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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...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Educating Nurses on the Importance of Clean Scissors

and cleaning as a subject for education the need goes beyond the common sense approach. The recognition of the importance indicate...

OBESITY PROGRAMS: ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT

by 5% each week. Longer-term goals focus on reductions in absenteeism and illness which, in turn, will lead to a reduction in insu...

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...

Charter Schools and Vouchers: Assessing the Value

United States around the end of the 20th century, as something of a middle ground in the traditional dichotomy of public and priva...

Violence in Schools

This paper discusses the most prevalent violence in schools - bullying. Data are reported. Categories and venues of bullying are d...

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...

Welfare-To-Work Program Proposal

which was a merger of two programs, the existing workforce program and the new welfare program (Tweedie, 2006). Illinois developed...

Development of & Importance of School Finance

duty to provide a comprehensive education for all of its citizens. Smith reacted to British mercantilism and its limits on trade, ...

Using Technology In The Elementary School

scores on the states Comprehensive Assessment Report were strongly related to increases in technological use (Page, 2002, p. 389)....

Effective Tutoring Programs

presence of teaching strategies such as CWPT" when this method is compared with "conventional forms of teacher-mediated, teacher-l...

Issues in School Mgmt.

education acknowledges the fact that knowledge is presented to students within the context of culture and that in a diverse popula...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

High School Experience

hypothetical first person description of what it may be like. "I really did not care about high school and thought there w...

School Leadership And Student Achievement

having excellent personal interaction skills, skilled in change management and a person who is capable of establishing a nurturing...

The Use of Anabolic Steroids Among High School Students

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

Multicultural Education

No Date). Research indicates that children arrive at school often with negative attitudes and misconceptions about other racial an...

The Rockland County Mounted Patrol Program (Critical Analysis)

it into a full time unit (Fine, 2001). Today, the mounted unit does a number of things in addition to serving to enhance public r...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

The Little Rock Nine

Linda Brown who had to walk a great distance to arrive at the black school to which she was assigned. What came from the Supreme C...

An Evaluation of the DARE Program

a life of its own and become common fare for school children for decades to come. The program was initially designed for fifth an...

The Importance of the Crioulo Language in Developing Education in Guinea Bassau

traditional languages within that area, those which were present before migration took place and new languages were adopted. Criou...

Education: Micro And Macro

Stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations believe themselves as being subordinate to their white counterp...

Effective Vocabulary Development in Special Education

of 1998 low achieving schools were rewarded for their adoption of proven reading models (Skindrud and Gersten, 2006). With the 20...

Affirmative Action

well known in various affected organizations, it also dominated higher education. There was a claim that because minorities are at...

School Counseling

with "relatively well-adjusted" individuals (Hood and Johnson 213). It measures "everyday characteristics," such as "soci-ability,...

Admission Essay to Dental School

volunteer work showed me the importance of community involvement for the elderly. Two of my volunteer activities were dir...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: RECRUITMENT OF A STAR

and in person, was Seth Horkum. The problem here, however, is that Stephen was unable to gather any background research on him. Th...