Affordable Housing In United States
In the United States, affordable housing refers to housing deemed financially accessible to households that earn below the median household income, as measured by the US Census Bureau. The term …
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Cell Phone Usage in School
There is a rapid increase in the cell phones usage among twelve to seventeen years old students in the United States. Nearly 90 percent of US teenagers own a cell …
Students and Grades In COVID-19 Pandemic
Summary of Article Numeric and letter grades evaluate student performance and determine student promotion, placement in honors courses, admission to college, and scholarship awards. The increasingly competitive college application process …
Does Standardized Testing Really Measure Academic Proficiency?
Standardized tests are exams that are used in a variety of contexts to determine knowledge and skills in certain areas. They are most commonly used in the United States to measure students’ academic proficiencies …
STEM Education – a Controversial Topic
STEM Education has always been a controversial topic; however, it is slowly gaining popularity among the educators. Since the early twentieth-century, primary education in the US has focused on the …
Bullying In Schools and Techniques to Combat it
Parents, teachers, and children can learn techniques to combat bullying. Day after day a second-grader forces a kindergartner to turn over his lunch. A trio of 10-year-olds pounce on a …
What to do After You Signed a Lease
Utilities You’ve signed your lease, paid your rent and security deposit, and just picked up the key to your new place. The next step is getting the utilities turned on …
The Lease – Things to Consider
Your Rental Agreement If you’ve finally found the place you want to call home, a place that both your needs and your wants, and you’ve checked absolutely everything for potential …
How to Setup Your Home
What You Need You can eventually live a very successful life even if you start out with nothing more than the clothes on your back. It’s been done. But you …
How to Establish Your Credit Record
Establishing Your Credit Record It is to your advantage to build a good, solid credit history. Employers sometimes look at a potential employee’s credit report to help them determine how responsible …