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111: Law Schools
... is conducted by a court or board acting under judicial direction. The knowledge needed to study for and pass the exam can be found wherever the candidate thinks they can find it. The oldest law school in America was of Judge Reeve in Litchfield, Connecticut, established in 1784. For several decades law students received their training through lectures and instruction by Judge Reeve and his assistants, whom were practicing lawyers. This oldest American law school was a private institution. After some time there was a rise in competitors, and law courses were introduced in connection with existing colleges. Among the new schools was Harvard College, whose first professorship of law dates from 1816, but the school did not attain its position of great and rapidly increasing significance for the development of legal instruction till 1830 (Gillers 20). In the beginning, the older American law schools were referred to as lecture ...
112: Columbine
School violence, is an issue that is hard to deal with. There are things that may be done to decrease it but it does not seem like it will ever go away. Parents send their children to school to learn, to have fun, to pass notes, and to meet new people, not to be shot at and never have the chance to come home ever again. They should not have to think or be afraid of sending their child to school and never seeing them. Last year one of the worst school shootings took place at Columbine High School. Not only did it effect the famlies of the victims and of the killers, pretty much ...
113: Hoop Dreams
HOOP DREAMS "Hoop Dreams" by Ben Joravsky, is about two kids Arthur Agee and William Gates who are just starting high-school and playing high-school basketball. These two kids from the projects of Chicago's West Side are chasing their dreams of playing basketball in the NBA, and making it through life. Both of their lives are playing basketball, but they both face problems with their families, school and basketball. Throughout the entire book troubles and joys of both the player's life and basketball career from selecting a high-school to the end of their senior year at high-school. At ...
114: Graduating From High School In New York
Graduating From High School In New York In order to graduate from a public high school in New York State, students must go through many required courses and activities that students in other states may not have. The suggestion of adding a new requirement for graduation, a certain number of hours ... from many areas of students extra curricular lives. Although this service would benefit the community and gets students involved in their community, this requirement is very impractical. In New York, credits for graduation from high school are required in Physical Education, Music, and Art, along with the more traditional academic coursed such as Math, Science, English, and History. Many states require fewer credits than New York in these areas. For ...
115: Essay On The No Smoking Policy On Peel School Property
Essay On The No Smoking Policy On Peel School Property The Peel Board of Education has a No Smoking Policy. This policy states that smoking is not permitted on Peel Board Properties. The Policy I agree with this policy because I am a non ... One of the main reasons why a no smoking policy should exist in the Peel Schools is to save work for the janitors. They do not have to clean up the extinguished cigarette inside the school. It decreases the chances of having a fire in the school’s chemistry and science labs that are filled with flammable chemicals. Since the school is a smoke free zone, there will be fewer chances for lung sickness caused by smoking. It allows the non- ...
116: Brown Vs. Board Of Education
... education. There were several events and issues which led up to this critical event. From the 1892 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case, the precedent of "separate but equal" was set. This doctrine effected the school system , in that there were separate schools for white and black children. These schools were constitutional as long as they were equal. In the 1900s, with industrialism in the forefront, the cities went through a process of ghettoization. This concept is crucial because it illustrates that people began to live in ethnic enclaves. These neighborhoods later effected where students would attend school. In turn, the quality of the schools were also effected depending on the area. In 1908, the case of Braya College v. Kentucky attacked the racially mixed school of Braya College in Kentucky. The state mandated that there be separate facilities separated by at least 25 miles. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling and Braya College was segregated. Then in 1931, the ...
117: Bilingual Teaching
... accomplish. In order to address these issues, educators should pursue a focused debate that concentrates on how the students who are acquiring English will best acquire the skills and literacy that will benefit them in school and out of school instead of arguing whether bilingual education is detrimental or beneficial to language minority students. Bilingual education programs are most effective when the properly trained bilingual teachers are available to instruct the language minority students. In ... States speaks Spanish, speakers of others languages are in smaller percentage in some schools. This situation poses the problem of finding bilingual teachers in other languages such as Vietnamese or Russian. The first struggle that school administrators must overcome is finding teachers that speak the minority language of a group of students in a particular school. Then, however, once teachers are found they have to be evaluated as to whether ...
118: The Arts Should Be A Part of The School Curriculum
The Arts Should Be A Part of The School Curriculum The arts should be a part of school curriculum. It is essential to our children because it increases their ability to communicate and is a common method of communication for cultures worldwide. All over the news, people hear about how many school districts are attempting to eliminate the teaching of the arts from the schools. These include music, art, theater, and orchestral classes. Many districts believe that an education can be provided by concentrating on the ...
119: Are You Ready For Some Footbal
... in peewee you have team meetings to discuss defensive and offensive strategy and sometime just to bond with your teammates. Usually this takes place once a week. Continuing involvement in football happens at the high school level because it is the most easily accessible program to teens. A teen will usually continue playing football in high school if they enjoyed playing or they really excelled at it in the peewee level. The good thing about playing high school football is that you don’t have to be the best player just dedicated. High school football is more time consuming because you practice 4-5 times a week and have a game once ...
120: College
... the country when President Clinton gave his State of the Union Address in 1999. In this address he stated many educational goals such as a mandatory third grade reading goal and the reformation of the school system in order to equip it for the twenty -first centuries. Along these same lines the President has called an end to social promotion. President Clinton proposed not just to hold back failing students but ... long run. "We are giving educators a pass for lack of performance --and we are putting kids on the street with pieces of paper that are essentially worthless..." Each year young adults graduate from high school, and have no skills to maintain a job. The remedial training required by companies for these graduates in subjects like Math and English are outrageous. " More than twenty percent of all businesses provide remedial training for high-school graduates, at an annual cost of billions" (Galston, Social Psyche, pg.35). Doing something about the failure ahead of time is more reasonable than socially promoting students until graduation. "In the heat of the ...


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