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Schools That Are Failing and How to Fix Them

better. In a study, voucher students had been compared with public school pupils and it was found that those who had the vouchers ...

Fixing Failing Urban Schools

embrace the community is controversial. After all, much of the music and lyrics contain expletives and an overuse of the N word. I...

Accounting Questions

after the break even point the usual contribution level is $14, so dropping this to $2 is quiet drastic. If we look at the impact ...

Robert F Kennedy High School Case

and Princeton. Many of the staff appear to be committed to the school, despite disagreements many have stayed in their jobs and m...

Transfer and Accounting Costs Accounting Questions

costs, these are a total of 520,000 and as such will need to be divided by the number of units manufactured, indicating the way t...

A Postmortem on a Project

is successful the general approach is that the project has to be delivered on time, in budget and to the right specifications (qua...

Senge's Fifth Discipline and Systems Archetypes

Bellinger (2004) refers to this archetype as being composed of two balancing loops and one reinforcing loop. They tend to keep the...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Why did Barings Bank Fail?

the research on why businesses fail. A study by Moulton (et al, 1996) looked to identify the reasons for business failure. This st...

Costing Questions

where there is not at least a 25% mark up we can see what may need to be dropped. Figure 3 Profit compared to industry prices. ...

Failure of the American Family as a Sociological Model

In six pages this paper discusses the various issues that have undermined the American nuclear family as a failed sociological mod...

Resistance to Antibiotics

In five pages the resistance to bacteria as a result of so called 'quick fixes' are discussed in terms of how eventually antibioti...

Second World War Participation of Japan

In seven pages this paper examines why Japan became embroiled in the Second World War conflict and its failed effort....

Fixing California's Budget

years in the absence of current action. Voters rejected higher tax rates and totally new taxes in 2009; all that currently remain...

Successful Efforts in Secondary Education

School improvement efforts for all grade levels is not a new idea. The most recent push was in the mid-1990s. We are all familiar ...

Harvard Business School Case Study on Fixed Pricing

In five pages this paper examines the dilemma associated with fixed pricing as presented in a Harvard Business School case study o...

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...

Magnet Schools

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

Gap in Scores in Texas

Schools are required to administer exams each year in certain subject areas and in certain grade levels. Texas has revised their e...

Three Essays on a High School Education

In this research paper consisting of five pages an examination of three essays taken from the multicultural text Rereading America...

School Infiltration by Crack Cocaine

In five pages increased youth usage of crack cocaine is examined in terms of the 'cool' perception of drugs that suggest school dr...

Inner City Education and a Baltimore Case Study

In ten pages education in urban areas are discussed with an examination of Baltimore's failed 1990s' school improvement initiative...

Dr. David Stiebel's Article 'Resolving Problems when Communication Fails' Reviewed

In six pages this paper discusses communication problems and how to identify them as described in this article. One source is cit...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Information Technology Projects

change. One dynamic that is often overlooked in IT change projects is the loss of productivity during and immediately after the ...

US Intelligence After WWII

principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...

Administrator Dilemma

university policy that clearly states personal business is not to be conducted upon school computers. Nick had more than enough r...

Scheduling

place concurrently at the same time) rather than consecutively (one at a time after each other). Possible paths Total number of ...

Computer System Project

This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...