School shootings and other violent acts of that nature have been occurring in the school setting for decades. ... Police at School discusses the option of school systems hiring School Resource Officers (SROs) to help manage the behavior of students while at school. ... A School Shooting Plot Foiled Unlike previous resources, "A School Shooting Plot Foiled" tells the story of how sixteen year old Nicholas Elliott massacred a small Christian school in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ... The school was also not as prepared for this type of event as schools are in today's society. Although disaste...

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Diversity and its Positive Affects on a High School If you were to walk into Jericho High School a decade ago you would find a homogeneous student body comprised of wealthy, white, and predominantly Jewish people. ... Language classes were required just as they are today in high school. ... This eventually led to ignorance amongst those who were educated at this high school. ... Due to the declining reputation of the school district many of the parents felt their children would be better off at private institutions and took them out of public schools. ... Now, Jericho High School edu...

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Should charter schools be allowed to skim the best students off the public schools? ... In the 1970s" school choice took the form of magnet schools, usually centralized public schools that offered special enrichment programs to entice children from their local schools. ... Another form of school choice is the use of school vouchers. ... The most recent school choice development has been the charter school movement. ... Support for school choice comes from diverse sampling of the "consumers of education": liberals who oppose compulsory schools that have become too impersonal and bureaucratized,...

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The key research questions will focus on what parental involvement strategies are being implemented in middle schools. ... Teachers and parents at the middle school level will be surveyed and interviewed in one rural district. ... It has been found that parental involvement tends to decrease at the middle school level. ... "Over 30% of U.S. schools are in rural communities, yet less than 6% of research conducted in schools includes rural schools" (Hardré, Sullivan, & Crowson, 2009). ... It is important for educators, school districts, and parents to work together the help st...

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One out of 15 high schools have gay-straight alliances, but community members or school administration do not support most of them (GLSEN). ... There has been no sign of more harassment in schools that include gay-straight alliances. ... High schools already include other controversial clubs "that represent Christians, and ethnic" (Associated). ... "As part of the settlement, the board will vote to change its policies on school clubs before approving the gay organization," Judy Frutig, spokeswoman from the school district, said. ... Normal teenagers have a difficult time dealing with the...

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"A policy designed to move communities, and eventually all Aboriginal's from their helpless "savage" state to one self-reliant "civilization" and thus to make in Canada but one community - a non-Aboriginal, Christian one." ... The Davin report, in which Nicholas Flood Davin performed a report on industrial schools in the United States to establish the same type of the school systems in Canada, started the ball rolling, in many senses, for establishing Canada's Residential School System. ... The residential school system has a history that predates Confederation (the first school was...

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