According to Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, and Schellinger (2011): A key challenge for 21st-century schools involves serving culturally diverse students with varied abilities and motivations for learning…Unfortunately, many students lack social-emotional competencies and become less connected to school as they progress from elementary to middle school to high school, and this lack of connection negatively affects their academic performance, behavior, and health (p. 405).  In other words, schools have an important role to play in raising healthy children by fostering not only their cognitive development, but also fostering their social and emotional development. Yet schools have limited resources to address all of these areas and are experiencing intense pressures to enhance academic performance. For this discussion, imagine you are a classroom teacher and your school has just adopted a new social-emotional learning curriculum. The parents of your students are concerned that this will take valuable time away from academic subjects and that this is something parents should teach at home. Your job is to write an explanation of this curriculum for your classroom website. In this description, define what social-emotional learning is and what it isn’t. Provide links for parents to find out more about it and what the research says about it.  Describe how social emotional learning will enhance learning in other content areas and the benefits their children will experience. For more information, refer to the following articles:Beyond book learning: Schools teach social and emotional skills Benefits of SEL Office of Academics, Social Emotional Learning The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions Why it Matters

Your boss has chosen you to give a presentation to a number of foreign officials regarding the United States Federal Reserve System. These officials are very interested in doing business in the United States, but they would like to learn more about the Federal Reserve and how it operates. Develop a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation. Address the following questions and include a notes page which contains the write-up portion to each question: • What are the factors that would influence the Federal Reserve in adjusting the discount rate? • How does the discount rate affect the decisions of banks in setting their specific interest rates? • How does monetary policy aim to avoid inflation? • How does monetary policy control the money supply? • How does a stimulus program (through the money multiplier) affect the money supply? • Currently, what indictors are evident that there is too much or too little money within the economy? How is monetary policy aiming to adjust this?

Your assignment is to construct and present an argument using logical argumentation. As a guide, u will use a worksheet with a series of question to which u will respond in paragraph format.DIRECTIONS TO COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT:1. Select any issue from the news, from the Internet, your personal life, something and school, etc.2. Gather information on the issue from the Internet, people, textbook, etc.3. Use the worksheet to enter responses to the questions to create your argument.GRADING CRITERIA:1. Answer each questions in paragraph format. u must have a least 3-5 sentences per paragraph (see criteria below for specific point value for each questions).2. Your answers must be written in complete sentences without spelling or grammatical errors.3. Your answer must be in your own words.4. Use the questions to complete this assignment.CRITERIA: Complete the task assigned.1. Question 1 is worth 15 points.2. Question 2 is worth 25 points.3. Question 3 is worth 25 points.4. Question 4 is worth 10 points.1.Descibe the issue by answering the following questions in paragraph format.What is the issue, why is it an issue? What are the two sides to the issue?2. Make a position statement with premises that support your conclusion by answering the following questions in paragraph format. What is your position statement on this issue? What premises support your position statement? (Cite references here) What made u come to your conclusion?3. Present and respond to the counter arguments by answering the following questions in paragraph format. What are the counter-arguments from the others ide of the issue? What is your respond to these counter-arguments?4. Conclude your logical argumentation by summarizing the issue & your position, the information thats supports your position, & reason why the counter-arguments are not valid.