... teachers for America's schools has entered an era of persistent imbalance, reflecting concerns with unacceptably low salaries, low regard for the profession, and safety for self and students. In the near future, efforts to retain educators in the workforce must also accommodate a rate of retirement of senior teachers previously not experienced (Feistritzer, 1998). ... and/or preparation (Feistritzer & Chester, 2001) in an effort to increase non-traditional candidates and decrease formal preparation time. Critics charge that alternate methods of licensing special educators have undermined ...

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... 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 period of social and cognitive development. During the 1980's, the United States saw an increase in drug use and drug related crime throughout the country. ... to school, including school staff, there can be very negative impacts on the school environment (Mulhern, 1994). The mere perception of violence in schools can both physically and psychologically i...

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... have failed, foster care and adoption should be considered. Such placements should replicate, to the extent possible, a stable family environment and avoid the problem of "foster drift". Special attention should be given to children affected by rapid and uneven economic, social and cultural change; in particular the children of migrant and refugee families, and innovation and socially constructive ... and other substance abuse. Schools should serve as resources and referral centers for medical, counseling and other services to young persons, particularly those with special needs of suff...

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... there is a high chance that immigrants from Non-Western cultures may seek psychotherapeutic help for themselves or for their children (Maiello, 1999). "Psychotherapy can be defined broadly as a special practice involving a designated healer (or therapist) and an identified client (or patient), with the particular purpose of solving a problem from which the client is suffering or promoting the health ... began to appear in the 1960s. There was increased concern in the 1970s and 1980s with how to deliver mental health counseling for minorities, migrants, refugees, sojourners, and foreign...

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... I aim to raise a number of difficulties in Laurence Bonjour's coherence theory of epistemic justification and in doing so, I intend to provide special focus on difficulties that arise from the limitations of language as it is used in the discursive manner by which a philosophical theory is constructed. ... coherent system of beliefs would be derived. Thus, it can be said that even though a coherent system of beliefs is being constructed, the construction nonetheless needs to proceed in the same linear and sequential manner by which language must inevitably be employed for. Moreover, Bon...

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