Like the aforementioned book, this article discusses a fairly newly implemented resource whose main purpose is to keep violence out of the school system in the first place. ... Weiler and Cray (2010) report that after the implementation of this program nearly two decades ago, people finally feel safe once more. ... Furthermore, nearly eighty percent of surveyed SROs reported confiscating a weapon from a student within a year prior to being asked. ... "One major creation that developed from this committee was a reporting system known as "Safe2Tell". ... According to reports, several of Nichol...

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A report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives perfectly identifies the recent hike of tuition fees. ... Furthermore, the report also contained details of how the average tuition fee could have only been $3,047 compared to current $7,459 (Rushowy 1). ... Convincing voters should not be a struggle as a report by the Canadian Federation of Students Ontario stated that 90% of Ontarians believe that tuition fees should be reduced or frozen (Public Opinion: Reduce Tuition Fees), it just may not be the voters' most important priority. ... This could include the reduction of residence f...

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As a result, in this sample 6.6% reported being a cyber bully victim, 5.0% reported being a perpetrator, and 4.3% reported being a perpetrator victim. ... They all reported to use the Internet at least 3 hours per day. Girls were more likely to report being perpetrator victims. ... In the book " Bullying Under Attack" that is about true stories written by teen victims, bullies and bystanders shows how far teens will go when it comes to bullying others. ...

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As reported in the National Center for Education Statistics (Rahman, 2009), white students are still scoring higher than black students. Whelan (2007) reported that states that provide educational support to a higher percentage of poor students and those with limited English language skills need to provide more services to allow them to reach the same level as other age appropriate students around the state. According to Whelan (2007), reports show "rural schools, located in the states with the most impoverished, minority, and English Language Learner (ELL) students happen to receive the ...

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After a literature search and hypothesis development we created a self report measurement instrument based on the Likert scale asking about the education experiences of recent high school graduates from public, charter and private schools in our local area. 47 surveys were distributed using eight questions in four major areas: Perceptions of education quality, preparation for college, ratings of academic challenge and ratings of satisfaction of experience. ... Paolo Friere (1970) in his landmark book "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed" states that "education is the practice of freed...

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Even in the book "Women In Sport" it states, "In fact, in the 1996 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Championships, the women's final drew more spectators than the men's final and had the highest television rating in the history of women's basketball" (Ryan)(564). ... In Mojca Doupona Topic and Frane Erculj's essay they state, "Despite the growing number of women engaging in sport, North American sport media have made almost no progress in terms of the quality and quantity of reporting on women's sport achievements....

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For example, in 1999 the College Board reported that the average score for college bound women was 43 points below the average score for a college bound man. ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading and math tests, as well as on tests such as the SAT I. ...

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