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Creating Curiosity About Math

more data to test this prediction (Hunt for). Specific instructions and materials needed for the lessons described can be download...

Reality Therapy

Institute, 2006). No progress can be made until this relationship is developed (The William Glasser Institute, 2006). Effective p...

Various School Issues

a hierarchical system that pictures four levels of development (Craig 276). The first phase of consciousness describes people who ...

School Counselor Education Programs - Accountability

before one can measure effectiveness, it is crucial to know what it is you want to know (Brott, 2006). In other words, you cannot ...

Inequities in School Funding

income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...

State Funding of Public Education

of its real market value. Therefore, this taxpayer pays $2,000 in taxes or 2 percent of the propertys real value (Brimley and Garf...

Taxation & School Revenue

policy survey conducted by this journal, the editorial then relates how various states are approaching this problem. This shows th...

Motivations for Teaching Adolescents in High-Needs Schools

describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...

School Policies and Suicide

devoted to "Positive Climate and Good Discipline." The tone of the documents is what leads the reader to believe that the welfare ...

Multicultural Students and their special needs

are doing everything in their power to meet the needs of multicultural students. Yet, many still question if there is more that ca...

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

Inclusion Of Special Education Students

meta-analyses report a "small to moderate beneficial effect of inclusion education on the academic and social outcome of special n...

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...

Middle School - Cognitive Development And Technology

Development Institute, 2006). Piaget also noted three fundamental processes that were involved in intellectual growth, assimilat...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

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 ...

Opportunity Costs of College

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

High School Diploma: Tennessee

3 units, states, "All students must complete one of the following: Biology, Biology for Technology, or the equivalent in an integr...

A Lack of Emergency Preparedness in School Districts Today

hours when other activities occur on school grounds. In a nutshell, anyone can just walk in to virtually any school, getting past ...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Usage of Cell Phones in Secondary and Elementary Schools

as such have relented to allowing them on campus, but with strict regulatory policies in place. Many of the arguments against cell...

Healthy Food Access in Food Deserts

problem as it exists in public schools around the country. Of course, there already exists some degree of regulation over what goe...

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...

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...

Magnet School in Raleigh, NC

Wiley reports it was a National Blue Ribbon School 2000-2001 and that is has been honored as a North Carolina School of Excellence...

John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

A School Activity in the Multicultural Setting

by offering Parent Workshops during the school year, which relate directly to math, literacy, and the overall curriculum. These p...

Criminal Recidivism and High School Dropout

to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which pr...

The Variety of Personal Influence

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...