DARE was an extension and modification of a previous program known as Project Smart (Self-Management and Resistance Training) that was created at the University of Southern California to teach seventh graders how to resist drug use(Lundman 2001). ... During these weekly classes, DARE officers taught the following: Personal safety practices; Drug use and misuse; Consequences of using and not using drugs; Resisting pressures to use drugs; Resistance techniques-ways to say no; Building self-esteem; Assertiveness; Managing stress without using drugs; Media influences on drug use; Decision makin...

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Quality education is critical to the future of America's children. However, we cannot educate our children in schools where weapons, gang violence, and drugs, threaten their safety. Many local school districts have made uniforms an important part of an overall program to improve school safety and di...

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Quality education is critical to the future of America's children. However, we cannot educate our children in schools where weapons, gang violence, and drugs, threaten their safety. Many local school districts have made uniforms an important part of an overall program to improve school safety and di...

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"A policy designed to move communities, and eventually all Aboriginal's from their helpless "savage" state to one self-reliant "civilization" and thus to make in Canada but one community - a non-Aboriginal, Christian one." ... Two other legal documents that also made matters worse were the Indian Acts of 1876 and 1880, in which Indian self-government was abolished, as well as finance and all other services including education were under control of the Federal government. ... The schools also would have a self-serving use through the power of socialization as a part of a network of inst...

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The birth of school uniforms can be traced back to the 16th century. During that time period, uniforms were 1st instituted at charity schools for poor children. It wasn't until the 19th century that English public schools began adopting uniforms and even later for uniforms to be widely accepted at state schools. (Rapp 1) Uniforms are not usually seen in private schools, however, they offer many benefits. Until recently, uniforms were mostly seen in Catholic schools. ...

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Primary schools everywhere are beginning to cut music programs from their students' schedules. It is becoming less of an importance and becoming increasingly seen as a disruption to the students' lives and academics. "The required general music program in grades K–6 is less vibrant than it was at ...

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Public Schools Should Require Uniforms More and more schools are making uniforms mandatory for students. Uniforms can help students in different ways. The children who cannot afford name brand clothes would not have to worry about getting picked on. Other students would be able to concentrate on their studies and not what everyone else is wearing. Uniforms can help decrease the discipline problems such as fights and theft. ...

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A literature review, compiled by Desforges and Abouchaar (2003) identified that decades of research showed that the involvement of parents' results in higher grades, test scores, better attendance at school, increased motivation and increased self-esteem. ...

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Adolescents are faced with the issue of finding the true self. ... "The process of identity development for GLB has been found to be strongly related to psychological adjustment; the more positive the gay lesbian or bisexual identity, the better ones mental health and the higher one's self esteem (Hollander, 2000)." ...

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