Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. ... 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 this ...

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Primary schools everywhere are beginning to cut music programs from their students' schedules. It is becoming less of an importance and becoming increasingly seen as a disruption to the students' lives and academics. "The required general music program in grades K–6 is less vibrant than it was at the midpoint of the twentieth century" (Colwell and Rodriguez).For, many reasons, music is being taken out of our primary schools. It is losing its importance in students' lives and is growing less popular in our schools. At the rate music is being taken out of schools, ...

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Uniforms can help decrease the discipline problems such as fights and theft. ... A manual on school uniforms written by the Washington School Board states that in order to have a good school, you must first have a stable and disciplined environment. ... Third, the uniforms would give students more discipline and help lower peer pressure. ... People say that uniforms help change these discipline problems but don't have them in the schools that need them and to me it makes no sense. ...

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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. ... "Imposed discipline is the necessary means to self-discipline"(Vanderswaag & Zeigler, 1968). Students will realize the benefits of their newfound discipline in the form of knowledge and respect from their peers. ...

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The birth of school uniforms can be traced back to the 16th century. During that time period, uniforms were 1st instituted at charity schools for poor children. It wasn't until the 19th century that English public schools began adopting uniforms and even later for uniforms to be widely accepted ...

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Many local school districts have made uniforms an important part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. ... President William Clinton agreed with this saying "If uniforms can help deter school violence, promote discipline, and foster a better learning environment, then we should show strong support to the parents that try them". (21) By mandating uniforms in public school, school officials hope to see a reduction in crime and violence. ...

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Many local school districts have made uniforms an important part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. ... President William Clinton agrees with this saying "If uniforms can help deter school violence, promote discipline, and foster a better learning environment, then we should show strong support to the parents that try them".(21) By mandating uniforms in public school, school officials hope to see a reduction in crime and violence. ...

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New Zealand primary and secondary school curriculums have been changed and adapted regularly and considerably since the first nationwide mandated curriculum was introduced 1877. This essay will work to respond to the O'Neill, Clark and Openshaw (2004) statement; while identifying and explaining the ways in which the New Zealand curriculum has been changed and adapted from 1877 to 1970. This essay will do this by first, investigating the 1877 Education Act and examining the ways the New Zealand curriculum has been changed by several of processes over this time period. Second this essay w...

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Today's social structure calls for every young adult to attend a university immediately after graduating high school. It tells us we need to have a step-by-step plan of what we are going to do for the rest of our lives and what we're going to do for eight hours every day five days a week, and truthfully I think it's a bunch of garbage. Now I understand that for some people it works, especially if they have a simple mind frame, someone who just goes by the book and doesn't ask questions. However it's not as simple for people like me. We tend to want to do what we wan...

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Thurgood Marshall High School is the newest of the six schools in Great Falls Illinois. The school opened two years ago amid national acclaim for being an important breakthrough in inner-city education (Gabarro, 1993). It was specially designed and constructed for the "house system" concept. Upon...

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Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundati...

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Social Work Term Paper: This is a term paper on how a social worker is used within several types of schools. Social Work is classified under the topic of Social Welfare. Social Welfare are various institutions and services whose primary purpose is to maintain and enhance the physical, social, in...

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I am going to take you through a journey on the back of a traveller that is old and weary. You will recognise the traveller and will know a lot about it. The traveller is on a journey, it has been to the past, is in the present and headed for the future and our traveller is asking questions of the...

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INTRODUCTION: To the Filipino, knowledge is acquired through education. Although they generally agree that education can be obtained inside and outside school, they believe that the primary sources of knowledge are the schools. Thus, the higher a person goes up the formal educational ladder, the more knowledge he or she acquires and expectedly, the more wealth he or she generates or produces. Being wealthy means having power, influence and social prestige. Thus, earning a college diploma means acquiring the key to economic and social opportunities. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate