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FERPA of 1974

educational records (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2001). Once the student reaches the age of 18, the rights under this Act tra...

Elementary School PE

during these age levels and becomes a self-starter (Kahn, 1997). Understanding these characteristics help the teacher to plan le...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Ohio's Policy on Public Education

years ago that could benefit children in those districts that had adopted alternative approaches, and has been challenged in varyi...

Public Schools and Sex Education

15- to 17-year-old girls have partners three to five years older, and 7% have partners six or more years older (Anonymous, 2002)....

History and Trade School Problems

is such a need for utility engineers: "The energy-delivery industry must realize that the work force needed to maintain the reliab...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Math Education for Children with Special Needs Article Critiqued

observations in several different locations throughout the school over a period of three semesters. Each participant was also int...

Budget Distribution Within North Carolina Public Schools

role of seeing to the administration of the entire school. The principal is also in charge of dealing with the teaching staff and...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

Religion Curriculum in Schools

Perhaps the greatest similarities lie between the Christianity and Islam faiths; indeed, there are considerable concurrent issues ...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

Teh Beginning of Operant Conditioning

Skinner's legacy is reinforcement. This theory has been applied in learning settings, such as schools, and also in counseling and ...

Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid

This essay pertains to "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney. The writer argues that comedic effect is achieved by keeping the voi...

Socialization Agents

This essay discusses the primary factors influencing socialization, that is, family, schooling and peer influence. Each of these c...

Teaching Advanced Students

In the recent past, the literature has been emphasizing including gifted children in the regular classroom rather than placing the...

Paideia, The Thoughts of Douglas Wilson

This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...

Paideia, Werner Jaeger

This essay focuses on the scholarship of Werner Jaeger regarding the Greek term "paideia" [education]. Three pages in length, one ...

Paideia, Lockerbie

This essay presents an overview of D. Bruce Lockerbie's understanding of "paideia," which means "education." Three pages in length...

Six T's of Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington

This essay pertains to the six categories of elementary instruction that were discerned from an extensive study of some of the bes...

Michigan Educational Assessment Program

The Michigan Educational Assessment Program is the assessment program for several subject areas in certain grade levels. This is t...

Asperger Programs, A Letter to the Editor

This essay presents an argument that there should be specific programs in the public school system that are designed to meet the n...

Leadership Studies in High Education

This paper offers summaries of three studies. The writer describes the research question, summary of findings and the value of fin...

Education Reform and the Decline of Moral Education

Starting with the common school movement of the nineteenth century, the author of this paper discusses how the emphasis on moral e...

Education in Virginia, Florida, and Alabama

In five pages this paper discusses school safety, reforms in testing, and overcrowding issues in education as they affect Virginia...

Childhood Obesity and the Role of the School System

systems around the nation began to report BMI on report cards. The BMI or body mass index is a calculation involving height and we...

Environmental Health/Graduate School Admissions Statement

obtain a doctorate in order to achieve my long-term goals and I plan on evaluating this eventuality after completing a masters pro...

Math Performance and Middle School Students

the views of educators and school psychologists regarding the importance of high-stakes testing and the implications for varied le...

What Makes a Public School Public

Schools/Education This will surprise many people. Not all public schools are operated in the same way. This is a big country and ...

Personal Knowledge and Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

of his text The Republic, Plato presents one of Western civilizations most accurate conceptualizations of the tremendous influence...