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Student Discipline Case Study

is the type of incident that leads to a safety issue for Liz and the other students. Other students report that Liz usually either...

District Professional Development Plans

the teachers themselves to assess the plan. As this suggests, the plan is accessible to the teachers in this district and open to ...

Political Socialization and Its Major Agents

mass media, school and peers are "major agents of political socialization." Family Lundblad (2004) describes two of her "de...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

Color Perceptions from Cultural and Scientific Perspectives

Underneath those cell layers is a layer of brown melanin (Raxworthy, 2002). By opening and closing their melanophores, a term use...

Legislation Regarding Religion in Public Schools

that their religion is consistently under attack (Hickey, 2003). For that reason, Burch notes, religion in public schools, as well...

Contemporary Psychology and Various Schools of Thought

In one page this paper examines forensic psychology and other current schools of thought in this contemporary psychology overview....

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

High School Libraries and Book Banning

their buildings. They fear that students will imitate some of the things in the book. At least, whenever a violent incident happen...

RV Travel, the Retirees, and American Culture

is a relatively expensive endeavor as RVs do not get great gas mileage. In addition, their RV is not often their home. It is their...

Article Review on School Restructuring Concepts

is good, but that there is not one particular solution to the problem. In some way, this is one way of not taking a particular pos...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

Interpreting For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

fresh in the minds of many leaders, this work takes on many topics. One man struggles with his political ideals but in the process...

Conservative Muslim Women and the Difficulties Encountered When Living in Western Countries

and those who resist equality are vilified. In a culture where gender is a key determinant of the role in society equality is not ...

Comparative Cultural Analysis of American TV Series' Friends and Three's Company

Company to the top of the Nielsen ratings. Its premise was simple - Jack Tripper needed a cheap place to live while completing hi...

Contemporary Western Culture and Humanities

deal of power into one ruler (or, at the very least, a collection of rulers who wont end up fighting among themselves)....

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

Cultural Diversity Honoring in Changing Classrooms

backgrounds and honored each for its individuality and uniqueness. Now imagine how these students might feel if they went from t...

Stating a Case Opposing School Uniforms

disbands that added pressure on students. There are so many good arguments for requiring school uniforms. At the same time, the...

Cultural Differences Between Tehran, Iran and Los Angeles, CA

three hours would be almost laughable in Los Angeles - and if a person doesnt like food (or is too full), there is little hesitati...

Homeless Youth and Special Schools

n.d.). The National Coalition for the Homeless also reported two studies that concluded "mainstream schools are better able to me...

Leslie Marmon Silko

notes, "Silko reveals that living in Laguna society as a mixed blood from a prominent family caused her a lot of pain. It meant b...

School Districts and the Use of Appreciative Inquiry Intervention

The student has been asked to recommend a particular organizational development (OD) intervention to help turn the districts cultu...

Leadership of School Specialty Inc.

ITEM02209001). One of Spaldings strategies was to acquire "competitors and then [integrate] them quickly to build School Specialty...

Spanish, Inca, and Aztec Cultural Similarities and Differences

reality, however, the Inca and the Aztec viewed themselves superior to the Spanish and even to the other Native American cultures ...

'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' by Langston Hughes

societal scheme. This poem is a direct assault and repudiation of this stereotypical image of blacks, as it presents African Ameri...

Suburban and Urban Education Disparities

the ADA, the more likely that district will receive the most funding. The problem with this is that urban school districts tend to...

Article Critique of Charles R. Ridley, Lisa C. Li, and Carrie L. Hill's 'Social Behavior and Multicultural Assessment'

disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV along with testing methodologies allows the practiti...

Reform School, Boot Camp, and Group Therapy Retraining of Youth

of abuse, Massachusetts took the lead and integrated its traditional reform schools with community services, and many other states...