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Literature Review on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

first began to describe a recognizable pattern of birth defects that are attributable to alcohol exposure in the late 1960s. Since...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

Robert K. Merton's Social Strain Theory

In seven pages the delinquency social strain theory of Robert K. Merton is examined in this overview. Seven sources are cited in...

Immigration Effects

cost of keeping the immigrants in jail simply eats money unnecessarily. Another problem that plagues this country is poverty. The...

Delinquency and Communications

In twenty five pages this paper analyzes how delinquency can be addressed through the development and use of effective communicati...

Delinquency and Parental Attachment

In five pages this paper examines delinquency in a consideration of parental attachment impact. There is no bibliography included...

Adolescence and Self Esteem Factors

Yong et al (2002) in their study of eighth-grade students, found that there was a close correlation between high self-esteem...

Social Issues, Parental and Peer Influences

In nine pages this paper examines such issues as delinquency, dieting, alcohol, drugs, and sex in a consideration of peer and pare...

Drug Prevention/Delinquency

This research paper addresses two topics, delinquency and gang membership, and drug prevention programs, such as DARE, focusing on...

Can Unsuccessful Districts Change

Is there any way to help schools that are seldom successful? It seems that changes are always being made in our public schools yet...

The Principal & Transformational Leadership

another factor that Hornett attributes to a lack of leadership. If the principal had "modeled and encouraged helping among staff, ...

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 Counselor Education Programs - Accountability

before one can measure effectiveness, it is crucial to know what it is you want to know (Brott, 2006). In other words, you cannot ...

Various School Issues

a hierarchical system that pictures four levels of development (Craig 276). The first phase of consciousness describes people who ...

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...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

Inequities in School Funding

income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...

High School Diploma: Tennessee

3 units, states, "All students must complete one of the following: Biology, Biology for Technology, or the equivalent in an integr...

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...

State Funding of Public Education

of its real market value. Therefore, this taxpayer pays $2,000 in taxes or 2 percent of the propertys real value (Brimley and Garf...

Taxation & School Revenue

policy survey conducted by this journal, the editorial then relates how various states are approaching this problem. This shows th...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

How Alaskan Boarding Schools Hurt the Natives

linguistics for these groups? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Stories come from thee facilities and concern children bein...

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...

Wireless Technology In The Classroom

he would ask if there were any questions at the end of each lesson but he knew there were students who did not understand but who ...

An Evaluation of School Culture

its website, from Deborah Meier herself and form observing how teachers currently operate at the school. Its stated mission for ex...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

School Public Relations Questions

are equally important in vision development due to the fact that the product does not materialize without the process. Their inter...

The Role of a Primary School Teacher

intends" (Kyriacou, 1998). The curriculum for the main part of determined by the government, with targets such the literacy and a ...