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…contributes to the violence. The most recent school shooting in Michigan involved a six-year-old first grader who killed a classmate with a .22 caliber pistol. The news coverage had vanished after two or three days, and I was left wondering what had happened…

…School Vouchers Most Americans believe that improving our system of education should be a top priority for government at the local, state, and Federal levels. Legislators, school boards, education professionals, parent groups, and community…

…affected even former mainstays of government control, such as phone and power companies. As decentralization becomes more of a reality, there has been a great deal of debate over what controls the government should maintain or relinquish. The public school…

…Important Person Visits School to Speak to Students Important speaker visits Erindale Secondary school during Education week on April 22nd 2006, to speak to students about choices made in school. The speaker spoke to the students in the Cafeteria…

…, this incident became a big political debate with the then governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, who used media violence as a scapegoat and a quick fix to the crisis instead of getting down to the real problem. Of all the students in the school, were they the only two…

…What do George Washington, Thomas Edison and Theodore Roosevelt have in common besides fame? None of them joined school formally (Winger and Kantrowitz 6). In recent years, many have followed their example and started learning at home in the United…

…An average student spends anywhere from 2 to 3 hours playing, 8 to 9 hours sleeping, 6 to 7 hours in school and another couple in eating, watching T.V. and doing their homework. Clearly they spend the longest stretch of the time that they are awake…

…Matt, a high school football player, was scheduled to play linebacker in a Friday night game, but a few days before Matt was hanging out at his buddies and started smoking marijuana. Thursday, before the game, Matt was chosen to take a drug test. His…

…School Classes that aren't the Classroom Being an ignorant all-way Private school girl, I thought Schools were the key to everything, that is, the way to "upward mobility" for low-income children. Students who were "smart" and worked hard could…

…The numbers of high school dropouts are growing each year. Some of the main causes of children dropping out of high school are from the lack of parental guidance, falling into the wrong crowd, and difficult life circumstances. Without a high school…