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Public Education and the Impact of School Vouchers

beneficial members of a civilized society. While this notion is easy enough to understand, reaching that objective through such p...

Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?

(Loan Shark, n.d.). There are two distinctions here that clearly separate payday loan businesses from loan sharks. The fir...

Internet Censorship and Schools

get around filtering programs by proxy tunneling and this strategy must be taken into account and blocked (Losinski, 2007). On the...

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...

Fire Prevention and Public Education

by a ratio of 3:1 ("Fires"). With the past five years these statistics as these are easily accessible on the Internet and can be ...

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)....

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...

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...

Opposition to School Vouchers

Phi Delta Kappa in the summer of 1996 claimed that about 60 percent of the people polled said that students should not be able to ...

Which is Best, Public or Private Schools

way to receive a strong education is either through a privately funded school or even home schooling. Williams, who is a 1...

Opposing Prayer as a Public School Practice

conscious of the inevitable conflict between religion and the state. For that reason, they endeavored to keep the two as separate...

Educational Management Business Model

model was the decentralized version that was child-centered proposed by progressives (Gelburg, 1997). Both models were based on ma...

Legislation Regarding Religion in Public Schools

that their religion is consistently under attack (Hickey, 2003). For that reason, Burch notes, religion in public schools, as well...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

home for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The clause, "Congr...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Comparative Analysis of France and United States' Public School Systems

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between the public school systems found in France and in the United States with...

Elementary Style Educatonal Censorship

While the list of individual books under attack continues to grow, recent protests - often orchestrated by national conservative g...

Should Schools Allow Spanking?

Once a staple along with eraser dust and gym class, corporal punishment has fallen into disfavor in public schools. This paper exa...

Prayer at High School Football Games

In six pages the Supreme Court's decision to prohibit high school students leading public prayer prior to football games is examin...

Relationship Between Communities and Public Schools

felt, should be more like factories and "turn out" a reliable product, that is, a worker ready to fit like a cog into Americas gro...

Nashville, Tennessee and Sudanese Refugee Children Immunization

Southern Sudanese are much less likely to be Islamic, and they are more likely to have much darker skin. "The war pits the Arab/M...

Educational Importance of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

New York City's Public School System and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Freires (2000) point is found within the depths of female social oppression found in the New York City public school system, a com...

Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

This paper consisting of six pages considers the influence John Dewey continues to exert on the system of public schools and on th...

America's Schoolchildren and Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities

In five pages this paper discusses the argument the author makes within the context of inequities in U.S. public school funding. ...