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Extended school day and term programs in North Carolina and Wyoming

Morgan v. Polk County Board of Education 328 S.E. 2D 320 (N.C. Ct. App. 1985). Petitioners, students and parents, challenged a decision by respondents, State Board of Education and Polk County Board of Education, to conduct an experimental extended school day and school term program, increasing the…

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Compelled flag salute as symbolic speech in West Virginia v. Barnette

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943). Pursuant to West Virginia statute, the appellant Board of Education adopted a resolution requiring all teachers and pupils to salute the flag.

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New Fathers Network's effects on first-time fathers' self-efficacy and satisfaction

The authors study first-time fathers and how they parent, and two key points include their testing, which looked at fathers who had no outside intervention in the first 8 weeks of their new babies lives, to fathers who interacted with others though the online New Fathers Network.

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The effects of increasing tuition on higher education graduation rates

The current economic recession has had widespread and troubling effects on every walk of American life.

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Establishing and measuring accountability in life coaching relationships

Setting up accountability factors is primarily a matter of soliciting information directly from the client for the purpose of establishing the strategic goals of therapy (Whitworth, L., Kimsey-House, K., Kimsey-House, et al., 2007).

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The Jena 6 case and racial justice in Louisiana schools

The six students, Mychal Bell, Carwin Jones, Jesse Ray Beard, Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw faced serious criminal charges including the most highly contested charge of attempted second-degree murder. Moreover, some of the adolescents were tried as adults.

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Ethical implications of marketing strategies targeted at children

It is futile to state that the modern day business community is anything but dynamic, fierce and highly competitive. In order to cope with the emergent requirements of both market and industry, economic agents develop and implement a wide series of strategic courses of action.

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Nazi racial ideology and the manipulation of academic authority

The history of German beliefs about racial purity can be traced back well into the 19th century and long before they manifested themselves in the large-scale rounding up, imprisonment, and murder of millions of innocent civilian men, women, and children.

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Student expulsion and First Amendment protections in Doe v. Pulaski County

Pulaski County Special School District, 306 F.3d 616 (8th Cir. 2002). Plaintiff Doe's son, J.M. began dating K.G. during their seventh grade year. When the pair broke up, J.M. wrote two letters in which he threatened to rape, sodomize, and murder K.G.J.M. did not deliver the letters to K.G.

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DVR technology's unexpected benefits for television advertising and ratings

DVR, Once TV's Mortal Foe, Helps Ratings" by Bill Carter (2009) concerns the effects of the digital video recorder (DVR) upon advertising ratings and the popularity of otherwise somewhat mediocre shows.

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