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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...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

The School Bully Analyzed

often bullied in their profession. This is true even through one might think that to be unlikely. Nurses are generally perceived a...

Longer High School Day's Positive and Negative Aspects

That said, the 9 to 5 model is rather old. At the same time, students are not used to being in school for that long a time and add...

High School Incorporation of Programs on Anger Management

leaving much of the population stranded educationally and economically. Since working at the local mill has always been the way ...

A Brief History of Cubism

first example of Cubism. The portrait of five nudes assembled around a fruit arrangement is truly a mind-boggling combination of ...

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...

Issues Pertaining to School Leadership Effectiveness

name = 4.3 * Principal has eye contact with teacher = 4.0 * Principal demonstrates caring attitude = 3.78 * Principal interacts wi...

Public Schools and Character Education

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

Bauhaus School of Design and 'Craft'

his belief that a distinction between "art" and "craft" was essentially counterproductive. Therefore, art had to be considered in ...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Metropolitan Kansas City and School Inequality

time being pressured by political agendas. The role of teacher encompasses myriad elements that are critical to the overall...

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 ...

Williams Syndrome in Children, Problematic Behavior, and Pain Management

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

Disaster at Floreffe, PA's Ashland Oil Company

until the leaks had been plugged. A crisis management team was formed at the company headquarters in Ashland, Kentucky, and plans ...

School Violence in Russia, China, and the US in Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

for the unleashing of such aggressions, are often a "source of criticism and rejection" (De Wolfe et al, 1995, p. 315) where child...

Exclusion, Suspension, and Effective Management of Behavior

In seven pages schools and their student management are examined in terms of the roles of suspension and exclusion with the advant...

Turnover of Employees and Contribution of Management

Years of tradition dictate that employees will work harder and more productively just for the promise of higher pay. Practice and...

Ineffectiveness of Zero Tolerance School Violence Policies

toward school violence, rather than helping the situation, appear to have altered a beneficial trend. In fact, incidences of serio...

Implementation of the Perkins Educational Grant

educational achievement, such as limited proficiency in English (California Department of Education (b), 2004). When it co...

Mainstreaming and Schools for the Deaf

inclusive educational practices. Their concerns are forged out of their struggles to get appropriate educational services for thei...

Improving Schools from Within by Barth

being perceived as lacking in competence if they admit to a lack of knowledge regarding new skills and practices, but are then sub...

Case Study Analysis of the Wheatfield School District

connecting the elementary schools to the wide area network (WAN); providing email and Internet capabilities to all teachers and st...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

Schools That Are Failing and How to Fix Them

better. In a study, voucher students had been compared with public school pupils and it was found that those who had the vouchers ...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...