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Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

High School Strategic Plan

the system. Solutions of course are to enlarge the building and hire more teachers, but in order to do this, the money has to be t...

The Dilemma of School Honor Code and Professional Ethics

student who is aware that a fellow student has lied on a questionnaire administered in a blood drive. The intent of the questionn...

Hiring Process and Why Transcripts from High School Should Not be Used

they are minors, unaware of the ramifications of their actions and are likely to make mistakes. Most children at one time or anot...

Harvard Business School Case Study on the Rohm and Haas Chemical Company

One main product introduced by Rohm and Haas was known as the biocide Kathon886 MW (K886), a liquid that was a primary maintenance...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Elementary Schools and Outside Resources

across the street from Prospect Park that may be enjoyed as well. Perhaps another day, a trip to the Aquarium is in order which is...

Social Issues and Impacts Upon Schools and Families of Young Children

more of a culturally mixed country we see more and more religious diversity, further confusing the matter for young children. Now,...

State Control and Schools

have been both limited and ineffective; the combative environment that is inherent to urban areas precludes students of color from...

Low Income Schools and Technological Restraints

most aspects of our lives technology has made its way into the very fabric of the way we teach our children. The majority of clas...

Security in Schools and Technology

in schools can solve all problems, but that it can be used to benefit schools if used properly: "National School Safety and Securi...

School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and North Carolina's Workforce Development Education Program

15). The activities and emphases on career development becomes a systematic component in students overall school experience (Spect...

School Violence Prevention and Profiling Controversy

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

Deviant Subcultures and the Chicago School of Sociologists

certain vulnerabilities in the species, good is overridden by the desire for something which is bad. This was a major contribut...

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...

Work or Graduate School?

scholarship may be gained for some or all of the education costs. On top of this there are also the lost wages whilst at graduate ...

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 ...

Schools and the Value of Knowledge

school the least stressful (Mangione and Speth, 1998). Children do much better in their studies when they have achieved a smooth t...

High School and College Similarities and Differences

supplies them with the twofold instruction individuals need at this very formative period in their lives. By comparison, college ...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Schools of Thought Regarding Strategic Planning

achieving the proper fit between the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats (Mintzberg and L...

Intern Programs for School Principals

identified nine essential tasks of the principal: Purposing, Institutionalizing values, Maintaining harmony, Managing, Motivating,...

What Schools Are For by John I. Goodlad

administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...

Lack of Planning Time for Middle School Teachers

between and among teachers (The National Forum to Accelerate Middle School Reform, nd). It is a given that teachers will offer a s...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

Instances of Abuse in The Mushkegowuk Cree of Fort Albany, Ontario and Canada's Aboriginal Residential Schools

only be accused of hundreds of cases of physical and sexual abuse but was also known for its use of a home-made electric chair wit...

Schools and Technology Uses and Misuses

Continued advancements in technology have fundamentally changed the way we work and live. Todays educators have unlimited opportun...

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...

Balancing Act of Having a Job and Returning to School

classes from which to choose (Burden, 1995). There are also such places of higher learning such as the University of Phoenix "tha...