Arizona Education

i called the department of education from the youth authority but they said they cant find my archives. they had told me the worst case scenario is to take my g.e.d! i don’t think that is fair! it is not my fault that they cant find my archives. My diploma i just misplaced it because i moved from arizona back to california but i just cant find it at this moment. i need it for college. Im sure i have it in storage but i still cant believe they wouldn’t have my archives available. Does anyone have any information on this?

Well, that was over 10 years ago. It’s not uncommon that they can’t find your diploma. 10 years ago they didn’t have things on computer like they do now, but it is unfortunate that they can’t find it. Hopefully you’ll find it or they’ll find it. Good luck.

I need to take Arizona’s exam in Secondary Education (English) and of course pass in order to be granted a teacher certification.

I looked over the study guide that Arizona’s Department of Education has to offer online, and very quickly I realized that multiple answers can be the answer; although only one is the true correct answer.

Furthermore, the test is timed, which I hate. It’s broken down into four sections: reading, writing, listening and speaking, viewing and presenting. If you want to take a look here is a link to the practice http://www.aepa.nesinc.com/PDFs/AZ_Field02_StudyGuide.pdf

I’m definitely going to go through the practice and begin reviewing what key terminology I need to know. Do you know any study guides which help in prepping for this exam? I came across this ( http://www.mo-media.com/aepa/ ).

Anyway, all suggestions and tips and advice are much appreciated.

Requested study guides will be found below.

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

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)

President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he intends to nominate his Southwest border czar to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

As commissioner, Alan Bersin would lead a Homeland Security Department security agency that helps keep terrorists and their weapons out of the country while securing and facilitating travel and trade as it enforces hundreds of regulations, including export and import controls, immigration and drug laws.

The appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Since April, Bersin has been serving in a position created by the Obama administration to handle illegal immigration and border issues. During this time, Bersin has worked closely with the Mexican government to combat drug cartels.

From 1993 to 1998, Bersin was the federal prosecutor who led the government’s crackdown on illegal immigration across the California-Mexico border. During his final three years, Bersin doubled as U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno’s Southwest border representative, or "border czar."

Under Bersin’s watch, the U.S. government rolled out Operation Gatekeeper, a massive increase in border enforcement in the San Diego area that pushed illegal migrants to cross from Mexico in remote mountains and deserts of Arizona.

Most recently, Bersin was chairman of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. He also served under California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as state secretary of education.

Earlier, Bersin served as superintendent of San Diego public schools. Hispanic groups criticized his appointment to that post. They said Operation Gatekeeper increased deaths among illegal immigrants, because it forced them to attempt treacherous mountain and desert crossings in order to get into the United States.

Last summer, Bersin donated $28,500 to the Democratic White House Victory Fund. Bersin contributed the maximum amount an individual could give to Obama’s presidential campaign
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9ASJNL84.html

Hopefully he walks the walks instead of just talk. We need tough enforcement on the border.

"They said Operation Gatekeeper increased deaths among illegal immigrants, because it forced them to attempt treacherous mountain and desert crossings in order to get into the United States."
How can people say things like this with a straight face! No one forces them to cross into the US illegally. That is a choice they make all on their own. If they don’t want to die crossing treacherous pathway let them STAY HOME.

You know, I find Obama’s policies so hypocritical. Fine employers, but don’t deport illegal workers. Tighten border security, but don’t deport illegal workers. End 287G, but don’t deport illegal workers. Won’t make E-=Verify mandatory, but fine employers and don’t deport illegal workers. No don’t deport them, make all 12-20M legal, add them to health care and cost US taxpayers $2.6T and add $50-60B a year to welfare costs. I cannot believe the Fed Gov is so willing to overlook the simplest of solutions. No jobs, No welfare, No birthright citizens for babies born to illegal aliens.

PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has launched an investigation into embattled community action group ACORN to see whether the organization is behind a federal lawsuit against him.

According to Arpaio, ACORN is secretly behind Melendres v. Arpaio, which alleges Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies engaged in racial profiling.

His attorneys issued subpoenas Thursday to the organization’s Washington, D.C. offices, even though ACORN’s headquarters are in Louisiana.

The subpoenas ask for any correspondence relating to the Melendres case between ACORN and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, the Department of Homeland Security, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the law firm representing the plaintiffs.ACORN’s Arizona director Monica Sandshaefer denied her organization’s involvement.

"Some other organizations are (involved) — we are not," she said. "Frankly, we were caught a little bit off guard by the subpoena. It seems very nonsensical to us."

Arpaio also said he wants to know if ACORN paid for Rev. Al Sharpton’s Valley visit.

Sharpton visited the Valley during the summer and, standing next to ACORN director Bertha Lewis, demanded the sheriff’s resignation.

"You don’t think Al Sharpton goes anywhere without being paid?" Arpaio said. "So who pays him?"

Arpaio wants to know if ACORN, which receives less than 10 percent of its income from the federal government, used taxpayers’ money to bring Sharpton to the Valley.

"We’re going to prove it," the sheriff said. "We’re going in and going to find every penny they spent against this sheriff to keep me from fighting the illegal immigration."

Sandshaefer said the organization receives the majority of its funds from grassroots efforts. In fact, the recent U.S. House of Representatives vote freezing the group’s federal funding will not affect the Arizona branch at all, since it receives no money from the government.

Arpaio said the timing of the subpoenas had nothing to do with the recent release of videos showing ACORN members offering tax assistance to people who described themselves as a "pimp" and a prostitute.

"We have to prepare for trial, so I don’t care what’s happening with all these undercover videos," the sheriff said. "(The videos have) no bearing on what they’ve been doing here locally."

Sandshaefer disagreed.

"This is really about Sheriff Joe attempting to get onto the ‘Bash ACORN’ bandwagon" to distract people from the issue at hand, she said.http://www.kpho.com/news/20991239/detail.html

So, being Al wont go to AZ. without getting payed, does that make him ACORN’s prostitute?

If people want to understand what all the fuss is about, reading the actual materials from the US Department of Education will not help them. Nothing of what they are complaining about is to be found in the materials prepared for teachers. Here, check them out for yourselves, you can download them:

http://www.ed.gov/admins/le…

I just got done reading it all and find nothing in there that is indoctrinary or offensive. The content is all rather routine. Written by teachers, it is a set of class room exercises, the sort of thing every teacher sees every day of their careers.

Once again we have a manufactured controversy. Not about anything Obama has done or wants to do, but grown out of the blind hatred coming from people who cannot tolerate losing an election.

I am an independent voter of conservative leanings. So long as this kind of crazy talk is coming from the GOP side, I will continue to vote against that side. There is simply no way I am going to risk my vote on a political party that is so enamored of their own mythology that they dream up Grand Conspiracies and Evil Intentions for everything the opposing party does or says.

Go sell your "Crazy" someplace else, I ain’t buying it.

Arizona is 50 out of 50 in education. DEAD LAST!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!
And you want to pull your child out of school.
What sad souls!
Please stop with the Obama worship comments. Does your hate and ignorance run that deep? People elected a President they respect and love. Is that so wrong?

It’s not a question of whether or not the material is offensive, but this is a very Fidel Castro way of things. He would make addresses to school children VERY often. It’s a very easy way to get into a lot of clueless, innocent children’s heads. Have you not seen this "I pledge…" video? THIS is what is going to be shown to children. Once of the last lines states that, "I pledge to be a SERVANT TO OUR PRESIDENT and mankind." That’s not cause for concern??? A SERVANT???!?!?!?! This is outrageous and scary. If you think otherwise you’re just as brainwashed and the other who think this is alright.

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LIBBY QUAID - Obama Speech to Students Draws Conservative Ire

By LIBBY QUAID and LINDA STEWART BALL (AP) – 5 hours ago

DALLAS — President Barack Obama’s back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.

Obama plans to speak directly to students Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. His address will be shown live on the White House Web site and on C-SPAN at noon EDT, a time when classrooms across the country will be able to tune in.

Schools don’t have to show it. But districts across the country have been inundated with phone calls from parents and are struggling to address the controversy that broke out after Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to principals urging schools to watch.

Districts in states including Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Wisconsin have decided not to show the speech to students. Others are still thinking it over or are letting parents have their kids opt out.

Some conservatives, driven by radio pundits and bloggers, are urging schools and parents to boycott the address. They say Obama is using the opportunity to promote a political agenda and is overstepping the boundaries of federal involvement in schools.

"As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality," said Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell. "This is something you’d expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq."

Arizona state schools superintendent Tom Horne, a Republican, said lesson plans for teachers created by Obama’s Education Department "call for a worshipful rather than critical approach."

The White House plans to release the speech online Monday so parents can read it. He will deliver the speech at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va.

"I think it’s really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this," White House deputy policy director Heather Higginbottom said in an interview with The Associated Press.

"It’s simply a plea to students to really take their learning seriously. Find out what they’re good at. Set goals. And take the school year seriously."

She noted that President George H.W. Bush made a similar address to schools in 1991. Like Obama, Bush drew criticism, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of making the event into a campaign commercial.

Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson plans, available online, originally recommended having students "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."

The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could "write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals."

"That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it," Higginbottom said.

In the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, the 54,000-student school district is not showing the 15- to 20-minute address but will make the video available later.

PTA council president Cara Mendelsohn said Obama is "cutting out the parent" by speaking to kids during school hours.

"Why can’t a parent be watching this with their kid in the evening?" Mendelsohn said. "Because that’s what makes a powerful statement, when a parent is sitting there saying, ‘This is what I dream for you. This is what I want you to achieve.’"

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, said in an interview with the AP that he’s "certainly not going to advise anybody not to send their kids to school that day."

"Hearing the president speak is always a memorable moment," he said.

But he also said he understood where the criticism was coming from.

"Nobody seems to know what he’s going to be talking about," Perry said. "Why didn’t he spend more time talking to the local districts and superintendents, at least give them a heads-up about it?"

Several other Texas districts have decided not to show the speech, although the district in Houston is leaving the decision up to individual school principals. In suburban Houston, the Cypress-Fairbanks district planned to show the address and has had its social studies teachers assemble a curriculum and activities for students.

"If someone objected, we would not force them to listen to the speech," spokeswoman Kelli Durham said.

In Wisconsin, the Green Bay school district decided not to show the speech live and to let teachers decide individually whether to show it later.

In Florida, GOP chairman Jim Greer released a statement that he was "absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology."

Despite his rhetoric, two of the larger Florida districts, Miami-Dade and Hillsborough, plan to have classes

Obama is turning into a Czar…he wants to run America like the Communist leaders…before long Obama will tell Americans this is MY country and you will live in it MY rules

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