As the affordability of education begins to decrease, so does the enrollment to these schools, and in the end the number of educated scholars drops. A report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives perfectly identifies the recent hike of tuition fees. ... This is bad news for the high school students today and worse for those in grades behind them. ... Although it may not seem likely, a group of high school students are capable of gaining attention towards this issue, after all it concerns them the most. ... Realistically, students in secondary school are not able to vote however, it is...

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This Pill allowed women to complete years of study and launch their career without the interruption of a pregnancy, and in response a wave of women began to apply to medical, law, and business school (Tavaana). ... Women were catching up in undergraduate enrollment while men were looking for alternatives. ... Instead men pursue the alternative, most common being the military. ... Alternatives to college are out there and more and more men are opting for that route as they graduate from high school, giving women the leg up in college admissions. ... Meanwhile men have begun to opt for just as...

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Whatever initially leads parents to make this choice, home schooling nearly always turns into something far more than an alternative education choice, it becomes a lifestyle choice of personal responsibility and freedom and within a close family life, incredible joy. ... Other families freely adapt ideas from alternative educational philosophies such as Waldorf or Montessori. ... However, some school districts vary in their receptivity toward "dual" enrollments and allow home schoolers to participate in after school sports unofficially. ... Students are being faced with so much violence and ...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... Violence at school often involves the use of weapons. ... School violence occurs on school property, on the way to or from school, during a school-sponsored event, and on the way to or from a school-sponsored event. ... Instead of allowing students to spend time on the streets or with gangs by getting them suspended, whenever the student is not dangerous, in-school suspensions and community service, make better alternatives ( Ross, 2012 ). ... Sometimes after consulting with parents, the school splits up a gang...

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Even locally we have seen two cases surface where white students in grade school have been the victims of affirmative action discrimination and exclusion from public schools. "In Silver Spring, Maryland, the parents of a seven year old sued the Montgomery County School Board after their son was barred from transferring to a math and science magnet school because it would reduce the proportion of whites in his old school." Also in Northern Virginia's Arlington County, "parents of two white children who lost a lottery for admission to an alternative kindergarten sued because lottery was ...

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This is highly important to think about in a school community. ... Reflections on alternative visions of schooling. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 25, 376-93. doi: 10.1525/aeq.1994.25.3.04x0151u This journal article was part of a special issue on the successes of alternative visions of schooling in minority settings. ... This article is condensed from the May 2008 edition of The School Administrator. ... This means engaging in conversations with colleagues with meaningful, cultural conversation, be joyful, and be positive and energizing in regards to diversity as a happy topic in their s...

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Beccaria (1738-1794) was a leading figure of the classical school. ... Finally, the Classical School of Criminology stresses that the punishment should fit the crime committed. ... Secondly, the positive school relies strictly on the use of empirical methods to test hypothesis. ... Obedience to legal codes may be strained and alternative behaviour choices, such as crimes, become inevitable. ... Lowered self concepts and antisocial attitudes may stem from negative family and school experiences, and vice versa. ...

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Distance Education There are two schools of thought when it comes to education. The schools of thought are "Are you for a traditional education?... Online learning has become a very popular alternative to traditional on-campus, in the classroom way of learning for many different demographics. ... Doeer, Online education offers new possibilities you might have never thought was possible and tells students: "If you can't go to school, we'll send the school to you" (Trujillo, 1998). When a student is considering going back to school weighing your options are key. ...

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These tests are a prevailing way to classify the scholastic accomplishments of teachers, students and also school districts. ... (Debbie Thompson) As Mckinsey & Company said, " 20 school systems that have achieved significant, sustained, and widespread gains on national and international assessments used proficiency targets for each school and frequent, standardized testing to monitor system progress." (Pro- Con) Standardized test are very comprehensive and one- sided they fit every student so that way someone who has disabilities does not feel left out or has to take an alternativ...

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Rail trails are also extremely popular as an alternative to cars by providing the opportunity to walk or ride to work or school. ... Rail-trails tend to be flat and direct, and often connect residential and business districts, so many people find rail-trails convenient as a primary means of getting safely to and from work, school, shopping areas and other destinations. ... By providing transportation alternatives that link neighborhoods with shopping and entertainment districts and serving as pleasant options for commuting to work or school, rail-trails help reduce reliance upon transpo...

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Harper also envisioned that a two-year school would soon stand on its own; however, it would still be affiliated with the university. ... The idea of these smaller colleges came about because educators saw that a lot of students were not able to go away to a four-year college after high school and they also saw that extending high schools for two more years could never happen. ... By many, junior colleges are viewed as "high school with ashtrays" or "... places you went if you couldn't get in anywhere else, couldn't afford anywhere else or didn't know better". ... Junior ...

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Many groups of people assess within the educational community, such as policymakers, administrators and school, teacher and administrators and parents and students. ... Monitor program effectiveness planners use assessment to identify program strengths and weaknesses, designate program priorities, assess alternatives, and plan and improve programs. ... Parents and students use gauge student strengths and weaknesses determine school accountability and to make informed educational and career decisions. ...

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Another counter argument to the abolition of affirmative action is that minorities for the most part are brought up in poor neighborhoods and therefore their education is not as good as most of the white people whose income level is higher and subsequently have better schools. ... The 10 Percent Plan provides the top ten percent of students in poor schools the opportunity to go to many different colleges. This act does not put one race above the other like affirmative action, but simply gives finical aid to the students that deserve to go to school though they cannot afford it. ...

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The two most popular methods used in schools in the United States are abstinence education and comprehensive sex education. ... In 1996, the United States government passed a law giving funding to states offering programs that support this approach in public schools. Schools receiving these funds must teach students that they should "just say no" to sex and are not allowed to teach about safe sex. ... Therefore, age-appropriate alternative methods must be taught as well. ... Sex education should be taught in the schools and in the homes of youth. ...

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On April 16, 1850, many people were relieved to know that the polio vaccination became required in all US schools. ... In 2001, Catherine Rogers, a second-year MPH student at Brown University's School of Public Health conducted a study examining the vaccine behaviors and beliefs of parents of children attending private pre-school in Providence, RI. ... She chose Rhode Island because Rhode Island currently holds the largest number of school immunization requirements in the United States as of 2013. ... The study supported the hypothesis that misinformation and vaccine hesitancy are present...

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School districts are legally obligated to offer a continuum of services for special needs students. ... This means that all students with disabilities, regardless of the type or severity of the disability, are placed in the general education classroom for the entire school day. ... In determining the placement of special needs children it should be noted that "the burden of proof rests with the school district in proving that a placement in the general classroom cannot be achieved with appropriate supports and services."" ... The school day may become fragmented which results in a lack ...

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As part of this policy, the BIA set up special schools for Indian children. The most famous of these was the Carlisle Indian Training School in Pennsylvania, which forbade the use of native languages and religious practices. ... The conditions imposed on Native American's have forced them into alternative ways to maintain lifestyle on Indian reservations. ...

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There these individuals set out to establish an alternative to the two fixed parties, called the Libertarian party--champion of freedom and personal liberty. ... Moreover, nearly three out of four Americans had the "option of voting Libertarian on November 3 -- far more than for any other 'alternative' party." (18:1) Best-selling author of Why Americans Hate Politics and Washington Post reporter A.J. ...

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Rates are highest among unmarried women and for women with less than a high school education, with the smoking rate for low income, Medicaid enrollees estimated at approximately 35%. ... School-based programs are reported to be among the most effective means of preventing tobacco use among youth. ... Even if school-based programs are effective only in delaying the onset of smoking among children and teens, they are still worthwhile, according to experts. ... The value of using school-based curricula for adolescent pregnant women smoking has been questioned, in part because of the lack of ev...

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Affirmative Action makes ensures that our schools, workplaces, and other organizations reflect the same diversity that exists in our communities. ... This ruling allowed the school, and others like it, to operate "in good faith" when determining student eligibility. ... "Narrow tailoring," Justice Kennedy stated, "the university carries the "ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, which available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice.... However, what happens to the minority student who is allowed to attend a school...

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The problem that schools are learning the hard way is the law supports preferential treatment, not quotas. California schools learned this in the 1980's, the late 70's was actually when it was first recognized and the courts ruled unconstitutional to use a quota system. ... Bollinger involving University of Michigan's law school, and Grotz vs. ... The law school is ____ up to for highly qualified White students were not accepted into the law program but black, less qualified students were accepted. ... The white race began establishing residency in the suburbs, which...

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The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 years old and young adults should be allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs, and official school and university functions. ... Based upon the fact that our current prohibition are not working, the need for alternative approaches from the experience of the other, and older cultures, who have these problems need to be tried. ... A record of that sort could prove to be a problem when the time comes to look for a job, apply for a professional license, or seek admission to graduate school. ... In an age when ...

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He was educated at a British missionary boarding school at Fort Hare University, from which he was expelled in 1940 for leading a strike with a fellow student. ... After attending grammar and high school locally, King enrolled in Morehouse College (also in Atlanta) in 1944. ... Zecozy Williams, a black woman who intensely supported the bus boycotts, drove all of her friends to work after driving her husband to his job and her children to school. Other black citizens found other transportation alternatives, such as walking. ...

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Abu El-Haj (2007) reports that several Muslim veiled female students were harassed in their neighborhood school, being told by their teachers that they "look like a disgrace in that thing," while some were threatened with disciplinary sanctions if they did not remove their scarves (cited in Bonet, 2011). ... As Arab American students "were subjected to many forms of harassment including mockery, as well as physical violence and even death threats, not only from other students but from teachers and students as well" (Sally Bonet, 2011), parents tend to stop their children from going t...

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June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they we...

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