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The Cornish Case and the Right to Free Speech

of the Madison Country Day School to address difficult issues. Ms. Cornish charges that her dismissal has not been based on quant...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

K-12 Issues of School Safety

the issue of who is liable for the safety of children while they are at the school. The schools and school systems examined will b...

Proposal for an Elementary School Career Guidance Program

the concept of work into their idea of self and they do this by identifying with an important adult in their lives (Marino, 1998)....

School Principal's Role

is management and leadership skills. Finally, the principal must have a strong background in personality development to understand...

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 ...

Successful Education and Funding

United States we as citizens, however, have come to look to issues such as job security to justify our continued path in a system ...

Effective School Characteristics

by observing principals and teachers. From these rather long lists, an organization or an author will select the most common and p...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

Research Proposal on Achievement and School Uniforms

investigator controlled for demographics and socio-economic status (Seamon, Schultink and Slocum, 2002). The investigator administ...

Jr. High School Techers, Vital Skills and Understanding

In five pages this paper considers teaching at a middle school or junior high school level in a presentation of a literature revie...

Psychological Research Issues

In six pages this paper discusses various psychological research issues including an assessment of American Psychiatric Associatio...

Traditional Schooling v. Home Schooling

In fact, Florida officials reported that the primary reason parents gave for wanting to school their child at home was safety.v ...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

The History of Black America as a Component of American History

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper outlines the different elements of Black American history, with a focus on the significant role...

School Improvement and Self Assessment

In ten pages this paper considers the strengths and weaknesses of school evaluation as regulated by the Office for Standards in Ed...

Overview of Curriculum Planning in Saudi Arabia

In ten pages an overview of a Saudi Arabia school's process of curriculum planning is evaluated. Eleven sources are cited in the ...

Supreme Court Ruling on Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F.

In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...

Film Boyz 'N the Hood and the Chicago School Theory of Social Disorganization

The Chicago school's social disorganization theory is applied to Boyz 'N the Hood in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources...

Public Schools' Constitutional Rights and Religion Court Cases

In five pages the issue of religion in public schools are examined in the case progression of Everson v. Board of Education, Engel...

Parents and Accountability

In this paper consisting of five pages the issue of whether schools or parents should be accountable for educating children is dis...

A Political Perspective on School Choice

Many of these corporations have already been lobbying the state legislature. Many question whether this is an ethical way to run ...

Boarding Schools and Emotional Growth

the CADU school in Running Springs, California, "The heart of their emotional growth program is the propheet. These were evolved o...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

School Uniforms and the Law

In seven pages this research paper discusses the debate that continues to rage on regarding public schools and mandatory school un...

Teen Pregnancy and a Social Service Program

In seven pages this paper examines a rural school's social service program for to target teenage pregnancy reduction. Eight sour...

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom

The writer analyzes the book The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, which argues that American culture is deteriorating....

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...