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Public School System and the Issue of Religion

be learning about other religions and religious tolerance. In August of 1995, the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley ...

Religion Curriculum in Schools

Perhaps the greatest similarities lie between the Christianity and Islam faiths; indeed, there are considerable concurrent issues ...

School Principal's Changing Roles

One study found that between 1988 and 1998, 42 percent of all the elementary school principals in the United States left their job...

English Schools and the Teaching of Citizenship

too narrow-minded and limited. During the aftermath of September 11, it became increasingly evident that when terrorism touched o...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Students with Disabilities and Full Inclusion in Texas Schools

entries. RESULTS OF FINDINGS The testing gains for each of the 111 schools that were studied and are practicing full inclusion o...

A Model For Making Schools Friendly for Inclusion

having a public education at all, subsequent research suggested that including children in regular classrooms was far superior (19...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

U.S. Middle Schools and Deficiencies in Mathematics

implement middle school principles. The predominant theory for the last fifty years or so has been that the middle school is the b...

Mona Lisa and the Renaissance Humanistic School of Thought

drudgery, disease and misery of the Middle Ages. The Hundred Years War and the plague marked the end of this period, and as Europe...

School Testing and Bias

are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

Families, Rather than Schools, Should Teach Values,

generation. Children should come to school with a family-engrained set of values that prepares them to interact civilly with their...

Managing Knowledge in Schools

tacit knowledge internalizes it. Tacit knowledge lead to explicit concepts through things like metaphors, models, analogies or fro...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

Schools and the Value of Knowledge

school the least stressful (Mangione and Speth, 1998). Children do much better in their studies when they have achieved a smooth t...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Schools of Thought Regarding Strategic Planning

achieving the proper fit between the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats (Mintzberg and L...

Overview and Criticism of the Welsh School (Aberystwyth) of Critical Security Studies

where there is the argument for the need to eliminate unjust social relationship, including gender relations and needs to be seen ...

What Schools Are For by John I. Goodlad

administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...

Work or Graduate School?

scholarship may be gained for some or all of the education costs. On top of this there are also the lost wages whilst at graduate ...

Intern Programs for School Principals

identified nine essential tasks of the principal: Purposing, Institutionalizing values, Maintaining harmony, Managing, Motivating,...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Issues Pertaining to School Leadership Effectiveness

name = 4.3 * Principal has eye contact with teacher = 4.0 * Principal demonstrates caring attitude = 3.78 * Principal interacts wi...

Mainstreaming and Schools for the Deaf

inclusive educational practices. Their concerns are forged out of their struggles to get appropriate educational services for thei...

Low Income Schools and Technological Restraints

most aspects of our lives technology has made its way into the very fabric of the way we teach our children. The majority of clas...

Security in Schools and Technology

in schools can solve all problems, but that it can be used to benefit schools if used properly: "National School Safety and Securi...

School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and North Carolina's Workforce Development Education Program

15). The activities and emphases on career development becomes a systematic component in students overall school experience (Spect...

Elementary Schools and Outside Resources

across the street from Prospect Park that may be enjoyed as well. Perhaps another day, a trip to the Aquarium is in order which is...