Every student knows that one day he will get term paper writing assignment from his tutor. Some of these students do not care about this fact, because they are genius in writing. But most of the students do not know how to write proper term paper.

You can find many websites who will guide you about the general rules, but we can inform you about the formatting (you’ll be surprised to know, that 30% of tutors pay more attention to the formatting than to the content of the term papers).

Here you can find some useful tips that can help to make your term paper perfect:

Create a contents page (do not forger about: title page, abstract, outline, list of some illustrations, the main text of the term paper, footnotes (if needed), bibliography page and index page.
• -  start typing your name, then under your name, on separate lines, double-spaced type: your teacher’s name, than the title of the course and the date. Type all these in the center of the page, about halfway down the page.

Very important notes: never type your title all in capital letters (only proper names of people and places or some very important words are capitalized in the title) and do not put quotations marks before and after the title. Do not use underlining in the title.
Abstract page: create a brief summary of your term paper and write it on the separate page.
Outline and table of contents: create your outline carefully, for table of contents just restate your outline but indicate page numbers.
Do you have any illustrations? All illustrations should be mentioned on the separate page of your term paper (just specify the name and page number of the illustrations used in the term paper).
Index Page: here you should specify all important subjects, citations, names and references presented in your term paper (and do not forget to mention page number on which each reference occurs). Just follow the alphabetical order forming the index page.

Some more important facts about term paper formatting:
- number your pages in the upper right hand corner, flush with the right margin and 1/2″ from the top (do not number title page, start from the second one and mark it as “2”). Some times title page is not necessary at all, please contact your tutor in this matter.
- term papers should be always double-spaced between lines along with 1″ margin on all sides.
- use one space between words and two spaces between sentences (but it is not wrong to live single space between sentences in the term paper)

Before handing in his term paper, each student should ask himself, “Is this the VERY BEST that I can do?”
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Joel Klein led the Justice Department’s attack on Microsoft for its alleged efforts to monopolize the software market. But Microsoft is a hotbed of competition compared to the organization Klein runs now. Klein is chancellor of New York City’s public school system, a monopoly so heavily regulated that sometimes it’s unable to fire even dangerous teachers.The series of steps a principal must take to dismiss an instructor is Byzantine. “It’s almost impossible,” Klein complains.

The rules were well-intended. The union was worried that principals would play favorites, hiring friends and family members while firing good teachers. If public education were subject to the competition of the free market, those bureaucratic rules would be unnecessary, because parents would hold a bad principal accountable by sending their kids to a different school the next year. But government schools never go out of business, and parents’ ability to change schools is sharply curtailed. So the education monopoly adopts paralyzing rules instead.

The regulations are so onerous that principals rarely even try to fire a teacher. Most just put the bad ones in pretend-work jobs, or sucker another school into taking them. (They call that the “dance of the lemons.”) The city payrolls include hundreds of teachers who have been deemed incompetent, violent, or guilty of sexual misconduct. Since the schools are afraid to let them teach, they put them in so-called “rubber rooms” instead. There they read magazines, play cards, and chat, at a cost to New York taxpayers of $20 million a year.

Once, Klein reports, the school system discovered that a teacher was sending sexual e-mails to a 16-year-old student. “This was the most unbelievable case to me,” he says, “because the e-mail was there, he admitted to it. It was so thoroughly offensive.” Even with the teacher’s confession, it took six years of expensive litigation before the school could fire him. He didn’t teach during those six years, but he still got paid—more than $350,000 total.

What did it take to finally get rid of him? What does it take to get rid of any teacher whose offenses are so egregious that administrators are willing to tackle the red tape? Read on.

How To Fire An Incompetent Teacher, an epic spelunk through the New York school system.

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Sir Edmund Blackadder was a real historical figure and Adolf Hitler was the prime minister who led Britain to victory in World War II, many schoolchildren in Britain believe. A survey of 200 pupils, aged between 11 and 18, found half were unable to link Oliver Cromwell with the English Civil War and 17% thought he was at the Battle of Hastings.

Two out of five pupils did not know that Henry VIII had six wives - 34% thought he had eight, the research by military history publishers Osprey found.

Only 36% knew the exact dates of the First World War and more than a quarter thought Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar was the Mary Rose.

Three out of five did not know when the Romans ruled Britain and nearly half (49%) were unable to date the Great Fire of London.

And over 50% could not name the reigning monarch the time of the Armada, with one in ten opting for King Harold out of five multiple choice answers.

Subject ’squeezed’

The report said historical knowledge had hit a “shocking low” and claimed the situation would only get worse, with the subject being squeezed out of many school timetables.

More than a quarter of school students (26%) were not taking GCSE history because their school timetable made it difficult to arrange, the report claimed.

“Their level of knowledge has fallen to depths which highlight the appalling effects of reducing the emphasis on history in the National Curriculum,” a spokeswoman for Osprey said.

But despite the grim findings, more than half (55%) said they enjoyed history and one in five liked it “a great deal”.

Most felt that an understanding of the past was vital in order to understand what should happen in the future (55%).

“If there was no history there would be no us,” one 12-year-old girl said.

‘Worrying’

The Education Secretary, David Blunkett, admitted the situation was “worrying”.

The government had ordered a revamp of the curriculum “to bring history alive”, for example by including the story of the Bletchley Park Enigma code-breakers and the importance of their work in the Second World War.

It was important for children to know “key dates, events and figures”, he added.

Test results

Below are some of the multiple choice questions and the percentages of pupils choosing different answers. The correct answers are highlighted in yellow.

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– Illiteracy is causing irreparable damage to our society. If you think that sounds like an exaggeration, you’re wrong. For proof, check out these illiteracy statistics.

Illiteracy Statistics

In a study of 20 ‘high income’ countries, the US ranked 12th on literacy tests. Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 44 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their child. A few other shocking facts:

• 50 percent of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level.
• 20 percent of Americans are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level.
• Nearly half of all Americans read so poorly that they cannot find a single piece of information when reading a short publication.

How Illiteracy Affects Job Prospects

• 3 out of 4 people on welfare can’t read.
• 20 percent of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage.
• 50 percent of the unemployed people who fall between the ages of 16 and 21 cannot read well enough to be considered functionally literate.
• Between 46 and 51 percent of American adults have an income well below the individual threshold poverty level because of their inability to read.

How Illiteracy Affects Society

• 3 out of 5 people in an American prison can’t read.
• 85 percent of juvenile offenders have problems reading.
• Approximately 50 percent of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as balancing a checkbook and reading prescription drug labels.
• To determine how many prison beds will be needed in future years, some states actually base part of their projection on how well current elementary students are performing on reading tests.

How Illiteracy Costs Taxpayers

• Illiteracy costs American taxpayers an estimated $20 billion each year.
• Illiteracy has been proven to cause children to drop out of school. Dropouts cost our nation $240 billion in social service expenditures and lost tax revenues.

The Fight Against Illiteracy

The fight against illiteracy is a constant battle. Activists are working to strengthen education amongst young people and amongst adults. If you want to join the fight, there are numerous organizations that accept volunteers and donations.

You can also help to prevent illiteracy by encouraging a young person in your life to read. Enroll them in a book of the month club or buy them a book you know they will enjoy reading.

In short, do your part. The fight against illiteracy is important. If we continue to ignore what is becoming a growing epidemic, we set our entire country up for failure.

Statistics for this article were obtained from the following sources: National Institute for Literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, U.S. Census Bureau

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