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School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

Being Cut from a High School Basketball Team Did Not Deter Michael Jordan

on any team in their childhood, and Jordan was a clear exception to that rule (Green, 2006). Jordan recalls that he could not rea...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

5 Questions on Problems Facing a School Principal

teacher needs to be more concerned about the possibility of legal entanglements arising from striking a student. Even though the ...

Responding to a Student's Parent on Celebrating Diversity in People and Cultures in the Classroom

given holiday/celebration, but rather enhance its importance by comparing it with the way in which other nationalities celebrate t...

Definitions and Questions on Public Education Finance

those offering service jobs in the local area - we all appreciate dealing with cashiers who are able to count out the right change...

Correlation Between High School Students with Poor Attendance and Academic Difficulties

Statistics showed that generally large school systems in low-income, inner-city urban school districts have a high incident of abs...

Public School Safety, Health, and Nutrition

a sense that the children are cognizant of weight issues. The Principal, Dr. Meyer claims that the parents at this school have b...

Legality of Searching Public Schools at Random

in-hand information. The second level addresses the reasonableness of the search itself and the methods used to conduct the search...

Educational Philosophy

upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...

SCHOOLS OF MANAGEMENT AND THEIR CONFLICTS

Management and its methods might seem fairly straightforward on the surface. However, throughout much of the 20th century, a varie...

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the Concept of Leadership

Rico hails from a privileged background, and Heinlein makes it clear that only through Johnnies military indoctrination in Officer...

Bullying: An Article Analysis

jails and violent inmates. But violence of a different kind is becoming distressingly prevalent in society: bullying. This paper a...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

The Potential for Robots in Schools

robot as "A robot is a reprogramable multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices, ...

Psychological Well-Being and Islam

The sawm, the fourth pillar, is an annual fast that is held during the month of Ramadan. Again, communal identity is strengthened...

High-Need Schools, a Challenge for Teachers

a passion that they want to share it; at least the best teachers feel this way. Whether its math, English, physics, computers, the...

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...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

Argument Against Affirmative Action State and Federal Government Policy

the recent Supreme Court of the United States ruling that "upheld the right of universities to consider race in admissions procedu...

Home Schooling Benefits

The normal curriculum does not provide them with the needed stimulation to continue actively learning. Other children are small f...

School Nurses and the Usefulness of Jean Watson's Nursing Paradigm

no education. Children were left to their own devices to discover the intimacies of one of the most personal activities of human ...

John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

A Personal Narrative on Moving

in just a week and I didnt know anyone - no teachers, no other kids, no one. My fear turned into resentment as I focused my panic...

High School Language, Direct Learning, and Cooperative Learning Approaches

occurs in practically all human relations. It occurs between married couples, between college students, even between children. I...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Leadership Characteristics According to James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

are they afraid of difficult situations. They learn from these. Effective leaders are first to adopt innovations. Leaders step bac...

Role of Counselors in Inner City School Guidance Counseling

a perennial shortfall in state aid resulted in the reductions in guidance counselors at the same time that an increase in services...

Whites v. Blacks and Dropout Rate Disproportionment

2005). Despite the changes in college attendance levels noted above, black males are much less likely to graduate from co...