Arizona Education

I am from Pennsylvania and currently a junior in high school and I have been looking ahead to my future a lot so far. I would like to go to college to major in journalism, history, or athletic training, and then become a sports journalist, high school history teacher, or athletic trainer.
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(Number) (College) (Location of college) (Majors that I want offered there)

1.Point Park University – Pittsburgh, PA – History and Journalism
2.Temple University – Philadelphia, PA – History, Journalism, and Athletic Training
3.Millersville University – Millersville, PA – History
4.Penn State University Main Campus – University Park, PA – History and Journalism
5.University of Miami – Miami, FL – Journalism and Athletic Training
6.St. Cloud State University – St. Cloud, MN – History and Journalism
7.university of arizona – Tucson, AZ – Journalism and History
8.arizona state university – ? – Journalism, History, Athletic Training
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My current grades during junior year (this year):

Phys. Ed. 11 = 91
Health 11 = 98
English 11 = 86
Environmental Science (lab) = 89
Global Studies = 102
Algebra II = 93
Crafts = 98 (art class required for graduation)
Journalism II = 98

Junior Year Overall Percentage = 95
Junior Overall GPA = 3.8
High School Class Rank = 165/328 (this was at the end of sophomore year, I think it’s a lot higher now.)
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The classes I’ve taken and are going to take are as followed… (These are only my main classes that are each one credit. Journalism is an elective, but I’m planning on majoring in it. It’s still an everyday, all year class.) Oh and my school only has honors classes right now, not AP. In my school you also don’t have to take math or science your senior year, but I am going to.

8th – German I
9th – German II, Comprehensive English 9, U.S. History I, Algebra I, General Biology (lab), Physical Education 9, and Health Education 9.
10th – Comprehensive English 10, Physical Science (lab), U.S. History II Honors, Geometry, Journalism I, Physical Education 10, and Health Education 10.
11th – Comprehensive English 11, Environmental Science (lab), Global Studies, Algebra II, Journalism II, Physical Education 11, and Health Education 11.
In 12th grade I’m planning on taking – Comprehensive English 12, Basic Chemistry, Trigonometry, American Society Honors, Journalism III, and Physical Education 12.
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The extra-curricular activities I am involved in are SADD Club, Wrestling Team, Wrestling Team Student Athletic Trainer, Baseball Manager, Baseball Student Athletic Trainer, Church Softball Team, and Youth Group. I am also a sports reporter for my high school’s newspaper, The Rocket Star and I have my own sports column called Player of the Month. I used to volunteer at an after school day care for kids 8th grade and down. Helping them with homework, playing games, and giving them snack.

Finally, during my junior (this year) and senior year of high school I have a student internship with WOYK, a sports radio-broadcasting network, for both the football and basketball seasons. I will go to all my school’s home and away game, collect stats, call in stats, and broadcast the game I reviewed on radio.

your grades this year look very good, but you didn’t specify what level classes you were taking. colleges like to see that you’re challenging yourself, and if you aren’t already, you should try taking some AP courses next year if your school offers them. i’m not sure how your school works, but at my high school we have college-prep (level 2), honors (level 1) and Advanced Placement. you should be taking at least honors for most classes that its available for if you want to get into those universities.

I’m a senior in high school, and my mom lives in Phoenix so I’m probably gonna go to Arizona State. Do any of you go there? If so, how’s the education, but more importantly, how are the parties??

I go to ASU and I love it. It’s a great place to get an education and the people here are great. If you are wondering about the parties, there are plenty to go to. ASU technically is a dry campus, however that does not stop students from having parties. If you are looking for huge crazy parties, then join a frat or sorority. If not there are plenty of house parties to go to and once you’re old enough, mill is great. I highly recommend ASU as an enjoyable college experience.

I’m relocating to Arizona for college once I graduate high school.

I’m from Beverly Hills, California so I wanna be in a very different environment.

Btw, I heard it snows alot in Flagstaff.

Flagstaff gets snow regularly all winter, its pretty cold there. Prescott and Show Low get snow not as often, but it somewhat common there as well. Phoenix gets snow once every 5 years or so, but its the best place to live in AZ. Tucson is a little cooler that Phoenix temperature wise, but not as much to do.

The name of the nation’s most visible, self-defined Latino civil-rights organization, the National Council of La Raza, translates as the National Council of The Race. The official website denies it, of course, but we have dictionaries. That controversial term - La Raza - is gaining currency: Some K-12 public schools now teach something called “Raza Studies.”

Like those in Tucson, for example. The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) has, in fact, welcomed Raza Studies in its classrooms for about a decade, but it’s been mighty secretive about the association.

What, exactly, is Raza Studies? Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne asked that question in November 2007 when he inquired if it wouldn’t be too much trouble for TUSD to send to him the Raza curricula it was teaching and the textbooks from which it taught them. Actually, TUSD replied to Horne, meeting his request would be a heckuva lot of trouble.

Then the local papers piled on Arizona’s superintendent. The first sentence of a November 26th editorial in the Tucson Citizen read, “Memo to Tom Horne: Butt out.” Another editorial, titled “Horne meddling in TUSD’s ethnic studies efforts,” this one in Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star, noted that “Students enroll in these classes because they cover information that is not offered in other classes. While U.S. history classes and textbooks do a better job than those of the past of including more about our shared history, much is left out.”

What is left out of traditional syllabi, of course, is the grievance and distortion. When Horne finally acquired the program materials he requested, they included texts with titles such as Occupied America and The Pedagogy of Oppression. And according to John Ward, a Tucson teacher who saw his U.S. history course coopted by the Raza Studies department, the Raza curriculum’s focus is “that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites.”

When Ward raised concerns about Raza Studies (which is part of TUSD’s larger Ethnic Studies department) he was, despite being Hispanic himself, called a racist and eventually reassigned to another course. Ward told a reporter from the Arizona Republic that by the time he left the Raza Studies class, he had observed a definite change in the students: “An angry tone. They taught them not to trust their teachers, not to trust the system. They taught them the system wasn’t worth trusting.”

A persuasive case can and should be made that teaching students history and literature (not to mention science and math) through some concocted ethnic perspective that the pupils supposedly possess is balderdash. It does Hispanic youngsters a profound disservice to predicate their educations on ethnic identity, to have them skip the great works of literature and read only tracts by, say, Mexican authors, and to teach them only the history that involves Latin America(ns).

But when an ethnically based education, which is bad enough, transmogrifies into an ethnically based education of grievance and oppression that vilifies the United States and anyone with white skin - well, this is simply untenable. And yet this product is exactly that which goes by the name Raza Studies and that Tucson blithely pushes.

Moreover, the city is intransigent about the whole thing. To valid concerns about its Raza Studies department, the school board responded last month, according to the Arizona Republic, “by announcing plans to hugely expand the [entire Ethnic Studies] program, making it a required course of studies for freshmen. And, eventually, expanding it into elementary schools.” Within a year, it seems, all of Tucson’s children will be taught based on their ethnicities distinctive curricula that will share no common denominator as strong as the condemnation of whites and of the United States.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/opinion/main4227721.shtml

The justification for these studies—The students claim that can learn better if taught by someone of their own race. It gives them "hope" seeing someone of their race as a teacher, lawyer etc, before they didn’t know they reach that goal. Bunch of racist BS!
Pima Community College, in Tucson, is paying Hispanic males to attend classes. They get a small amt when they enroll and the balance at completion of courses.
Tucson Medical Center, in Tucson, advertised exclusively to Mexican citizens to come to their hospital to give birth and acquire US citizenship for their newborns

sorry for such a general question.
I’m poking my head around at colleges and at the moment (as I’m just a sophomore) I’m mainly looking at locations that interest me. I’ve already looked around a lot at schools in California but know relatively nothing about Arizona. What are the best schools? Particularly for a Liberal Arts degree in Journalism, English or History. Is Arizona State "any good"?Any smaller schools? What are the best college towns with cool things to do (art, music scenes etc.)?

Thanks~
no online colleges!
lol, thanks
ASU is a huge school. Although they have the renowned Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, you need to be concerned about the quality of education you will be getting at a school with almost 70,000 students. Its in Phoenix/Tempe, the fifth largest city in the country, so don’t worry about not having much to do.

university of arizona is about 40,000 and has the only medical school in Arizona. It is a much more research-based university, known for its excellent astronomy and aerospace engineering programs (think Mars rovers). Tucson is only about half a million people I think, and you may have trouble finding things to do on the weekend…

northern arizona university has a much smaller student population, about 16,000. It is known for having the best education program in the state. Also, it is located in the much smaller, cooler city of Flagstaff. Also, skiing/snowboarding is only a 30 minute drive away

I am running for Congress in Arizona, I am a Cardiovascular/Thoracic surgeon and business executive with Morgan Stanley. I went to med school at Harvard and Yale and Princeton respectively for my undergraduate and graduate education in Physics. I am a retired Navy SEAL Officer who served with the elite Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) in Haiti, Grenada and Panama. I am a fiscally conservative Reagan Democrat who is running as a Republican.

-I favor across-the-board tax cuts
-I oppose gay marriage but favor civil unions
-I am pro-life except in cases of rape or the mother’s life being in danger
-I oppose the stimulus
-I oppose teaching intelligent design
-I support the troops
-I support free trade
-I oppose the Public Option

Do physicists really get to perform cardiovascular and thoracic surgery?

You must be older than McCain.

recently i was accepted into the university of arizona. now after already being accepted into my first choice how do i tell arizona that im not interested. other colleges that ive been accepted to have given me the choice to accept or deny admission but arizona doesnt.

Send a postal letter thanking them for admission and telling them that you have decided to attend another university. Do not name the other university. Be sure your name, address, U of A ID number, if any, and the date of the letter are on the letter. Sign the letter. Keep a photocopy of it. Mail the original to U of A.

Congratulations on the admission which you accepted.

sorry for such a general question.
I’m poking my head around at colleges and at the moment (as I’m just a sophomore) I’m mainly looking at locations that interest me. I’ve already looked around a lot at schools in California but know relatively nothing about Arizona. What are the best schools? Particularly for a Liberal Arts degree in Journalism, English or History. Is Arizona State "any good"?Any smaller schools? What are the best college towns with cool things to do (art, music scenes etc.)?

Thanks~

Arizona State is a great Public Universities , even their Astronomy and Science programmes are respected.

Californian maybe Berkley or UCLA..?

You want great school with music and scenes? Well Ivy League Columbia right in Manhattan NYC or SUNY or NYU in New York , now thats where the party is and great Unis around the north east area ( Penn State, NYU etc )

Best wishes

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I am currently working on my application for a study abroad in the USA. Since my grades aren’t the very best, I need to persuade the jury with my study proposal. This is basically a 2-page informational essay about the course of my life so far and my future goals, especially in education. I have received an education pretty focused on economics thus far and would therefore like to argue, that it would make the most sense for me to go to a college that has a very good reputation in the economics / business department.
However, since, like I said, my grades aren’t top notch, it can’t be the most prestigious school either. The perfect fit would be a college that is generally seen as mediocre, but has a fine economics / business branch.

The list of the colleges available is this:
(Platz/Plätze = Number of available places)

Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, 1 Platz)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, 2 Plätze)
Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont, 1 Platz)
Reed College (Portland, Oregon, 1 Platz)
University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, 1 Platz)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1 Platz)
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1 Platz)
Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1 Platz)
Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana, 1 Platz)
Rutgers University (Camden, New Jersey, 1 Platz)
Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana, 4 Plätze)
university of arizona (Tucson, Arizona, 1 Platz)
University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1 Platz)
University of California System (13 Plätze)
(UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz)
University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado, 2 Plätze)
University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky, 1 Platz)
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland, 1 Platz)
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1 Platz)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 Plätze)
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, 1 Platz)

So which of these would you recommend?
I have to turn in a list of my top ten preferences.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

These:
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, 2 Plätze)
Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont, 1 Platz)
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1 Platz)
Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1 Platz)
Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana, 1 Platz)
Rutgers University (Camden, New Jersey, 1 Platz)
University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona, 1 Platz)
University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado, 2 Plätze)
University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky, 1 Platz)
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, 1 Platz)

I recenly heard that they were and I’m wondering if that is indeed true. If it is I would definitly consider attending the school!

yes i believe they are