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Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

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...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

Public Schools and Drug Testing

is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...

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...

Attendance Policies for High Schools

In seven pages this paper concentrates on high school students who are considered at risk and various issues and problems involvin...

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...

Annotated Bibliography in the field of Education

calculate progress was the Adequate Yearly Progress report. Although the measures seem to indicate that certain variables are impl...

Challenges of Public School

This essay features an article by Marianna Haynes and Ann Maddock in order to discuss the problems faced by public school teaches....

Speaker Notes on Talent Loss

multiple rewards for his designs and was highly valued by his co-workers, and management and leadership at all levels. Unfortunate...

Employee Development in the U.S. Army

possible. Additionally, the right people also must be in the right positions so that they want to remain where they are, growing ...

Early Retention in Education: Does it Improve Student Achievement?

is that before the start of the 20th century, children in schools were not even grouped according to grade levels, but instead bas...

Differences in Memory Retention Between Television and Print Media

This paper provides a proposal for a research study on the topic of learning and memory retention. The author poses the question ...

Employee Motivation and Retention

JCs Casino, to advise them in how to best combat problems with employee retention. Both dealers and housekeepers at the casino hav...

Utilization of Research/Nursing Shortage

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

Special Education Issues & Policy

with an appropriate education" (Douvanis and Husley). As this definition suggests, in general LRE is interpreted to mean general e...

Alternative School Development

districts in the nation had at least one alternative school and about 88 percent of high school districts had at least one alterna...

Pursuing an MBA

it provides manager with a holistic perspective of management and business" and, furthermore, that an MBA education "equips them t...

A College Student's Appeal to Stay in School

In a paper consisting of one page a letter appealing to university administration officials to allow a student with a substandard ...

The Principal & Transformational Leadership

another factor that Hornett attributes to a lack of leadership. If the principal had "modeled and encouraged helping among staff, ...

At Risk Middle and Senior High School Students and Charter School Advantages

In four pages this research proposal that employs a cost and benefit analysis to the performance of at risk middle and senior high...

Cost Effectiveness of Charter Schools for Middle and High School Students Who Are At Risk

In twenty two pages a literature review that supports charter school advantages for middle and high school at risk students is pre...

Case Study on an Elementary School's Student Assessment Process

learning and performance. The different methods account for students who are better able to demonstrate learning through a project...

Case Study on Staff Turnover Reduction

occurred after the introduction of scientific management work of techniques (Baron, 1987). Just as in the scenario that we have wi...

Hypothetical Interview/Nursing Leader

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

College Campus Retention Increasing

of the literature does suggest that there are things that a College Student Activities Office can do in order to promote retention...

Student Retention in Higher Education

to minorities or to any particular region of the nation. In relationship to what can be done about this problem there are unders...

Retention of Non-Traditional Students: Interview Analysis

of consistency in the interpretation of results, despite the qualitative approach to the research in general. This paragraph hel...

Retention of Non-Traditional Students: Research Design

include students from foreign countries, adult learners, disabled learners, minority students, students with young children or est...

African American Recruitment and Retention Policies

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the experiences of African American students in college. Strategies for improving rec...