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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...

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 ...

Motivations for Teaching Adolescents in High-Needs Schools

describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...

American Public Policies

The rate with which healthcare technology has evolved has coupled with demographic changes to result in an extremely taxed system....

Cold War History/Role of Geo-Political Motives

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...

School Prayer & The Lemon Test

505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

Energy Crisis

send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...

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...

State Funding of Public Education

of its real market value. Therefore, this taxpayer pays $2,000 in taxes or 2 percent of the propertys real value (Brimley and Garf...

Taxation & School Revenue

policy survey conducted by this journal, the editorial then relates how various states are approaching this problem. This shows th...

School Counselor Education Programs - Accountability

before one can measure effectiveness, it is crucial to know what it is you want to know (Brott, 2006). In other words, you cannot ...

Various School Issues

a hierarchical system that pictures four levels of development (Craig 276). The first phase of consciousness describes people who ...

Inequities in School Funding

income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...

Organizational Conflict

conflict resolution in order to determine how principals can best adapt to the challenges and expectations of the twenty-first cen...

Indemnity in Insurance

desire to self protect against. As this is a product that is only of value where there is a claim many policies are seen as homoge...

Alcohol Use of Polices Among the Indigenous Population in Australia

(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...

Giuliani Campaign/Immigration

of the McCain-Kennedy bill that is currently being debated. Current status of political controversy concerning immigration Mr. G...

The Controversy of Condom Distribution Programs

opposition believes that abstinence based education is not realistic. Teenagers are having sex and they are either getting pregnan...

School And The Real World

algebra teach us to think analytically and history, as much as most students dislike it, really helps us to become more global and...

Applying to Medical School

had an aptitude for math and science courses that would support my pursuit of a Bachelors of Science degree. As I developed in my...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

School Climate/James P. Comer

through a consensual process, each member of the team feels that they had an input into the decision, whereas the process of votin...

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 ...

Data Security Policies: A Comparison of Three Health Care Facility Policies

any unlawful or inappropriate use. Nor may such use result in "personal financial gain or the benefit of any third party", waste ...

Adequate Progress Brochure

New Jersey Department of Education. (May 2007). Wright, Peter W. D. and Pamela Darr Wright. Use Appendix A as a Tool. (n.d.)....

How And Why Pricing Affects Access

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

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...

Multiculturalism and the Curriculum

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

School Funding With Emphasis On Texas

a good ranking. Texas, like most states, has a number of special grants schools or school districts may apply for. One is the Opt...