- Public School: A school supported by public funds... Traditional schools do not seem to prepare students as well nontraditional schools such as charter and private schools. ... A charter school is a public school that is operated and administrated differently than traditional public schools. A charter school is not a part of a unified school district, but is its own entity. ... Charter schools are a positive development because they provide an alternative for education that gives parents a choice in their children's education. ...

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Public Schools Should Require Uniforms More and more schools are making uniforms mandatory for students. ... The schools with uniforms have less violence within the school (Manual 1). ... However, most of the schools that have the uniforms are elementary and middle schools and not the high schools( Siegal 1). ... The school officials that are for the uniforms are making the elementary school have them but not the high schools and this is not fair. ... He states that wind breakers are a better alternative to white shirts. ...

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Activities school provides 6. ... The educational systems in the three different schools will be analyzed for three particular schools- American International School that follows the American system, Carmel School Kuwait which follows the Indian system and Kuwait English School which follows the British system. ... The School prepares students for the All India Secondary School Examination (AISSE/Class 10) and All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE/Class 12). ... Kuwait English School is a commmuntiy school which has earned reputation of prestige in the Kuwait society. The sc...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. ... This paper examines one school's approach to establishing innovative careers pathways for young people. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... According to the original service framework the role of safeguarding young people was not the r...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. ... This paper examines one school's approach to establishing innovative careers pathways for young people. ... With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside t...

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So what was school? ... I remember looking into some alternative science on a topic we were looking at during our lessons and my teacher was outraged with me. ... They were unhappy with the local primary school so they sent me to Maranatha Christian School. ... The school was a small urban school that emphasised alternative education. ... If I struggled to fit into the system at my first school, I found this school even more difficult. ...

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The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... The failure on behalf of these policies to create safer schools calls for reform and the implementation of evidence-based alternatives to school discipline. ... In reviewing the existing body of literature, I will underline the detrimental impact that zero tolerance policies have had on U.S. public schools and outline alternatives to school discipline that are more supportive of educational achievement and conducive to the needs of adolescents during t...

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The history of how social work in schools was started is quite interesting. ... The first social workers in the school setting were financed by the community agencies that were derived from the burgeoning conviction that the public school was the logical place for early intervention. ... Where did you go to graduate school? ... She started out at Project Stride which was an after school program for 7-13 year old boys, and then she went to Martin Luther King Elementary School in Schnectady, N.Y. ... Stills/Johnson does have a certain set of hours in which she sees students because she has p...

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To be the best today in the savage world of sports, some athletes are turning to different alternatives then just hard work, such as steroids. ... high school student is left with a responsibility like that a lot of bad things can end up Like many other things in life , high school students will find themselves taking steroids because the older kids are doing it. ... One study showed that from 1997 to 2001 that the percentage of high school seniors who thought steroids posed a risk dropped from 67% to 59%.... Anyone who would ever even think of using steroids, especially at t...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! ... School is the first impression children get of organized society. ... Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. ... I think this creates alienation between the school and learners who don't fit into the social profile of what the school expects a good learner to be. ... However, educators, government, and businesses are making it more difficult for non-qualified people to get jobs...

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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 operates in 80 percent of all U.S. schools districts and reaches more than 36 millions students (DARE 2003). ... For individual police officers who have grown weary of the streets, burglary detecting, or vice, DARE provides a pleasant alternative that permits and encourages development of strong ties with children. ... In 1984, the LAPD was spending over $5 Million per year DARE in Los Angeles Schools (Lundman 2001). ... Using pre-test and post-test qu...

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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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These tests will make the schools accountable for the performance of every student and the improvement of the school as a whole. ... This Act increased the accountability for states, school districts, and a school, meaning that under educating was not acceptable. ... By means of a school-by-school basis report, the public will be informed about the safety statistics according to each school. Also in this policy, any student that is a victim of a violent crime at that school may transfer to a safer school. ... In the lower income school districts or the urban schools, funding is a hard thi...

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At the time there were approximately 730 public schools, 78 percent of which were one teacher, one classroom, small country schools (Swarbrick, 2012). ... Alternatively, Maori children went to Maori schools, which were controlled by the Department of Education, but had a different set of controls on them; which included staffing and curriculum (Holst, 1971). ... While, the Maori schools were noted as being 'native schools', they were by no means the total immersion schools that are Maori schools today. ... However, by 1969 "public" schools and Maori schools were fully c...

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Teaching Mathematics at the High School Level Educational Philosophy Taking into consideration the competency level of an adolescent in high school, I am compelled to enforce an Essentialist approach toward education, using the methods of Behaviorism. ... To enrich the life of each student and benefit humanity as a whole, I see no alternative than to teach mathematical skills in a systematic and organized way, resulting in students that utilize these abilities to form insights and discipline. ... I personally have found that proximity is especially effective with in the lower classmen of...

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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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College sports also boost the school spirit of colleges. ... If a local school system offers slow-pitch and there is enough interest to support a fast-pitch team, then the school must offer fast-pitch as well as slow-pitch softball. ... However, if a school offers a sport for one gender while there is no comparative sport for the other gender, then the school must allow for both genders to try out for the same team. ... On August 30th of every year, each school system must submit a School System Compliance Report. ... For example a gymnast should not be counted if the school has no gymnas...

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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. ... The request will be granted if they can find parents of twenty of more children on the same school who want the same thing. If they can not find enough parents, they are allowed to transfer to another school that will provide it. ... The opponents of the Bill state that it will prevent Mexican children to fully learn the language, therefore preparing the student to meet greater challenges in school and eventually drop out of school. ... The committee inclu...

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