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Japanese Schools, Violence, and Bullying

defining the roles they are expected to play as adults. Bullied students who suffer from tokokyohi complain of debilitating fatig...

The American Infatuation with Violence

of violence against women due to popular culture and escalating violence throughout Americas school system. "Televisions role in ...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

School Violence Prevention and Profiling Controversy

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

School Violence in Russia, China, and the US in Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

for the unleashing of such aggressions, are often a "source of criticism and rejection" (De Wolfe et al, 1995, p. 315) where child...

Ineffectiveness of Zero Tolerance School Violence Policies

toward school violence, rather than helping the situation, appear to have altered a beneficial trend. In fact, incidences of serio...

High School Libraries and Book Banning

their buildings. They fear that students will imitate some of the things in the book. At least, whenever a violent incident happen...

Causes of Violence in Schools

less lethal forms of violence0 are able to escape from the school environment (Thinking the unthinkable, 2001). They become habitu...

TV's Role in School Violence

Bandura points out that the emotions an individual experiences over a particular tasks can be predictors of their ability to accom...

Dollar GEneral's Financial Health

11% 13% -10% Basic Clothing 8% 9% -7% Source: (Dollar General Reports Increased September Sales, 2004) At $8.49, Dollar Ge...

School Excusism

have learned to read by the Whole Language method" (1996). Yes, Mundy was criticizing the educational system and in particular the...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

Reading Curriculum Development and Evaluation

In eleven pages the development and evaluation of a rural school district's reading curriculum is examined with a discussion of po...

The Use of a New Math Program

articles in professional and popular media has placed a renewed concern about math performance of American students at the forefro...

U.S. Middle Schools and Deficiencies in Mathematics

implement middle school principles. The predominant theory for the last fifty years or so has been that the middle school is the b...

Elementary School System in Canada

In fifteen pages the elementary school system as it exists in Canada is examined in terms of provincial control and the impact of ...

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...

High School Athletes and Drug Testing That is Mandatory

high school athletes, has come to public attention again in recently in light of a report which was released by the inspector gene...

Middle School Level Reading Programs and Educational Model Improvements

In twelve pages this paper examines middle school level reading programming problems in a study outline that focuses upon improvin...

SWOT Analysis of Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation

In eight pages a SWOT analysis of a Harvard Business School case study on Steamboat Ski and Resort examines the company's strateg...

Parental Issues in Education

home-schooling vary, in general home-schooled children do very well in higher education. This is attributed to the fact that home ...

Improving Student Performance

The governors of the school, the local education authorities which provide funding, if the school receives any other support in te...

Teaching in New York High-Need Schools

hire qualified teachers for these difficult schools (Boyd et al., 2008). The findings are somewhat surprising. First, the researc...

Math Performance and Middle School Students

the views of educators and school psychologists regarding the importance of high-stakes testing and the implications for varied le...

Anxiety In Children In The Classroom

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

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

Correlation Between High School Students with Poor Attendance and Academic Difficulties

Statistics showed that generally large school systems in low-income, inner-city urban school districts have a high incident of abs...

Drugs That Enhance Athletic Performance

were barred from the first Olympiad in Greece due to illegal ingestion of animal protein" (p.27). The reason why these drugs are f...