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Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

New York's Orange County and Farming

people make a living there. However, about 10.5% of the community lives below the poverty line (2005). Also, it should be noted t...

Adult Literacy and the New York City Public Library

potential" (National Assessments of Adult Literacy n.d.). An individuals literacy level cannot be defined by a single skill, such...

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...

Nike; Computerized Interviewing Process Case Study

personal contact during the initial stages of the application process some applicants may be deterred from following through the a...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Designing School Facilities For Special Education

the speech and language program and that space needs to be as close to the regular classrooms as possible (California Department o...

School Funding in New York State

there are some 2517 elementary schools, 667 middle schools, and 855 high schools (New York State Department of Education, 2012).. ...

Funding for Schools in New York State

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at New York state educational funding. The rationale behind funding decisions and Title...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Teaching in New York High-Need Schools

hire qualified teachers for these difficult schools (Boyd et al., 2008). The findings are somewhat surprising. First, the researc...

Opportunities To Create Value From Explicit Knowledge In A School ITC System

registration process; this record is already used in order to assess patterns of truancy or absenteeism for overall attendance as ...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Post September 11 Elementary Schools in New Jersey

with the family. Of course, the other side of the coin is that this event is the first time--aside from Pearl Harbor--that America...

Evaluating the School Districts in Long Island, New York

on math and science, something all too often discarded by school systems around the nation. While other schools are dumbing down c...

Educational Importance of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

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...

Funding Increases and Increasing the Value of Education

In 5 pages this paper examines the U.S. public school system in an argument that educational value can only be increased through f...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Comparative Analysis of France and United States' Public School Systems

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences between the public school systems found in France and in the United States with...

Public Education Conservatism Implementation

In eight pages this paper discusses how to implement conservatism into the present public school system in a consideration of priv...

Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

This paper consisting of six pages considers the influence John Dewey continues to exert on the system of public schools and on th...

Canada's Private and Public Education

In six pages this paper discusses Canada's public education system and the growing popularity of private and home schooling. Ther...

Public School System in America and Horace Mann

and virtuous work force" (Foner; Garraty PG). When he spoke before audiences that consisted mostly of working class people, he emp...

Public Schools of Detroit

In seven pages the public school system of Detroit is examined within the context of reform proposals made in 1999 and charges of ...

A Case Study of a Special Needs School Component

given attention to this discrepancy noting that the amount and type of homework assigned to special needs students differs from th...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Survey Project, Importance of Creativity

This essay relates the details of a proposed survey study that focuses on the importance of teaching creativity/critical thinking ...

Importance of Value-Based Educational Instruction

This research paper pertains to the significance of values-based instruction within the public school system. Four pages in length...

Immanuel Kant's Perspective on Public School Morality Teaching Teaching

In five pages this report considers how morality can be taught in the public school system by applying the human knowledge theory ...