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Diane Levin's Teaching Young Children in Violent Times

and to feel safe" (Corby). After addressing the impact of violence on children, Levin describes how to build a peaceful classroo...

Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?

(Loan Shark, n.d.). There are two distinctions here that clearly separate payday loan businesses from loan sharks. The fir...

TQM's Applications

different areas of the same company. TQM in manufacturing will be aligned with some of the same elements as it is in the service s...

'Jump Start' Grant Proposal

the federal governments Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP). The Nike Foundation has agreed to provide a porti...

English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities and One School Setting

population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...

Encountering God and Diane Eck's Unconvincing Argument

carried through in any short amount of time; in fact, each step forward toward a modicum of religious harmony is often met with a ...

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...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

Public Education and Religion

Court in the ruling of Santa Fe v. Doe in 2000: ""School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible because it sends the ...

Positive and Negative Aspects of Homeschooling

school goes bad as in the Andrea Yates case and when it is good as it produces early scholarship winners. Most homeschooling is do...

Reading Instruction and Phonics

in fact, taught to read using phonics. They just misassociate the term with some new social movement or some other great mystery ...

School Safety following Columbine A Research Proposal

do harm if they want to. Columbine is a good case study to use in examining this issue. The Columbine massacre entailed the juve...

Opposition to School Vouchers

Phi Delta Kappa in the summer of 1996 claimed that about 60 percent of the people polled said that students should not be able to ...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

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...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Overview of School Governance in California

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

A Case Study of a Special Needs School Component

given attention to this discrepancy noting that the amount and type of homework assigned to special needs students differs from th...

Educational Importance of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

Nashville, Tennessee and Sudanese Refugee Children Immunization

Southern Sudanese are much less likely to be Islamic, and they are more likely to have much darker skin. "The war pits the Arab/M...

California School District Budget Proposal

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

Crime Perspectives and the Influence of Public Images

argument and the response by Janet Chan. First, a number of different social theories have been applied to an understand of crime...

Contrasting and Comparing Theories of Public Education

to those in public schools, but the testing does not always bear this out. From a study of Giarellis chapter, it seems likely tha...

The Five Major Principles of the Canadian Health Act of 1984

the CHA. For example, in the western province of Alberta, Premier Ralph Klein has dealt wit the decline in federal funds by author...

2004 Visual Arts Carnival

it is used in art and applied to art works. Basically, the carnival was broken into four different areas of exploration fo...

Funding Increases and Increasing the Value of Education

In 5 pages this paper examines the U.S. public school system in an argument that educational value can only be increased through f...

Attendance Policies for High Schools

In seven pages this paper concentrates on high school students who are considered at risk and various issues and problems involvin...

Should Schools Allow Spanking?

Once a staple along with eraser dust and gym class, corporal punishment has fallen into disfavor in public schools. This paper exa...

World Wrestling Federation's Business Side

In ten pages this paper discusses the business of the WWF and considers its impact on Wall Street since going public in 1999 and h...