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The First Day at Kindergarten

were screaming at the top of their lungs and the sounds the bus made as it came to a stop and then lurched forward were scary. Je...

Relationship between School Culture and Curriculum

with what they already understand on an academic subject (Brown, 2003). A constructivist approach to pedagogy emphasizes that the ...

Suspension Alternative Program Grant Proposal

zero tolerance policies have instigated. For example, in Fort Myers, Florida, a high school senior, who was also a National Merit ...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

NYC Schools and Vouchers

about systemic change" (Domanico, 1993). Their idea was school choice, not vouchers (Domanico, 1993). The difference is that paren...

A Review of an Internet-Based Educational Activity for Children

greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...

High Schools and Later Starting Times

of Sleep Medicine and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, the effects of starting the sch...

For and Against School Choice and Vouchers

is about civil rights (Friel, 2004). One school district that just recently adopted school vouchers was the District of Columbia ...

Educational Excellence Project Plan Project Tasks

and nonfiction, will be purchased to lend to students as well as to give to students. Duration is two days. There should be no rea...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

Violence at Schools/Research Issues

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

Journal Writing for Elementary Grades

70 percent Hispanic and 24 percent limited English speaking (Calderon, 1991). The author does not state if the reader is to under...

Building a New High School in Neshaminy, PA

their replacements say theyll try to stop the loan with a lawsuit if necessary. The three challengers who were guaranteed board se...

Dental Schools' 'Outreach' Programs and Isuses of Ethics

moral philosophy and ethical behaviors begin with the proposition that there are certain responsibilities that individuals must a...

Public School Funding

thereby perpetuating unequal resources". The goal of each approach to school funding is to...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Comparison of U.S. Boarding Schools and Local Schools of Hong Kong

at the forefront of the learning curricula even at the preschool and elementary levels. Because household children often subsidiz...

School Choice and Politics

encouraged by the Supreme Courts decision on the "appropriateness of public funds" being allocated to private schools (Powers and ...

The Cornish Case and the Right to Free Speech

of the Madison Country Day School to address difficult issues. Ms. Cornish charges that her dismissal has not been based on quant...

Childhood Bullies

being the victims(Patterson, 1989). Mostly the victims are those children that are younger, or perceived as weaker in some way. Th...

Roland Case and Penney Clark's The Canadian Anthology of Social Studies

the globe, to armchair inquiry into such things as films, television and music of contemporary urban life. While anthropology may ...

UK Elementary Education

also be of benefit to their parents, and ultimately, to the economic growth of society as a whole. Education was not, therefore, s...

Statistics on Violence in U.S. Schools

Act. The data re for the school year 1998-1999 and reflect the percentage per 1,000 students. The data is from the U.S. Department...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

Effective School Characteristics

by observing principals and teachers. From these rather long lists, an organization or an author will select the most common and p...

Successful Education and Funding

United States we as citizens, however, have come to look to issues such as job security to justify our continued path in a system ...

School Principal's Role

is management and leadership skills. Finally, the principal must have a strong background in personality development to understand...

School Bullying and its Impact

somebody picking on someone else and hurting them" ("Dealing, 2002, p.6). The harmful effects of bullying are quite obvious and ...

2 Education Law Cases Analyzed

to other venues merely because the cost of creating a special program for one child may be prohibitive. The cost of bus service is...