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The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Tutorial Letter to School

This is a paper that offers a tutorial letter directed at requesting re-entry into a school program. There are no sources in this ...

Concussions in High School Football

Protocols should be in place to assure that students do not go back to playing ball soon after a concussion is experienced. In fa...

Availability of Junk Food in Schools

2010). Frieden, Dietz and Collins (2010) point out that policy interventions promote encouraging children to make healthy food c...

Relationship between Censoring Science and Public Policy

that the majority of American parents indicated that they wished their children to be exposed to creationism in school. The proble...

Healthy Food Access in Food Deserts

problem as it exists in public schools around the country. Of course, there already exists some degree of regulation over what goe...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Addressing Childhood Obesity in One Alabama County

Interventions Recent research contends that the nations school lunch program is actually "exacerbates" the...

SUPERVALU CASE STUDY

Having said the above, however, there are several problems with the PDP as it currently is formulated. The process throws ...

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and the Concept of Leadership

Rico hails from a privileged background, and Heinlein makes it clear that only through Johnnies military indoctrination in Officer...

Bullying: An Article Analysis

jails and violent inmates. But violence of a different kind is becoming distressingly prevalent in society: bullying. This paper a...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

Psychological Well-Being and Islam

The sawm, the fourth pillar, is an annual fast that is held during the month of Ramadan. Again, communal identity is strengthened...

High-Need Schools, a Challenge for Teachers

a passion that they want to share it; at least the best teachers feel this way. Whether its math, English, physics, computers, the...

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...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

Biblical Stance Toward Food Production

This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...

The Variety of Personal Influence

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...

WWIS-IV Case Study

Bowles & Skibbe, 2006). There are several cognitive assessment tests that can be used with preschoolers. These include the BSID-II...

Making Changes in Education

change leadership styles the author had described. This initiative required all students to lease and IBM ThinkPad in order to sup...

A School Activity in the Multicultural Setting

by offering Parent Workshops during the school year, which relate directly to math, literacy, and the overall curriculum. These p...

A Scenario Requiring Crisis Intervention

safety for the girl, ineffectiveness of police intervention, and the decreasing feeling of safety in the school setting. I...

School Psychologist: Job Analysis

qualities that are employed within the context of a job, and which are needed in order to ensure successful performance (Spector, ...

Violence in Schools

This paper discusses the most prevalent violence in schools - bullying. Data are reported. Categories and venues of bullying are d...

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS AND ADHD PERCEPTION

are more likely than those without to receive lower grades in the classroom and lower scores on standardized tests (McKinley and S...

Childhood Obesity/The Role of Schools

and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...

Observation of a School Board Meeting

a meeting of the School Board, which was highly attended by students, teachers, parents and even grandparents, as well as the boar...

Charter Schools and Vouchers: Assessing the Value

United States around the end of the 20th century, as something of a middle ground in the traditional dichotomy of public and priva...

Statement of Purpose for Nursing School

Nigeria is a country that has gone through significant economic struggles that has impacted the ability to sustain a healthy popul...