Public Schools
Essays

As we have previously identified in our research, Los Angeles County is largely reflective of patterns throughout California and the United States concerning rates of adult and juvenile obesity.

I read, and will summarize here, three recent articles on issues having to do with evaluation and/or change within education. The first, Apples to apples: An evaluation of charter schools serving general student…

America is not a multinational society, but rather a multiethnic society. The result of this multiethnicalism has been the multicultural society in which we live. This multiculturalism has been a strength of our…

Two of the world's most beautiful countries are also, unfortunately, the poorest as well. The nations of Liberia and Sierra Leone are faced with a number of severe obstacles in their quest to join the international…

This essay examines the film To Kill a Mockingbird in light of its rhetorical and narrative elements. In particular, two scenes of rhetoric serve to demonstrate the film's objective of revealing the underlying reasons behind bigotry as well as the difficulty of overcoming it with traditional modes of rhetoric. In the end, it is clear that Scout's personalized rhetoric is more effective than Atticus' traditional rhetoric in the face of ideologies resistant to logic and emotional appeal.

ECD Lesson Plan: Progressive Preschool Education

Home school athletes in public school sports programs.

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable advantage. -- Cliff Purington, Chris Butler and Sarah Fister Gale, 2003

David Tyack and Larry Cuban do share similar views to John Dewey about the nature of the traditional education system in the United States as well as its origins. Public education as it exists today is a product of the…

ACIS Position Statement concerning Government Funding of Christian Schooling."