He spends half his day in an early childhood class designed specifically for special-needs children. ... The school district won in this case, but here's why: They were able to clearly show that the regular classroom could not meet Daniel's needs, because they had actually tried it. ... Efforts to accommodate a student who has a behavioral disability could include the following: development of a behavior management plan specifically tailored to address the students' particular disability; training for the teacher in behavior management and behavioral disabilities; c...

• Word Count: 861
• Approx Pages: 3

The government needs to make stricter laws about buying and selling guns. ... Schools should recognize students that are having problems and try to help any way they can. ... The most effective school responses to violence are those that develop the social resources of their students. ... Kids with social or violence problems should receive special attention outside of the classroom so other students are not disadvantaged. ... It costs $62,000 to provide comprehensive services to the most at-risk student over the course of his/her schooling. ...

• Word Count: 871
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. ... The bilingual program presented the student a scholastic curriculum that simultaneously instructed students all the required classes while teaching them the English language. ... Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ...

• Word Count: 3729
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The idea of affirmative action was suitable in the time period in which it was written, but times have changed and the law needs to change in cooperation. ... While I do believe something needs to be done, I do not think affirmative action should be expunged all together, but instead revised to get back to its original intentions. ... Proposition 209 was added to the California Constitution to solve the problem and is a perfect example of what needs to happen on a national level. ... No person shall receive special pension because of their ethnicity, gender, or race. ... Also admittance into s...

• Word Count: 1269
• Approx Pages: 5

High school students had begun to talk and begun to plan their walkouts. ... (Acuna, 333) Many students were being put into special classes and classified as mentally retarded because they could not speak English. ... Nichols, was the turning point in which the Supreme Court ruled that the school district had the duty of meeting linguistic needs of children, if not, it deprived the children of equal protection under The Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... There was an overall lack of concern for the Chicano students. ... The students gained their rights and attention from the school, slowly but sure...

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5

In other scenarios, minority students who apply to colleges around the U.S simply get accepted because of their cultural background, rather than grades and qualifications like they do to the Caucasian students. ... I feel that a person should be judged and characterized solely on their intelligence or any special ability they poses, not by their color of their skin or their cultural back grounds. ... For there can be a program that can prepare and even train minority high school students to go to college and meet the same standards that of a Caucasian student. ... Society needs to rid...

• Word Count: 984
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Vast McCollum was a mother of one of the students that had the option on taking this class. ... But for one student, being Valedictorian was not enough. This student was booed when she received her diploma and another student was applauded when he held a moment of silence after a judge banned prayer at Washington Community High Schools Graduation ceremony. ... The bible holds a special place historically in our nation. ... A Congress that allows God to be banned from our schools while our schools can teach about cults, Hitler and even devil worship is wrong, out of touch, and needs some common...

• Word Count: 1458
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Marshals Service carries out hundreds of special missions each year that are related to its broad law enforcement and judicial security responsibilities. ... Students are also tested on their academic skills, so additional time is consumed studying, thus allowing very little time for sleep. During the course student's receive training on a 12 station obstacle course; and a leader's reaction course, this is designed to test their problem solving, teamwork, and leadership skills. ... Since its birth, its responsibilities have shifted from protecting the President to concentrating ...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6

The change now ensured that even if only part of an institution was being given any kind of monies to fund their needs, then any kind of sexual discrimination is outlawed in any part of the entire institution. ... The major problem with complaining about colleges and universities discriminating in sports is that funding reports were not available to students. ... The students argued that the two women's teams combined cut $62,000 from the women's sports budget while the two men's teams only amounted to a $16,000 detraction from the men's budget. ... The students" argument...

• Word Count: 1741
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In 1947, the American Government for the first time included special funds in the War Department's budget for the financing of necessary funding. This program of aid, called the "GARIOA Program" (Government and Relief in Occupied Areas), covered part of the urgent import needs. ... "In a celebrated speech delivered before students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Caliett Marshall proposed that the European States themselves should set up a program for the reconstruction of Europe" (Delong, J E.) ...

• Word Count: 1711
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States his...

• Word Count: 7038
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Between 30% and 50% of female high school students report having already experienced teen dating violence. ... The question that needs to be asked is how a person comes out of a rape? ... In special circumstances they begin to create more problems because they are intoxicated. ...

• Word Count: 7108
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract This paper gives an opportunity to take a deeper look into a Global Business Cultural Analysis of the nation of Ireland. In writing this paper, there are four research areas and questions were analyzed: The major elements and dimensions of culture in Ireland: how these elements and dimensions are integrated by locals conducting business in the nation of Ireland, a comparison of culture and business of Ireland and the United States, and lastly implications for US businesses that wish to conduct business in Ireland. Introduction Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the twe...

• Word Count: 3989
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yoruba People An Overview: History, Geography, Ecology, Subsistence, Technology The Yoruba People, of whom there are more than twenty-five million, occupy the southwestern corner of Nigeria along the border with Benin Republic and extends into Benin Republic itself. To the east and north the Yoruba culture reaches its approximate limits in the region of the Niger River. However ancestral cultures directly related to the Yoruba once flourished well north of the Niger. Portuguese explorers "discovered" (for the Europeans) the Yoruba cities and kingdoms in the fifteenth century, but citie...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School