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5 Questions on Problems Facing a School Principal

teacher needs to be more concerned about the possibility of legal entanglements arising from striking a student. Even though the ...

Responding to a Student's Parent on Celebrating Diversity in People and Cultures in the Classroom

given holiday/celebration, but rather enhance its importance by comparing it with the way in which other nationalities celebrate t...

Definitions and Questions on Public Education Finance

those offering service jobs in the local area - we all appreciate dealing with cashiers who are able to count out the right change...

School Truancy, Using Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

as a whole. In addition, this article indicates that 67% of youth who were absent from school tested positive for drugs, w...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

Home Schooling Benefits

The normal curriculum does not provide them with the needed stimulation to continue actively learning. Other children are small f...

Argument Against Affirmative Action State and Federal Government Policy

the recent Supreme Court of the United States ruling that "upheld the right of universities to consider race in admissions procedu...

Public School Safety, Health, and Nutrition

a sense that the children are cognizant of weight issues. The Principal, Dr. Meyer claims that the parents at this school have b...

High School Language, Direct Learning, and Cooperative Learning Approaches

occurs in practically all human relations. It occurs between married couples, between college students, even between children. I...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Leadership Characteristics According to James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

are they afraid of difficult situations. They learn from these. Effective leaders are first to adopt innovations. Leaders step bac...

School Administration and Leadership

on "horizontal collective action" (Buchen 44). In some cases, the responsibility of running the school is completely in the hand...

Grief Counseling in High Schools

influenced by a variety of factors, such as family and cultural background, life experiences and environmental influences. Noppe a...

Research on After School Programs

computers and a brighter future for themselves" (U.S. Department of Education, 1998). It has long been known that quality after ...

Raising Moral Youth

to believe in God and as such does not work for all youth. But, for those who are religious or want to be religious it is invaluab...

A Review of the Article Armies, Prisons and Schools

were obscene, food was atrocious, inmates wore what they wanted and they were unkempt; the cells were a mess and there were consta...

Community Policing and Violence in Schools

topic, a student will find a slew of information on the subject, thus providing information related to many of the questions posed...

Elementary School Student Plan of Inclusion

has, such as health problems (Strosnider, 1997). The regular educator needs to be aware of any special circumstances that would ha...

School Newspaper Interviews

question is given. The four interviews go well and in the end, much information is gleaned for the article series. The computer l...

Annotated Bibliography on the Outcomes of Private Schools

that private schools tend to offer "higher standards, rising test scores and safer surroundings." The author asks what happens aft...

Educational Sphere, Sexual Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

fifth-grade boy harassed a female classmate repeatedly (Wrightslaw, 1999). Plaintiffs argued the school district acted with delibe...

Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...

Overview of Proposition Thirteen

In fifteen pages Proposition 13 is the focus of this overview that includes political background and history in order to evaluate ...

Elementary and High School Virtual Computer Field Trips

of Blooms taxonomy had the assignment not limited their access to the Internet. These outcomes were not uniform for all ind...

Case Study Analysis of the Wheatfield School District

connecting the elementary schools to the wide area network (WAN); providing email and Internet capabilities to all teachers and st...

Private Company's Educational Excellence Tutoring Program Plan

cross-functional, integrated, self-managed project team which: 1. Maximizes individual contributions to the group (Gautschi, 1998;...

Case Study Assessment of Social Groups

girls seemed to be friends, but outside of that context, only Carly and Sarah were a part of a social group. Carly and Sarah actu...

Military Schools Perceptions vs. Realities

very little substance and demanded only obedience that did not necessarily reflect lasting positive changes? HISTORY OF MILITARY S...

Comparative Analysis of Behavioral and Psychoanalytic Psychology

which are controlled, in general, by their general orientation toward the field of psychology. Psychoanalytic perspective The te...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...