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Special Education Issues & Policy

with an appropriate education" (Douvanis and Husley). As this definition suggests, in general LRE is interpreted to mean general e...

Teacher Training for the 21st Century

traditional pedagogies are inadequate to meet the needs of the 21st century and that education paradigms that were created in the ...

A College Education or a Job?

in a young persons life: for the first time you will be earning your own living and the importance of this milestone cannot be ove...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

Development of & Importance of School Finance

duty to provide a comprehensive education for all of its citizens. Smith reacted to British mercantilism and its limits on trade, ...

High School Sex Education

In five pages this paper argues that sex education classes should be required of all high school students. Five sources are cited...

Compulsory School Attendance

In ten pages this paper argues in support of education's privatization and away from the policy of mandatory school attendance. S...

Schools Not Color Blind Yet

In spite of all attempts to remove race as a determining factor in American schools, it continues to be a problem. This paper argu...

Books on Young Horses and Schooling

In five pages renowned equestrians Anne Kursinski and George Morris are discussed in a consideration of sport horses and how to tr...

Elementary School and Family Life Education

informing their children about the "birds and the bees" and expected this topic to be covered within the school curriculum (Price,...

High Schools and the Need for Metal Detectors

not been privy to the information, another Columbine might have erupted. This is a case in point. Metal detectors are necessary f...

'The History Book' and School Textbooks on History

One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...

Creativity is Stifled by the Music Curriculum

the subjects that are on the test and drill them into the students so they will perform will on the tests. While this is understan...

Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...

Columbine Shootings and Media Influence

In a paper consisting of six pages it is argued that the media influenced the shootings at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High Sc...

Handicapped Children and Educational Inclusion

This paper addresses the inclusion of disabled children in schools. The author uses the Handicapped Act of 1975 and the American ...

Schools Should Have Comprehensive Sex Education Programs

approach. Last year the forces advocating abstinence-only programs scored a major victory when the federal government passed the f...

Dropouts Among Gifted and At Risk Students

In six pages it is argued that students who are gifted, at risk are more likely to quit school than their peers who are not gifted...

The Necessity of Physical Education

reason physical education programs have taken a decline in the school systems is funding. In large portions of the United States t...

Recessions and Keynesian Economics

this book, Keynes discussed the causes of unemployment and his theories regarding what governments should and should not do in har...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Review of "Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society"

of the group of Detroits new competition. The purpose of the many trips to Japan was to "find out why the Japanese automakers wer...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

Chapter Analysis of The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's classic and best known novel, The Return of the Native, is examined in this 5 page paper. The writer analyzes each ...

Ghetto School Creation, Education Politics, and Public Education

In eight pages this paper examines public policy where it concerns public education social issues with theoretical perspectives on...