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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...

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...

Schools, Drugs, Violence, and a Policy of 0 Tolerance

In eight pages this paper examines schools' 0 tolerance with regards to violence and drugs. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...

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...

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...

Research Proposal on Achievement and School Uniforms

investigator controlled for demographics and socio-economic status (Seamon, Schultink and Slocum, 2002). The investigator administ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

School Improvement and Self Assessment

In ten pages this paper considers the strengths and weaknesses of school evaluation as regulated by the Office for Standards in Ed...

Overview of Curriculum Planning in Saudi Arabia

In ten pages an overview of a Saudi Arabia school's process of curriculum planning is evaluated. Eleven sources are cited in the ...

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...

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 ...

Case Study on an Elementary School's Student Assessment Process

learning and performance. The different methods account for students who are better able to demonstrate learning through a project...

HOW TO CHANGE A SCHOOL'S ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Provides an overview of a fictitious school and the methods by which its organizational behavior can be changed. There are 7 sourc...

American Family Changes and the Response of Schools' Changing Role

the child, and this comes through in an essay or a complaint by the student, the school is in immediate contact with social servic...

An Article on Hong Kong Schools' Sex Education Implementation Reviewed

that did not surprise them. It was not surprising because what authors also found is that the Hong Kong education department-altho...

School Violence, Poverty, Racism and the Nation's Schools

as a whole, or toward an individual because he (or she) is a member of that group" (Spencer, 1998, p. 25). By and large, schools ...

School Dress Issues and Public School Uniform Codes

code (Zirkel, 1998). Some parents became so outraged that they actually marched into the school and into specific classrooms and ...

Functionalist and Intentionalist Schools' Applied to the Holocaust

In five pages this paper applies these two differing schools of thought in a consideration of Holocaust causes. Five sources are ...

Public Schools' Constitutional Rights and Religion Court Cases

In five pages the issue of religion in public schools are examined in the case progression of Everson v. Board of Education, Engel...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Elementary Schools' Innovative Programs

In five pages this research paper discusses program innovations for American schools that assist reading, science, and math educat...

Secondary and High Schools' Emergency Plans

In six pages various emergency plans are examined at the secondary and high school levels and include athlete physical examination...

School Choice and School Vouchers' Emerging Views

In twenty pages the emerging views regarding school choice through the use of vouchers that are tax funded are discussed in terms ...

Inclusion Schools' Administration

In five pages inclusion programs the specifically the roles of administrators are discussed particularly as they relate to definin...