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Controversy Over Schools Being Open All Year

15 days of vacation. * The 60/20 plan. The year is divided into three equal groups, with 60 school days followed by 20 days of va...

Lack of Planning Time for Middle School Teachers

between and among teachers (The National Forum to Accelerate Middle School Reform, nd). It is a given that teachers will offer a s...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

Instances of Abuse in The Mushkegowuk Cree of Fort Albany, Ontario and Canada's Aboriginal Residential Schools

only be accused of hundreds of cases of physical and sexual abuse but was also known for its use of a home-made electric chair wit...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

Work or Graduate School?

scholarship may be gained for some or all of the education costs. On top of this there are also the lost wages whilst at graduate ...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

Schools and the Value of Knowledge

school the least stressful (Mangione and Speth, 1998). Children do much better in their studies when they have achieved a smooth t...

Social Issues and Impacts Upon Schools and Families of Young Children

more of a culturally mixed country we see more and more religious diversity, further confusing the matter for young children. Now,...

State Control and Schools

have been both limited and ineffective; the combative environment that is inherent to urban areas precludes students of color from...

Low Income Schools and Technological Restraints

most aspects of our lives technology has made its way into the very fabric of the way we teach our children. The majority of clas...

Security in Schools and Technology

in schools can solve all problems, but that it can be used to benefit schools if used properly: "National School Safety and Securi...

School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and North Carolina's Workforce Development Education Program

15). The activities and emphases on career development becomes a systematic component in students overall school experience (Spect...

School Violence Prevention and Profiling Controversy

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

Deviant Subcultures and the Chicago School of Sociologists

certain vulnerabilities in the species, good is overridden by the desire for something which is bad. This was a major contribut...

High School and College Similarities and Differences

supplies them with the twofold instruction individuals need at this very formative period in their lives. By comparison, college ...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Schools of Thought Regarding Strategic Planning

achieving the proper fit between the internal strengths and weaknesses and the external opportunities and threats (Mintzberg and L...

School and University Partnerships and Physical Education

showers can be very traumatic for these youngsters (Temple University, n.d.). This ties in with their psychological and social dev...

US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...

Bullying Children and School Personnel Challenges

an unusual name or because he appears incapable of defending himself, the emotional trauma of bullying is not something for school...

Abraham Maslow, the Hawthorne Studies, and Management's Human Relations School

impact on both the quality and productivity of the workplace. It showed that any environmental changes, could, in the short term i...

Accountability and School Principals Proposal

of Educational Leadership, 2000). As all educators know, schools across the country are facing numerous challenges: buildings are ...

What Schools Are For by John I. Goodlad

administrators and staff; and effective/efficient operation. "...All aspects of [teacher] preparation programs, from mission to e...

K through 12 Student Risk Factors in Las Vegas and in the Clark County School District

more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, use illegal drugs and commit petty crimes than are peers who do not gamble, which places addi...

Evaluating the School Districts in Long Island, New York

on math and science, something all too often discarded by school systems around the nation. While other schools are dumbing down c...

Relationship Between Communities and Public Schools

felt, should be more like factories and "turn out" a reliable product, that is, a worker ready to fit like a cog into Americas gro...

Schools and Technology Uses and Misuses

Continued advancements in technology have fundamentally changed the way we work and live. Todays educators have unlimited opportun...

New York City's Public School System and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Freires (2000) point is found within the depths of female social oppression found in the New York City public school system, a com...

Balancing Act of Having a Job and Returning to School

classes from which to choose (Burden, 1995). There are also such places of higher learning such as the University of Phoenix "tha...