Woodward High School

Company Introduction Founded in 2013, Agora Mobile Inc. is a Moncton-based technology startup that aims to build a social platform, which helps people to build apps with little to moderate knowledge about the coding languages. This patented platform uses a visual development tool (instead of traditional textual platforms) for the creation and testing of web-apps. This platform also helps to deliver and sell these web apps to other registered users within this platform, which creates a social networking

Critique This critique is on the evaluation program of Freedom School Partners Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools. This evaluation report was composed in October of 2013 by Dr. D. Bruce Taylor, Dr. Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo, and Dr. Crystal Glover members of The Center for Adolescent Literacies at UNC Charlotte, North Carolina. This is the fifth evaluation of The Freedom School Partners Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools. The main purpose of this evaluation is to analyze the outcome of

Long gone are the days when school counselors concentrated on providing guidance to students solely for the purpose of graduation preparation and course selection. The professional school counselor is responsible for delivering a well-organize school counseling program that aims at helping students reach successes. The program is held accountable for managing the needs and concerns for all students. The school counselor is seen as a leader and therefore, parents, school staff, community members and

Additionally, it was revealed that a large portion of XYZ high school students received textbook assistance, free/reduced lunches, or had a learning disability that put them in the at-risk category. Of equal importance was the rural location of XYZ high school which resulted in the offering of limited educational opportunities or innovative strategies. As a result of this information, computer assisted instructional

Financially, it is more beneficial for districts to purchase tablets and online textbooks compared to traditional textbooks. In order to use school budgets most efficiently, it is vital that funds are directed towards the most resourceful items for the students. As the state funding for public schools decreases, this becomes a more prominent concern. Tablets provide a simple fix to the need of a modern, cost saving solution. According to one resource, the average textbook costs $70 each, verse

Random drug testing is starting to become more frequent in schools; especially towards student athletes. Schools have been drug testing student athletes since approximately 1995 and in 2002, the court made it a law that high school athletes must be drug tested. There are several testing methods that use hair, urine, oral fluids, and sweat. Urine testing is the most popular type of testing for drugs. The debate of drug testing student athletes is still on the rise amongst people. Supporters of drug

educational goals were put in place for each student to master English language skills across all content areas. As part of this field experience activity I also reviewed the English Language Proficiency standards and curriculum policies set by my school district. I found that district policies are that as outlined also according to state policy. It is district and state policy that if the district has an enrollment of 20 or more limited English proficient students in any language classification

School counselors should be able to distinguish the differences between individual and group dissimilarities and strive to value all students and groups equally. They should advocate for the equitable treatment of all students in their school and in their community. If a school counselor wants to be successful in ensuring an equity-based program, they should consider the role of culture, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and other factors (Curry & Milson

Although the American School Counseling Association (ASCA) (2104) outlines suitable roles, school counselors often still spend a lot of their time balancing various job roles. Some of the responsibilities school counselors have consists of assisting students, working with parents, and doing administrative tasks. The many roles tackled bring speculation surrounding the stress levels experienced by school counselors. Previous studies have been conducted that investigated the relationship of various

Wesley G. Skogan; Susan M. Hartnett; Natalie Bump; Jill Dubois reported to National Criminal Justice Reference Service that Cease fire treated violence as Chicago had a 25% drop in killings, with a 50% drop in the Ceasefire zones. Since then Ceasefire has been active in 18 communities in Chicago and 7 communities in Illinois. The method has had an extensive multi-year multi-method evaluation supported by the U.S. Department of Justice a public health issue. The Institute of Nonviolence reports that