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Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

Adolescent Attitudes About Sex

Ward & Friedman (2006) report, "Our findings suggest that TV use, in multiple forms, appears to be linked with adolescent sexualit...

Strategic Plan for Pedagogical Improvement

The powerful phrase teachers make the difference captures the key role that professional educators play in shaping the lives and f...

Depression in Children and Adolescents

cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...

Does Divorce or Disruption in Family Structure During Adolescence Have a Detrimental Effect on Development?

Discussion Parents serve, either consciously or unconsciously as role models for their children. Gender roles develop in p...

Support Services for Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents

Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...

Article Review: Depression And Delinquency

that depression may be a risk factor. Depression causes many different feelings and conditions such as the inability to concentrat...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Adolescent Development: Three Different Perspectives

occurred in recent years. Background: Adolescent Psychology Self-esteem is immediate connected with assessments of the ...

Family Systems Theory

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

Reforming Juvenile Justice

as well. Nielsen and Perry (2000) state that we "must recognize that we are united in our diversity" (p. 4). This has...

Methamphetamine Prevention Program For Teens

to one of three groups, one of which was a control group with 208 students in it (Ferlazzo, 2006). The rest of the group were divi...

Administrator Dilemma

university policy that clearly states personal business is not to be conducted upon school computers. Nick had more than enough r...

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

Adolescent Development - Freud, Erikson And Vygotsky

focuses on psychosocial development, which is reflected in his Eight Stages of Human Development. The stages, in order, are: infan...

Michael J. Schmoker's "Results Fieldbook Practical Strategies From Dramatically Improved Schools" - Critique

foundation of Schmokers message: place the power with the teachers who serve as a reckoning force when it comes to empowerment, in...

Adolescent Literacy Rates

(Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006). * About eight percent of entering college freshmen must take at least one literacy remed...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Spiritual Development of Children

that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...

NCLB, View of Teachers

perceive this legislation and its implications for the future of education in America. The following literature review focuses on ...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...

Adolescent Online Impact Study: Methods And Results

questionable impact over adolescent personality, values and manner. In gathering this information, several methods were utilized ...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

English Language Learners (ELL): Families And School

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

NCLB and High Qualified Teachers

applied, duplicated and scaled-up for wider use" (Chapman, 2007, p. 25). As this indicates, a basic premise of the NCLB is that th...

Four-Blocks Literacy Framework: Literature Review

literate, regardless of which approach is most compatible with their individual learning personalities"...The second basic princip...

IT Staffing in Public Schools

70 "percent of teachers claimed to use computers daily" (Beattie, 2000). The problem that many teachers face is that not only mus...

How Standardized Testing Damages Education

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

Using Sociological Theory to Explain Urban Problems

environmental settings, produce specific social behaviors in people, and can either sustain behavioral problems, or mitigate them....