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The Development and Value of Alternate Education

students. In research by Green and Winters in 2006 it was found that African male students only had a graduation weight of 48%, co...

School Culture vs Family Culture

sense of empowerment and a sense that they can control what is around them. The long term goal is to bring about holistic change i...

Developing a Nutritional Policy for a School In Ireland

major concern as researchers found that overweight and obesity levels are increasing within the adolescent population. In 2002 a l...

The Problem with Literacy Teaching in Schools

To potential value of a dialogic pedagogy has been recognized in different government policies. For example, in 2005 with the EPPI...

Entrance Letter for Law School

NY, a diverse community that has a large minority population. Freeport is a community that has been negatively affected by drugs ...

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 ...

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...

Financial Education in Australian Schools

ands that money can be saved (MCEETYA, 2008). By year 5 the students are starting to look at their right and responsibility in co...

Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

or they ignore the information. This is one of the reasons it is so important to instill that knowledge and those practices in chi...

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 ...

Middle School and Inclusion of Algebra in the Curriculum

school math curriculum follows a predetermined course sequence, "algebra, geometry, advanced algebra and pre-calculus," students w...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

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...

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 ...

A Political Perspective on School Choice

Many of these corporations have already been lobbying the state legislature. Many question whether this is an ethical way to run ...

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...

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...

Film Boyz 'N the Hood and the Chicago School Theory of Social Disorganization

The Chicago school's social disorganization theory is applied to Boyz 'N the Hood in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Three sources...

School Improvement and Self Assessment

In ten pages this paper considers the strengths and weaknesses of school evaluation as regulated by the Office for Standards in Ed...

Overview of Curriculum Planning in Saudi Arabia

In ten pages an overview of a Saudi Arabia school's process of curriculum planning is evaluated. Eleven sources are cited in the ...

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...

School Uniforms and the Law

In seven pages this research paper discusses the debate that continues to rage on regarding public schools and mandatory school un...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

Violence at Schools/Research Issues

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

Educational Excellence Project Plan Project Tasks

and nonfiction, will be purchased to lend to students as well as to give to students. Duration is two days. There should be no rea...

Building a New High School in Neshaminy, PA

their replacements say theyll try to stop the loan with a lawsuit if necessary. The three challengers who were guaranteed board se...