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.
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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.
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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.
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A Slice Of Life From Kozol's Amazing Grace
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A 5 page analysis of author Jonathan Kozol's book Amazing Grace. It is about children and how this nation is treating them. It is a disturbing book because it highlights the injustices that are still prevalent in our system and the ways this impacts the members of society who have the fewest resources to fight against themóchildren. The writer focuses exclusively on the sixth chapter as a representative section of this work. No additional sources cited.
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A Sociological Perspective Of School Violence
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An 8 page exploration of the sociological reasons behind school violence. Proposes that children engage in deviant behavior when social controls are either ineffective or absent and that two of these social controls are parental punishment methodologies and the media. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Abstinence-Based Sex Education Programs vs. Broad-based Sex Education Programs
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This 12 page paper that provides an overview of the basic arguments for abstinence-based sex education programming and a comparative view of broad-based approaches. This paper argues that in certain populations, there is a distinct need for broad-based sex education programs in order to reduce the chances of teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Academic Achievement and Children from Single or Two-Parent Homes
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This 10 page report discusses the differences that exist in academic achievement of children from a single parent home and those from homes in which two parents are present. Convincing arguments have been made for all sides of the question. In fact, there are those researchers who believe that it is not possible to accurately determine a child’s academic progress or capability based on just the issue of whether they are from one- or two-parent family homes. For example questions should be asked about socio-economic status, whether the child has a meaningful and positive relationship with the parent living outside the home, and if the child’s parent has never been married, has been widowed rather than divorced, and whether or not one of the parents is a step-parent. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Academic Dishonesty
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9 pages in length. Academic dishonesty, like all other forms of deviance, has important sociological dimensions. It is interesting to ask, therefore, how adequately the major sociological explanations of deviant behavior explain the occurrence of academically dishonest conduct. When the student discusses this perspective, it will be important to address such theories as strain theory, opportunity theory, differential association theory and labeling theory, all of which provide some type of motivation for this behavior. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Academic Performance
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Schools in the United States have had a recognized problem for a number of years: the public has lost confidence in the education system and the school's ability to educate. This 5 page paper argues that the perspective on poor academic performance must change to include the factors existing outside of the educational arena and that the schools need to initiate interventions that will bring together the forces in the student's life in a positive manner. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Accountability and Parent
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A 5 page paper which addresses whether parents or the schools should be accountable for the education of children. In this respect the paper focuses on accountability as it involves single parents, whether they have adequate parenting skills, and whether the schools are expected to be more accountable for the children of single parents. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Adequacy and Equity in Education; The Case of Illinois
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This 5 page paper considers what is meant by adequacy and equity as it applies to education. The paper discusses the relationship between these two different goals of the education system. The paper then applies these to the situation in the Illinois schools. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Adolescent Grief
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This is a 3 page paper discussing adolescent grief, its differences from that of childhood and adult grief, reactions and school involvement in the bereavement process. Attending to the needs of grieving adolescents is considered an area of counseling and psychiatry which has been overlooked for many years. While there have been services and guidance in relation to grieving adults and children, there is considered to be an absence of programs in regards to teen services. Adolescent grief is considered different than that of child and adult grief because of the mixed messages often given by the adolescents themselves in that many are trying to strive for independence yet still recognize that they have some dependence on family members and others close to them. In addition, while adolescent grief is sometimes considered similar to that of adults, it is compounded with the additional stresses experienced during adolescence. Because of this adolescents often handle their grief with different reactions from those experienced by younger children and older adults. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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