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Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

Inclusion and Educational Leadership

University of Melbourne). In fact, McCrea and Ehrich commented that educational leaders are faced with ethical and moral dilemmas ...

Public School Libraries and the Impact of Computers

good, sound education is for the librarian to gain the students interested in the lesson plan; while some are inherently good lear...

Longer High School Day's Positive and Negative Aspects

That said, the 9 to 5 model is rather old. At the same time, students are not used to being in school for that long a time and add...

High School Incorporation of Programs on Anger Management

leaving much of the population stranded educationally and economically. Since working at the local mill has always been the way ...

Affirmative Action in Academic Institutions in California

academic affirmative actions programs in allowing affirmative action to be part of the enrollment process. While there is no ques...

Educational Supervision vs. Administration

in the clinical supervision model to help teachers improve their instructional skills. Clinical supervision in this case is the ...

Controversy Over Schools Being Open All Year

15 days of vacation. * The 60/20 plan. The year is divided into three equal groups, with 60 school days followed by 20 days of va...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

Case Study of Dell Ventures

develop and respond in a more effective manner to the changing needs of the consumers. This enables Dell to control the entire val...

Chaos Theory, the Analytical Positioning School, and a Hong Kong Securities Company

by Hatten and Schendel Mintzberg took the analytical school further. The formation of this school is one where there is a foundati...

Social Violence

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

Japanese Schools, Violence, and Bullying

defining the roles they are expected to play as adults. Bullied students who suffer from tokokyohi complain of debilitating fatig...

Urban Schools and Lack of Quality Educators

have emergency teaching certificates (NASBE, 2002). Consider these data: * Urban schools are twice as likely to hire unlicensed or...

Competition Through Neoclassical and Austrian Economic Views

investment may be in the form of additional education or training that is ultimately intended to increase productivity and persona...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

High School Athletics and Steroids

approaches. The growing field of sports psychology offers us this opportunity. Sports psychology can be used to more effectively...

Public Schools and Sex Education

15- to 17-year-old girls have partners three to five years older, and 7% have partners six or more years older (Anonymous, 2002)....

Mold Growth and Environmental Conditions

people will make sandwiches and not realize that mold is present. Therefore, in exploring the toxic of mold growth, bread will be ...

Benefits of Having a School Nurse

It is the responsibility of the school nurse to make sure childrens bodies are healthy so that their minds can be properly nurture...

Dabhol, India Enron Project

the development of the local economy and create jobs (Vachani, 1995). If we look at the situation in India, there is a need for m...

Teh Beginning of Operant Conditioning

Skinner's legacy is reinforcement. This theory has been applied in learning settings, such as schools, and also in counseling and ...

Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me

This book review pertains to Jean M. Twenge's text Generation Me, which is a study of the differences between the attitudes and se...

Operant Conditiioning in Learning

Skinner believed that we are what we do and he also believed that we can change what we do for the better. The key to his theory a...

Dramatic Changes in One District

One school district in a very remote and isolated area needed to change dramatically. They were in crisis. This paper describes ho...

An Article Critique, Duane and Satre (2014)

This paper presents an article critique of Duane and Satre (2014), which describes the implementation of a collaborative testing m...

Helping Culturally Different Students

How can educators help immigrant students to succeed in school? This essay reports the key points from a journal article that disc...