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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...

Turnover of Employees and Contribution of Management

Years of tradition dictate that employees will work harder and more productively just for the promise of higher pay. Practice and...

Math Instruction in High School and Diversity

current math performance and the skills required to meet future goals (Miller and Mercer, 1997). Fuchs (2003) conducted a study ...

History of the National School Lunch Program

thus, diabetes, in children (Gleason and Suitor, 2003). The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act was passed in 2004 (Physi...

Multicultural Education Issues

to speak more loudly than any words on the subject. "My teaching was silent on issues of race, and it was a silence that must hav...

Public School Behavior Issues and Discipline

The school uses a block scheduling system so class periods are long. The schools solution was to lock the bathrooms during class ...

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...

Childhood Obesity Control Measures

Another important area of research is obesitys impact on childhood from health, psychosocial and cognitive development standpoints...

A Lack of Emergency Preparedness in School Districts Today

hours when other activities occur on school grounds. In a nutshell, anyone can just walk in to virtually any school, getting past ...

"Children Placed At Risk For Learning And Behavioral Difficulties" - Brief Analysis

be learned about keeping children with the potential of being categorized as at risk out of the statistical pool by prescreening a...

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...

Additional Nursing Schools Needed by Pennsylvania

currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...

How The No Child Left Behind Act The Partnership For Reading Apply To Literacy

twenty-eight percent in 2004, up from eight percent in 2003 (Robelon, 2004) - who believe that contemporary society has a signific...

Review of "Population Overload"

was older than the current 36.5 years (United States, 2006). Health Care Certainly the problems that Dobbs (2003) identifie...

Formulating an ESL Theory

between grammatical and communicative approaches to second-language teaching. Grammatical approaches refer to instructional method...

Approaches to Literacy

productive programs and pedagogies). Proponents of this thinking dont see literacy skills developing in a vacuum unconnected to ot...

Information Literacy

have endeavored to discern, describe and catalogue the information and technology that inundates society, but they have also endea...

Article Analysis/Evidence-Based Practice

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

Information Literacy in Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership

For students to be adequately informed about the value of the university library and resources such as the Internet in information...

Criteria Determining Quality of Life

and healthcare, needs that are obviously directly related to things such as longevity. What many fail to realize, however, is tha...

Literacy Instruction: Short and Long-Term Goals and Programming Perspective

around reading and writing, allowing for authentic achievement of literacy. Reading research has made considerable advances durin...

Article Analysis: Literacy in Young Children

ability to understand, leaves them dependent on others for information Struggle in school and work to hide inability read Cann...

Effective?: No Child Left Behind and Partnership for Reading

standardized testing in high schools" (Frampton, 2006). In relationship to the Partnership for Reading, the website indicates it...

Literacy Development in Young Children

any other surrounding circumstances. The difference between a clause and a sentence is subtle, but the meaning and the approach ca...

Literacy Instruction in a Diverse Classroom

for learning gets drained off so they can defend themselves" (Willis). Trouble generally ensures in some form and the teachers exp...

Multicultural Classroom and the Effects of Involvement by Parents on Literacy

Many of these students are described as limited-English proficient (LEP) students, and many teachers current lack the skills and l...

Grades Seven through Twelve and Literacy That is Literature Based

materials are deemed important for student interest as well as student ability. The program includes teacher resources, such as s...

Assessing Adult Literacy

attend school, and how long to remain there. Many programs are "open-entry, open-exit" by design; retention of students is a major...

Second Grade and a Literacy Program Based Upon Multicultural Literature

In nine pages in which an abstract is also provided this essay examines the development of grade two literacy in a consideration o...

Overview of Metabolic Syndrome

shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome.) An...