Should the US Adopt a National Curriculum
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An 8 page research paper that examines whether or not the US should adopt a national standardized curriculum similar to those found in other industrialized countries. The writer offers an overview of the question, considering both the pros and cons before arguing against such an adoption of standards. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Curstand.wps

Should Universities Attempt to Provide all Undergraduates with a Common Educational Foundation?:
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This 6 page paper discusses the question of whether or not universities should try to provide students with a common educational foundation. This paper analyzes the pro's and con's of this argument. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: GSCommon.rtf

Smoking Attitudes Among College Students: A Research Proposal
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A 12 page proposal for a questionnaire-based study is presented which is designed to quantitatively assess student smoking and attitudes toward smoking. A review of the literature is presented which details both the known health impacts of smoking and exposure to secondary smoke and the known correlation between an individual’s attitude and their smoking status. Includes a 13 question survey. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: PPsmokeS.rtf

Social Promotion Policy
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This 9 page paper is a proposal to a fictitious school board. In this hypothetical case, the district has no formal policy regarding social promotion. The writer provides background and then two alternatives - one policy for and one against social promotion. Each alternative is analyzed with pro's and cons. The writer then offers a modified policy proposal that might satisfy those who oppose it. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PGsocpr.wps

Societal Problems And Their Effect On The Cost Of Public Education
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A 6 page paper discussing how problems in society affect the educational costs of public education. This analysis focuses on elementary and secondary public education in the United States. The effect that societal problems have on public schools is shown in how they impact the students as well as how they result in higher educational costs. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Pubcos2.wps

Solutions for Today's Troubled Schools
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This 5 page paper provides solutions for the school problems that exist today. Issues discussed are teachers' salaries, the alternate route to certification, parental involvement, mandating that seasoned teachers take refresher courses and new ways of funding public schools. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA123edu.rtf

Special needs children
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A seven page paper which looks at the concept of inclusion with regard to special needs children in the education system, including the way in which ethical, legal and pragmatic aspects need to be taken into consideration.
Filename: JLspecneed.rtf

State Control of Public Education: A Multiplicity of Issues
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A 5 page discussion of the issues surrounding state control in public education. Examines the funding concerns which revolve around this issue and discusses the feasibility of privatization as a means of freeing the nation’s educational system from the stranglehold in which it currently exists. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPedStte.wps

State Funded Charter Schools
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11 pages. Charter schools are publicly funded schools run by private individuals in order to give students a more complete and rounded education. The premise of a charter school is to lower the student to teacher ratio from what the overcrowded public schools currently have, thus giving children a chance at a more personalized and hopefully more advantageous education. While this premise is sound in theory, there are both advantages and disadvantages to the system. This research paper presents an indepth look at both sides of the charter school controversy. The advantages as well as the disadvantages, and this allows the reader to make his or her own decision as to whether charter schools are living up to what they were intended to be. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: JGAchrtr.wps

Strategic Plan for a High School
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This 8 page paper focuses on plans to help a high school jump over hurdles involving drug abuse, discipline problems, a lack of interest in girls' sports and overcrowded classrooms. Each of these problems are addressed. A SWOT analysis is included. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA309HS.rtf

Strategies for Effective Studying
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This 8 page report discusses the most important skills and strategies students need to best assure their success in learning. Many, if not most, students do not know how to study effectively. The most successful students, in addition to constantly reviewing course information, develop creative ways to reorganize course information. Students work actively with information, make sense of it, and reorganize it in a way that they can understand the information and remember it. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: BWstud.wps

Student Conduct and Student Rights
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A 5 page paper which discusses some legal concerns of students in relationship to conduct and personal rights. In discussing these issues, the paper addresses the actions that can be taken by the leaders or teachers involved, and the level of involvement that the leaders and teachers can expect from the issues. The focus of the conduct and rights addresses four individual issues. Those issues are right to privacy as it relates to searching lockers and personal belongings, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and sexual harassment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAstuden.wps