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Compulsory School Attendance

In ten pages this paper argues in support of education's privatization and away from the policy of mandatory school attendance. S...

Columbine Shootings and Media Influence

In a paper consisting of six pages it is argued that the media influenced the shootings at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High Sc...

Handicapped Children and Educational Inclusion

This paper addresses the inclusion of disabled children in schools. The author uses the Handicapped Act of 1975 and the American ...

The Necessity of Physical Education

reason physical education programs have taken a decline in the school systems is funding. In large portions of the United States t...

Schools Should Have Comprehensive Sex Education Programs

approach. Last year the forces advocating abstinence-only programs scored a major victory when the federal government passed the f...

Dropouts Among Gifted and At Risk Students

In six pages it is argued that students who are gifted, at risk are more likely to quit school than their peers who are not gifted...

Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

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 and Family Life Education

informing their children about the "birds and the bees" and expected this topic to be covered within the school curriculum (Price,...

School Dress Issues and Public School Uniform Codes

code (Zirkel, 1998). Some parents became so outraged that they actually marched into the school and into specific classrooms and ...

Relationship between Censoring Science and Public Policy

that the majority of American parents indicated that they wished their children to be exposed to creationism in school. The proble...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

What Caused World War Two?

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

Teaching Origins of Life

and violates the separation of religion versus state provisions in the constitution. Intelligent design, however, is not based on...

Creativity is Stifled by the Music Curriculum

the subjects that are on the test and drill them into the students so they will perform will on the tests. While this is understan...

High-Need Schools, a Challenge for Teachers

a passion that they want to share it; at least the best teachers feel this way. Whether its math, English, physics, computers, the...

The Need to Improve School Lunches

need to eat healthy food in order to feel good and, therefore, learn better. The American lifestyle of sedentary occupations and l...

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

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...

Single Sex Schools Should Not be Banned

the educators and the parents and the students decide, and leave the lawyers and judges out of it" (Hurd). However, its not that...

Special Education Issues & Policy

with an appropriate education" (Douvanis and Husley). As this definition suggests, in general LRE is interpreted to mean general e...

Wollstonecraft/Vindication of the Rights of Women

them to this necessity. Wollstonecraft attacks each one of Rousseaus principles, showing them to be illogical, inconsistent and ul...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

Teacher Training for the 21st Century

traditional pedagogies are inadequate to meet the needs of the 21st century and that education paradigms that were created in the ...

Problems in New Orleans’ Schools

only one year, and school officials who were being indicted for theft and bribery (USA Today). There were budget deficits, and bui...

Working While in High School

a career, is not the presumably happy go lucky environment one may experience at a part time job. Generally speaking teenagers do ...

School Uniforms

gang violence which is associated strongly with the attire students put on. But, there are also problems simply associated with fa...

Against the Celebration of Halloween in Schools

to celebrate All Hallows Eve as a time of the wandering dead, but the supernatural beings were now thought to be evil" (Santino, 1...