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Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Research on After School Programs

computers and a brighter future for themselves" (U.S. Department of Education, 1998). It has long been known that quality after ...

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...

Overview of the Inclusion Debate

and profound developmental and physical disabilities has been at the heart of modern debates. In understanding the existing argum...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

Methodology and Literature Review on Improved Testing and a South Tech Charter High School's Social Studies' Educator Evaluation

The call for accountability on a state and national level has been reflected in the increasing concentration on standardized testi...

Case Study of the ELL Program

Other 615 1.2% Total other language 4,258 8.4% (Source: San Juan Unified School District, District, 2004). All 4,258 students wh...

Campaign Issues in the Presidential Election of 2004

has not sufficiently supplemented the needy systems with cash. In essence, schools continue to fail not because they do not want t...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

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...

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...

Elementary School and Family Life Education

informing their children about the "birds and the bees" and expected this topic to be covered within the school curriculum (Price,...

School System Cultural Wealth Increases

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

Policy Brief on NYC School Vouchers

to explore options for New York Citys education crisis. There does seem to be a great deal of detriments within the citys school s...

Public Schools and Celebration of Halloween

the term today has its roots in William Penns "Holy Experiment" in Pennsylvania when what would become the United States of Americ...

High School Compliance and Title IX

result of both male and female sexual harassment, California campuses implemented a multitude of policies and procedures implement...

Key Elements of Maryland v. Bradford

in Hornbeck v. Somerset Co. Bd. of Educ., rejected an equity challenge to the states education finance system (ACCESS, 2004). The ...

Research Studies, School Delinquency, and Disruptive Behaviors

programming to address problems with disruptive behaviors, school adjustment and delinquency. This study outlines some central go...

Evaluating a Study on Why There Are So Many Ballou High School Dropouts

public school population, have the highest number of high school graduates (316,124), the District of Columbia, with the smallest ...

Sexual Abuse in Children

these things to occur. Interestingly, many stories--not involving Priests-- that surface on the news are the ones of horrific t...

History of the National School Lunch Program

thus, diabetes, in children (Gleason and Suitor, 2003). The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act was passed in 2004 (Physi...

Causes and Effects of Violence in Schools

to violent acts in the news and other programming content. Television is not alone in this respect, however. Newspapers and even...

Comparison Between High School and College

is that college courses are simply more difficult and that they are more difficult because they present more difficult factual inf...

Educational Ethical Issues: Standardized Tests

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the ethical education issue of standardized tests. This paper includes how the test scores ...

Can Unsuccessful Districts Change

Is there any way to help schools that are seldom successful? It seems that changes are always being made in our public schools yet...

Helping Culturally Different Students

How can educators help immigrant students to succeed in school? This essay reports the key points from a journal article that disc...

Rewards and Punishments in Education

This research paper presents an example paper of how a student might relate personal experience to the issues of just school pol...

4 Concerns Regarding Education and Law

In eight pages this paper considers 4 legal and educational issues and includes an evaluation of school prayer, teacher and studen...

School Prayer and Judges in Litigious US Society

In twelve pages this paper discusses school prayer issues in an overview of how judges design national morality in a litigious soc...