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- 31: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... 71 local development districts. The ARC has provided special funds for the Region’s poorest counties since 1983. Currently 108 counties qualify for distressed county status on the basis of low per capita income and high rates of poverty and unemployment. The distressed county program focuses on providing badly needed public facilities, especially systems to furnish clean drinking water and sanitary waste disposal, and human resource projects such as literacy training ... national attention periodically, such as in the 1930\\'s and 1960\\'s, but no solutions have yet to solve the deep and structural problems of the rural poor. In 1990 the number of counties with high concentrations of poverty was 765, with 535 of those counties having a long-term and persistent problem with poverty over many decades. They are mainly concentrated in the Southeast, Appalachia, and the Southwest, with others ... to a metro area, which limits access for residents to urban area jobs, especially because transportation services are usually lacking and low incomes decrease the possibility of private transportation. Also poor counties typically have less high school graduates, which makes them more prone to economic disadvantage. Most poor counties in average had larger numbers of high school dropouts putting them at risk of being unprepared to work and had people ...
- 32: Social Institutions
- ... can see the role that each of them takes at Welton Academy. Welton Academy I think would mostly be looked at under the conflict perspective because of how expensive it is to enroll in the school. It limits the best education to the rich. The school i? s when Charlie wanted to permit girls a Welton and printed an article in the school newspaper. With that event he crossed the line between right and wrong and had to be punished to teach him of his wrongdoing. got hit I also think that with these strict rules, hard ...
- 33: The Newbury Centralized School
- The Newbury Centralized School The Newbury Centralized School was an important part of Newbury in 1930. This was an important year for the community because it was the first year of the Centralized School. The school had a rough start but in the end it came out as a superb school. The school building itself was a quality building, which was built at a fair price. Besides this ...
- 34: Canada- Facts And Figures
- ... belief in the importance of education. Education in Canada consists of 10 provincial and two territorial systems, including public schools, "separate" (i.e., denominational) schools, and private schools. Children are required by law to attend school from the age of 6 or 7 until they are 15 or 16. To make it possible to fulfil this obligation, all non-private education through secondary (or "high") school is publicly funded. In Quebec, general and vocational colleges (CEGEPs, or Colleges d'enseignement général et professionnel) are also publicly funded and require only a minimal registration fee. Most other post-secondary schools, however, ...
- 35: High School Drop-outs: Cause And Effect
- High School Drop-outs: Cause And Effect Dropping out of high school is an issue faced by many teens today. It results from a few main common causes. One is often a lack of involvement in extra-curricular activities. Another revolves around the parents not ...
- 36: Mandatory Physical Education I
- Current high school students are becoming fatter, slower, and less motivated than past students. Many of these young people would prefer to be sitting passively in front of the television rather than to do something physically active. Most high school students believe they do not have sufficient time, opportunity or guidance to participate in physical activities. The ideal place in which students would be able to find adequate time, opportunity and guidance are ...
- 37: Board Schools
- Board Schools For most people boarding schools conjure up thoughts of young men in navy blue blazers with white shirts and a tie going to a beautiful school with ivy covered walls and the game of polo being played in the distance. Oh, and don't forget thoughts of parents with fat wallets and a family trust fund. This is what Gordon Vink, the director of admissions at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, calls the “Holden Caufield-Catcher in the Rye syndrome”(Parker 111), a book about the troubles a boy faces at his prep boarding school. To an extent the image holds true. Prep schools offer collegiate type atmospheres, have strict rules, and often teach generations of students from the same families. The simplest definition of a boarding school is a place that parents pay for a stodent to live and go to school. The school's teachers, coaches, and administrators live in dormitories with boarders and act as their family enforcing the ...
- 38: Charter Schools
- Charter Schools? In the United States, primary and secondary public school education, undergoes continual monitoring and discussion by government leaders, educators, and parents. According to a survey, by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, in 1994, 39 percent of fourth graders, 37 percent of eighth graders ... peers in pre-college education. For this reason, parents, governments and educators are constantly searching for new ways to improve, and overcome learning obstacles, in education. One of the new concepts emerging is the charter school. In the United States, the charter school was modeled after Margaret Thatcher's idea of a public school operating independently, while being funded by grants. A similar concept currently exists, for all public education, in New Zealand ( Finn et al. 48- ...
- 39: Charter Schools
- Charter Schools? In the United States, primary and secondary public school education, undergoes continual monitoring and discussion by government leaders, educators, and parents. According to a survey, by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, in 1994, 39 percent of fourth graders, 37 percent of eighth graders ... peers in pre-college education. For this reason, parents, governments and educators are constantly searching for new ways to improve, and overcome learning obstacles, in education. One of the new concepts emerging is the charter school. In the United States, the charter school was modeled after Margaret Thatcher's idea of a public school operating independently, while being funded by grants. A similar concept currently exists, for all public education, in New Zealand ( Finn et al. 48- ...
- 40: High School Activities As A Stepping Stone To A Successful Life
- High School Activities As A Stepping Stone To A Successful Life Success, defined by Webster’s dictionary, is “a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted; prosperous or advantageous issue”. This definition is perceived many ... people. They all have different goals and achievements which influence what their personal definition of what a successful life is. One common thing, however, shapes most people’s idea of success at an early age. High school activities teach young people about values and morals that emerge in the outside world. High school activities has also had a dynamic impact on my life as well. For example, I have learned ...
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