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Media Ethics Case Study Analysis

A case study in media ethics by Wilkins (2009) provides information about the Columbine shooting and media coverage. When there wa...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

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...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

High School Exit Examin in California

In a paper consisting of five pages 1999's California Public School's Accountability Act is examined particularly in terms of its ...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

Planning and the External Environment

met. To consider the way planning takes place at all levels the process itself and the approaches can be examined. Mintzberg (et...

Media Bias: Impact

Research Center, 2004). Nearly as many Americans agree how media outlets are "biased in favor of one of the two parties as say th...

Counselor Becomes a Hostage

It seems like we hear about gunman randomly shooting people all the time. This type of event has happened at too many schools with...

Mass Media and Its Influence

explore the immense power that the mass media holds over the publics opinions and views and examine its ability to shape and influ...

Australia and the Mass Media

In six pages this paper examines the public community role played by the media in this consideration of Australia's World Economic...

Mass Media and Improvements in Communication

The writer discusses modern media and its pervasive influence throughout people's lives. The writer also discusses the fact that t...

High Profile Criminal Cases and the Influence of the Media

be true of this case, but the danger of an overzealous media is that it turns the public into heroes. Perhaps not wanting to be em...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

The Haunting Legacy of Columbine

The Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado galvanized the nation as few other events had before 9/11. This paper discusses the ...

A Ghana Dissident Teacher 20 Years After Convention People's Party Membership

and time again that social revolutions or movements of popular protest often begin innocuously. "They are initially preoccupied wi...

Investigation of Crime Theories

In eight pages various theoretical perspectives are applied to the Columbine school shooting with an article written by James Gord...

Political Socialization and Its Major Agents

mass media, school and peers are "major agents of political socialization." Family Lundblad (2004) describes two of her "de...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

Hispanics, High Dropout Rates, and Influential Factors

In eight pages Hispanics are examined within the context of their high rates of dropping out of high school with sociocultural and...

Reducing High School Dropout Rates in North Toledo

poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Niche Businesses and Effective Social Media Marketing

sells instructive courses in building log cabins for personal dwellings or for profit. This being a niche area of business, obviou...

Anne Moody's 1968 Memoir

Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...

Motivations for Teaching Adolescents in High-Needs Schools

describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...

School Prayer & The Lemon Test

505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...