education and it is frustrating as the teacher because many of the activities that they miss can't be made up.
-This year in particular I have had about 11 of my 26 students miss 3-7 days of school for family vacations and some of these were right before the scheduled Spring Break.

      What are the advantages and disadvantages of going to school online?
-  I think one of the biggest advantages would be financial.  I think there are many students who can't afford to go away to college and this would allow them to save money.  An online program may also be a faster way to earn a degree.
-Some disadvantages would be no interaction with the professor or other students.  I think people learn so much more by being active learners
-This to me would be the biggest drawback.  I also think that having the "college experience" is so important and by not going to a college or university, this would be lost.

Blog Post #5 Education in Africa Book

Teen Life in Africa By: Toyin Falola Chapter 4: Ethiopia

7-10 Bullet Points:

• 24.9 % of kids were enrolled in school in 2000
• 64.5% of people over 15 were illiterate
• 5.3 % of people went to highschool in 1997
• most rural schools were brought about from Christian Missionaries
• fighting made kids stop going to school because they were scared.
• A lot of children don't go to school because it is unaffordable
• A lot of kids also don't go to school because their parents need help at home.
• Kids walk to school all year around, but there are so few and most are far away from the seperated rural communities

 In this book (book/article, etc.),Toyin Falola (author) explains(claims/argues/explains) that education is vey poor in the country of Ethiopia  (identify author’s argument/purpose).
One reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is that only 24.9% of children were enrolled in school during the year of 2000. Another reason/fact/example that supports this main idea is that a lot of children do  not go to school because it is unaffoordable for their parents to pay.Finally, the author gives the reason/fact/example that a lot of children are scared to go to school because there is so much fighting and violence.  These ideas are connected(connected/similar)  to the violence and gangs in Chicago (something you learned or experienced previously) because children do not want to go to school because they are scared.(explanation of connection).

Education Africa- Post #4

http://search.proquest.com/docview/457546818/13539F5637E4F95D226/1?accountid=6222

EDUCATION-AFRICA: "CHANGE THE SYSTEM TO FIT THE CHILD"

• It was published on March 24, 2010
• It was published by the Global Information Network and the author is Kristin Palitza
• This article is accurate because it had sources such as the Centre for Multi-grade Education.

1. Multi-grade teaching is when one teacher teaches more than one grade all in the same classroom at the same time
2. Remotenes and poverty are still the main reasons for the dropouts in African schools
3. In Zambia, Uganda, Lesotho,and Namibia education would not have been possible unless multi-grade education was used.
4. Multi-grade teaching can be seen as inferior and some people going to try to replace it with normal teaching methods.
5. National education policies focus on mono-grade  teaching, with teacher training  resources, including curricula and textbooks, developed only for single-grade class structures.
6. Multi-grade education may help students and teachers in Africa to reach the Millenium Development Goal.
7. In 2009, 32 million children in did not attend school in Sub-Sahara Africa.
8.  A lot of these children are girls who come from poor rural and urban areas, were disabled or belonged to post-conflict groups.

Education in Developing Countries #3

Global Issues in Context:
Developing countries and Education

• 64% of children in South-Sahara Desert are in primary school
• child labor is the top cause for little to no education
• Asia has 122 million children working for little wages in fields and factories
• MDG: Millenium Development Goals- eight goals to decrease poverty, hunger, disease, maternal-infant mortality, education, women’s rights, and healthy enviornment
• education can be too expensive and religious or customary acts don’t let girls be in primary school.
• ⅓ of India is illiterate and 70 million children have no education.  THere is now a law that all children 6-14 must attend school- this is very expensive for the government and may be too expensive
• The Taliban in Afghanistan threatens schools and teachers. 4 million do not go to school because they are so scared
• Chile now offers grants and student loans through a 4 billion dollar education fund.  there were still people saying that this was not good enough and took part in a peaceful protest.

1-3 Questions:

1. What will be done to get these children out of child labor?
2. How do girls survive in life in places where they have no education?
3. How many kids total are there in the world without education?

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/docRetrieve.do?searchPageType=BasicSearchForm&inPS=true&prodId=GIC&userGroupName=hins30136&docId=CP3208520229

Education in Asia #2

Education and Health in Asia

• Japan has high standards for Education and health care
• in developing countries there a major problems for their large populations
• large populations is a problem because so many people are young
• 40-50% are under the age of 21
• young people in asia usually only have a primary education, or none at all.
• few go to secondary school and even fewer go to college
• with low incomes and poor nutrition they have young life expectancies
• 96% is literate

• http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-196773?query=education%20in%20asia&ct

How does education in countries around the world differ#1

1. literacy rates in different countries
2. graduation rates in different countries
3. schools resources in different countries
4. how countries encorporate religion/customs through school

I already know that the schooling in Africa is not as high as in other places in the world such as Europe.  Also, there is not a large percentage of graduation in Africa. Also, some countries encorporate religions and customs in school.