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Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

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...

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...

Palahniuk/Fight Club

267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are...

Domestic Violence And Immigrant Hispanic Women

dominance, a reality much of which is attributed to - or blamed upon - religious underpinnings. Laughton (1995) notes how women h...

Family Violence and Counseling

patriarchal norms" are both contribute to the prevalence of wise abuse.5 An interesting social factor is the statistical fact that...

The Principal & Transformational Leadership

another factor that Hornett attributes to a lack of leadership. If the principal had "modeled and encouraged helping among staff, ...

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...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

School Bullying and its Impact

somebody picking on someone else and hurting them" ("Dealing, 2002, p.6). The harmful effects of bullying are quite obvious and ...

Analysis of Learning a Second Language

for science, technology, and international business" (Unz and Tuchman, 1997). In other words, this legislation was passed in order...

2 Education Law Cases Analyzed

to other venues merely because the cost of creating a special program for one child may be prohibitive. The cost of bus service is...

Marketing Campaign Case Study Development

to re-launch this service to this target market with a budget of ?1,000. The best way to look at this is to consider the theory be...

Terrorist Attack School Preparedness Evaluated

phone numbers for that person as well as for each member of the family (The American National Red Cross, nd). The second step is...

Bilingual and Cultural Education Related to Critical Theory

the collective and tries to provide an understanding of how current social conditions have come about them, and how they interact ...

American Minorities and Culture

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

Classroom and Technology Integration

from high school, computers will have moved beyond commonplace to being as necessary to modern life as indoor plumbing and electri...

An Analysis of Moby Dick

Melville is describing again the schoolmaster not just as an animal carrying out instinctual actions, but is describing his behavi...

The First Day at Kindergarten

were screaming at the top of their lungs and the sounds the bus made as it came to a stop and then lurched forward were scary. Je...

Relationship between School Culture and Curriculum

with what they already understand on an academic subject (Brown, 2003). A constructivist approach to pedagogy emphasizes that the ...

Magnet School in Raleigh, NC

Wiley reports it was a National Blue Ribbon School 2000-2001 and that is has been honored as a North Carolina School of Excellence...

School Policies and Suicide

devoted to "Positive Climate and Good Discipline." The tone of the documents is what leads the reader to believe that the welfare ...

The Effect of the Housing Market Slump on Children’s Schooling

found that they couldnt keep up the payments and defaulted on the loan. In many cases, they were brought into the home buyers mark...

Piven, Goldfield, and Greenstone on Politics and the Role of Labor

In ten pages this report discusses the analysis offered by these theorists regarding American politics and the influence of organi...

Miami Changes School Boundaries

A 5 page paper. Miami-Dade County school district did change its school boundaries a couple of years ago. This paper offers a 'neg...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...