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Indian Boarding Schools, 2002.
This paper discusses Indian boarding schools that were designed to assimilate Native American children into the greater American (white) culture.
600 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 21.95
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The paper discusses the Indian boarding schools that represent an early attempt to subjugate the Native American culture. The author believes that the schools disappeared due to reports of mistreatment of the children and financial concerns. The author states that the schools should serve as a reminder that our nation has learned much about cultural diversity.
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"Boarding schools first became vogue prior to the American Civil War. During this time, idealistic reformers put forth the idea that Indians could become "civilized" with the proper education and treatment. Prior to this time, most white Americans had seen the American Indian population with great fear. Captain Richard Henry Pratt was one of the leading proponents of this movement and believed that he could "kill the Indian and save the man." "
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American Indian Boarding Schools, 2004.
This paper discusses the history of the American Indian boarding schools and their influence in developing ?pan-Indianism?, which connected individuals from different tribes.
2,245 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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This paper explains that the "Friends of the American Indians" believed that education was the only answer to the "Indian problem" to assimilate Native Americans into Euro-American society. The author points out that, whereas, the mission schools were traditionally located on the reservations, the ?retraining? process meant that the government-influenced boarding schools were located off of the reservations, usually many miles away from families, so that many children were not able to see their families for years at a time. The paper relates that, although the tribal traditionalists strongly were opposed to families sending their children to distant schools to learn the "white man's" ways, grinding poverty and the overwhelming hopelessness of reservation life caused many Indian parents to consider the possibility of sending their children to find a more prosperous life.
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"Many times the child was not told ahead of time that they would be leaving home to attend the boarding school. This resulted in a child resisting or fleeing home and hiding in the woods or with sympathetic relatives. The child might also runaway upon reaching the boarding school. One student?s account is recorded at the Clark Historical Library (1999). He remembered that on the day that he left, his mother pack his lunch, simply handed it to him, and sent him off to a day school he was attending. When he arrived at the school, he was then told that he was to leave immediately. He and several other children were told to get into a truck prepared with a wire cage. The cage was to keep them from fleeing, and they were then driven to the nearest railroad station."
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"Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools", 2005.
Analyzes and evaluates the book "Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools" by Cookson and Persell.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines "Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools", which was first published in 1985 and was marketed again two years later in a reprint edition published in 1987 by Basic Books. The paper shows that the authors, Peter Cookson and Caroline Persell, visited more than sixty American boarding schools as they conducted research and gathered institutional, student, and instructor data concerning the curricula, class composition and goals of these elite schools.
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"Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools was first published in 1985 and was marketed again two years later in a reprint edition published in 1987 by Basic Books. The authors, Peter Cookson and Caroline Persell, visited more than sixty American boarding schools as they conducted research and gathered institutional, student, and instructor data concerning the curricula, class composition, and goals of these elite schools."
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The Role of School Boards, 2004.
An examination of the important role of school boards in determining educational policies.
1,458 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper analyzes the group dynamics of school boards through a general understanding of the group dynamics of a school board and a case study example of a particular school board. The writer states that this work is especially important given the current climate of public and institutional demands for sweeping change within the whole public school system.
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"It is clear through the evaluation of current local political issues in almost any community that the tasks facing school boards are varied and often extremely challenging. The tasks assigned the group include issues associated with curriculum, safety, infrastructure and last but certainly not least both long and short-term fiduciary concerns. (Hamilton & Reutter, 1958, p. 117) One example is noted in the 1994 Kirst analysis on school board reformation, "School boards play an executive role when they implement policy. Many school boards approve not only the budget, but also almost every expenditure and contract for services?.Many boards approve the appointments of principals, vice principals, categorical program administrators, and even teachers." (Kirst, 1994) This example represents an idea of just one of the seemingly all encompassing functions of the local school board."
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Two Indian Poems, 2002.
Comparing "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways " by Louise Erdrich with "For The White Poets who would be Indians" by Wendy Rose.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper compares "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" by: Louise Erdrich with "For The White Poets who would be Indians" by: Wendy Rose. The paper discusses and then analyzes the tone, speaker, theme, and imagery in both poems.
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World., 2008.
A Critique of Jack Weatherford's "Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World."
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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The paper discusses that the term 'Indian giver' has come to be a synonym for someone who gives something, only to take it back. The paper further explains that it was the Indians who were forced to give to the Europeans--their knowledge about farming and fishing in the Americas and ultimately their land. The paper discusses that in Jack Weatherford's book, "Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World," the exchange between Europeans and Native Americans was an unequal one, with Europeans taking of the positive benefits of the New World, while the Indians were doing all of the giving. The paper concludes that unwittingly, the Indians found themselves the recipient of the evils of European civilization, like slavery, and a disrespectful attitude to the land.
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"According to Weatherford, the early post-Columbian contact of the Europeans with the native populace actually enabled the Industrial Revolution to change Europe, and ultimately the world. "Had Europe and America not come together through Columbus or some other connection, the industrial revolution would never have happened in the way we know it," because Europeans would never have gained access to the metals of the New World, or to Indian mines (Weatherford 57). This contact also generated the money economy of Europe and fueled a shift to a European economy based upon real, hard, convertible currency. Metal-based currency also was critical in fueling industrialism and world trade. By beginning the book with tales of South American encounters with Europe, which were particularly brutal and unequal from the beginning of the Indian-European relationship, Weatherford initiates a tragic tone, explaining how enslaved South American Indians mining gold and silver in Potosi supplied the precious metals for most of the European coins that generated wealth for the Old World at the expense of the liberty of the New World."
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James Joyce?s ?The Boarding House? and ?Araby?, 2002.
The writer looks at two of James Joyce?s short stories: ?The Boarding House,? featured as the seventh chapter in The Dubliners; and ?Araby?, the third chapter.
1,423 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper traces how Joyce tells the plight of the young boy in ?Araby?, raising the question: ?How much can man influence his environment, and how much is the reverse?? In discussing the problems faced by the main characters in ?The Boarding House?, the reader is asked ?Are people really in control of anything, or are we just slaves to our surroundings?? and ?Can man make any substantial changes in his world, or is that merely an exercise in futility??
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"The young boy in ?Araby? was faced with a challenge by some changes that were happening in his environment. The bazaar had come to his neighborhood, and he wanted to go to get something for his ?girlfriend?, who couldn?t be there herself. The challenge, which was actually a two-fold decision that he had to make, was Joyce?s way of illustrating an obvious point: ?Every person is faced with an important choice at some time in one?s life.? "
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"The Boarding House", 2005.
A look at how the female characters are portrayed in James Joyce's short story, "The Boarding House".
1,086 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper analyzes and reviews the portrayal of the two main female characters in this short story taken from Joyce's famous collection of short stories, "Dubliners". The paper explains how Joyce has painted the female characters in this story, and in all the short stories in "Dubliners", as predators out to trap any man into marriage. The paper then compares this portrayal to Joyce's portrayal of the male characters in "The Gallant" and shows how Joyce's message is that, while men are only after one thing with women, namely sex, women also only want one thing, marriage or the man's money, and this is a more base and elemental need.
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"Mrs. Mooney does not think of her girl gaining her own advancement through hard work. Polly seems to have no will or desires of her own, beyond fulfilling her mother?s desires for her to get married?Polly never objects to either male offers, but neither does she resist her mother?s constant overseeing and controlling guardianship. Every emotion of Polly?s is either calculated or dominated by her mother or both, as Polly ?had been made awkward by her [Polly] not wishing to receive the news in too cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived, and Polly had been made awkward not merely because allusions of that kind always made her awkward, but also because she did not wish it to be thought that in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother's tolerance.? (2) The oxymoron ?wise innocence? shows how much of Polly?s appearance of innocence or desire is ?put on? with the transparent (to the reader) intention of snaring men."
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Re-Tooling for Independent School Adaptability and Change, 2002.
An examination of defining new responsibilities for independent school heads, boards and trustees.
4,410 words (approx. 17.6 pages), 21 sources, MLA, $ 115.95
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This paper looks at the mounting financial strains facing today's independent/private schools, boards, trustees, headmasters and similar school leaders and how they should be able to execute the necessary administrative and structural changes to negotiate today's financial obstacle courses. The writer argues that they will fall by the wayside, as is the recent trend for most independent schools if they refuse to adapt.
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"Present day and emerging challenges to the financial viability of independent schools will likely require changes to the structure and arrangements of independent school cultures. In preparing for the challenges of change, independent school boards and headmasters and the relationship between them. In particular, boards of trustees will have to express stronger, more directive and explicit objectives so that heads will have clearer mandates to change entrenched arrangements. By doing so, a board will confirm its direct responsibility for the school's well-being, and it will become more realistic to hold the head accountable for leading the school along the trajectory which the board desires."
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Personnel Recruitment Procedures in Rio Linda School District, 2006.
A review of current recruiting procedures and hiring practices under California law.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This study focuses on reviewing current recruiting and hiring practices, under California law and within school board policy, of the Rio Linda Union School District. The study reviews state, school board, and school district policies on recruitment and hiring of education personnel, analyzes the effectiveness of present recruitment and hiring practices within the Rio Linda Union School District, and makes suggestions for improvement of practice.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
State Law, School Board and District Policies Governing Recruitment and Hiring
Recruitment and Selection
Job Posting Requirement
Hiring Processes, Procedures, and Requirements
Selection of Candidates
Screening
Recommendations for Employment
Teacher Recruitment for Low-Performing Schools
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"Many school districts, in California and elsewhere, have their own human resources departments. The Rio Linda Union School District, however, has no human resources department. That, according to Betty Barker, Assistant Superintendent of Personnel for Rio Linda Union School District (Interview, October 17, 2005) is one fact that distinguishes the district from other districts, and left over from the days before some schools began moving toward decentralization."
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School-Based Management, 2000.
A definition, the goals, benefits and drawbacks, assessment; roles of the school board, superintendent, principal, teachers and parents.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 28 sources, $ 135.95
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"Education Policy Issue: School-Based Management
Political leaders, school administrators, business leaders, and parents are very vocal about their concern for the quality of the public school education that today's students are receiving, which has given rise to a mind-boggling list of ideas intended to reform our schools. The list includes such concepts as mandating smaller classroom sizes, creating social work links, offering diversity training, initiating small-group learning, staffing mall-schools, generating a menu of elective classes and seminars, devising charter schools, providing on-campus psychotherapy, partnering with business for school-to-work programs, teaching critical thinking skills (a.k.a. higher order thinking), legislating school vouchers, and, of particular interest over the last decade, a bottom-to-top reorganization of management, often referred..."
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Residential Schools, 2005.
This essay looks at the history of the residential schools and the impacts they have had on the Native Canadian population.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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In this article, the writer looks at residential schools in Canada. The writer explains that residential schools were boarding schools for native Canadian children in which the authorities and churches tried to make the children more 'white'. Further, the writer notes that they were not allowed to speak their native languages and they did not learn any of their traditions and culture. The writer also points out that many children were abused and this still has consequences today.
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"Residential schools are a dark chapter in Canadian history. It is an example of a state-sanctioned mistreatment of an entire population and total disregard for a culture and a way of life. Furthermore the impact of residential schools is still felt today and many of those who attended these schools bear scars even now. Residential schools were schools for Native Canadian children initiated well before the Confederation. The Government of Canada estimates that "there are 86,000 people alive today who attended Indian residential schools"."
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School Violence, 2007.
This paper explores the policies and schemes for avoiding and dealing with violence in schools.
2,889 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 96 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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The paper discusses how education boards and school administrators have been forced to take serious notice of school violence and to come up with effective violence prevention schemes and policies. The paper examines three types of schemes that are introduced in schools; a higher level of security, desired reprimands for acts of violence and courses or programs introduced as violence prevention steps. The paper emphasizes the need for future researchers to include all dimensions of school violence so that school administrators are given a clear picture of the structure that needs to be adopted in order to execute successful violence prevention measures.
Outline:
Introduction
Literature Review
Success of Prevention Strategies
Recommendations
Conclusion
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"Violence has existed in the American society for as along as anyone can remember; correspondingly, so have the efforts to block, and eradicate violence. The most common acts of violence are domestic and youth violence, child abuse and violence that is restricted within the vicinity of the school (Asen, 2002; Gil, 1990; Madanes, 1990; Rivett and Rees, 2004; Serra, 1993; Trepper and Barrett, 1989; Vetere and Cooper, 2004). Amongst these, the one that causes wide-ranging destructive force is the violence that springs up in school. One good example to illustrate this would be the massive impact school violence had in the cities of Columbine and Santee in America. Of course, the most consistent form of school violence is that of bullying, hostile aggression and coercion."
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Creationism in Public Schools, 2001.
Discussing the controversial question about what theory of creation should be taught in public schools.
2,607 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This research paper explores the widely disputed concept of which forms of evolution, if any, should be taught in public schools. Did God create the universe, or did it stem from the Big Bang. What educators and school boards think. Current schools? policies are examined, and many experts? opinions are analyzed.
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"Since Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, a constant battle between creation and evolution has arisen. Darwin offered a new explanation of where man came from. He believed that humans, and all other living things for that matter, evolved from less complex forms of life, allowing only the fittest species to survive and adapt. Furthermore, evolutionists, the supporters of Darwin?s theory, believe the universe was created in a massive explosion billions of years ago called the big bang. Creationists, on the other hand, believe that some higher power, usually God, created the universe as described in the Genesis chapter of the Bible. The debate over how the universe was created eventually spilled over into America?s public education system, leading to a major controversy. Because of laws mandating a separation of religious beliefs and public institutions, like public schools, a decision on which theory of the universe?s creation should be taught could not be reached. This poses a new question. To what degree, if any, should creationism and evolution be taught in the public schools? Based on current scientific evidence, waning public opinion, and the violation of the separation of church and state, it is negligent for creationism to have a place in America?s classrooms."
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"Indian Givers", 2005.
A review of the book "Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, Volume I" by Jack Weatherford.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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The paper explains that Jack Weatherford began to examine the history of the Native American as he discovered that many agricultural products would not have been produced in farming without the knowledge that Indians gave those in the new world. The paper describes how Weatherford further stipulates that it is through these advances in agriculture that the United States has remained a strong contender in the global market ,and that without the influences of the Native Americans on the early settlers those new to America would not have survived. The paper analyzes how, through his work, "Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World", Volume I, Weatherford brings an insight to a people that most individuals have been negligent in understanding. The paper concludes that it is Weatherford's purpose to demonstrate that Native Americans have been a misrepresented and forgotten people when the history of North America is discussed.
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