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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Abstract but Useable </div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Pages 25-28.5<br><br>Discusses introducing democracy to education<br>Democracy would have intrinsic benefits in a school due to everyone having a say<br>Democratic systems in the school system would instruct young people on how democracy is (or should be) in the real world<br>Listening and accountability comes with democracy&nbsp;<br>Democracy should not be about keeping discipline<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>-education is integrated into society selection and stratification for the Labour market and by the lack of economic to avail fully of the opportunities that education can offer&nbsp;<br>-people who lack the money and resources schooling demands will experience education failure </div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>education is directly integrated with the economy and access to education is dependant on having sufficient economic resources.&nbsp;<br>students are picked by their economic attraction ie. how much of an asset they or their parents will be to the school. </div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Roisin&nbsp;<br>- good education is not without empathy and love&nbsp;<br>- human service eg politics is not fulfilled without emotional work&nbsp;<br>-depriving students emotional support is to fail in providing preparation for the future&nbsp;<br>- having a sympathetic political attitude is key to the efficacy of a democracy &nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Travellers&nbsp;are severely underrepresented in schools, spending on average 4.7 years less time in school than regular people. 55 percent drop out before 15 and only 3.1 percent get education after 18, compared to 41 percent of the regular population. 84.3 percent of travellers are unemployed, maybe due to lack of education and educational opportunities?</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A study was done analysing the predictive grades for LC. A common trend before the predictive grades is that girls scored higher in all subjects with maths being the exception.<br><br>Prior to the pandemic and predictive grades it was found that girls typically scored 5.7% to 6.5% better than the boys.<br><br>Then in 2020 this jumped up to 7.9% and declined a negligible amount in 2021 to 7.7%.<br><br>Girls also scored higher in maths than the boys, which the trend used to be that boys would score higher than the girls. The girls "narrowly" outscored the boys in the maths exams.<br><br>Girls also out performed the boys in the wider range of subjects, they include subjects such as applied maths, chemistry, agricultural economics, engineering and construction studies, where boys often outperformed girls in pre-pandemic times.<br><br>Boys secured more H1s in higher-level maths and computer science. They also outperformed girls in minority languages such as Italian, Portuguese and Hungarian, though these had relatively few candidates.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/pupil-power-how-students-are-helping-to-turn-their-schools-green-1.4139580">https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/pupil-power-how-students-are-helping-to-turn-their-schools-green-1.4139580</a></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Traveller children do not feel included, wanted or safe in school – especially at second level. Some travellers feel "ignored" by some teachers as they get easier homework than their peers and aren't asked to hand theirs up. The children have said they've been called names such as "knacker", "dirty" and "smelly" and other children sometimes refuse to sit next to them. Traveller parents who felt "overlooked" in school themselves wanted better for their children. Teachers and principals described “deep frustration” that they were doing their best to support Traveller families but said education was “not valued” in “Traveller culture”. Many believed Traveller children wanted to leave school at 16, for girls to “get married” and boys “to work”. Others felt the education system did “not deliver the same benefit for Traveller students as it does for settled students”.<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Universities say timelines for the release of Leaving Cert results are “no longer fit for purpose” and want students to be issued their grades at the end of June<br><br>In 2019, Jim Miley said, just over 200 students achieved a maximum score of six H1 grades. This year, this had grown to 1,342, an increase of more than 600 per cent<br><br>the association wants “authentic assessment” across all subjects over a three-year period that “genuinely reflects” the learning and thinking of the student.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>According to the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, Students should be given more say in how their LC is assessed. They state that stress &amp; anxiety was “significantly reduced” when they had options.<br><br>Research conducted in 2018 showed that 83% of LC Students claimed that the 'Trad' form of the LC was not the best way to get their educational achievement. - Paul Crone, NAPD Director.&nbsp;<br><br>Paul also stated that "students should be part of the reform process rather than an afterthought." &amp;&nbsp;<br>"Entry to third level must be decoupled from terminal exam results."<br><br>"Students have previously suggested that continuous assessment promotes independent learning and better prepares them for further education"- John Curtis, the general secretary of the Joint Managerial Body.<br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>- Pro student-choice article<br>- Exams are a major source of stress for young people, due to having to perform well over a short period of time<br>- Student’s anxiety “significantly reduced”&nbsp; when they were given choices as to whether or not to take the exam, according to the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD)<br>- The pandemic has shown us that we can survive without the Leaving Cert<br>- 83% of students do not believe that the current Leaving Cert is the best way to examine their educational achievements, according to Paul Crone, NAPD director<br>- Students have previously suggested that continuous assessment promotes independent learning and better prepares them for further education<br>- “We believe that the time is right now to develop a rich, multi-faceted assessment process for senior cycle that is not dependent on performance over a short window in time.” - Paddy Flood, Education and Training Boards Ireland<br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>many grind schools and other private schools, some also claim that teachers’ estimated grades were lowered by anywhere between 20 to 40 per cent, well in excess of the national average of 17 per cent.<br><br>While the school expected half of its students to secure a H1 in German based on past performance, just 14 per cent secured this grade under the new calculated grades process.<br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Students have more say in the exam they'll be writing given the fact their stress and anxiety levels have been reduced in the year they had a choice<br><br>Research said that 83% of students assessing the leaving cert believe that it doesn't reflect on one educational achievements.<br>Students say should be prioritized and acted upon instead of having an insight on their thoughts after the exam.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>The Government-commissioned report, Out of the Shadows, conducted on behalf of the Department of Education as part of the National Traveller.  The traveller community is feelling unwanted.     The children described being called names such as “pikey”, “knacker”, “dirty” and “smelly” by their classmates, and how other children refused to sit beside them. But when they raised such treatment with teachers, they often felt they were not taken seriously enough</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>People felt the education system did not deliver the same benefits to Traveller students as it did to settled students. Travellers see the leaving cert and seeking jobs as a waste of time due to discrimination.<br>A sense of belonging is key to Traveller engagement in education as belonging is undermined by wider societal racism and discrimination.<br>Improving Travellers' experience of education would be complex </div>]]></description>
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         <title>Teacher shortages lead to 100% increase in demand for grinds.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Grind schools are becoming more and more popular due to teacher shortages.&nbsp; People are also realising that grind schools score higher.<br><br>Parents are putting their children into grinds for subjects they don't actually need grinds in, it's causing more stress and problems for the students.<br>Parents are worried about the shortage of teachers.<br><br>"On a normal year, we would have about 125 students now at the start of term, which would increase as the time gets closer to the exams. However, we had 200 students enrolled even just before the start of September. I've never seen that before.<br><br>"No student should be pressured into excelling in a subject that they haven't a natural aptitude for but unfortunately that is the system we have to work with.<br><br>"A student with dyslexia or a specific learning disability is even more disadvantaged across all schools and this provides them with an opportunity to learn in a different educational environment with smaller class sizes and more focused exam based help.<br><br>More money = More CAO points</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Statistics on travellers staying in school:<br><br>Hilary Harmon, Pavee Point’s education coordinator, said there are just over 36,000 Travellers living in Ireland today with almost 74% living in a house and 42% under the age of 15. However, just 13% of Traveller children complete second-level education, compared to 92% of children in the settled community.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Access to the most selective higher education courses such as medicine, are heavily dominated by those from the most affluent (white Irish) families .<br>These family’s can afford to send their children to grinds school , private schools so they have a class based advantage teachers in these schools teach more as the children are wanting to learn and all listen , where as teachers in public/voluntary schools must stop teaching to correct students and this wastes class time and teachers patience away </div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>A recent shortage in post primary school teachers has lead to a 100% increase in demand for spaces in Grind schools<br><br>Irene Gahan who has run the Drogheda Grinds Academy in Co Louth for the last eight years says this is the first year that she has seen such demand at the very beginning of the new school year.<br><br>"On a normal year, we would have about 125 students now at the start of term, which would increase as the time gets closer to the exams. However, we had 200 students enrolled even just before the start of September. I've never seen that before."<br><br><br>"No student should be pressured into excelling in a subject that they haven't a natural aptitude for but unfortunately that is the system we have to work with."<br><br>The high demand for grinds and students taking grinds for subjects the don't actually&nbsp; need grinds in is causing a lot of stress and problems for students.&nbsp;<br><br>This is all leading to a system where more money for grinds can equal more CAO points.<br><br></div><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Students across Ireland walked out in protest of the rising price of student accommodation.<br><br>Students walked out of their lecture halls at 11 minutes past 11 symbolising the 11 years that Fine Gael have been in power; during those 11 years the accommodation crises has gotten exponentially worse.&nbsp;<br><br>The government has been considering a €500 rent credit for students. However, this is not extended to students whose incomes' do not reach the minimum tax brackets to pay taxes.<br><br>However these grants and credits only apply to the students lucky enough to actually secure accommodation. Countless students have failed to find lodgings in cities resulting in commutes of over two hours for some. The Students' Union of Ireland has predicted that there will be a shortage of 20,000 beds by the year 2024.<br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>There are numerous studies that show that getting high grades and good degrees is heavily dependent on the money invested in a given child/adult over time. The educationally successful are disproportionately drawn from wealthier backgrounds because they have both the economic capital (money) and cultural capital (knowledge of how the education system works, and how and where to maximise competitive advantage for their own children).</div><div><strong><br>Money</strong></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Grind schools are known for achieving higher results.<br>Pressured environment.<br><br>'the students were nice, the teachers approachable and the school seemed to run smoothly.'<br><br>'The ability to pay for better quality education is inherently unfair'<br><br>'99.8% of those who attend fee-paying schools progress to the third level, of those 86.7% achieve high point courses, in comparison to 53.1% of students from non-fee-paying schools.'</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><br>more than 750 young people three to four years after completing the Leaving Cert through a survey and sample interviews.<br><br>Some 94 per cent of students from middle-class schools applied for higher education, compared to 80 per cent from mixed schools and only 50 per cent from working-class schools.</div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Wealthier parents (the wealthiest 20%) spend seven times more per child each year on private education outside of school hours than the poorest 20%. Those who are wealthiest use their private wealth to advantage their children outside the school system through private tuition in Ireland too</div>]]></description>
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