Alternative Medicine Throughout recorded history, people of various cultures have relied on what Western medical practitioners today call alternative medicine. ... Alternative therapies used alone are often referred to as alternative; when used in combination with other alternative therapies, or in addition to conventional therapies they are referred to as complementary. ... Department of Education has accredited more than twenty acupuncture schools and more than thirty medical schools now offer courses in acupuncture (Lombardo; Smith). ... --alternative medicine's chief critic--is...

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Many parents and school officials are concerned about what the children are really learning on this subject. ... They may want their children to understand no alternative but abstinence and that sex is only to be shared after marriage. ... The alternative sources where the youth of America gets information about sex and sexuality is often their peers. ... This is a program used in California for urban and rural high school students. ... Lastly, AIDS Prevention for Adolescents in School is a program in New York City. ...

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Speaking English has become a problem faced by many public schools in America. The school systems are beginning to bring in many students of language-minority backgrounds. ... Many people believe that public schools have begun diverse away from trying to teach the language-minority students. ... The only other alternative would be to use the sink-or-swim method of teaching these students. ... Bennett argues that since "the effectiveness of bilingual programs remains inconclusive and that therefore funding should be available to explore English-only alternatives (Crawford 5)." ...

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There are many alternative ways the government can promote equality within the educational system. ... Allan Bakke, a student who failed to get into the University of California at Davis, sued the school for having what he considered an unlawful admissions process. ... "In 2000, 12 Hispanics who scored between a 159-160 on the LSAT and earned a GPA of 3.00 or higher applied for admission [to the University of Michigan Law School] and only 2 were admitted. ... In the same court case, it was stated by Michigan Law School's expert that "in 2000, 35 percent of underrepresented minority ap...

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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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They oppose alternative methods of treating ADD, claiming that these methods are unsupported and lack sufficient evidence and scientific results. ... Alternative methods recommend a change of diet, education, and discipline. ... Beneficial alternatives include home schooling, exercise, and alternative forms of discipline, meditation, and nutritional supplements. ... Studies show that kids diagnosed with ADD learn in a very different manner than those who excel in the school system today. ... "A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of the youth are long, long thoughts,"" by...

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They oppose alternative methods of treating ADD, claiming that these methods are unsupported and lack sufficient evidence and scientific results. ... Alternative methods recommend a change of diet, education, and discipline. ... Beneficial alternatives include home schooling, exercise, and alternative forms of discipline, meditation, and nutritional supplements. ... Studies show that kids diagnosed with ADD learn in a very different manner than those who excel in the school system today. ... "A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of the youth are long, long thoughts,"" by...

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The space utilized for this activity is the school gymnasium. Even in high school, children around the country are expected to participate in this activity. ... High school P.E classes are for the nonathletes. ... For many educators, school work for the classes involves the students lounging around watching movies instead of utilizing the school's weight room, track, and bleachers for physical activity to decrease or prevent weight gain. ... Younger children don't realize that they are lazy, the adult figures in their life should offer alternative healthier food. ...

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It doesn't even come as a shock to many people when we hear of shootings at schools. ... These communities need to provide alternatives for these kids, get them involved in sports and other activities and they need to stop fearing these gangs that have taken over the streets. ... This is getting out of hand, the days of little Johnny stealing a stick of gum from the corner store are over, now it is little Johnny going to school with a loaded .45 and shooting six of his classmates. ... We have recently observed the one year anniversary of the horrible massacre at Columbine high school in C...

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Now, America as great nation is struggling to educate its future leaders and a greater alternative must be given. The NCLB act creates stressful school environments for schools by mandating that standardized testing weighs more than student work, increases paper work for the classroom teacher, and has shown few improvements in education overall. ... By observing young people at school, it can be observed that when their parents where at the school, they were more attentive. ... The Act also makes it look as if the school systems now are all about test grades [OBr13] [Deb09]. ... They quit sc...

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Approximately 8 million school-aged children under the age of fifteen are left home alone or on the streets after school. ... As a result, latchkey kids can be found in urban, suburban, and rural communities where working parents, for a variety of reasons, are unable to arrange or afford a better alternative. ... How do kids spend their time after school hours? ... Others attend after school programs. ... School districts have the ability to fund public schools as community education centers. ...

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Music Today : Just a Bunch of Garbage? It's 4:00 pm and you just got home from school. You turn on the radio only to hear some media generated stuff banded together by some lame drum beats. This is unfortunetly, the music of today. Along with pop music and boy bands, alternative and rock music ...

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Affirmative action can also be a way of reflecting the country's diversity in schools or businesses. ... Alternatively the group that will be against affirmative action and all of it issues, and will be the most upset about affirmative action would be the majority, also identified as white males. ... I think they will not admit because they do not want to own up to the negative aspects of affirmative action, as for example a white man not being accepted in to a school because there are not enough minorities or women in the school. ... One positive role that affirmative action has playe...

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"Creationists have long battled against the teaching of evolution in U.S. public schools, and their strategies have evolved in reaction to legal setbacks. Creationists are fond of asserting that evolution is a theory in crisis because they assume that there are only two alternatives: creationism (whether creation science or intelligent design) and evolution. ... This is why it should be no surprise to learn that local schools and teachers can come under tremendous pressure. ... School administrators find it safer not to encourage it. School boards find it safer not to insist upon it. ...

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Before the late 1900s disabled children were not even given the option to go to school. ... Even though funding is decreasing for these programs, a disabled child's basic needs are still being met by the public school system. ... In fact many private schools and programs in Virginia do an exceptional job of educating children with disabilities. The Little Keswick School, located in Central Virginia, was rated by Masters in Special Education this year as the second best special education school in the country. ... However although schools like the Little Keswick School do an exceptional j...

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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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Northern missionaries arrived to set up schools for blacks in the South. ... Local law enforcement easily found alternative reasons for forbidding blacks to vote in the South. ... This case declared that it was unconstitutional to create separate schools for children on the basis of race. ... Ferguson, which said that schools should be equal, but separate. ... One day a bunch of teenage blacks saw and recognized this white boy and his truck from school. ...

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This statement clearly indicates that marijuana is a safer alternative medication to drugs already on the market for arthritis treatment. This, of course, is only one of the many beneficial uses of the drug, and properly funded and supported research would open many other possibilities for the potential of marijuana as an alternative treatment. ... Marc Schuckit, a professor at the University of California School of Medicine, stated in a newsletter that "the 1970 Uniform Controlled Substances Act listed marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, indicating a substance with a high potential for abuse, l...

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These boosts often do not help the minority student in the long run as Source C points out, stating, "Some minority students who get into a top school with the help of affirmative action might actually be better served by attending a less elite institution to which they could gain admission with less of a boost or no boost at all. " The removal of these boosts and benefits presented to minorities might encourage some to take their schoolwork more seriously and actively compete for acceptance into top-tier colleges. ... Because racial barriers are mostly broken down in today's society, s...

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(Drug abuse resistance education) witch have been taught in both public and private schools. ... Three alternative solutions for this problem can be considered. ... Teens spend more time at school then at home; therefore, they see more of what goes on at school than at hoe. ... It's no crime to have random drug tests at schools or at the work place. ...

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It receives the honor of being banned from many schools across America, being called "uncouth," "obscene," and "unfit for even a sailor's ears", and publicly burned by angry protesters in Texas. ... It may it be in health class, the halls at school, or through the media; eventually they are going to learn about these facts of life; resisting would be like trying to hold back an avalanche. ... Alternatively, would the parents prefer to procrastinate and shrug off their parental responsibilities, having their children notified by a group of joking peers, and then entering the world with a d...

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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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It is highly unlikely to have seen a young teenager walking around the halls of high school in the late 60's early 70's with a pierced tongue, or an earring in their eyebrow. ... All these alternative reasons for the body piercing are good, but I feel as though the number one reason for the phenomenon is too bring attention to the kids, and so they"re noticed. ...

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Whether it is for school, for a job, or while applying for a Social Security Card, we are asked to pick a category to put ourselves into on these important forms. ... Alternatively, if the categories were to be more exact, processing the forms may take more time and create more errors. ...

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This incomplete view of America's history can be found in its schools" curriculums. ... In order for the people of this nation to learn it's complete history these alternative views must be present in the classroom, as the classroom is the basis of all students" knowledge. ... The diversifying sense of American history has become apparent in the curriculum that is offered by schools. ... Minority views are not fully represented in most textbooks, but school curriculums have changed to allow these views to be present in the classroom. ... On top of this many schools offer presenta...

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