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USA Today's article "Pediatricians call for less advertising to children" from last December reports that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) wishes to lobby to ban or limit advertisements in schools for "junk…

Classroom management has increasingly become one of the more challenging tasks for educators at almost every level. In its base form, it is the process of ensuring that the classroom lessons run smoothly and that…

The best known directives consist of executive orders and presidential proclamations, but there are many other documents that have a similar functional and effects. Reduced to their basic core, presidential directives are merely written, rather than oral, instructions or declarations that are handed down by the President. Authority for these directives must come from either the Constitution or statutory delegations.

School uniforms for students are becoming more and more popular across the country. Research suggest that schools with a mandatory school-wide uniform policy have better attendance, better behavior, fewer discipline…

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Certainly, when attempting to answer the question "Is technology destroying the interests of students toward education?" one must take into consideration more than one viewpoint, meaning that like many other social…

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute study results published in "Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School?" (Doyle et al. 2004) may be surprising to many parents whose children attend public school.

Prayer in public schools has been a subject of controversy ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that "any kind of prayer, composed by public school districts, even non-denominational, is unconstitutional…

The work of Stephen Lendman entitled: "Destroying Public Education in America" relates that Chicago has stated a strategy for 100 "new 'high-performing' elementary and high schools in the city' under a five-year contact…

Religious freedom was one major motivation for the colonists who first settled this country. In response to the authoritative stance that the English government took on prescriptive religion, the United States drafted…