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OBESITY PROGRAMS: ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT

by 5% each week. Longer-term goals focus on reductions in absenteeism and illness which, in turn, will lead to a reduction in insu...

Childhood Obesity and the Role of the School System

systems around the nation began to report BMI on report cards. The BMI or body mass index is a calculation involving height and we...

Charter Schools and Vouchers: Assessing the Value

United States around the end of the 20th century, as something of a middle ground in the traditional dichotomy of public and priva...

Violence in Schools

This paper discusses the most prevalent violence in schools - bullying. Data are reported. Categories and venues of bullying are d...

Educating Nurses on the Importance of Clean Scissors

and cleaning as a subject for education the need goes beyond the common sense approach. The recognition of the importance indicate...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

An Evaluation of the DARE Program

a life of its own and become common fare for school children for decades to come. The program was initially designed for fifth an...

School Leadership And Student Achievement

having excellent personal interaction skills, skilled in change management and a person who is capable of establishing a nurturing...

The Use of Anabolic Steroids Among High School Students

the necessity of these models. Are mandatory testing programs effective? Before embarking on a review of the literature in terms...

Achievement Gap Among Students

attachment, and school climate each has an impact on student achievement (Stewart, 2007). Research that investigates these types o...

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...

Gaining Weight for the Young Athlete

nutritious meals per day. Sepe (2006) explains that the meals should be balanced between carbohydrate, protein and fat. He explain...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

The Rockland County Mounted Patrol Program (Critical Analysis)

it into a full time unit (Fine, 2001). Today, the mounted unit does a number of things in addition to serving to enhance public r...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Responding to a Student's Parent on Celebrating Diversity in People and Cultures in the Classroom

given holiday/celebration, but rather enhance its importance by comparing it with the way in which other nationalities celebrate t...

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...

Grief Counseling in High Schools

influenced by a variety of factors, such as family and cultural background, life experiences and environmental influences. Noppe a...

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School Marketing

outside the boundaries of the United States, and certainly outside the boundaries of Maine. At present, the Hurricane Islan...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

2004 Visual Arts Carnival

it is used in art and applied to art works. Basically, the carnival was broken into four different areas of exploration fo...

A Case Study of Spanish-Speaking Student Populations

teachers teach certain populations. The purpose of this study is to provide insight to teachers of multilingual classrooms. Godin...

Education and Virtual Reality

We now have another way to gain knowledge of the world, through virtual reality (Winn, 1993). Immersion in a virtual world allows ...

Private Company's Educational Excellence Tutoring Program Plan

cross-functional, integrated, self-managed project team which: 1. Maximizes individual contributions to the group (Gautschi, 1998;...

Welfare to Work Program and Family Literacy

work, he or she is expected to work. It also means that if welfare recipients are capable of working, but need education or traini...

Overview of School Governance in California

materials. The California School Boards Association adopted Professional Governance Standards in 2000 (CSBA, Professional, 2003)...

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

Evaluating a Program on Special Education

important questions be asked. For instance, he asks a specific question in respect to an example provided: "How well are students ...

Middle School Curriculum Addition of Spanish Proposal

million people, 75 percent of whom speak Spanish (IMAC, 2005). Spanish is spoken by almost 400 million people in the world (IMAC, ...

Community Programs and Juvenile Delinquency

do acknowledge that targeted community-based programs can help by offering troubled youth a place to hang out, go to in event of f...