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Smoking Prevention Strategies from an Economic Perspective

is 130% of ideal bodyweight5. There are also other hidden costs that are often ignored in terms of the cost and benefit of smokin...

Role of Counselors in Inner City School Guidance Counseling

a perennial shortfall in state aid resulted in the reductions in guidance counselors at the same time that an increase in services...

Diversity Hiring and Affirmative Action in the Law Enforcement Profession

an extremely long history in the United States, equity per se, has an even longer history. The earliest laws were designed to spe...

Community College of Philadelphia Geographic Expansion

one way; more than 10 percent of those drove for an hour (General Summary Report, n.d.). Most community college students ar...

A Psychology Doctorate Degree Admission Essay

Bereavement Counseling at St. Francis Hospital as my internship/practicum. It was in this position that I finally realized the co...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

United Kingdom Planning Modernization

plans so that the local, regional and national plans and policies are all in line and have the same priorities along with unified ...

Diet Plan CalorieKing and its Value

Rather, it is intended to be an educational program that addresses all facets of food choices. It is divided into 13 lessons, eac...

Attending a Meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous

about 30 people, but in the end, about 20 attended. The people who were already in the room seemed to know one another, and were c...

Schools and Adolescent Behavioral Challenges

having lasting significance, since it impacts not only on childs subsequent emotional and psychological development but also on th...

A Letter to Board Members of the Boys and Girls Club

of alcohol. There have also been a few violent incidents at the club and some of the adolescents were caught engaging in sexual ac...

Proposition 82's Cost Benefit Analysis

African-American and Latino students" (New Research Exposes Hidden High School Drop Out Crisis, 2005). "Official" graduation rate...

Korea and Jazz Music

they will not have to repeat those classes when they study at the Berklee later (Jazz popularizer feels upbeat, 2003). The systems...

Middle School Math Teaching

that time is always an issue; there is not enough of it to spend with each student. To meet the state and district standards, she ...

2 Types of Teaching Structures and Schooling

and multiaged-grouped programs as a means by which to overcome the invisible boundaries that hamper academic accomplishment is pro...

TQM's Applications

different areas of the same company. TQM in manufacturing will be aligned with some of the same elements as it is in the service s...

The Negative Impacts of Affirmative Action

on their experience and qualifications. People are admitted to schools based on these same factors. The result of affirm...

Multicultural Education Challenges for Teachers

they graduate from teacher education programs (Wiggins and Follo, 1999; Capella-Santana, 2003; Brown, 2004; Kitsantas and Talleyra...

Mental Illness and Homelessness

Abstract 1 CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY ASPECTS 3...

Thirteen Articles on Scheduling in High School Reviewed

science, block scheduling appears to have a moderate negative impact on academic performance" (p. 32). All investigators research...

Community Involvement in Schools

development (Sanders and Lewis, 2005). Leaders from these case study schools, in regards to implementing a successful community ...

Leadership and Motivation

or under represented in the discussion of the model. The concept of scientific management is well known; Taylor used scie...

The Effects of Truancy on Society

gang activity. It is also noted that in particular graffiti and burglaries may subside as a result of targeting truancy. One may t...

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

Working Capital of Dell

of the products. Even the means of production was unusual at the beginning in that Dell purchased IBM PCs to serve as Dells core ...

School Uniforms and the Courts

authors found a strong relationship between the attitude of students peers towards preparedness, proschool attitudes and good beha...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

'Inner Discipline' of Educational Theorist Barbara Coloroso

them ways to solve the problem; and 4. It leaves their dignity intact (Give Poor Parenting a Time-Out, 2002, p. 12). Barbara C...

Case Study on Diversity Management

a Masters degree and about 15 percent hold a doctorate degree. The company is located in a very diverse metropolitan area. If d...

Alternative Education and Magnet Schools

Since that time, the program - which continues to be an integral component to the public school system - has expanded to incorpora...