Drug Testing in Schools According to a study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, among the graduating class of 1997, 54.3 percent of students had used an illicit drug by the time they reached their senior year of high school; a dramatic increase from 40.7 percen...

A lot of controversy has been raised over public schooling versus private schooling. Much debate has been made about the advantages and disadvantages of public and private schools. There are six areas in which one can compare and contrast the benefits and drawbacks of public and private schools: cur...

Public Vs. Private Education During the latter part of the nineteenth century, Americans began to raise the curriculum and instructional methods of public schools. They began to do so because of America's educational system, which was widely deemed inferior to that of Europe's. (Johns...

Article Summary Article I. The SAT's Greatest Test: Social, legal, and demographic forces threaten to dethrone the most widely used college-entrance exam. SAT, a standardized testing used for college entrance exam have experienced a lot of turbulence and criticism for the past two decades. Crit...

Students with Special Needs in the Classroom Environment: Who Benefits? No topic has sparked as much recent controversy in the public school system as have equal education laws, particularly laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities. Before the passage of the Education for Han...

As the times change, so must an educator's style of teaching. Computer technology can play a large role in this change. There are many reasons and ways schools can introduce this technology into their curriculum. There will be three of these reasons and ways discussed in the following pages....

School choice will improve education in America. Public schools are grossly inefficient, and are not educating many of America's youths adequately. Schools that are run independent from local government bureaucracy provide better education at lower cost. School choice would allow more students ...

School Choice: What Choice is there? Public schools are grossly inefficient, and are not adequately educating many of America's youths. Schools that are run independent from local government bureaucracy provide better education at lower cost. School choice would allow more students to attend better...

School Choice: Public Education vs. Home School When Americans think of education, they almost automatically think of public education. Through the years, it is slowly changing. Many parents today are deciding to home-school their children. Although most people think that a public educ...

I Summary School Description The CISD will be a co-educational independent school, which will educate students from Junior kinder garden to high school graduation. The school will accept students of all backgrounds. It will provide a challenging background as well as a balanced range of extr...

Against School Critique In John Taylor Grotto's Against School, he argues that the public schooling system cripples children. He makes arguments that the public schooling system suppresses children from learning at their maximum potential. He offers home schooling as an effective altern...

In "The Role of Woman's Explanations for Refusal on Men's Ability to Discriminate Unwanted Sexual Behavior in a Date Rape Scenario," Victoria Van Wie and Alan Gross indicate that approximately 15% of college women have been forced into sexual intercourse by a date. They advocate...

Affirmative action, as defined by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, is "an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women." This sounds like a very positive thing, however in its course of action, it causes reverse discrimination again...

If I Were In Charge For me, the term "educated" means to be well rounded not only in the necessary scholarly subjects such as Math, English, History/Geography, and the Sciences, but in the problems that can face us in every-day life. "To be educated" isn't just a phrase t...

Case #19: Sarah Hanover Sarah Hanover is a first year math teacher that has had no problems with any of her students. But one morning the school secretary summoned her to the math office to take a phone call. She could have decided just to take a message, but this phone call was from an ang...

There is a growing trend in America today that something drastically needs to be changed in our school system. The public is scared to send their children to a place where they could potentially be shot, stabbed, beaten, or be subjected to drugs on any given day. The morals of this country's youth ...

"We have to send a message that we're serious about no guns and drugs," says Michael Resnick, associate executive director for advocacy and issues management at the National School Boards Association (NSBA). "We can't be fuzzy around the edges about that message." (Koch 2000, pg. 2) But how se...

Teaching sex education in public schools alone has become a very controversial subject with some parents and other community members. So one can only imagine the reaction to teaching about homosexual lifestyles as part of the sex education program. There are basically two different views on the...

Hazing In High School When going through high school, students often join clubs, athletics, or other extracurricular activities. When joining one of these organizations, students may undergo what is called hazing. Many dangerous and harmful acts occur from hazing, especially for the younger generati...

High School Dropouts Even now, in the 21st century, where life evolves around degrees and technology, society is still faced with elevated numbers of teens that withdraw from school before completing their high school education. Where does this gradual deterioration of these teens ...