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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...

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...

Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

or they ignore the information. This is one of the reasons it is so important to instill that knowledge and those practices in chi...

Middle School and Inclusion of Algebra in the Curriculum

school math curriculum follows a predetermined course sequence, "algebra, geometry, advanced algebra and pre-calculus," students w...

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...

Entrance Letter for Law School

NY, a diverse community that has a large minority population. Freeport is a community that has been negatively affected by drugs ...

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...

School Principal's Role

is management and leadership skills. Finally, the principal must have a strong background in personality development to understand...

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 ...

Effective School Characteristics

by observing principals and teachers. From these rather long lists, an organization or an author will select the most common and p...

Research Proposal on Achievement and School Uniforms

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

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...

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...

Comparison of U.S. Boarding Schools and Local Schools of Hong Kong

at the forefront of the learning curricula even at the preschool and elementary levels. Because household children often subsidiz...

School Choice and Politics

encouraged by the Supreme Courts decision on the "appropriateness of public funds" being allocated to private schools (Powers and ...

Childhood Bullies

being the victims(Patterson, 1989). Mostly the victims are those children that are younger, or perceived as weaker in some way. Th...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

The First Day at Kindergarten

were screaming at the top of their lungs and the sounds the bus made as it came to a stop and then lurched forward were scary. Je...

Argument Against Banning Go Ask Alice

addicted to drugs and turn into a very desperate and psychotic person is what set the world on edge when it was first published. ...

Statistics on Violence in U.S. Schools

Act. The data re for the school year 1998-1999 and reflect the percentage per 1,000 students. The data is from the U.S. Department...

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)....

Teacher Supervision and Effective School Principals

Developing annual budgets and coordinating the use of other resources (Peterson and Kelley, 2001, p. 8). 5. Organizing efforts to ...

Business Department Disbands Prior To Student Completing Studies: Damages

by virtue of the voluntary nature of that agreement. Known as the will theory, its transformation into contemporary society has l...

Special Education - Case Study

a diverse classroom as well as students with learning disabilities. Parent involvement was another issue mentioned. 2. Speak wit...

Web Developer Career Path

creation is central to web development, and it must be visually organized and perform as the site visitor expects. It also must m...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

The Role of a Primary School Teacher

intends" (Kyriacou, 1998). The curriculum for the main part of determined by the government, with targets such the literacy and a ...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...