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Michael J. Schmoker's "Results Fieldbook Practical Strategies From Dramatically Improved Schools" - Critique

foundation of Schmokers message: place the power with the teachers who serve as a reckoning force when it comes to empowerment, in...

Soldier’s Home/Krebs and Passivity

to indicate how these experiences had changed his internal landscape, and changed a vibrant young man into someone who is both pas...

Administrator Dilemma

university policy that clearly states personal business is not to be conducted upon school computers. Nick had more than enough r...

Strategic Plan for Pedagogical Improvement

The powerful phrase teachers make the difference captures the key role that professional educators play in shaping the lives and f...

Coping Techniques For Parents With Special Needs Children

with such aspects as homework (Patten, 1994; Bryan et al, 2004; Cooper et al, 1994). Reaching the special needs student req...

"Risk Factors For Cardiovascular Disease In Children With Type 1 Diabetes" - Brief Analysis

to occur in someone who has had diabetes for many years" (Federal Citizen Information Center, 2006). Type 1 diabetics walk ...

Negative Impact Television Programs Have Upon Children's Behavior

a social ill that grows worse with each passing generation as children are exposed to cleverly marketed television commercials foc...

Justice In The Labor Market For Women According To Age, Education And Work Experience: Southeast Region Of Puerto Rico

growing and the rate of unemployment falling, male labor force participation dropped by 3 percentage points...In sum, the U.S.-Pue...

Keeping Art In Public Schools

COUPLING Art can help students achieve at a higher level by encouraging them to stretch their minds beyond conventional sta...

Starbucks Organizational Culture

Starbucks changed the lifestyle of Americans. The founder wanted to offer the public a 'third place,' a place between work and hom...

Can Unsuccessful Districts Change

Is there any way to help schools that are seldom successful? It seems that changes are always being made in our public schools yet...

Overweight Youth

The percentages of overweight and obese children and youth is alarming. About 17 percent of American children and adolescents are ...

Flexible Scheduling

Flexible scheduling is one option the human resource practitioner can offer to parents who have children, especially parents who h...

Wartime Trauma

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the presence of PTSD in children. This paper specifically looks at children who ...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

Hungry Children in America

This essay reports statistical data regarding families living below the poverty line and the numbers of children who are food inse...

Young Children And Play: Developing Magical Outdoor Spaces And Healing Gardens

of creating magical outdoor spaces and healing gardens - not the least of which includes Burpee Seed Company and the University of...

The Psychological Impact of Separation from their Parents on Foster Children

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

Advancing Physical And Intellectual Competence In Children

year of life, where infants develop an understanding of the world around them by combining sensory experiences with physical activ...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Four-Blocks Literacy Framework: Literature Review

literate, regardless of which approach is most compatible with their individual learning personalities"...The second basic princip...

Visual Art And Brain Development In Children

Art is such a universally recognized method of this statement that there exist no barriers with regard to interpretation. Infants...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Children Who Lost Parents 9/11

the 9/11 terrorist attacks; that included 100 infants born after the event (Patterson. 2006). Professionals who have worked with ...

Clive Harber/Schooling as Violence

survive attendance. However, at this point, it is easy to dismiss this information as regrettable, but not applicable to most situ...

Gay Couples and the Issue of Adoption

in recent years. More and more frequently our "traditional" families are single parent households or even more unusual tw...

Fear And Anxiety In Children

for anxiety" (The Childrens Center for OCD and Anxiety, 2006; also see National Center for Health and Wellness, 2006). There are m...

Junk Food and Children

Such junk food is apparently readily available in many high schools, perhaps with the understanding that high school students are ...

Job Shadowing: More Frequently And At An Earlier Age

motivating activity designed to give kids the unique opportunity of an up-close look at the world of work and provide the answer t...