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Dean Lin
Annis Zheng
Monica Liang
1. Education began in individual homes, long before schools existed. In ancient times people taught their children what they needed to know for survival. People learned how to cook, clean, hunt, gather, and farm.
2. Many people learn things by themselves and do not attend formal schooling institutions.
3. Long ago, in China, parents sent sons to school and girls were forced to stay home and help with housework.
4. In primary school long ago, the small boys learned reading, writing, arithmetic, and singing.
5.According to the UNESCO, almost 80% of the world population aged 15 and above is now literate.
6. The vast majority of the population, 85.2%, has finished high school. This number started to increase in 2000.
7. Of this 85.2%, over a quarter earned a Bachelor's degree. It began to increase in 2000.
8. The teachers' union estimates that New York City's classes have up to 60 percent more student today than in 1842.
9. The average cost of one year at private U.S. college or university is now $21, 235. That is up from about $15,000, five years ago.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6TL3RG?OpenDocument
Primary school in open air. Teacher (priest) with class from the outskirts of
Bucharest, around 1842.
10. According to UNESCO's Regional overview on sub-Saharan Africa, in 2000 only 58% of children were enrolled in primary schools, the lowest enrollment rate of any region.
11. UNESCO also reported marked gender inequalities: in most parts of Africa there is much higher enrollment by boys, but in some there are actually more girls, due to sons having to stay home and tend to the family farm.
12. Africa has more than 40 million children, almost half the school-age child population, receiving no schooling. Two-thirds of these are girls. The US-AID Center reports as of 2005, forty percent of school-aged children in Africa do not attend primary school and there are still 46 million African children that have never stepped into a classroom.
13. Education is important to kids so they can get a career and feed their family.
14. Education began long ago before there were schools. Now, education is in many forms.
15. The earliest school I know from reading is the school in Mesopotamia in Egypt in 3,000 to 4,00 years ago.
16. Long ago students can only use papyrus's ( a form of paper) and ink when they are good at writing.
Dean - I think that our I-Movie should be a quick introduction and then leads to the start of education. After we do that i think we should tell the watchers that education is the most important in every children's lives, especially the African people. I have the confidence to finish this I-Movie and perform it to the school.
Wow Sentence- BY: DEAN LIN
Did you know that less than 15% of kids do not have an opportunity to go to school in Africa? We should help them. In the United states there are more than 95% of people who HAVE education and about 5 percent that don't. Don't you think everyone in the world should have an opportunity to go to school?
The solution to education is when our economy gets better and we can raise money like charity and give it to africa to build a school there and hire teachers and it is free. African kids can't afford to pay so the government will pay the salarys to teachers and the students can get free education and have better lives at Africa like in the united states. [Solution Made By Dean]
Comments (27)
Melissa Schwartz said
at 8:57 pm on Mar 12, 2009
Good job conducting some research and gathering facts about ancient methods of education. I would like to see you find information about education today. Try answering these questions...
1. How many people in the world can read and write (are literate)?
2. What percent of people in the United States graduate high school?
3. What percent of people in New York City graduate college?
4. What is the average price of college in the United States?
5. What is the average number of students in each class in New York City?
Here is a website with some facts about New York to get you started. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/sresult.asp?mode=short&s1=36
Moe said
at 5:08 pm on Mar 13, 2009
Where in the world did many people learn things by themselves?
Annis said
at 11:43 pm on Mar 13, 2009
Dear Moe, most live in China learn things by themselves.
Annis said
at 11:50 pm on Mar 13, 2009
Ms. Schwartz can I ask you a question how do you post pictures on my web page. I can't past it on. I won't show the that says past.
Annis said
at 11:50 pm on Mar 13, 2009
Ms. Schwartz can I ask you a question how do you post pictures on my web page. I can't past it on. I won't show the that says past.
Dean said
at 9:17 am on Mar 14, 2009
you might have to just drag the picture?
Melissa Schwartz said
at 4:03 pm on Mar 14, 2009
Good advice, Dean. I believe if you are using a Mac computer you can drag the picture. You are on a roll, commenting on each other's postings and adding information. However, we can not copy and paste information from the web. You are welcome to take pictures from websites and add them to your page. You need to change this information to your OWN words...that shows you understand it. Narrow this down to simple facts that you will be able to use in your presentation. Think about what we did in class when we took a paragraph and narrowed it down to simple, important information that we understood... Keep it up!!!
Hope you are enjoying the weekend- Ms. Schwartz
Dean said
at 5:17 pm on Mar 14, 2009
thanks for the advice Ms. Schwartz
Annis said
at 5:01 pm on Mar 16, 2009
Dear Dean, Today I help you sort all the information it is so long. I got mad when I want to some information in today. I almost have a hreatattack.
Michele Dzwonek said
at 9:01 am on Mar 17, 2009
Ms. Schwartz posed some interesting questions about education today. Here is another: New York City is still considered a "melting pot" of sorts. We in District 24 have the highest immigrant population in the city. How many languages does that include and how does the New York City school system address that?
Annis said
at 4:50 pm on Mar 17, 2009
Dear Dean and Monica, can you two answer Mrs. Dzwonek's question because I don't real get the question.
Melissa Schwartz said
at 8:29 am on Mar 18, 2009
Annis, think about our class. We have so many different people, with different racial backgrounds. Some of our students do not know English when they first come to 102. How does our school help people fit in and learn the language?
Dean said
at 8:24 pm on Mar 20, 2009
Ms.schwartz they cam be taught by esl teachers like mr. Kaung
Melissa Schwartz said
at 6:34 pm on Mar 22, 2009
Good, Mr. Kung does assist students in learning English. That is one way that we help people who are new to the country.
Dean said
at 5:29 pm on Mar 23, 2009
Why can't some schools have there language classes instead of just learning english?
Annie said
at 7:55 pm on Mar 24, 2009
where in the world have the most education and which place doesn't have the most education
Dean said
at 5:23 pm on Mar 25, 2009
uhh the place with most education is in the united states. The littlest education is in africa. Most problems occur in africa
Melissa Schwartz said
at 7:03 pm on Mar 29, 2009
I like your idea Annis and your wow factor...Don't worry, we will get your intro credits to work! You get an A+ for effort!
Monica said
at 1:55 pm on Mar 31, 2009
Isn't it when you are in high school you can learn a different language instead of english?
Moe said
at 7:30 pm on Apr 2, 2009
For the wow fact I don't think is fair that the African kids dosen't get that much education than the U.S
Jeffrey said
at 8:14 pm on Apr 3, 2009
How can people help other countrys have education?
Dean said
at 5:10 pm on Apr 4, 2009
I did the wow factors ms.schwartz
Dean said
at 5:11 pm on Apr 4, 2009
Jeffrey you can help the african people by telling the president to built schools in africa and find teachers to teach. some people in africa that are 9 years old and they are still in 1st grade
Jeffrey said
at 5:22 pm on Apr 6, 2009
I got it
Dean said
at 5:57 pm on Apr 6, 2009
Okk
Valentina said
at 9:04 pm on May 11, 2009
nice job
kelly said
at 9:27 pm on Sep 30, 2009
how can i check what is for homework
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