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School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

School Violence, Poverty, Racism and the Nation's Schools

as a whole, or toward an individual because he (or she) is a member of that group" (Spencer, 1998, p. 25). By and large, schools ...

School Principal's Role

is management and leadership skills. Finally, the principal must have a strong background in personality development to understand...

Successful Education and Funding

United States we as citizens, however, have come to look to issues such as job security to justify our continued path in a system ...

Effective School Characteristics

by observing principals and teachers. From these rather long lists, an organization or an author will select the most common and p...

Proposal for an Elementary School Career Guidance Program

the concept of work into their idea of self and they do this by identifying with an important adult in their lives (Marino, 1998)....

K-12 Issues of School Safety

the issue of who is liable for the safety of children while they are at the school. The schools and school systems examined will b...

School Choice and Politics

encouraged by the Supreme Courts decision on the "appropriateness of public funds" being allocated to private schools (Powers and ...

Boarding Schools and Emotional Growth

the CADU school in Running Springs, California, "The heart of their emotional growth program is the propheet. These were evolved o...

An Article on Hong Kong Schools' Sex Education Implementation Reviewed

that did not surprise them. It was not surprising because what authors also found is that the Hong Kong education department-altho...

American Family Changes and the Response of Schools' Changing Role

the child, and this comes through in an essay or a complaint by the student, the school is in immediate contact with social servic...

Educational Reform and 4 Relevant Issues

benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...

Parents and Accountability

In this paper consisting of five pages the issue of whether schools or parents should be accountable for educating children is dis...

Teen Pregnancy and a Social Service Program

In seven pages this paper examines a rural school's social service program for to target teenage pregnancy reduction. Eight sour...

Argument Against Banning Go Ask Alice

addicted to drugs and turn into a very desperate and psychotic person is what set the world on edge when it was first published. ...

Statistics on Violence in U.S. Schools

Act. The data re for the school year 1998-1999 and reflect the percentage per 1,000 students. The data is from the U.S. Department...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

The Cornish Case and the Right to Free Speech

of the Madison Country Day School to address difficult issues. Ms. Cornish charges that her dismissal has not been based on quant...

Comparison of U.S. Boarding Schools and Local Schools of Hong Kong

at the forefront of the learning curricula even at the preschool and elementary levels. Because household children often subsidiz...

Childhood Bullies

being the victims(Patterson, 1989). Mostly the victims are those children that are younger, or perceived as weaker in some way. Th...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

Inclusion Schools' Administration

In five pages inclusion programs the specifically the roles of administrators are discussed particularly as they relate to definin...

Proposed School Board Plan for Children Using Computers

In eight pages this paper discusses a school board proposal for the use of computers for all children in a school district regardl...

Traditional Schooling versus Home Schooling

inadequate in their abilities to teach effectively. Teachers may be certified in several different areas, but the increasing tren...

Reasons the SOA Should be Closed Down

In eight pages this paper examines why it is essential to close down the School for the Americas, a.k.a., School of the Assassins....

All About Middle Schools

In five pages this paper examines middle schools in terms of definition, distinction, and comparison of various U.S. middle school...

Creation of Freshman Wings

In eight pages this paper examines ninth grade school transition issues and the impact of freshman wings' creation in schools as a...

School Systems in Spain and the United States

Schools in Spain and those in the United States are arranged on a notably different structure. This paper compares and contrasts t...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

Schools, Drugs, Violence, and a Policy of 0 Tolerance

In eight pages this paper examines schools' 0 tolerance with regards to violence and drugs. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...