A High School Education?
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A 5 page research paper that examines three essays from the acclaimed multicultural reader "Rereading America." Drawing from these essays and other research, the writer has to conclude that American high schools have largely failed to achieve their stated goals, and briefly explores the reasons why. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khreread.wps

A Literature-Based Approach To Multicultural Education
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A 6 page paper. This paper provides and overview and critique of a specific journal article by Elaine Mindich Bieger entitled: Promoting multicultural education through a literature-based approach. An overview of the author's main points is offered, including the four levels to using literature for multicultural education. The writer concludes with remarks about the impossibility of teachers incorporating everything everyone would like them to incorporate into the daily curriculum. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PGmul2.wps

A Model For Inclusion-friendly Schools
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the inclusion paradigm. Ideas on how to train and educate staff is a focus on the paper. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: SA218inc.rtf

A New Policy to Ban Alcohol Consumption on a University Campus
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the new policy implemented at the University of Colorado Boulder regarding a ban on alcohol at the university stadium. Their proposal consisted of a two year trial which during that time incidents of security problems would be recorded and season ticket holders and students would be polled in regards to their satisfaction of the new policy. The proposal and the trial turned out to be successful as security incidents decreased and attendance was not affected. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TJcolch1.rtf

A Personal Transition from High School to a Career: A Plan for an Individual Suffering from Multiple Sclerosis
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A 12 page plan plotting the intended course of a high school student who desires a career as a laboratory technician in the medical field. This paper provides an overview of the student’s dreams, goals, and aspirations balanced with the limitations imposed on her by her condition. A detailed review of the effects and causes of multiple sclerosis is provided as is an overview of the considerations the student will have to make to realize her career goal. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPdisabi.rtf

A Plan for Continued Education in Nursing
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A 5 page discussion of the importance of continued education to the nursing professional. Targets the specific curriculum goals of critical thinking, computer literacy, information literacy, and nursing informatics as critical components of an Advanced Practical Nursing Degree and addresses the manner in which these components can be addressed. Also identifies a means of touching up on areas of knowledge such as research utilization in advanced practiced nursing, healthcare policies/economics, ethics in advanced practiced nursing, health promotion and disease prevention. Contrasts the traditional approach of the classroom with on-the-job training and Internet Based and other forms of remote education. Suggests that by carrying a full time college load of twelve hours per semester the student can address the basic curriculum components identified above in as little as one semester. Suggests less time intensive approaches as well. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPnrsLrn.wps

A Preferred Vision For Administering K-12 Schools: Tutorial
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A 16 page research paper that begins with a general introduction to the principal's job and how the role of the principal has changed over the last twenty years. The major tasks of the principal are outlined. The writer then focuses on the characteristics, knowledge, skills and abilities the principal needs to have to be effective. These discussions are drawn from numerous research studies. Finally, the writer presents a summary of the characteristics and skills that determine how effective a principal will be. Throughout the paper, tutorial suggestions are provided for writing your own paper. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
Filename: PGprncef.rtf

A Program To Combat School Violence
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This 15-page-paper presents an in-depth discussion on the origin and implementation of a student based survey regarding school violence. The purpose of the survey was to assist in the design of a curriculum for a pilot program in the prevention of school violence. It includes discussions about the significance of the investigation as well as the instrument used and the validity of the results. The bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: CWviolenc.wps

A Proposal to Evaluate Academic Performance As it Relates to Stereotyping Resulting from Educational Partitioning of Physically Disabled Students
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An 8 page proposal to evaluate the academic performance of physically disabled students who are kept in mainstream classes verses those that are placed in special education classes. This paper suggests this educational partitioning of students with the same mental aptitudes but obvious physical disability results in stereotyping, stereotyping which could reasonably be expected to play a role in educational attainment. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPexpEdu.rtf

A Proposed Study for Evaluating the Benefits of Ability Grouping
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This 6 page paper looks at the benefits and detriments of tracking. Several articles are reviewed and a proposal for an experiment to show whether or not ability grouping is beneficial for gifted students, as well as other groups, is made. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA138SpE.rtf

A Sensitive Awareness To Disabilities On Campus
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On college and university campuses throughout the United States Awareness Programs have been - and are continuing to be - formed that provide a means whereby attitudinal, as well as physical, barriers to the integration of disabled people are questioned in the hope that they might be understood and, eventually, eradicated.. This 7 page paper provides a background into the need for awareness programs, explores the programs that are currently in use and leads into the use of sensitivity training. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWdisawa.wps

A Short Demographic Analysis Pertaining To Education In Georgia
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A 6 page paper discussing some of the uses of demographic studies, but focusing more on a demographic analysis of regions of Georgia based on data collected in the 1990 census, comparing the striated regions of the state with each other according to state averages. Assuming that all other conditions remain the same, it is reasonable to forecast trends indicated by demographic studies. Georgia education data is compared to that of the US as a whole, but the paper points out the problems inherent in comparing some categories, such as 'high school by grade' vs 'did not complete high school.' Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Demograf.doc