SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Compulsory School Attendance

Essays 211 - 240

High Schools and Later Starting Times

of Sleep Medicine and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, the effects of starting the sch...

Suspension Alternative Program Grant Proposal

zero tolerance policies have instigated. For example, in Fort Myers, Florida, a high school senior, who was also a National Merit ...

For and Against School Choice and Vouchers

is about civil rights (Friel, 2004). One school district that just recently adopted school vouchers was the District of Columbia ...

Proposed School Board Plan for Children Using Computers

In eight pages this paper discusses a school board proposal for the use of computers for all children in a school district regardl...

All About Middle Schools

In five pages this paper examines middle schools in terms of definition, distinction, and comparison of various U.S. middle school...

School Systems in Spain and the United States

Schools in Spain and those in the United States are arranged on a notably different structure. This paper compares and contrasts t...

Creation of Freshman Wings

In eight pages this paper examines ninth grade school transition issues and the impact of freshman wings' creation in schools as a...

Physical Education in Elementary Schools

In eight pages the evolution and continued change of elementary schools' PE programs are examined in terms of their improvements a...

New York Public School Issues According to a Consultant's 1842 Report

In seven pages this paper presents a report to Governor Seward regarding the Public School Society's Catholic issues and discusses...

Film Boyz 'N the Hood and the Chicago School Theory of Social Disorganization

The Chicago school's social disorganization theory is applied to Boyz 'N the Hood in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources...

Supreme Court Ruling on Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F.

In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

Jr. High School Techers, Vital Skills and Understanding

In five pages this paper considers teaching at a middle school or junior high school level in a presentation of a literature revie...

Adolescents and Challenging School Behaviors

students in 2004 from 24% of students in 2003 (MORI, 2004). Bullying and threatening behaviour are increasing and it was found tha...

McAdams and Lambie's Personnel Preparation and Early Childhood Education Study

responding to student aggression. Each participant received a 4-page survey instrument. Forty-seven percent of the surveys were re...

Educational Reform and 4 Relevant Issues

benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...

Argument Against Banning Go Ask Alice

addicted to drugs and turn into a very desperate and psychotic person is what set the world on edge when it was first published. ...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

Statistics on Violence in U.S. Schools

Act. The data re for the school year 1998-1999 and reflect the percentage per 1,000 students. The data is from the U.S. Department...

Childhood Bullies

being the victims(Patterson, 1989). Mostly the victims are those children that are younger, or perceived as weaker in some way. Th...

The Cornish Case and the Right to Free Speech

of the Madison Country Day School to address difficult issues. Ms. Cornish charges that her dismissal has not been based on quant...

School Choice and Politics

encouraged by the Supreme Courts decision on the "appropriateness of public funds" being allocated to private schools (Powers and ...

Proposal for an Elementary School Career Guidance Program

the concept of work into their idea of self and they do this by identifying with an important adult in their lives (Marino, 1998)....

K-12 Issues of School Safety

the issue of who is liable for the safety of children while they are at the school. The schools and school systems examined will b...

School Principal's Role

is management and leadership skills. Finally, the principal must have a strong background in personality development to understand...

Successful Education and Funding

United States we as citizens, however, have come to look to issues such as job security to justify our continued path in a system ...

Effective School Characteristics

by observing principals and teachers. From these rather long lists, an organization or an author will select the most common and p...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...