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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Distance Education There are two schools of thought when it comes to education. The schools of thought are "Are you for a traditional education?... Online learning has become a very popular alternative to traditional on-campus, in the classroom way of learning for many different demographics. ... Doeer, Online education offers new possibilities you might have never thought was possible and tells students: "If you can't go to school, we'll send the school to you" (Trujillo, 1998). When a student is considering going back to school weighing your options are key. ...

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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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One of the most sensitive aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectio...

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School districts are legally obligated to offer a continuum of services for special needs students. ... This means that all students with disabilities, regardless of the type or severity of the disability, are placed in the general education classroom for the entire school day. ... In determining the placement of special needs children it should be noted that "the burden of proof rests with the school district in proving that a placement in the general classroom cannot be achieved with appropriate supports and services."" ... The school day may become fragmented which results in a lack ...

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Health food allows for a healthy life style but limited access to healthy foods can mean that people are substituting these with unhealthy alternatives. They many not notice it but the unhealthy alternatives may lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and in some of the more severe cases, even death. ... These stores are unable to provide organic foods as an alternative mostly because they cannot afford to. ...

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There these individuals set out to establish an alternative to the two fixed parties, called the Libertarian party--champion of freedom and personal liberty. ... Moreover, nearly three out of four Americans had the "option of voting Libertarian on November 3 -- far more than for any other 'alternative' party." (18:1) Best-selling author of Why Americans Hate Politics and Washington Post reporter A.J. ...

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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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June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they we...

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We argue for an alternative base for action, one that can be followed. ... I will break it down into examples of corporal punishment considered as Child abuse (in the home and in schools), the dangers and results of harsh corporal punishment, and alternatives to corporal punishments. In some third world countries like Afghanistan and Africa, school officials use corporal punishment to gain classroom discipline and to punish children for poor performance, tardiness etc.. ... Sometimes what can be even worse, normally in third world countries, once the parent finds out that the child was in ...

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She asserted that many former laundrymen become college graduates and influential people, that half the Chinese children in the Sunday school class she visited in San Francisco wore American clothes and in eastern public schools all the children wore American clothes. ... At the time of her death, the newspapers were full of stories about keeping Asian children out of public schools. ... Offering alternative perspectives on American identity and culture, Sui Sin Far, along with many of her contemporary writers of color, actively challenged mainstream readers' preconceptions and contribute...

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Most do not even have a high-school education and making money on the streets earns youths respect and freedom. ... PSD, which is an after school community based program, provides artistic alternatives to teenagers who have problems with school, their families or the community. ... Alternative intervention strategies to this have been traditional talk therapies which teens see as invasive and persecutory. ...

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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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While adapting to American society, they also began rebuilding and creating alternative structures for Vietnamese culture, language and entertainment. ... Ethnic enclaves play a significant role in the immigrant's experience by building a sense of community, providing alternative social structures and facilitating the preservation of cultural traditions. ... Little Saigon assists the newly arrived immigrants with a line of offices that provide translation services, school and job application assistance, English language classes, and employment that requires little or no skills. ...

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"You know your school and community. ... It may also require you to ask if you will be able to accept and implement the policies that you may not agree with, if there are alternatives to the policy, are the policies aligned with that of the community, and what are the values of individuals within the school and community. ... An educator has extensive knowledge which directs how they choose to serve faculty members and students within the school. ...

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"You know your school and community. ... It may also require you to ask if you will be able to accept and implement the policies that you may not agree with, if there are alternatives to the policy, are the policies aligned with that of the community, and what are the values of individuals within the school and community. ... An educator has extensive knowledge which directs how they choose to serve faculty members and students within the school. ...

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Monday, March 5, 2001, Charles "Andy" Williams, a student of Santana High School, went on a killing spree. ... He took his father's .22 caliber revolver and went to school with it. ... On December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School took on a hard, tragic fall. ... Approximately 700 people were inside the school that fateful day. ... In the shooting, twenty students, ages 6 and 7, and six adults were killed at the school (Sandy Hook). ...

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Salmon, who is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School who earned his Master's Degree in Public Health at Emory University, and followed up with getting a PhD at Johns Hopkins. ... Salmon writes "Laws requiring immunization for school attendance have contributed to the enormous success of the US immunization program. ... Schools that require vaccines have helped by making vaccinations necessary for a child to attend school. This helps with lower the amount of vaccine preventable diseases that travel through schools. ... Gary Null, who is an American radio talk show h...

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"The assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom they had originally been intended. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude from higher e...

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Examples of this can be seen in our schools history of teaching. ... He did so, preparing three bills for that purpose, proposing three distinct grades of instruction which were elementary schools, colleges, and the University. Although the institution was put into place for all children, only the rich, upper middle class citizens could afford to send their children to school without reprisal from their labor obligations in the family workplace. ...

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These families' circle of acquaintances consists mainly of persons from the church and it is not unheard of that the families send their children to Sunday school before the actual worship session, then send them to youth group on Wednesdays and the adults themselves go to bible studies on Monday evenings, often hosted by one of the church members. ...

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Using three different ethical schools of thought, distributive justice, deontology and utilitarianism, I will analyze several points. ... Because of this unfavorable trade balance, proponents argue that the United state is responsible the loss of these Mexican food growers' jobs, and the fair thing to do would be to hire them when they come seeking alternative employment opportunities. ... The reduction is even higher among Americans without a high school education, where it is estimated to be around 7.4% (Anrig and Tova, 2004). ...

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Baby boomers Our children are our future; our seniors are our foundation (Wissel L. 2000). Fifty five million Americans are age fifty five and older, according to the United States Census Bureau, of that number, thirty five million are age sixty five and older. By the year 2030, the sixty five...

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In the months leading up to the recent 2012 presidential election, there was an issue that was all over the news because of the impact that it would have at the polls. That issue was Voter ID laws--laws that are put in place by states which would require voters to show some type of identification be...

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Common measures included: greatly lengthened prison sentences; removal of discretion from judges through mandatory minimum sentencing schemes and strict guideline systems; expansion of conspiracy laws to include people only peripherally involved in an offense; loosening of the evidentiary requirements to prove conspiracy; and "school-zone" sentencing enhancements that apply to a large percentage of all drug cases in many urban areas, although the majority of such cases do not involve minors or take place on school grounds . ... State-level momentum for alternatives to incarceration has been g...

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