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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...

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 ...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

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...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

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

Nursing Hybrid Program

to gain experience as a member of the health care team. At the end of the two years, some students will have earned 14 college cr...

Evaluating a Program on Special Education

important questions be asked. For instance, he asks a specific question in respect to an example provided: "How well are students ...

Overview of School Governance in California

materials. The California School Boards Association adopted Professional Governance Standards in 2000 (CSBA, Professional, 2003)...

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...

School Governance Case Study Analysis

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

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 ...

Education Bias

study. The second phase, the student could add, would be a more face to face approach, where the researcher actually interviews a ...

A Case Study of a Special Needs School Component

given attention to this discrepancy noting that the amount and type of homework assigned to special needs students differs from th...

Educational Ethical Issues: Standardized Tests

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the ethical education issue of standardized tests. This paper includes how the test scores ...

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)....

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...

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...

Multicultural Students and their special needs

are doing everything in their power to meet the needs of multicultural students. Yet, many still question if there is more that ca...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Making Changes in Education

change leadership styles the author had described. This initiative required all students to lease and IBM ThinkPad in order to sup...

John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

Educational Programs in High School and Transgender Issues

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

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Changes in What is Required in Education and to What Degree

According to recent statistics, seven out of ten high school graduates will enroll in a college or university after graduation (Le...

Teaching Our Children About Sex

When considering the question of whether we are repressed sexually it is important to recognize that sexuality is as diverse as hu...

Bauhaus and Architectural Design

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

Sexual Orientation and Sex Education in School

in to discuss topics with the students. Computerized baby dolls are sent home with teens across the country to demonstrate what a ...

Designing School Facilities For Special Education

the speech and language program and that space needs to be as close to the regular classrooms as possible (California Department o...

Teen Families Canada

unskilled, dead end jobs. When school-based child care are not available, Head Start programs step in to give children of teen pa...