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A Proposal for School Safety
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This 4 page paper uses the Columbine massacre as a springboard for discussion. A proposal is made for school safety. Would such measures have prevented Columbine? The paper evaluates the proposal in light of the horrific event. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA516sch.rtf

A Proposal to Evaluate Academic Performance As it Relates to Stereotyping Resulting from Educational Partitioning of Physically Disabled Students
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An 8 page proposal to evaluate the academic performance of physically disabled students who are kept in mainstream classes verses those that are placed in special education classes. This paper suggests this educational partitioning of students with the same mental aptitudes but obvious physical disability results in stereotyping, stereotyping which could reasonably be expected to play a role in educational attainment. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPexpEdu.rtf

A Proposal to Reduce Highschool Hispanic Drop-out
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A 12 page research proposal designed to evaluate the effects of a specialized class on Hispanic dropout. The author suggests that twenty-two students be randomly selected from a school and entered into a special program emphasizing positive educational networks and continuous exposure to material patterned after the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). The idea is to compare these students pre and post test scores as well as their future drop-out rate to other Hispanic students in the school. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPedHisp.rtf

A Proposed Study for Evaluating the Benefits of Ability Grouping
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This 6 page paper looks at the benefits and detriments of tracking. Several articles are reviewed and a proposal for an experiment to show whether or not ability grouping is beneficial for gifted students, as well as other groups, is made. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA138SpE.rtf

A Reflective Paper on an Interview with a Gifted Individual
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of an interview with a person who is gifted, and considers the nature of peer relations and challenges. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MHInGift.rtf

A Relevant Curriculum - Survey Results
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This 6 page paper reports the results of a hypothetical survey of middle school students, their parents and their teachers. The survey was to discover which topics in the curriculum each group considered relevant and which relevant topics had been left out of the curriculum. Topics are mostly broad categories. The results are presented first in narrative form and then with three bar graphs. Note that two of the graphs are presented alone on a page due to spacing. No Bibliography.
Filename: PGrlcr.rtf

A Sensitive Awareness To Disabilities On Campus
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On college and university campuses throughout the United States Awareness Programs have been - and are continuing to be - formed that provide a means whereby attitudinal, as well as physical, barriers to the integration of disabled people are questioned in the hope that they might be understood and, eventually, eradicated.. This 7 page paper provides a background into the need for awareness programs, explores the programs that are currently in use and leads into the use of sensitivity training. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: BWdisawa.wps

A Short Demographic Analysis Pertaining To Education In Georgia
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A 6 page paper discussing some of the uses of demographic studies, but focusing more on a demographic analysis of regions of Georgia based on data collected in the 1990 census, comparing the striated regions of the state with each other according to state averages. Assuming that all other conditions remain the same, it is reasonable to forecast trends indicated by demographic studies. Georgia education data is compared to that of the US as a whole, but the paper points out the problems inherent in comparing some categories, such as 'high school by grade' vs 'did not complete high school.' Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Demograf.doc

A Sixth-Grade Watershed Studies Project
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A 2.5 page paper that describes a watershed studies project by a 6th grade classroom. The essay provides an overview of the project and discusses how it was expanded by the students themselves. The writer comments on the success of the project and its impact on students. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PGwtrshd.rtf

A Slice Of Life From Kozol's Amazing Grace
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A 5 page analysis of author Jonathan Kozol's book Amazing Grace. It is about children and how this nation is treating them. It is a disturbing book because it highlights the injustices that are still prevalent in our system and the ways this impacts the members of society who have the fewest resources to fight against themóchildren. The writer focuses exclusively on the sixth chapter as a representative section of this work. No additional sources cited.
Filename: KozolAm.doc