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Programs to Prevent School Dropouts

In twenty four pages this paper examines programs designed to prevent dropping out of school with the importance of self esteem co...

High School Dropout Prevention

not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. ...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Program Proposal on School Violence Prevention

an end to these violent episodes? One of the most logical deductions is that of the new-fangled child rearing practices tha...

Reducing High School Dropout Rates in North Toledo

poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

PhD Admission Essay

rate throughout the country and have been active in Texas for some time ($130 Million Committed, 2003). Texas is one state that f...

Reducing High School Dropout Statistics by Applying Title I Social Welfare Policy

In fifteen pages this paper examines how the rates of high school dropouts can be reduced through the Title I program. Nine sourc...

New Principal Mentoring

In five pages this paper examines mentoring programs for school principals and their objectives Seven sources are cited in the bi...

Taking on Hepatitis B in a Philadelphia High School

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

After-School Programs

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

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH

average dropout rate for Ohio high schools during the 2000-01 school year was 3.9 percent (Balistreri). On average, however, highe...

Human Services in Charlotte, NC

(Curtis, 2007). The League also runs four other philanthropic programs, which try to provide what these children need, "from tutor...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

School Safety following Columbine A Research Proposal

do harm if they want to. Columbine is a good case study to use in examining this issue. The Columbine massacre entailed the juve...

The Rockland County Mounted Patrol Program (Critical Analysis)

it into a full time unit (Fine, 2001). Today, the mounted unit does a number of things in addition to serving to enhance public r...

Overview of San Diego's Project 'Jump Start'

enter for up to a full year. Because obesity is a family problem as well as one of society, project Jump Start has the potential ...

Terrorist Attack School Preparedness Evaluated

phone numbers for that person as well as for each member of the family (The American National Red Cross, nd). The second step is...

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 ...

Safety, Social Problems, Risk and Vulnerability

The relationship among these various concepts in the human search for safety is considered in six pages with the consumption of al...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

Causal Factors of School Dropout Rates

In seven pages this study provides a literature review on school rates of dropout and how to predict and determine causal factors....

Gender and Cultural Differences Regarding Dropout Rates

In five pages the influences of culture and gender regarding school dropout rates are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibl...

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...

School and Student Retention

In eight pages this paper examines student dropout rates and the problem of U.S. school retention. Eight sources are cited in the...

African-Americans and Recidivism Rates

(Taylor, 2009). Most of the prisoners are from poor backgrounds and most have little education (Taylor, 2009). There are seven tim...

Evaluating a Study on Why There Are So Many Ballou High School Dropouts

public school population, have the highest number of high school graduates (316,124), the District of Columbia, with the smallest ...