- Public School: A school supported by public funds... Traditional schools do not seem to prepare students as well nontraditional schools such as charter and private schools. ... A charter school is a public school that is operated and administrated differently than traditional public schools. A charter school is not a part of a unified school district, but is its own entity. ... Charter schools are a positive development because they provide an alternative for education that gives parents a choice in their children's education. ...

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Public Schools Should Require Uniforms More and more schools are making uniforms mandatory for students. ... The schools with uniforms have less violence within the school (Manual 1). ... However, most of the schools that have the uniforms are elementary and middle schools and not the high schools( Siegal 1). ... The school officials that are for the uniforms are making the elementary school have them but not the high schools and this is not fair. ... He states that wind breakers are a better alternative to white shirts. ...

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Activities school provides 6. ... The educational systems in the three different schools will be analyzed for three particular schools- American International School that follows the American system, Carmel School Kuwait which follows the Indian system and Kuwait English School which follows the British system. ... The School prepares students for the All India Secondary School Examination (AISSE/Class 10) and All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE/Class 12). ... Kuwait English School is a commmuntiy school which has earned reputation of prestige in the Kuwait society. The sc...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. ... This paper examines one school's approach to establishing innovative careers pathways for young people. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside the school and their subsequent connections with career programs. ... According to the original service framework the role of safeguarding young people was not the r...

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As an avid fan of college sports and weekend warrior athlete, I have examined this debate and developed a potential alternative, hybrid opportunity that would accommodate both academia and athletics. ... "In Louisville, Kentucky nearly 5,000 spectators watched Male High School beat Manual High School on Thanksgiving Day in 1896. ... Since schools involved divide payouts, each stands to earn about $116,000,000 annually. 2. ... An estimated $2,500,000,000 a year in college merchandise is sold under license, translating to about $100,000,000 to the schools in royalties. ... Athletes are expect...

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The Benefits of Alternative Treatments for ADD and ADHD The most prominently diagnosed neurological disorder in American children is Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder (ADHD). ... Unknown to most, there is alternative methods of treatment available that don't use stimulants or other harmful drugs. ... Alternative medications such as herbal medicines for treatment of ADD and ADHD have been available and easily accessible for years. ... Another alternative medication deals with the use of flowers. ...

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(Max De Pree, 1997) Schools today are being rewoven. ... Unfortunately, schools are also facing a severe shortage of teachers, particularly in middle and secondary schools as well as areas such as special education. ... There is some concern that these alternative programs do not place sufficient emphasis on professional knowledge but sometimes rely almost exclusively on internships and subject matter knowledge (Hawley, 1990; Zumwalt, 1991). ... One result of the teacher shortage is now an over-dependence on emergency preparation and/or alternative preparation procedures to staff classrooms....

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. ... This paper examines one school's approach to establishing innovative careers pathways for young people. ... With these issues in mind, this paper reports on research undertaken between 2009 and 2010 involving one inner city school in the western suburbs of Melbourne. ... Community stakeholders were recruited by the school principal, in conjunction with the researchers, based on the stakeholders' work inside t...

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So what was school? ... I remember looking into some alternative science on a topic we were looking at during our lessons and my teacher was outraged with me. ... They were unhappy with the local primary school so they sent me to Maranatha Christian School. ... The school was a small urban school that emphasised alternative education. ... If I struggled to fit into the system at my first school, I found this school even more difficult. ...

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The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. ... 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 t...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... Violence at school often involves the use of weapons. ... School violence occurs on school property, on the way to or from school, during a school-sponsored event, and on the way to or from a school-sponsored event. ... Instead of allowing students to spend time on the streets or with gangs by getting them suspended, whenever the student is not dangerous, in-school suspensions and community service, make better alternatives ( Ross, 2012 ). ... Sometimes after consulting with parents, the school splits up a gang...

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Ziai more or less defines this movement as placing an emphasis on alternatives to development via grassroots, local and regional movements. ... What he takes particular offense to is the notion of "alternatives to development," precisely because no post-development theorist provides concrete alternatives. ... Hence treating all the different strains of post-development as a whole coherent school of thought leads to these criticisms. ... Among these false perceptions include the view that the people of Lesotho have not had modern conveniences of schools, hospitals and roads even afte...

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Using the alternative method allowed, several of the larger counties have adopted mixed representation, utilizing a combination of single member and at-large districts. ... In Florida, school districts are countywide entities, meaning that they encompass all public schools within the county. ... Each of the nine School Board Members represents a single member district. ... County Total Number of School Board Members Expected Number of Black School Board Members Actual Number of Black School Board Members Miami-Dade 9 2 2 Broward 9 2 1 Duval 7 2 2 Table 3: Racial breakdown of Scho...

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CHILDREN, WOMEN, OLDER ADULTS TEEN GIRLS, ACTIVE WOMEN, MOST MEN TEEN BOYS, ACTIVE MEN CALORIE LEVEL ABOUT 1,600 ABOUT 2,200 ABOUT 2,800 Milk & Milk Products Group 2 to 4 2 to 4 2 to 4 Meat & Meat Alternatives Group 2 2 3 Vegetable Group 3 4 5 Fruit Group 2 3 4 Bread & Cereal Group 6 9 11 Total Fat (grams) 36 to 53 49 to 73 62 to 93 Table 1 Over the past 40 years, fast food has appeared everywhere, from stores and airports to athletic events and schools. ... Still others said that fruits and vegetables are not convenient because many have to be peeled or cooked and were not available in places...

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Early intervention pertains to preschool, children and adolescents who had received intervention remained ahead, were less likely to be placed in special education, and a greater number graduated high school (Berk, 2013, p. 347). ... Non-shared environment includes what the child experiences outside of home (such as school) and so there are unpredictable and unique events which can be more powerful then shared influences on their IQ although few studies have investigated this concept (Berk, 2013, p. 346). ...

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The history of how social work in schools was started is quite interesting. ... The first social workers in the school setting were financed by the community agencies that were derived from the burgeoning conviction that the public school was the logical place for early intervention. ... Where did you go to graduate school? ... She started out at Project Stride which was an after school program for 7-13 year old boys, and then she went to Martin Luther King Elementary School in Schnectady, N.Y. ... Stills/Johnson does have a certain set of hours in which she sees students because she has p...

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Two gunmen, part of the Trenchcoat Mafia, walked into their school at 11:30 am in Littleton, Colorado and started firing. ... People were afraid to send their children to school, in fear of what the day holds. ... The main problem appears to be the lack of available alternatives to incarceration. ... One reason why change in the juvenile justice system is needed is because alternatives to incarcerating juvenile offenders need to be developed. ... Reformers wanted something low cost and an alternative to incarceration. ...

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Distance Education There are two schools of thought when it comes to education. The schools of thought are "Are you for a traditional education?... Online learning has become a very popular alternative to traditional on-campus, in the classroom way of learning for many different demographics. ... Doeer, Online education offers new possibilities you might have never thought was possible and tells students: "If you can't go to school, we'll send the school to you" (Trujillo, 1998). When a student is considering going back to school weighing your options are key. ...

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To be the best today in the savage world of sports, some athletes are turning to different alternatives then just hard work, such as steroids. ... high school student is left with a responsibility like that a lot of bad things can end up Like many other things in life , high school students will find themselves taking steroids because the older kids are doing it. ... One study showed that from 1997 to 2001 that the percentage of high school seniors who thought steroids posed a risk dropped from 67% to 59%.... Anyone who would ever even think of using steroids, especially at t...

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It is estimated that more than 4 million government employees and students of schools and colleges are going to take part in this campaign. ... CLEAN-India programme, an initiative of Development Alternatives was launched in 1996 with a vision of developing cleaner environment for our towns and cities through a network of schools and NGOs linked with Government, business, academic and other institutions. ... CLEAN-India (Community Led Environmental Action Network) programme was launched by Development Alternatives (DA) with the vision of developing a cleaner environment for our urban centres....

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Where as the Neo-Marxist schools regard this main trend as neo-colonialism, the Neo-Liberalists take it granted for the improvement of capitalist production and wealth accumulation. ... These precautions are; investment, substitution of one asset for another, disposal of goods like land or jeweler, sacrificing children's ability to earn adequate incomes in future by withdrawing them from school because of inability to pay fees or need for their labor force. ... Strategies to change the quantity of human capital, reducing household size by postponing or stopping having children or sendin...

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What is the alternative for those who want to have a more 'natural' birth? ... These questions, among others will be the focus of discussion surrounding the medicalization of childbirth and the midwifery alternative. ...

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Imagine a psychological test for high school students where it is shown that those who fail are as likely to commit a future crime as are those arrested for having committed that crime in the past. ... I just don't see in our world today, with all our available alternatives, that capital punishment is still necessary. ...

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An individual report into alternative visions of education, including views about the role of education and the relationship between education and other social institutions Education for Work ! ... School is the first impression children get of organized society. ... Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. ... I think this creates alienation between the school and learners who don't fit into the social profile of what the school expects a good learner to be. ... However, educators, government, and businesses are making it more difficult for non-qualified people to get jobs...

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Some of the schools in which you will practise will have very few bilingual children, some will be almost entirely bilingual. In some schools - for example, Tower Hamlets - most bilingual children will speak the same language as a mother tongue, whereas in others 40 different languages or more may be spoken. ... The one generally used in education in Britain is very broad: "Bilingual learners: all children who have access to more than one language at home or at school. ... Speaking as someone who had to learn English as an additional language I feel that the Early Years are the hardest indivi...

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