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Inequities in School Funding

income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...

Necessity of Music Education

disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Eating Disorders

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

Keeping Art In Public Schools

COUPLING Art can help students achieve at a higher level by encouraging them to stretch their minds beyond conventional sta...

School Dress Issues and Public School Uniform Codes

code (Zirkel, 1998). Some parents became so outraged that they actually marched into the school and into specific classrooms and ...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Public School versus Private School for Preschool Teachers

settings (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). Preschool teachers most often begin as an assistant teacher and progress to the leve...

Panopticon Model and Public Schools' Essay by John Devine

proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham but what distinguished this structure had been an architectur...

Strategic Study on Dendrite

In five pages a student submitted case study on Dendrite's strategic position is presented in terms of choices regarding U.S. mark...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

Defining And Identifying Problems/Opportunities Between The "Public's Interest" And The "Public's Best Interest"

commercial activities and examine the effect on the society around them. This is no easy task, since an activity that generates m...

Massachusetts: Educational Funding

In short, Massachusetts failed to honor its own state constitution whereby the Encouragement of Literature clause pointedly held t...

Education in Health Care

This essay comments on four aspects of education in health care beginning with using the COPA model for basic nursing education an...

An Article on Hong Kong Schools' Sex Education Implementation Reviewed

that did not surprise them. It was not surprising because what authors also found is that the Hong Kong education department-altho...

Same-Sex Marriage

right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...

Ineffective Communication

Effective public health agencies are essential for the health of the general public. They have many diverse responsibilities, one ...

Vietnam The Necessary War by Michael Lind

to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...

Escape and Myth in Comic Books

Do comic books as an art form simply represent a desire to escape from reality or are they the embodiment of a new form of modern ...

Job Shadowing: More Frequently And At An Earlier Age

motivating activity designed to give kids the unique opportunity of an up-close look at the world of work and provide the answer t...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Decision Making and 4 Approaches

Learning to come to an agreement based upon a foundation of compromise is much better than not coming to any decision at all, an u...

Technology of VR

In three pages this paper lauds the technological benefits represented by Virtual Reality both in terms of design applications as ...

Reality and Dreams in the Humanity of John Milton's Works

In five pages John Milton's 'Lycidas,' 'Areopagitica,' and 'Of Education' are examined in a consideration of humanity and the ten...

Public Choice and Pluralist Interest Groups

In five pages this paper discusses the interest group distinctions between pluralist and public choice views of these groups in a ...

Canada's Banks and Public Choice Theory

In seven pages this paper examines the application of public choice theory to Canada's banking institutions and the 1990s' changes...

Law Enforcement and Continuing Education

In six pages continuing education in the field of law enforcement is considered in a discussion of mentoring, long distance learni...

Brown vs. the Board of Education and To Kill a Mockingbird

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at racial themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. The reality of these themes is made apparen...