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America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Public Schools and Sex Education

15- to 17-year-old girls have partners three to five years older, and 7% have partners six or more years older (Anonymous, 2002)....

School Year Student Time Saving Resources

in their performance on reading tasks, comprehension and writing efforts. Citation materials are also available on the WEB and ...

Teaching Strategies and Dyslexia

found that this genetic condition is also hereditary (Reilly, 2001). Numerous other researchers have also noted the difficulties w...

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

Elementary Classrooms and Bilingual Education

been linguistically successful (Safty, 1992). Eventually, and with exposure to French, the bilingual programs became known as Fren...

California School District Budget Proposal

students); and three grade 6 classrooms (78 students). The professional staff includes one principal, one part-time assistant pr...

Promiscuity and Sex Education Proposal

sexual intercourse with more than one partner. 4. Diagram Design and Describe Method All students will respond to a questionnair...

School and University Partnerships and Physical Education

showers can be very traumatic for these youngsters (Temple University, n.d.). This ties in with their psychological and social dev...

Overview of School Governance in California

materials. The California School Boards Association adopted Professional Governance Standards in 2000 (CSBA, Professional, 2003)...

New York City's Public School System and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Freires (2000) point is found within the depths of female social oppression found in the New York City public school system, a com...

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 ...

Entrance Essay

are a number of circumstances in my life that have come together and have defined this as a good time to start an MBA program. In...

Key Elements of Maryland v. Bradford

in Hornbeck v. Somerset Co. Bd. of Educ., rejected an equity challenge to the states education finance system (ACCESS, 2004). The ...

Developing a Personal Education Philosophy

the standards movement. This "default" philosophy emerges from a behaviorist, positivists background that places great emphasis...

Student Appeal of the Harvard School of Medicine

many of the emerging areas of biomedical research. Harvard School of Medicine is also a well-recognized school with a reputation ...

Charter School Rates of Attrition and Paper Introduction

which appear to be much higher in charter schools. These two central concepts are discussed at length in the current literature....

School MIS Study Outline

How effectively the system is being used. 6. Make recommendations for improvements to the system, where appropriate. 7. Identify, ...

Etiology of School Age Children's Seizure Disorder

developing epilepsy; the changes increases to three percent at seventy-five years of age. The typical nature of epilepsy is to st...

Education Concepts of John Locke

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

A Review of Special Education Training Literature and Funding Issues

throughput funding (based on tasks that need to be developed, and focusing more on services in a school) and output funding, which...

A Consideration of Alternative Dispute Resolution

parties to decide what the resolution of the dispute will be; mediation is a form of negotiation (Marcellino, 2004). Arbitration...

Large Organizations and Whether or Not Bureaucracies Can Be Replaced by Team Structures

When looking at whether team based structures can take over from the bureaucratic structures we need to consider how these newer b...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Definitions and Questions on Public Education Finance

those offering service jobs in the local area - we all appreciate dealing with cashiers who are able to count out the right change...

Elementary Schools Improvement

essential skill. Recognizing this, the Maryland state legislature allocated $12 million over a four year period to improve that s...

Malta's Religious Education and the Role of Prayer

under the age of 18 pose specific ethical issues regarding aspects of consent and reliability (Streib, 2002, McKinney et al, 1999)...

School Financing in California

(Walter and Sweetland, 2003). Poorer districts might receive less moneys per student than richer districts on the basis of their ...

Education and School Changes Since the 1960s

schools are well integrated with different races. However, it seems that as the decades have gone by and economic divisions have r...

Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

be incorporated into the formal complaint; if additional problems arise after this point, they will not be included unless they ar...