Private or Public Schools ?
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A 30 page essay on the crisis facing U.S. education as society tries to decide whether or not to continue the public school system as it exists or use vouchers to enable low-income families to have the same options as others and send their children to private schools. It also addresses the issue of charter schools and discusses other innovations which are changing the way America educates its children. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: Publpriv.wps

Private Vs. Public Education: Compare And Contrast
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10 pages in length. There is a battle being waged by parents and educators alike that says a public school education sorely lacks when compared with that of private schooling. Whether the issue is safety, academic integrity or a number of other concerns, critics of the public school system contend that it has gone downhill -- and fast -- for the past several years. Citing overcrowding, teacher apathy, lackadaisical attitudes and poor instruction as the primary culprits, opponents to public schooling believe that children can no longer receive even an adequate education unless they are placed in private schools. The writer compares and contrasts the benefits of public and private schooling. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: TLCPubEd.wps

Privatization of Education / Should the United States Privatize Our Schools?
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A 17 page examination of the issue of privatization, how it would affect our public school system, and how it would affect the quality of education which is currentlybeing provided to our students. Bibliography lists twenty sources.
Filename: Privpub.wps

Privatizing Inner-City Schools / "No Place To Go But Up !"
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A 7 page research paper on privatizing urban schools. The writer argues that the positive aspects of privatization far outweigh the negative and offers the promising case of Hartford, Connecticut as an example. Reasons to change over are analyzed in great detail as are some of the casual factors behind decline in inner-city school systems. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Urbanedu.wps

Problems With American Indian Education
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The problems faced by American Indians today in the education system of the United States is explored in this 7 page paper. A discussion of societal responses and suggestions follow. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Amerindi.wps

Professional Development -- The Missing Component In Education
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In this 8 page paper the writer discusses the importance of professional development in public schools. The components of planning and the ways in which professional development programs must change are explained. Bibliography lists 8 references.
Filename: Edpers.wps

Proposal Essay: Increasing the Salary of Teachers
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5 pages in length. A proposal essay in which the topic is the increase of teachers' salaries. Includes a statement of the problem, statement of fact, possible solutions and conclusion. Excellent model paper for that essay proposal!
Filename: JGAtchsl.wps

Public and Private Education in Canada
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A 6 page paper discussing Canada's debate over the relative worth of their public and private schools in comparison with each other and the results they achieve. The paper mentions the alternative of home schooling and its growing popularity in Canada, as well as parents' use of private and franchise tutors for students with both good and poor grades. It is clear that old methods of public education are failing in the cultural and technological environment of the decade of the 1990s. What form it should take is less clear. Bibliography lists -- sources.
Filename: KSCanEdu.rtf