Better Education: The Controversy Over School Vouchers Education remains America's most influential avenue of opportunity. Most Americans recognize the necessity of an elementary and secondary level of education to succeed within the highly competitive world beyond adolescence. ... Like the millions of Americans who recognize education as the one of the nation's priority concerns, George W. ... Tension mounts as it has become increasingly apparent to the American public that our current public school systems are not meeting the standards to which many Americans would like it to a...

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Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of student led conferences on minority student achievement. The study focuses on the social problem of student achievement and understanding how parental involvement influences minority student achievement. It is important for parents, as well as school districts, to understand the role of parents and the districts in the success of students. The foundation of the study is based on the theoretical frameworks of parental involvement and minority student achievement from Ogbu and Cross. The key research questions will focus on what pa...

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Imagine a world in which college tuition was nonexistent, and the only prerequisite to entering college was getting good grades. With this stipulation, people who wish to attain a higher education will have a better chance to do so. They can solely base the college that they wish to attend by consi...

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What is needed to improve the current educational system so that all Americans have an equal opportunity for education? ... Did desegregation truly improve the quality of education African Americans received? In certain parts of the country, African American students benefited tremendously. ... Even though it is clear many students have benefited from the desegregation policy, standard test scores for African Americans continue to lag behind their white counterparts. In addition, studies indicate that the number of African Americans ob...

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Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. ... Mexicans have been the main source of cheap labor in America. ... With a lesser level of education, therefore, the children will not be able to quality for the better, high-paying jobs, that are available to the white population. ... To become American is the main outcome of migration to the United States. ... Such organization was called the "Citizens for an Educated America: No on Unz." ...

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Black and White Test Score Comparison African Americans currently score lower than European Americans on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics test, as well as on tests that claim to measure scholastic aptitude and intelligence. ... It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still score below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. On some tests the typical American black scores below more than 85 percent of whites. ... The annual city-by-city analysis, conducted by the Council of the Great City Schools and released here last month, found that some district...

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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. ... "Truancy and dropping out are taken as evidence that sexual minority youth are a particular problematic population (Russell & Joyner, 2001)." ...

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Public Schools Should Require Uniforms More and more schools are making uniforms mandatory for students. Uniforms can help students in different ways. The children who cannot afford name brand clothes would not have to worry about getting picked on. Other students would be able to concentrat...

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Quality education is critical to the future of America's children. ... For these and other reasons the American Civil Liberties Union have sided with parents and students in the fight against uniforms in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) adamantly criticized Bill Clinton's school uniform "experiment" because "it like virtually every other uniform policy in the country, applies only to elementary and middle school students, and not to teenagers (Siegel)". ... According to Loren Siegel, Director of the Public Education Department, and the American Civil Libertie...

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Quality education is critical to the future of America's children. ... For these and other reasons the American Civil Liberties Union have sided with parents and students in the fight against uniforms in public schools. The American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) adamantly criticized Bill Clinton's school uniform "experiment" because "it like virtually every other uniform policy in the country, applies only to elementary and middle school students, and not to teenagers (Siegel)". ... According to Loren Siegel, Director of the Public Education Department, and the American Civil Liberties...

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According to a student opinion poll by Strong American Schools, only fourteen percent of students reported that their high school prepared them enough. ... The chancellor's website states that forty percent of the student population is first generation college students, meaning they are the first in their family to attend college. ... According to the U.S department of Education, seventy-one percent of students who graduate are white; fifty-one percent is African-American, while fifty-two percent is Hispanic. ... Twenty percent of African-Americans were also required to re-learn basic s...

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Title IX and Its Effect on Men's College Swimming College sports are very important to not only the athletes who participate in the sports but also to the schools themselves. The student athletes bring money and attention to the school that otherwise would not have been attainable. College sports also boost the school spirit of colleges. It gives the students something to come out and cheer for. Many college athletes participate in college athletics with a greater goal in mind, whether it is playing their chosen sport professionally or training to achieve a spot on the Olympic te...

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The Missionaries were the first to attempt to change Aboriginal population with an emphasis on Christianity. ... The relationship had now also become a paternalistic one with legal justification in the British North American Act 1867, which took away "their independent status and made them wards of the Federal Government." ...

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