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Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Technical Writer Salary

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Qualities of a Good SEO Article Writer

If you are looking for an SEO article writer then you have probably already learned a great deal of what you need to win in Internet marketing.  The whole world is connected and buying online. They are reading articles online, watching videos on media sites and getting their news via “tweets.” 



Hiring an SEO article writer these days is for more than just a novelty.  It’s the equivalent of having your store “manned” at all times.  If you have no new content to produce for a whole month, and visitors and search engine robots find out that there is no new content available, then you are basically sending traffic to a store that is completely empty.  (Or at least one that has all the same old signs hanging up)  It looks dead.  Whoever might be interested in the product has already read the same information over and over again.  With nothing new to read, that traffic is going to go surf elsewhere.



This is why you need an SEO article writer.  A skilled writer can come up with topics that are both search engine friendly and interesting for the average reader.  A good writer is capable of knowing or learning an industry and discovering the “pulse” of a business.  What are the trends of the industry?  What are customers looking for?  What are some of the biggest problems customers face?  This is what an SEO article writer can do for you.



Let’s consider an example.  You sell boating equipment.  You don’t know much else to say about boating equipment except that it floats in water and it helps you bring in the fish.  You leave the same standard copy up for months.  (“Buy boating equipment here!  Guaranteed low price!  Here’s a picture of the owner smiling ear to ear!”) 



You decide you need to pursue a different direction.  You hire an SEO article writer to write topics that really matter.  The writer may raise such questions as:



* What’s the difference between brand names?
* What boating equipment is essential for your next trip?
* Why are some products priced higher than others?
* What are some seasonal trends that might affect fishing, cruising, etc.?



These aren’t technical questions, so you don’t have to worry about paying a technical writer’s salary.  However, they are specific and targeted questions that will encourage your customers to stay tuned.  You can find a good SEO article writer and cheap SEO packages from an online ghostwriting company.



 


About the Author

Words You Want is your one stop resource for all of your writing needs. Words You Want offers a variety of services including SEO packages, article directory submission, SEO article writing, ghostwriting, eBooks, travel writing, equine writing and more.



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Thursday, 1 July 2010

Become A Technical Writer

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How Style Guides Help the Technical Writers?

Technical writing is more about following the standards and maintaining consistency in writing. Anyone can write but the challenge is to write precise, simple and accurate. There are several style guides which help in this regard. A technical writer collects information by analyzing existing material and questioning the subject matter experts (SMEs).



The technical writer also examines the audience to understand their needs and comprehensibility level. Well- structured technical helps and documents are made by following common publishing guidelines. Technical documentation can be done in many styles and formats, and the format largely depends on the various medium being used.



On the other hand the Printed documentation may have some different style and standards as opposed to the online documentation. There are various styles and standards set by the organizations themselves which they create based on their work culture, clients and branding strategies etc however there are few globally used style guides also available which the technical writers across the countries use. A lot of technical writers follow the formatting conventions which are being featured in the world famous style guides.



In the United States a majority of technical writers follow the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). Many companies have their own corporate style guides; The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications is also a very well accepted guide for technical writers.



In the end I would conclude by saying that a style guide becomes inevitable when it comes to technical writing. So use a proper style sheet for a better documentation.



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I am working as a technical writer with one of the reputed I.T. companies. I have total 3 years of writing experience.



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Monday, 15 June 2009

Technical Writer Massachusetts

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Charter Schools: Passing or Failing?

 



 



 



CHARTER SCHOOLS: PASSING OR FAILING?



 



 



 



 



Charter Schools: Passing or Failing
Patti Bonner



Strayer University, Summer 2008



 



Abstract



This study's objective was to Research of a “choice” school that operates under a performance contract which details specifics as the school's mission, program, goals, demographics of the students served, methods of assessment, and ways to assess success. Such educational arrangements are known as charter schools, which are publicly funded schools that have greater accountability for academic assessment and fiscal practices, while receiving more independence and experiencing fewer regulations than traditional public schools. Research shows that there is a fair amount of success with this type of contractual education, and that a fair amount of issues accompany the success, such as fluctuating changes in student performance that are immeasurable by test scores. Another issue with the contractual educational facilities that is heating up in recent months is the conflict that arises between this type of learning environment versus the traditional public school system. This paper examines differing authorities in an attempt to determine whether charter schools are achieving their intended missions, or falling short of their goals – the verdict of this author’s research is that the structure is conducive to innovative practices, although the overall end results demonstrated by charter schools does not measure up to their tangible and intangible costs.



 



Charter Schools: Passing or Failing



This study into the report card of charter schools in the United States will attempt to decide whether this mode of education is more or less successful in the quest of education.  The unique research covered in this study represents the most recent journal articles that are related to these public schools that are operated independently of the local school board. Charter schools being unique in that they differ in various degrees from the curriculum and educational philosophy of other schools in the same system, they can also take the form of experimental public schools for mainly primary, but some secondary, education.



Charter schools do not charge tuition and frequently have lottery based admissions. They, therefore, provide an alternative to public schools, oftentimes offering a curriculum that specializes in a certain field-- e.g. arts, mathematics, etc. Others simply seek to provide a better and more efficient general education than nearby public schools.



Public school funding in the United States is not a product of intelligent design. Funding programs have grown willy-nilly based on political entrepreneurship, interest group pressure, and intergovernmental competition. Consequently, now that Americans feel the need to educate all children to high standards, no one knows for sure how money is used or how it might be used more effectively (Hill, 2008).



 



These institutions are also exclusive in that some are created and organized by teachers and or parents and or community leaders, in a totally autonomous school environment, while others are state-run charters that are unaffiliated with local school districts and founded by non-profits such as universities and government entities that may appear in clusters across a geographic area.



The term "charter" possibly originated in the 1970s when Ray Budde, a New England university professor, suggested that small groups of teachers be given contracts or "charters" by their local school boards to discover new approaches to education. Albert Shanker, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, then publicized the idea, suggesting that local boards could charter an entire school with union and teacher approval. One of the first charter schools was a well-known institution called the H-B Woodlawn Program, as a part of the educational movements that fueled such innovative education in the 1960s and 1970s, it was established to provide a more individualized and caring environment to students.



As they were originally envisioned, the ideal model of a charter school appeared as a legally and financially autonomous public school - void of tuition, religious affiliation, or discriminatory student admissions. Charter schools were also foreseen to operate much like a private business.  In the business sense of being free from many state laws and district regulations, the charter-school beginnings grew on the premise that they were more accountable for student outcomes rather than for processes or inputs that were believed to be enhanced through stipulations such as Carnegie Units and teacher certification requirements.



The charter school movement has roots in a number of other reform ideas, including:




  • alternative schools
  • site-based management
  • magnet schools
  • public school choice
  • privatization
  • community-parental empowerment

 



In the late 1980s Philadelphia started a number of schools-within-schools and called them "charters." Some of them were schools of choice. The idea was further refined in Minnesota where charter schools were developed according to three basic values: opportunity, choice, and responsibility for results.



In 1991 Minnesota passed the first charter school law, with California following suit in 1992. By 1995, 19 states had signed laws allowing for the creation of charter schools, and by 2003 that number increased to 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. From 1997 to 2006 the number of charters in the US grew from 693 to 3,977. Perhaps surprisingly, given this growth, previous work has found mixed evidence on the impacts of charter schools on student performance. However, these studies focus almost exclusively on test scores as the outcome of interest. Thus, one potential explanation for this discrepancy is that charter schools affect student performance in ways that cannot be measured by test scores.



The charter school data is gathered at least annually, collected by mostly independent groups, is largely captured by survey. The U.S. Charter Schools Organization is said to statistics that consist of information related to size, scope, demographics (Figure 1), operations, and management of public charter schools (Charter schools data, n. d.).



It is because of conflicting and diverse initial findings that this research is important to the author’s personal curiosity. On one hand, the appeal of fresh, new approaches to teaching and learning is the stimulus for continued education. On the other hand, a constant vigil over money and test scores to prove the worth of the methodology defeats the main purpose of acting as vehicle for education. The analysis of a sampling of literature is expected to illuminate the more constant and logical explanation of the evidence examined.



Opportunity



In this paper new, longitudinal data from an anonymous large urban school district is used to assess how charter schools affect student discipline, attendance, and retention; these are compared to test score impacts. Using individual fixed-effects analyses shows that schools which begin as charters generate improvements in student behavior and attendance but not test scores. Charters that convert from regular public schools have mixed effects on test scores. While there is evidence of selection into charter schools based on changes in outcomes, these results change little after applying intermittent panel strategies. Finally, there is little evidence that charter schools generate long-term benefits if students return to non-charter schools.



A report prepared by the Center for Education Reform in 2006 states the opportunity posed by charter schools well by saying, “when the charter school concept was born in the days prior to the advent of The No Child Left Behind Act, the bargain was freedom in exchange for accountability” (CER, 2006). As an educational watchdog for learning and teaching communities, the CER felt that charter schools were a chance to try to provide a tailored education to some students through a more micro-managed, yet opportunistic, educational environment and respond to needs expressed by parents, students, and communities (including the teaching community).



According to the National Education Association (NEA), for-profit charter schools rarely outperform traditional public schools, even when the charter receives higher funding. Although the U.S. Department of Education's findings agree with those of the NEA, their study points out the limitations of such studies and the inability to hold constant other important factors, and notes that "study design does not allow us to determine whether or not traditional public schools are more effective than charter schools" (NEA, 1998).



Choice



Counselor interviews, professional journals, litigation, and the most recent data and statistics on the subject of charter schools is evidence that is examined at the primary and secondary levels of education. Many of the inherent organizational challenges found therein, are to be analyzed for themes that are perpendicular and those that are parallel.  Earlier reviews on the topic has used the words perverse and “spectacle of fear” to describe charter schools in their failing and miserable attempts to reform the contemporary schools under the guise of the 2002 No Child Left Behind ideal (Granger, 2008). In only a few of the sources consulted in this study has this harsh language been used to describe the effects of charter schooling.  The majority of the literary sources have been supportive of the innovation that is placed in those type of schools.



It is the latter positive contributions consulted in this paper, which convinced the writer to theorize that charter schools are one of the fastest growing innovations in education policy because they have a tendency to invoke a positive learning outcome in their students. Broad bipartisan support from governors, state legislators, and past and present secretaries of education contribute to the solidarity of this concept and the general research opinion. In his 1997 State of the Union Address, former President Clinton called for the creation of 3,000 charter schools by the year 2002. In 2002, President Bush called for $200 million to support charter schools. His proposed budget called for another $100 million for a new Credit Enhancement for Charter Schools Facilities Program. Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Education has provided grants to support states' charter school efforts, starting with $6 million in fiscal year 1995.



Another point of kudos for the charter school system that was evident through this research was the issue of the choice processes that charter students have at their disposal that public schools make available only on a limited and or unobservable basis. Substantiation of these alternatives and support that are more-readily made available to charter school students was noted in a report on the charter school counseling by Stanton-Salazar & Dornbusch (1995) and mentioned in a professional high school journal article entitled, “College Counseling in Charter High Schools: Examining the Opportunities and Challenges”. (Farmer-Hinton & McCullough, 2008). The schools’ staff generally promotes college as a normal and viable postsecondary choice that is communicated through the charter schools counselors’ open relationship with their students.



Responsibility for Results



The mere premise of a charter school is to exhibit results in many major areas. Through the research of this paper, it is evidenced that the charter schools are displaying a great deal of positive results with respect to the subject areas listed in most of their legal charters. The original thesis was that the cost of these results versus the benefit of their results was questionable. During this research, only one professional article was readily available to discuss this particular subject, although there are many legal causes, some are mentioned in this writing, that indicate that this is a huge concern with the public, as well.



There is an important consideration when drafting or revising the legislation for a charter school, however, that addresses “whether to include an appeals process for organizers whose initial proposals are rejected” (The Charter School Roadmap, 1998). Many of these are shown in a report (Table 1) that tracks the variables of applicants within established guidelines.



Many states have seen the concept of charter schools in their state supreme courts on mostly monetary issues, but a unique case of the governing authority over a charter school application for its charter was heard in Beaufort County Board of Education v. Lighthouse Charter School Committee, et al. (1999).  This case went a long way towards resolving many of the issues surrounding charter schools in the state of South Carolina. “The Court's decision made it clear that a local school board has the authority, under the S.C. Charter Schools Act of 1996, to require a charter school applicant to comply with the Act's provisions before a charter is approved and, once the local board makes a decision concerning a charter school applicant, the local board's decision must be upheld by the State Department of Education if that decision is supported by substantial evidence on the record” (Duff, White & Turner, LLC, 1999).



Presidential mandates are indicative of the popularity of charter-school types with the constituents and the general public at large. “In the end, school improvement is accomplished through the hard work of school staff, with administrative and parent support” (NEA, 1998) – stated exactly as a common knowledge and belief to the author of this research.



The results of the literature consulted and cited in this paper have been found to emphasize the original theory that the overall benefits produced by charter schools are almost equal to, if they don’t exceed, the cost that is incurred. The fact that this paradigm exists is not believed to be intentional, but rather more of an undefined direction for charter schools and an existing incompetence at truly managing a budget.



Previous research, although truly controversial, was not found to reveal a huge imbalance of the overall end results as opposed to the cost of such at present.  Charter schools were found financially unaccountable, whereby their products outweigh the sum of their tangible and intangible costs, by only one professional review. The research of this independent review was even concluded with the following, “recent three initiatives - an R&D intermediary, using charters as the point of the lance, and creation of a level playing field for competition - could set off a wave of innovation and escalating school performance. This, in turn, could tell Americans what they need to spend for effective schools” (Hill, 2008).



This lack of professional review to the contrary is not believed to be a limitation, yet an indication that the concept of the charter schools is a sound one that is being refined into a more efficient and effective educational environment. Therefore, the conclusion of this research is found to be that the charter schools are passing on their score card – marginally, at present, but they are expected to become better stewards of their funds and expenses in the future, thus increasing their passing score.



 



References



Charter School Closures: An Opportunity for Accountability. (2006, February). Center for Education Reform.



Charter schools data. (n. d.). USCharterSchools.org. Retrieved July 21, 2008, from http://www.uscharterschools.org



The Charter School Roadmap. (1998, September). Department of Education. Retrieved August 30, 2008, from http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Roadmap/index.html .



Duff, White & Turner, LLC. (1999). S.C. Supreme Court Decision On Charter Schools. FindLaw. Retrieved August 29, 2008, from http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Jul/1/126674.html .



Farmer-Hinton, R., & McCullough, R. (2008, April). College Counseling in Charter High Schools: Examining the Opportunities and Challenges. High School Journal, 91(4), 77-90. Retrieved July 27, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.



Granger, D. (2008, May). No Child Left Behind and the Spectacle of Failing Schools: The Mythology of Contemporary School Reform. Educational Studies, 43(3), 206-228. Retrieved July 27, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.



Hill, P. (2008, April). Spending Money When It Is Not Clear What Works. PJE. Peabody Journal of Education, 83(2), 238-258. Retrieved July 27, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database.



Imberman, S.A. (2007).  Achievement and Behavior in Charter Schools: Drawing a More Complete Picture.



National Education Association (1998, July). "For-Profit Management of Public Schools". CorpWatch.



 



Table 1



State-by-State Analysis of Charter School Laws



Appeals and Approval



 



State



# of Schools/Students



Application



Appeals & Approval



School Limit



Student Limit



Eligible Operators



Sponsors



Appeals



Alaska



30 (limits are defined geographically)



None



Anyone; law does not specify



Local school board; subject to state school board approval



None



Arizona



25 SEA per year 25 charter board per year; no limit on local board-sponsored schools



None



Public body, private person or private organization



Local school board, state board of education or state charter school board



May apply to other sponsor



Arkansas



None



None



Existing public school



State board with approval of local board



None; SEA may request hearing but cannot overturn a decision



California



250 charter schools for the 1998-99 school year with an additional 100 charter schools per school year thereafter



None



Existing public schools; new start-ups; no private or home-based schools allowed



Local school board, county board of education, state board of education



May apply to other sponsor



Colorado



None



None



Anyone; no private or home schools



Local school board



None



Connecticut



24 schools (distinction between local and state and number in congressional district removed in 1997)



No state school can enroll more than 250 students or 25% of the district enrollment, whichever is less



Anyone; no private or home schools



Local or state school board



None



Delaware



No statewide limit, but limited five schools per year for the first three years



None; must serve at least 200 students (waiver for at-risk)



Any person, university, college or nonreligious, nonhome-based, nonsectarian entity



LEA or SEA (local board only for conversions)



None



District of Columbia



For FY97, 10 schools per board, for total of 20 schools per year



None



Anyone; no home schools



D.C Board or Education; Public Charter School Board



None



Florida



Limits defined according to district student enrollment; district may request cap waiver from State Board of Education



None



Anyone; no private or home schools; private schools may disband and reincorporate as charter school



LEA, state universities developmental research schools in consultation with local board



Appeal to SEA; District makes final decision



Georgia



None



None



Local school, private organization, or state or local public entity. No private or home schools.



SEA with LEA approval.



The state board may still grant a charter if the local school board does not approve of the application.



Hawaii



25



None



Existing public school



SEA



None



 



Idaho



Not more that 60 schools in the first five years; not more that 12 schools per year; not more than 2 schools within an educational classification region; not more that 1 school per district in a year. If fewer than 12 applications, the unused allotments shall be assigned to a statewide pool for other requesting districts with distribution to be determined by random drawing.



None



Any person. No private or home school; for profits cannot operate charter schools.



Local School Board



Appeal to a hearing officer selected by the start superintendent of public instruction. if the decision is not reversed, an appeal to the state board of education with sponsorship of the school under the state board of education.



Illinois



45 with distribution based on population



None



Teachers, administrators, local school councils, colleges or universities, public community colleges, corporations or other entities; no private or home schools



LEA with SEA review for compliance with law



Appeal to state board; recommendation is nonbinding



Kansas



15



None



Anyone; no private or home schools



LEA with SEA review for adherence to state laws, rules and regulations



None



Louisiana



42 (no more than 20 prior to February 1, 1998)



None



Three or more certified teachers alone or partnership with 10 or more citizens, public service organization, business or corporation, college or university, or faculty and staff of any city or parish or any LEA; no private of home schools



LEA or SEA depending on type of charter



 



None



Massachusetts



50 (13 of which must be Horace Mann conversion schools)



No more that 25% of the total number of students attending public schools in the state



A business, two or more teachers, 10 or more parents or others; no private or home schools



State secretary of education (Horace Mann schools also must be approved by local district and local collective bargaining agent)



None



Michigan



None; state university can sponsor 150 through 1999



None



Any person or entity



Local school board, intermediate school board, community college or state public university



None



Minnesota



None



None



One or more licensed teachers; no home schools



LEA, community colleges, state university, technical and private colleges; SEA must approve all schools



If local board denies application, and at least two members vote to sponsor, state may choose to sponsor



Mississippi



Six (one in each congressional district)



None



Existing public schools



SEA with approval by LEA in district where the charter is located



None



Nevada



21 (allocated based on county population); unlimited number serving at-risk students



None



At least three licensed teachers alone or in partnership with: 10 or more members of general public, organization devoted to serving the general public, private business or college or university; no private or home schools



LEA after receiving permission from SEA to solicit applications; charter also must be approved by SEA



None



New Hampshire



Five prior to 1/1/97; 10 per year through 1999; law defines geographical limitations



School districts may impose limits



Nonprofit organizations, two or more certified teachers, 10 or more parents; no nonpublic or home schools



LEA with state then granting or denying proposed contract



SEA which may then approve and grant charter



New Jersey



135 (12.95-12/97) Minimum of three schools allocated to each county



No more than 500 students or 25% of student body of school district, whichever is less



Teachers and/or parents of public school children; higher education institutions and/or private entities may join teachers and parents; no private or home schools



Commissioner and local board or state superintendent in state-operated school district; commissioner has final authority



SEA within 30 days or



New Mexico



Five



None



Existing public schools



SEA



None



North Carolina



100 (five per district per year)



Charter must enroll 65 students and have at least three teachers (can request waiver in application with compelling reason)



Anyone; no home schools



SEA, LEA or state university; final approval by SEA



SEA which may approve charter



Ohio



20 start-ups in Lucas County; unlimited conversions in all school districts statewide; unlimited in "Big Eight" school districts



Schools must have minimum of 25 students



Anyone; no home schools



City, local, exempted village or joint vocational board of education; statewide SEA for Big Eight districts only; Lucas County Education Service Center and the University of Toledo in Lucas County only



None



Pennsylvania



None



None



Individual; one or more teachers who will teach at proposed school; parents or guardians of students who will attend school; any nonsectarian university or museum; any nonprofit, corporation, association, partnership or combination thereof; no private or home schools



LEA, two or more local boards may grant regional charter beginning in 1999-2000 school year



State Charter School Appeal Board (with 2% or 1,000 district resident signatures whichever is less after 7/1/99)



Rhode Island



20 (no more than 2 per district or four in districts with over 20,000 students)



No more than 6% of state's school-age population



Existing public schools, groups of public school personnel or public school districts; no private or home schools



State board of regents with approval from commissioner of elementary and secondary education or LEA



None



South Carolina



None



None



Anyone; no home schools



LEA



SEA



Texas



120 SEA approved; unlimited local sponsored and at-risk



None



Public or private higher education institutions, nonprofit organizations, government entities, groups of parents or teachers; no home schools



LEA; SEA for open-enrollment charters



None



Utah



8 for a three year pilot program



None



An individual or group of individuals, including teachers and parents or guardians of students who will attend the school, or a not-for-profit legal entity organized under the laws of the state. No private or home schools.



State board of education. The local board will review the application and may offer suggestions or recommendations to which the state board shall give due consideration. 



None (final action subject to judicial review).



Virginia



The total number of schools shall not exceed ten percent of the school division's total number of school, or two charter schools, whichever is greater.  Local school boards are authorized to limit the number of charter schools.



None



Any person, group or organization. No private or home schools.



Local school district.



None



Wisconsin



20 (10 districts may sponsor up to two schools each)



None



Anyone, but petition must be signed by 10% of teachers employed by district or 50% of teachers employed at one school; no private or home schools.



LEA applies to state superintendent for approval to sponsor; schools apply to local board; mayor can sponsor in Milwaukee



None (except in Milwaukee)



Wyoming



None



None



Anyone, but petition must be signed by 10% of the district's teachers or 50% of the teachers in a school, and by 10% of parents of pupils in districts or 50% of parents of students in school; no private or home schools.



LEA



None



Appendix Table C. The Charter School Roadmap, September 1998.



 



Figure Captions



Figure 1.  Figure 1. Demographics of Profiled Charter Schools.  Data from Charter schools data, (n. d.).



 



Figure 1. Demographics of Profiled Charter Schools



School and Location



Year First Chartered and Authorizer



Grades



Enrollment



Student Ethnicity



English Learners



Subsidized Meals



Special Needs



Per Pupil Spending



Distinctive Programs and Features



The Arts and Technology
Academy Public Charter School
Washington, D.C.



1998 Special charter school board



Pre-K-6



615



98% Afr. Am.
2% Other



0%



97%



7%



$8,650




  • Basic skills plus arts
  • Extended day/year
  • Mosaica national management affiliation

BASIS School, Inc. Tucson, Ariz.



1998 State



5-12



246



74% White 12% Hispanic
4% Afr. Am.
10% Asian Am.



1%



Not applicable



1%



$5,339




  • European academic tradition
  • 12 of 30 courses qualify as Advanced Placement
  • Only Arizona school to have scores above the 90th percentile on math SAT 9 in all grades

Community of Peace Academy St. Paul, Minn.



1995 Local district



K-12



546



70% Hmong
20% Afr. Am.
10% Hispanic, Eritrian, White, Vietnamese, & Am. Indian



75%



80%



10%



$10,355




  • Non-violent community focus and award-winning character education program
  • High levels of support for English language learners
  • Looping to build relationships and support

KIPP Academy Houston Houston, Texas



1994 State



5-8



346



77% Hispanic
21% Afr. Am.
2% Asian Am. & White



8%



86%



5%



$8,670




  • KIPP, Inc. national college prep program
  • Extended day/year
  • 85% of students enter college; 94% are first-generation college students

Oglethorpe Charter School Savannah, Ga.



1998 Local district



6-8



319



51% White
38% Afr. Am.
4% Asian Am.
3% Hispanic
4% Other



0%



20%



5%



$6,000




  • Parent contract to donate 20 hours a year
  • Core Knowledge curriculum
  • Character education focus

Ralph A. Gates Elementary School
Lake Forest, Calif. (Los Angeles Basin)



1999 Local district



K-6



850



72% Hispanic
22% White
2% Asian Am.
2% Filipino
1% Afr. Am.
1% Multi-racial



44%



63%



5%



$5,367




  • School facility houses two-way Spanish-English immersion charter program for 43% of students
  • Multiple language programs during and after school for students and parents
  • Regrouping across classes and grades for reading and math

Roxbury Preparatory Charter School Boston, Mass.



1999 State



6-8



180



80% Afr. Am.
20% Hispanic



0%



56%



7%



$12,910




  • 66% of students enter below grade level; 100% continue in college prep high schools
  • Mandated homework support, Saturday school, summer school for poor grades
  • Curriculum developed by staff based on student performance on school comprehensive exams

The School of Arts and Sciences Tallahassee, Fla.



1999 Local district



K-8



226



62% White
22% Afr. Am.
6% Hispanic
3% Asian Am.
7% Multi-racial



2%



19%



22%



$5,750




  • Multi-age classrooms, looping
  • Developmental, project-based approach
  • No grades; student portfolios

 



 



 



 


About the Author

An administrative career of over 26 years in the civil service has coupled with a lifetime of learning in various forums. I wish to share my knowledge and wisdom through written expression, as I strongly believe that how to learn is the most important lesson gained from academic studies tempered with real-life experience.



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Some Do's And Dont's That Every Professional SEO Content Writer Follows

Content writing is an art. It is not the skill of anyone or everyone. In order to be a professional SEO content writer, one needs to have a lot of skills. The first and foremost important skill that an individual needs to possess for being a professional  content writer is that he/she needs to be fluent in English and should know how to write grammatically correct English. However, this doesn't mean that every individual who knows to write grammatically correct English can be a professional website content writer. In order to be a professional in this field, one must know the techniques of content writing.

Every professional SEO content writer makes it a point to follow certain do's and dont's. Let us first discuss about some do's that the web content writers follow.

The content writes makes it a point to keep the paragraph of the content short and crisp. On the Internet, people are always in need of information that is available quickly. So, if one writes long paragraphs with irrelevant content, no one would read. The visitor would log on to some other site to find the information that he/she wants. Contents with headings and subheadings are also very much preferred.

In content writing the writer's main intention is to grab the interest of the web visitors through their writing style. This is the reason why the content writers make it a point to ask questions and make the readers think about the topic that they are writing. They also make it a point to use active voice. In content writing, the writers use the least possible words for expressing their thoughts and ideas regarding what they want to say. All these things make the writing more interesting and attention grabbing.

In content writing, the writers make it a point to identify the right and highly searched key phrases and keywords while writing the content for the website. The writers also keep in mind the keyword density while writing the content so that it doesn't get spam in the Google.

Now let us discuss about some of the dont's that a professional SEO content writer must follow while writing a web content.

The professional web writers never copy and paste the content. They write the content in their own words so that it passes the copyscape.

The professional writers always avoid writing complex sentences and using stiff and archaic language. They also never flower it up.

A professional SEO content writer never uses too many keywords in the content. They know how many times the keywords need to be used in the content in order to make the content rank higher in the search engine.  

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