woman was arrested in 2010 for riding a non-motorized vehicle on an interstate highway as she was escaping flash food that had hit the state of Tennessee. At the time of the arrest, the state of Tennessee had been hit with record flooding, which for Continue Reading...
SIP REVIEW SIP Review and Opportunity for ImprovementThe school improvement plan (SIP) is a significant roadmap for the school itself to make changes and bring improvements in areas that are weak. It is done to enhance student achievement and the hel Continue Reading...
School Health Education HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATION Comprehensive School Health Education Kolbe's Expectations Dr. Lloyd Kolbe lines up the expectations of a school health education. These are: increased understanding about the science of individual Continue Reading...
School Uniforms The Benefits of School Uniforms Statement of Cause In a time when the academic status quo is coming into question throughout America, educators, civic leaders, parents, students, and legislatures are left cycling through a myriad o Continue Reading...
School Choice Program This study aimed to determine the impact of school choice through a comparative study of two private schools, which serve primarily, or exclusively African-American students, and a public school. Data in student achievement in Continue Reading...
School Visit This report is about my visit to the Roberto Clemente Middle School in Paterson, New Jersey. The visit was conducted on April 4th, in the afternoon. It was rainy. Paterson is a densely-populated urban area, and the school is in an urban Continue Reading...
School Nurses Jonathan Zaun For most students who grew up during more prosperous economic times, the school nurse held a position of almost mythical stature, dispensing colorful cough drops and bandaging scraped knees. This matronly figure was a ga Continue Reading...
Violence in Schools: Qualitative Research Article Unlike the numerically-driven nature of quantitative research, qualitative research focuses on understanding a specific phenomenon in a deeper fashion through a case study approach, either through pa Continue Reading...
Violence in Public Schools The recent violence on school grounds (including elementary, middle school and high school violence) has created a climate of fear in American public schools, and the literature presented in this review relates to that fea Continue Reading...
The administrators in charge are, in most instances, strict on students and demand for identification documents as an allowance for students to use the restroom. Students who forget their documents can rarely use the restroom. Recommendations/actio Continue Reading...
Home-schooling can be a safe alternative to normative schooling. For decades, across the country, there is an abundance of statistical data demonstrating that national averages including tests scores, frequency of student suspension, and occurrence o Continue Reading...
Internet and K-12 Schools The history and effects of internet The History and Effects of the Internet on Instruction in K-12 Schools The History and Effects of the Internet on Instruction in K-12 Schools History of the Internet in K-12 Schools I Continue Reading...
Catholic High School Choosing the education which will best serve our children is one of the most difficult decisions a parent can make. There is a very real possibility that choosing the wrong institution will destroy or at the very least seriously Continue Reading...
There is a lot of talk about school shootings and how to prevent them—especially in the wake of the most recent shooting in Florida, where 17 individuals lost their lives. Some say that guns should be banned (Ingraham). Others say the age limit Continue Reading...
Violence in American Schools Violence (a & b) Columbine High School is in Jefferson County in Littleton, Colorado. In the spring of 1999, two male senior students executed a plan to commit a brutal series of violent acts against their fellow s Continue Reading...
Their insights can help to determine the longer term impact on them. Students were included because they can show how these cuts will affect them and offer ideas about ways to possibly offset them. Teachers can discuss how certain decreases will aff Continue Reading...
New York State Department of Parole or the Department of Corrections is an agency of the state responsible for the supervision and management of criminals convicted of a crime, felony level or higher. The Department of Corrections was put in place t Continue Reading...
Teenagers and Safe Sex Despite efforts to educate youth regarding safe sex, the practice of safer sex is still not at optimum levels. This is due to several factors, but chief among these is the belief of "invincibility" among youth, the belief that Continue Reading...
Tuna-Dolphin case between Mexico and U.S. started in 1990s when Mexican fishing fleets were blamed for causing more dolphin killings than the U.S. fishing fleets. The United States imposed a trade embargo on the tuna imported from Mexico which had a Continue Reading...
children attend school every day and while they are there, their parents want them to be safe and sound. That includes when they are on the playground, lunchroom, and in the classroom. The equipment in which that the school use should be safe so tha Continue Reading...
Decisions by School Superintendents Improper Attitude and Unprofessional Conduct of Teachers To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society - President Theodore Roosevelt. That teaching is at one and the same time Continue Reading...
violence in the public schools. Teen violence in general has become a major concern in America today. One of the reasons for the issue being so prevalent is the number of school shootings in the last few years, especially the shooting at Columbine H Continue Reading...
This debate does not include the fact that peer pressure in many public schools causes families to spend much more on "street clothes" so that their kids are not embarrassed or bullied because they do not have the latest fashions. (a single pair of Continue Reading...
Drug-testing in schools has been shown to reduce the use of drugs as well as reduce other negative activities and occurrences known to be associated with drug use among students. There are critical components of a drug testing program and this study Continue Reading...
This is an area that receives little attention, but it promises to be fruitful if attention is given to it. The health practitioner will combine attempts to reach this group with administrative policy and in combination; there will be a moderation o Continue Reading...
I know that I cannot give all of my students the advantages of a stable, high-income, two-parent home, a safe neighborhood, and parental involvement. If educators could do that, then there would not be an education crises in this country. However, I Continue Reading...
" How many people are homeless? The number of homeless is difficult to ascertain because estimates vary depending on the methodology used. Numbers also vary substantially depending on whether a measurement is taken on a single night or is extrapola Continue Reading...
In McCrillis). For this reason, many people have worked tirelessly to restrict the sort of verbal hate crimes that Eminem commits against women, homosexuals and anyone else he desires. As Allan Bloom's book, the Closing of the American Mind notes, Continue Reading...
A zero tolerance policy placed on these children will send the message to them that they are criminals and will be punished as such. If the student has committed an act of violence that is worthy of severe punishment, then the zero tolerance policy Continue Reading...
At the same time, there were planners (who shared similar views as Rumsfeld) that this strategy was obsolete. This contention between the two sides would create a conflict in U.S. military strategy. As the country needs a sustainable fighting force Continue Reading...
Alcohol L. Jones High School Survey: Underage Drinking at Graduation Underage drinking is a serious issue. Although much lip service is given to the dangers of drinking in general, within the teenage community (and sometimes younger), little cred Continue Reading...
environment, high school graduates in the Middle East have started to think differently about their paths in life. For example, high school students have become aware that they can select the exact and appropriate course of their life by breaking fr Continue Reading...
SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) personal statement One of the most exciting aspects of studying the field of design and architecture is its collaborative aspect. No building is constructed alone; rather the structure that is produced i Continue Reading...
Virtual Schools: Personalizing Learning Online," Julie Young asserts that distance education offers a "more personalized type of instruction," (2004 p.1). Virtual schools are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and in some instances prove to be Continue Reading...
Home Schooling "Since public schools have become over crowded, guns and violence are a daily occurrence, and private schools are so over priced for the average family, home schooling has become an excellent alternative." Education all the while has Continue Reading...
... Only one in 100 high school seniors could write a coherent response of more than one paragraph to an essay question; and only 7% of high school seniors could read at advanced level." (Hanushek) In the light of this vast body of very forceful evi Continue Reading...
Education Class Size vs. School Vouchers on the Achievement of Minority Students The continuous achievement gap between African-American students and their white peers is a major problem in American education. The gap in fourth-grade reading on the Continue Reading...
Counseling Describe the criteria and standards for becoming a licensed professional counselor in your state of proposed practice. Include educational and experiential requirements for licensure, and the scope of practice for the selected state of pr Continue Reading...
