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system that divides the student population rather than accurately and fairly evaluates it (Phillips 52). One of the most se...

3 units, states, "All students must complete one of the following: Biology, Biology for Technology, or the equivalent in an integr...

who she was will be lost. His sources (cited in footnotes) include scholarly articles and books, and Carrs own journals. His met...

programs on Hepatitis B and the risk factors that increase ones susceptibility. The first of these programs will provide an overv...

in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...

the necessity of these models. Are mandatory testing programs effective? Before embarking on a review of the literature in terms...

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

teachers hold a power that few others employ when it comes to molding young minds. Many within the academic community contend tha...

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

under similar conditions and when responses are scored in the same way (FairTest, n.d.). Standardized tests include those devised ...

programs should evolve to address transgender issues. There are some that emphasize advocacy of transgender inclusion in textbook...

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

This, notes Brantlinger (2003), is precisely the situation that has manifested where academic injustice is concerned, inasmuch as ...

school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this paper examines public school vouchers and this program's social impact with standardized tes...

of its real market value. Therefore, this taxpayer pays $2,000 in taxes or 2 percent of the propertys real value (Brimley and Garf...

505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...

but remains a symbol of modernism. When consider the term modern, until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated m...

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

high-stakes testing and the states accountability systems for students with disabilities. The extensive investigation conducted b...

School improvement efforts for all grade levels is not a new idea. The most recent push was in the mid-1990s. We are all familiar ...

is the issue of whether random drug tests should be aimed at a specific group of students who are considered to be at a higher ris...

This paper addresses CPAs SOP 98-1 and two issues relating to it, standardized accounting practices for insurance related issues, ...

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

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

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

complex. Sergiovanni identified nine tasks of the principal: * ? ???Purposing: bringing shared visions together. * * ???* ???Main...