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Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

Argument Against Banning Go Ask Alice

addicted to drugs and turn into a very desperate and psychotic person is what set the world on edge when it was first published. ...

Developing a Nutritional Policy for a School In Ireland

major concern as researchers found that overweight and obesity levels are increasing within the adolescent population. In 2002 a l...

U.S., Free Speech, and Engel v. Vitale

prescribing religious devotions; the idea being that by keeping a strict line between religion and state, religious freedom is ens...

Case Study on Problems Associated with School Busing

middle school that is just 4.5 miles away from home. A mother takes the position that the change is not right and that her son or ...

For and Against School Choice and Vouchers

is about civil rights (Friel, 2004). One school district that just recently adopted school vouchers was the District of Columbia ...

NYC Schools and Vouchers

about systemic change" (Domanico, 1993). Their idea was school choice, not vouchers (Domanico, 1993). The difference is that paren...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Proposition for a School iBook Upgrade

time while currently gaining the greatest utility from the hardware it has and is about to acquire. The Mac OS X Server v10...

Four Blocks Literacy Framework Adoption and Change Management

test is administered each May. Boiling Springs has always received a rating of excellent on the school report card. This ended i...

California Schools' Drug Testing, Ethics, and Law

no evidence that suspicion is the case, is not overly approved of. However, there are schools where testing and active security is...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

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 ...

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...

Traditional Schooling v. Home Schooling

In fact, Florida officials reported that the primary reason parents gave for wanting to school their child at home was safety.v ...

Schools, Drugs, Violence, and a Policy of 0 Tolerance

In eight pages this paper examines schools' 0 tolerance with regards to violence and drugs. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...

New York Public School Issues According to a Consultant's 1842 Report

In seven pages this paper presents a report to Governor Seward regarding the Public School Society's Catholic issues and discusses...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

All About Middle Schools

In five pages this paper examines middle schools in terms of definition, distinction, and comparison of various U.S. middle school...

School Systems in Spain and the United States

Schools in Spain and those in the United States are arranged on a notably different structure. This paper compares and contrasts t...

Creation of Freshman Wings

In eight pages this paper examines ninth grade school transition issues and the impact of freshman wings' creation in schools as a...

Reasons the SOA Should be Closed Down

In eight pages this paper examines why it is essential to close down the School for the Americas, a.k.a., School of the Assassins....

Proposed School Board Plan for Children Using Computers

In eight pages this paper discusses a school board proposal for the use of computers for all children in a school district regardl...

History of Public Schools

In six pages this paper discusses U.S. public schools in a historical overview that dates back to the 1642 School Ordinance of Mas...

Gunmen at Columbine High School and the Media's Influence

In six pages this paper presents the argument that media in the forms of music and cinema strongly influenced the Columbine High S...

Architecture of Cathedral Schools

In seven pages this essay discusses how cultural values are represented in Cathedral schools' architecture. Around seven sources ...

Modern Criminology Theorists and Positive Thought

In twelve pages this paper discusses modern criminology principles and the Italian school's positive thought. Eleven sources are ...

Increasing Problem of Violence in Schools

In twelve pages this paper discusses the problem of increased violence in schools in a consideration of theories and shared blame ...

Chicago and School Dress Code Effectiveness

In six pages this paper assesses the pros and cons of dress codes in school with schools in Chicago being the primary focus. Four...