Essays 241 - 270
drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...
middle school that is just 4.5 miles away from home. A mother takes the position that the change is not right and that her son or ...
above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...
is about civil rights (Friel, 2004). One school district that just recently adopted school vouchers was the District of Columbia ...
about systemic change" (Domanico, 1993). Their idea was school choice, not vouchers (Domanico, 1993). The difference is that paren...
zero tolerance policies have instigated. For example, in Fort Myers, Florida, a high school senior, who was also a National Merit ...
All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...
prescribing religious devotions; the idea being that by keeping a strict line between religion and state, religious freedom is ens...
time while currently gaining the greatest utility from the hardware it has and is about to acquire. The Mac OS X Server v10...
test is administered each May. Boiling Springs has always received a rating of excellent on the school report card. This ended i...
operating at convenient hours. They want convenient parking, polite staff, and quality education at affordable prices for which th...
students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...
responding to student aggression. Each participant received a 4-page survey instrument. Forty-seven percent of the surveys were re...
a significant clustering of fast food restaurants within a 1.5 mile radius when compared to other non down town areas. The researc...
class given for one quarter of the school year where students learn how to work the computer, surf the Internet and so forth. Fami...
develops the abilities of others towards higher performance levels (Zimmerman, 2005). Finally, such programs provide motivation fo...
campus but in many respects operates separately from the rest of the school. One of the vice principals has full operational and ...
before one can measure effectiveness, it is crucial to know what it is you want to know (Brott, 2006). In other words, you cannot ...
income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...
of its real market value. Therefore, this taxpayer pays $2,000 in taxes or 2 percent of the propertys real value (Brimley and Garf...
policy survey conducted by this journal, the editorial then relates how various states are approaching this problem. This shows th...
he would ask if there were any questions at the end of each lesson but he knew there were students who did not understand but who ...
its website, from Deborah Meier herself and form observing how teachers currently operate at the school. Its stated mission for ex...
linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...
Panel members overwhelmingly believed it was very important to have technology right in the classroom (Clark, 2006). The research...
a hierarchical system that pictures four levels of development (Craig 276). The first phase of consciousness describes people who ...
describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...
505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...
not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...
average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...