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Asperger Programs, A Letter to the Editor

This essay presents an argument that there should be specific programs in the public school system that are designed to meet the n...

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...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

Article Critique/Ann Ketch on Reading and Conversation

anecdotal evidence is very persuasive. She also draws on relevant literature to support her arguments. This discussion expands her...

Employee Motivation

which includes security, stability, constancy, and fear of threat (Austin, 2002). For example, companies laying off people creates...

Revenue For Education

regions, with the greatest decrease in the West. The amount of funding derived from property taxes in states has fluctuated dram...

Charter v. Magnet Schools

relating to "discipline, personnel, attendance and curriculum" than is found in other forms of public school (King 729). Furthermo...

Contemporary School Problems and Solutions

are kept on for quite awhile and their teaching skills have faded. They have not kept pace with educational research and this beco...

Proposition 187 in California

This report consisting of ten pages examines a 1994 voter initiative that prevented children of immigrants from public school atte...

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 ...

Discrimination and Justice in Public Education

that the number of children from diverse backgrounds, including religion, ethnicity, and race, is increasing and many of them do n...

Educational Management Business Model

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

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...

School Uniforms Benefits

In five pages the wearing of uniforms in public schools is examined in terms of the many benefits it offers. Seven sources are ci...

School Budgetary Cuts and the Impact Upon Physical Education

Few memories unite us like memories of gym class" (McCallum, 2000, p. 82). In the late fifties...

ESL Private and Public Experiences

In five pages this paper contrasts the public and private experiences of English as a Second Language school development as they p...

Link Between Scholastic Performance and Extracurricular Activities

In fifteen pages this research study proposal considers the link between student scholastic performance and involvement in public ...

Both Sides of the School Uniform Issue

In eleven pages the complex issue of uniforms for public school students is examined from both sides. Ten sources are cited in th...

Schools Are Not Teaching Communication

from formal education, it is imperative that we structure our classrooms and curriculum with the opportunities for students to eng...

Funding Increases and Increasing the Value of Education

In 5 pages this paper examines the U.S. public school system in an argument that educational value can only be increased through f...

Prayer at High School Football Games

In six pages the Supreme Court's decision to prohibit high school students leading public prayer prior to football games is examin...

Elementary Style Educatonal Censorship

While the list of individual books under attack continues to grow, recent protests - often orchestrated by national conservative g...

Should Schools Allow Spanking?

Once a staple along with eraser dust and gym class, corporal punishment has fallen into disfavor in public schools. This paper exa...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Internet Censorship and Schools

get around filtering programs by proxy tunneling and this strategy must be taken into account and blocked (Losinski, 2007). On the...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

Education and John Dewey

a social reformer. In his writings, these areas are explored. He inherited his theory of pragmatic tradition form Charles Sander...