Educational strategies successful with other diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and hypertension, are being applied to the problem of pregnant women smoking. ... Methodology Evaluation Concerns While controlled research studies indicate tobacco control strategies with the potential to reduce teenage tobacco use when applied more widely, evaluation of the extent to which they achieve these aims when implemented in practice as part of comprehensive tobacco control programs is rather more difficult to determine. ... In the face of such change, effective programs may only be able to stabil...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The key research questions will focus on what parental involvement strategies are being implemented in middle schools. ... All data will help identify how student-led conferences and parental involvement strategies are currently being implemented to promote parental involvement in the school and the impact these strategies have on minority student achievement. ... Student-led conferences are a strategy to involve parents in their student's academic success. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The act is the most sweeping reform of the Elementary and 2ndary Education Act since ESEA was enacted in 1965. ... Bill, National Defense Education Act, and The Elementary and 2ndary Education Act many Americans have been able to reach higher education. ... In his policy he incorporated a lot of principles and strategies with the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). ... The results were the No Child Left Behind Act. ... This Act is a universal Act that incorporates the views and beliefs of most politicians in both parties. ...

• Word Count: 2518
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It is very clear that urban schools are not as equip as schools in the suburbs or rural areas. It is safe to say that not all urban schools are in bad situations when it comes to low-test scores, and the students" performance in the classroom, but most urban schools are performing unsatisfactory. T...

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PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES A) Objectives The objectives of the Philippine educational system may be gathered from the Educational Act of 1982 , the Philippine Constitution and the Philippine Development Plan. ... B) Strategies Toward the attainment of these objectives, the government has adopted specific strategies of which the major thrusts are the following: 1) Improvement of the quality of the Philippine education. 2) Equitable access to education 3) Full mobilization of education personnel with an increasingly commensurate compensation. ...

• Word Count: 7135
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A paper like this one and the accompanying presentation, are very important because they serve to inform and raise awareness of a population that has perhaps been neglected in other courses: gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) adolescents. Sexual orientation, biological sex, gender identity, and sex...

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(Lumsden 3) Instill students with discipline at an early age, allows them to learn the correct manner in which to act. ... When children are taught the correct way to act at a young age, rather than when they enter high school, is when the students are mature enough to disregard uniforms altogether. ...

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Titles IV and VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorized the government to become involved to insure that school districts complied with desegregation policies by providing for assistance in helping schools comply, authorizing the attorney general to sue to obtain compliance and allowing for a cut-off of federal funds to any school guilty of racial discrimination. ...

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DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a program designed to discourage drug use and violence among school age children. DARE's origins can be traced to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and a chief of police who helped create a drug education and prevention program he believed was effective. It spread rapidly, and by the late 1990s DARE was operating in all 50 states and many countries (Lundman 2001). Part of the reason DARE worked was because of its mutual effort between the police department, the school, parents, and community leaders. DARE works because it surrounds childre...

• Word Count: 3244
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• Grade Level: High School