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School Leadership And Student Achievement

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

California’s Emergency Response Plan

the state from the federal level (OES mission statement, 2007). In order to accomplish this mission, OES uses various programs a...

After-School Programs

providing encouragement and praise, reinforcing expectations consistently, and handling broken ground rules in a firm but not hars...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

Sugar in Schools

fruit cocktails at lunch, or snacks with lunch such as cookies or cake. In the end one can well argue that sugar should be banned ...

Plan For Building School, Parent, Community Partnership

for the grade level (Epstein, 1995). * Parent conferences are held twice each year at this school. The process will change to req...

School Counseling

with "relatively well-adjusted" individuals (Hood and Johnson 213). It measures "everyday characteristics," such as "soci-ability,...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

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...

School Revenue Issues

educational goals and objectives continue to increase; 2. communities are constantly demanding more and better services from the s...

School Counseling And Student Achievement

school counseling program would improve achievement (Brown and Trusty, 2005). As an example of strategic intervention, the author...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

Student Achievement/Achieving AYP

leadership providing "mapped, prioritized standards," which are then implemented with five general categories, which are: 1. Rese...

Home Schooling: Requirements

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the requirements for home schooling concerning independent home schooling and church h...

Successful Efforts in Secondary Education

School improvement efforts for all grade levels is not a new idea. The most recent push was in the mid-1990s. We are all familiar ...

Inclusionary Housing Policy

inclusionary housings value to the local community. New Construction and Revitalization In their introduction to Presence: ...

The Transformation of Ballot Initiatives In California

16 pages and 13 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of ballot initiatives in California. This paper s...

The Law and Doctor-Patient Sexual Contact in California

directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitation (Anderson, 2000), which is part of 42 C.F.R. ? 100...

Educational System and TBI

functioning, cognition, sensory-motor processing, attention and memory (2003). It may further affect speech and language and somet...

US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...

Law Enforcement ans SROs

(20%). So serious is the nature of this high exposure to law enforcement that nearly all SRO pack a weapon while in the mode of s...

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...

Contemporary Psychology and Various Schools of Thought

In one page this paper examines forensic psychology and other current schools of thought in this contemporary psychology overview....

Overview and Analysis of School Social Work

work closely with schools and community groups to promote understanding and communication. In Boston, the Womens Education Associa...

Middle School Differentiated Instruction

that emphasized low-level thinking instead of challenges (Shorey et al, 2004). Differentiated instruction takes into consideration...

Positive and Negative Aspects of Homeschooling

school goes bad as in the Andrea Yates case and when it is good as it produces early scholarship winners. Most homeschooling is do...

Social Violence

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Integrating the Theories of Blau, Blumer, and Mead

1930s (Abbott, 1997). One of the major influences within the Chicago School was George Herbert Mead of the Chicago philosophy depa...

FERPA of 1974

educational records (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2001). Once the student reaches the age of 18, the rights under this Act tra...