Curriculum / Should Sex Education & Substance Abuse Programs be Eliminated?
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This 3 page essay discusses the need to include these kinds of programs in the curriculum and offers suggestions on how to integrate them in other curriculum assignments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Sexsub.wps

Curriculum Evaluation
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7 pages in length. Determining the efficacy of a given academic curriculum requires a multifaceted evaluation that ultimately provides a broad and comprehensive overview of each component involved in the educational process. When considering the three-prong importance of 1) assessing student learning, 2) evaluating instructional practices and 3) evaluating the curriculum, it becomes quite clear how the absence of any one component precludes the ability to properly measure the overall application toward academic achievement. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TLCCurrEval.rtf

Curriculum Standards Overview
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This 4 page paper discuses curriculum-based standards and uses Science Content standards for Grade 5 Science from California as an example. The writer comments on the impact of these standards and if the descriptions on the Web site are adequate. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PGcrcca.rtf

Curriculum Trends in Education: Changes Over the Next Ten Years
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This 15 page paper provides an overview of plausible curriculum trends in education over the next ten years. Specifically, this paper looks at the impacts of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: MHCurCh4.rtf

Dangerous Weapons and Maryland School Policies
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A 5 page comparison of the legal definition of "weapon" in Maryland to the common definitions employed in school policies. The author observes that while serious retributions are appropriate for students carrying actual weapons with the intent of harm, applying these definitions to items like nail clippers is ludicrous! Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPschWpn.rtf

Dealing With Changes in Educational Focus
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A 3 page paper discussing organizational change as it relates to educational needs. It is said that change is inevitable, and that it can either be anticipated and managed or be an agent of chaos that throws the organization off track and causes it to lose sight of its goals. A survey of the world's most successful organizations of any size or nationality reveals that to be true. A few have had the good fortune of conveniently falling into "the right place at the right time," but the greatest majority have anticipated the right time's arrival and have ensured that they were there to meet it with necessary tools and expertise. No sources listed.
Filename: KSeduChg.doc

Declaration Of Educational Finance
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3 pages in length. In a world where knowledge is akin to success – both monetarily and spiritually – we declare the need for every child in every province of every country to be provided with and fortified by the knowledge that comes with education. That finances present a notable obstacle in achieving this objective can be no excuse: To refuse a child education on the grounds of money alone is to refuse him the very basic elements of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness granted to all. No bibliography.
Filename: TLCDecEd.rtf

Determining Educational Funding Adequacy
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This 7 page paper is based on the report by William Duncombe, Anna Lukemeyer, and John Yinger entitled "Education Finance Reform in New York: Calculating the Cost of a “Sound Basic Education” in New York City." The writer first explains the three approaches to determine an adequate level of educational funding. The writer comments on the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and then recommends one approach the state of California should consider using and the reasons for making that recommendation. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PGedfnq.rtf

Developing Student Codes of Conduct
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A 14 page overview of the academic need for student codes of conduct. The author reviews several key considerations which must be made when designing codes of conduct. Not only must student conduct be delineated as to what is acceptable and what is not, so too must the retributions that will be instigated of the codes are violated. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: PPethEd.rtf

Development of & Importance of School Finance
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A 3 page research paper that first looks at education as an investment in human capital and then offers a hypothetical newspaper editorial arguing in favor a new tax to raise revenue for schools. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: khhuced.rtf

Development of a Hybrid Platform for Educational Supervision
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This 15 page report discusses the ways in which the frameworks of educational supervision must be developed within the framework of those aspects of an individual’s personality and talents that best accomplished specific goals. Addressing the process of developing a hybrid platform of supervision based on one individual’s strengths and characteristics requires that those same questions be asked and answered honestly. Regardless of the established models explored, it is essential that the student attempting to create the “platform” that is most applicable and beneficial to their personal development. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: BWhybrid.wps

Developmental Supervision Case Studies
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A 6 page research paper/essay that summarizes and analyzes three case studies that deal with examples of supervisory style in education. Each case study discusses how a supervisor handled the problems of a particular teacher. Supervisory styles examined include collaborative, directive informational, an directive control. Bibliography lists 1 sources.
Filename: khcassup.rtf

Developmental Supervision/Principal’s Role
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A 3 page research paper that discusses a specific scenario involving a negligent teacher and then how the principal should deal with this. This discussion is 2 pages in length. The final page offers 2 more hypothetical problem scenarios. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: khprisc.rtf

Dewey on Education
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This 5 page paper looks at John Dewey's book Experience and Education and evaluates his ideas about education and democracy. Progressivism and traditionalism are two ideas which are contemplated. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA240Dew.rtf

Digital Equality and the E-Rate
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A 4 page discussion of the importance of the provisions of the Universal Service Fund (the program more commonly called the E-rate program) to achieving digital equality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPedDigEqual.rtf