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The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

Education and Leadership

full members, 275 planning schools and 558 exploratory schools (AEL, 2000). The major goal of this coalition is to "help create sc...

School Counseling and its Historical Development

(Paisley, 2002). There have been times when school counseling programs have emphasized social, political, or psychological factor...

Eighteenth Century Societal Perspecitves

ignorant -- country heroine. Likewise, Sheridan paints a similar, if more exaggerated picture, of aristocratic arrogance when he s...

School Mascots Debate

has been a debate that has raged for about 30 years (Price 66). The issue is generally over whether names like Braves, Redskins, ...

Social Ecology v. Deep Ecology

18). As this suggests, the central concern of deep ecologists is to encourage the development of a sense of identification with na...

Push Novel by Sapphire and the New York Public School System

this novel is located in the inner city of New York, within Harlem, where the education is not up to the standards of the rest of ...

Online Education and Marketing

Successful completion of the program (and therefore awarding of the degree) requires five weeks of study on Dukes Durham, North Ca...

Overview of Pragmatism

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Los Angeles and Elementary School Education

there were five things that had to be done for Americas school children. He listed providing a child with "a safe place to grow up...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Elementary Classrooms, Technology, and Reading

thinking proficiency, encourage the use of writing skills to communicate with others, and improve research capabilities," says Wal...

Preschool and Kindergarten Best Practice Curriculum

to Schweinhart and Weikart (1990), effective and developmentally appropriate programs for children (they are discussing Head Start...

Reforming Education and Its Barriers

from families, teachers and others before it can implement much of anything, the good ideas end up becoming watered down. Unfortun...

The American Infatuation with Violence

of violence against women due to popular culture and escalating violence throughout Americas school system. "Televisions role in ...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...