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High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

Bauhaus and Architectural Design

but remains a symbol of modernism. When consider the term modern, until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated m...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

School Safety following Columbine A Research Proposal

do harm if they want to. Columbine is a good case study to use in examining this issue. The Columbine massacre entailed the juve...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

High School Exit Examin in California

In a paper consisting of five pages 1999's California Public School's Accountability Act is examined particularly in terms of its ...

Whites v. Blacks and Dropout Rate Disproportionment

2005). Despite the changes in college attendance levels noted above, black males are much less likely to graduate from co...

Gender and Cultural Differences Regarding Dropout Rates

In five pages the influences of culture and gender regarding school dropout rates are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibl...

School and Student Retention

In eight pages this paper examines student dropout rates and the problem of U.S. school retention. Eight sources are cited in the...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

Causal Factors of School Dropout Rates

In seven pages this study provides a literature review on school rates of dropout and how to predict and determine causal factors....

Hispanics, High Dropout Rates, and Influential Factors

In eight pages Hispanics are examined within the context of their high rates of dropping out of high school with sociocultural and...

High Paying Jobs and College Dropouts

In six pages this journalistic formatted article examines students who opt to drop out of college to enter the workplace in high p...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

Secondary and High Schools' Emergency Plans

In six pages various emergency plans are examined at the secondary and high school levels and include athlete physical examination...

At Risk Middle and Senior High School Students and Charter School Advantages

In four pages this research proposal that employs a cost and benefit analysis to the performance of at risk middle and senior high...

Cost Effectiveness of Charter Schools for Middle and High School Students Who Are At Risk

In twenty two pages a literature review that supports charter school advantages for middle and high school at risk students is pre...

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

Technology In Middle And High Schools

Panel members overwhelmingly believed it was very important to have technology right in the classroom (Clark, 2006). The research...

Motivations for Teaching Adolescents in High-Needs Schools

describe the other elements that were at play in the educational process. These invisible elements, the so-called "hidden curricu...

School Prayer & The Lemon Test

505 U.S. 577 (1992), the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether or not the inclusion of a member of the cle...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

At Risk Youth and Transformational Leadership

develops the abilities of others towards higher performance levels (Zimmerman, 2005). Finally, such programs provide motivation fo...

Structure of High School

campus but in many respects operates separately from the rest of the school. One of the vice principals has full operational and ...