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The American Infatuation with Violence

of violence against women due to popular culture and escalating violence throughout Americas school system. "Televisions role in ...

Information for Those New to Teaching

geographic disciplinary perspectives in their academic training" (Towson University, nd). As an illustration of how this works, he...

Preschool and Kindergarten Best Practice Curriculum

to Schweinhart and Weikart (1990), effective and developmentally appropriate programs for children (they are discussing Head Start...

The Negative Effects of Adolescent Corporal Punishment in Adulthood

have turned into even greater social misfits as a means by which to defy the authoritative nature of corporal punishment. Any com...

Opposition to Teaching Ebonics in the Classroom

is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech becomes blurred when such ...

U.S. Middle Schools and Deficiencies in Mathematics

implement middle school principles. The predominant theory for the last fifty years or so has been that the middle school is the b...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

Juveniles and Drug Abuse

similarly aged teens represent the onset of adulthood in that they help to establish a pattern self-esteem and self-perception tha...

Issue of School Safety

however, would seem an imbalance from within. Even if the young person understands that killing is not acceptable behavior, a chil...

FERPA of 1974

educational records (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2001). Once the student reaches the age of 18, the rights under this Act tra...

Elementary School PE

during these age levels and becomes a self-starter (Kahn, 1997). Understanding these characteristics help the teacher to plan le...

A Tutorial for K-12 School Administration

essay will explore the literature to identify the numerous characteristics, knowledge and skills that are linked to an effective...

The Bauhaus and Joost Schmidt's Contributions

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

School Uniforms and Their Impact

conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in 2000, surveyed 755 principals across the nation. Some of ...

Justo L. Gonzalez and Soren Kierkegaard Compared

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

Theories of Max Wertheimer in Productive Thinking

student may have to word it differently. THE PHI PHENOMENON Wertheimer had one theory that is called the phi phenomenon which ma...

Depression, its Causes and Effects

can be Both Internal and External. b. External Biological Factors are Often the Result of Invasive Biotic Organisms...

Different Approaches to Human Resource Management and Business Strategy

the workers undertaking the tasks. This can be seen as a typically classical approach to HR management, with little attenti...

Math Education for Children with Special Needs Article Critiqued

observations in several different locations throughout the school over a period of three semesters. Each participant was also int...

Schools Not Color Blind Yet

In spite of all attempts to remove race as a determining factor in American schools, it continues to be a problem. This paper argu...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Its Controversial Nature

because of its controversial position, and content, that children should not be required to read it, or have it read in class. In ...

Immanuel Kant's Perspective on Public School Morality Teaching Teaching

In five pages this report considers how morality can be taught in the public school system by applying the human knowledge theory ...

Contemporary School Problems and Solutions

are kept on for quite awhile and their teaching skills have faded. They have not kept pace with educational research and this beco...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

A Comparison of Two Culinary Schools

Two culinary schools, Johnson and Wales Culinary Arts and Culinary Institute of America, are compared and contrasted in this paper...

Home Schooling's Scholastic Advantages

children. Many have heard stories of youngsters who are high achievers-opening businesses, winning contests, obtaining perfect SAT...

Proposition 187 in California

This report consisting of ten pages examines a 1994 voter initiative that prevented children of immigrants from public school atte...

Knowledge Theories Empiricism and Rationalism

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

The Use of a New Math Program

articles in professional and popular media has placed a renewed concern about math performance of American students at the forefro...

Socialization

In five pages this paper examines socialization in an overview of peer groups, school, and family relationships. One source is ci...