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Violence in Schools

This paper discusses the most prevalent violence in schools - bullying. Data are reported. Categories and venues of bullying are d...

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS AND ADHD PERCEPTION

are more likely than those without to receive lower grades in the classroom and lower scores on standardized tests (McKinley and S...

Childhood Obesity/The Role of Schools

and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...

Observation of a School Board Meeting

a meeting of the School Board, which was highly attended by students, teachers, parents and even grandparents, as well as the boar...

SUPERVALU CASE STUDY

Having said the above, however, there are several problems with the PDP as it currently is formulated. The process throws ...

Addressing Childhood Obesity in One Alabama County

Interventions Recent research contends that the nations school lunch program is actually "exacerbates" the...

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the Concept of Leadership

Rico hails from a privileged background, and Heinlein makes it clear that only through Johnnies military indoctrination in Officer...

Bullying: An Article Analysis

jails and violent inmates. But violence of a different kind is becoming distressingly prevalent in society: bullying. This paper a...

Psychological Well-Being and Islam

The sawm, the fourth pillar, is an annual fast that is held during the month of Ramadan. Again, communal identity is strengthened...

High-Need Schools, a Challenge for Teachers

a passion that they want to share it; at least the best teachers feel this way. Whether its math, English, physics, computers, the...

Teaching in New York High-Need Schools

hire qualified teachers for these difficult schools (Boyd et al., 2008). The findings are somewhat surprising. First, the researc...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

Niche Businesses and Effective Social Media Marketing

sells instructive courses in building log cabins for personal dwellings or for profit. This being a niche area of business, obviou...

John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

What Caused World War Two?

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

Social Disorganization and Organized Crime

concerning problems of our time. It has both direct and indirect impacts on the physical and philosophical infrastructural featur...

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

Class Field Trips

a field trip. Field trips can be a raging success or a dismal failure. It all depends on the planning process. When a teacher is...

Teacher Communication

positive climate in the classroom and field placements by participating actively, working effectively with others, and showing res...

Reinforcement with High School Students

reinforcers are designated to be the activities that teachers assume will motivate high school students; however, adolescent taste...

Healthy Food Access in Food Deserts

problem as it exists in public schools around the country. Of course, there already exists some degree of regulation over what goe...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

Relationship between Censoring Science and Public Policy

that the majority of American parents indicated that they wished their children to be exposed to creationism in school. The proble...

Availability of Junk Food in Schools

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Tutorial Letter to School

This is a paper that offers a tutorial letter directed at requesting re-entry into a school program. There are no sources in this ...

Group Development/Remember the Titans

is based on a true story of a 1971 recently integrated high schools football team, located in Alexandria, Virginia, coping with an...

The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...