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Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and the Identity of Esperanza

also knows that she cannot abandon all that she is or all that she has experienced. We watch as she confronts her strengths and ...

Public School Libraries and the Impact of Computers

good, sound education is for the librarian to gain the students interested in the lesson plan; while some are inherently good lear...

Identity and Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

back from their daughters until they felt they were ready to understand. The second two sections of the book are from the daughter...

Educational Importance of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

Nashville, Tennessee and Sudanese Refugee Children Immunization

Southern Sudanese are much less likely to be Islamic, and they are more likely to have much darker skin. "The war pits the Arab/M...

Arguing Against the Practice of Public School Book Banning

to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remov...

New York City's Public School System and Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Freires (2000) point is found within the depths of female social oppression found in the New York City public school system, a com...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

Relationship Between Communities and Public Schools

felt, should be more like factories and "turn out" a reliable product, that is, a worker ready to fit like a cog into Americas gro...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

Educational Management Business Model

model was the decentralized version that was child-centered proposed by progressives (Gelburg, 1997). Both models were based on ma...

Opposing Prayer as a Public School Practice

conscious of the inevitable conflict between religion and the state. For that reason, they endeavored to keep the two as separate...

Opposition to School Vouchers

Phi Delta Kappa in the summer of 1996 claimed that about 60 percent of the people polled said that students should not be able to ...

Which is Best, Public or Private Schools

way to receive a strong education is either through a privately funded school or even home schooling. Williams, who is a 1...

Legislation Regarding Religion in Public Schools

that their religion is consistently under attack (Hickey, 2003). For that reason, Burch notes, religion in public schools, as well...

2004 Visual Arts Carnival

it is used in art and applied to art works. Basically, the carnival was broken into four different areas of exploration fo...

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

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...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

California School District Budget Proposal

students); and three grade 6 classrooms (78 students). The professional staff includes one principal, one part-time assistant pr...

American Experience of the Orthodox Jews and the Amish

is similar in many ways to the Amish. This is particularly true in regard to the role their women have played in their culture. ...

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

School Governance Case Study Analysis

2nd, 4th and 6th grade for the 1999-2002 school years showed a clear upward trend. The average gains were 21%. Specifically, the 2...

Overview of School Governance in California

materials. The California School Boards Association adopted Professional Governance Standards in 2000 (CSBA, Professional, 2003)...

Dropout Rates in High Schools

go to college in the first place. As is noted above, these choices, and the factors influencing them, can vary radically between ...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

A Case Study of a Special Needs School Component

given attention to this discrepancy noting that the amount and type of homework assigned to special needs students differs from th...