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Omg hello! I am Macy barnard I have seen what you have been studying and I love it. There are many things that you research that I am interested in and i'm hoping that you can work on with me as a future educator in an ACURA project. I believe give a child a good education no matter what they come from is very important, Every child deserves a good education and I want your help studying the effects home life, parent influences, and the use of substance around the child affects how they learn in school, and I feel as if no one is better to work with on this than you! Traits that you can see in me is that I am passionate about what I want to study, I am determined and hard-working.

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Part 1: Two scholarly journal articles  Huang, Cheng, et al. "Smoking Experimentation among Elementary School Students in China: Influences from Peers, Families, and the School Environment." PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 8, 2013, pp. E7304 8.  Cooley-Strickland, Michele, et al. "Community Violence and Youth: Affect, Behavior, Substance use, and Academics." Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 2009, pp. 127-156. Part 2: Researchers Similarities and Differences In both articles, The researchers are studying and identifying the effect that substances that are around or in a child's life has affected the way they learn and think in an educational setting. In the first article written by Cheng Huang, he is more focused on how smoking in china is a serious issue and he studied how it differentiates between ages, boys and girls, and in primary schools and things like that. He provides a chart of information that allows us as the readers to know ...

There are five questions I have about my discipline and things I would like to investigate... 1.How do outside sources interfere with learning? 2.Can a child's home environment have an affect on the way they perform in the classroom? 3.Do children in other countries have the same issues in education that they do in the united states? 4.Can having a strict hands on family make a child want to learn more or drive them in the opposite direction? 5.What drives a child to want to learn? 6.Are children in less fortunate countries have other things like drugs and smoking issues that affect their learning? To Facilitate a search to get some scholarly articles I can use a few keywords to get what I want those keywords are: Family  Children  Learning Education  Elementary/primary Drug Addict*  Visual learning  Types of learning in class  With this search “family + children + learning education + Elementary primary + drug addict*” there was 2,416 articles ...

Elementary education is the discipline I have chosen. There is a specific researcher that I can work with here at Penn State Abington. Her name is  Ann Martinelli . Ann is teaching professor here at Penn State Abington and she has an Ed. D in reading leadership: Widner, 2016 she also has  M.Ed. Educational Administration: Temple University, 2001 and B. A Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education: Temple University, 1998. Some of her research interests and concepts in early childhood education include:  sharing  knowledge regarding the reading process with colleagues and pre-service teachers in the college classroom sharing educational instruction with fellow educators who desire to move forward with teaching the reading process to learners She is well versed in offering professional development sessions to support teachers’ knowledge of reading practices And the core area of her research  is on the development of the lifelong learner and h...