High School Research Proposals Samples For Students

PART 1

In the question as to whether the US government should prohibit trade with countries that have poor records on human rights, it becomes apparent from the numerous research materials reviewed that indeed, trade barriers should be put in place, where a country fails to honour its human rights. Although no particular country in the world has a completely clean record on human rights, there are countries that have evidently crossed the line between the imperfect, but allowable human rights and the gross disrespect to human rights that can end up classifying the country as a ‘no go zone’ (Abbott, 2006, p.17), ...

While motivation is essential to all ages, it is of paramount importance and has become a big issue in secondary education. Motivation plays a crucial part with success in student education and later in adulthood. Parents have the utmost impact on adolescents when it comes to expectations and goals. The lack of parental involvement has become a major issue for many public schools. In order to change how students value their education, parents have to be involved at home, school and set expectations for their children. While there is extensive research on strategies for teachers to use to help motivate students, such ...

Communication 151

Bullying among male and female high school students in the UAE
Proposal
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Section: 51

02/2014
Introduction
One of the main problems schools deal with these days is bullying. Despite the fact that different actions are taken by many schools to prevent or reduce this issue, bullying is still prevalent amongst schoolchildren. The definitions of bullying can vary from one perspective to another,; however, it has beenwas defined as the “intentional, unprovoked abuse of power by one or more children to inflict pain or cause harm/distress to another child on repeated occasions” [4, p.345].
Bullying causes ...

Dropping Out or Pushed Out: The Impact of High School Dropout Rate Relative to High Stakes Testing Policy in Wayne County, State of Michigan

Dissertation Prospectus
Dropping Out or Pushed Out: The Impact of High School Dropout Rate Relative to High Stakes Testing Policy in Wayne County, State of Michigan
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Dissertation Prospectus

Introduction
The high school dropout rates in the USA are high such that only 70% of students in public high schools graduate Green, & Foster, 2003). High dropout problem is what school administrators, parents and policy makers have had to deal with for ...

Dropping Out or Pushed Out: The Impact of High School Dropout Rate Relative To High Stakes Testing Policy In The State Of Michigan

Introduction

The demand for advanced standards as well as better accountability within the US educational system has caused a nationwide raise in high stakes testing. To answer this increasing demand, in the year 2002, the act ‘No Child Left Behind’ was introduced to assure that all school children in US will get the chance as well as the resources to attain educational achievement. This act made state educational accomplishment standards and state evaluations mandatory (Cavendish, 2013). It also ...

Introduction

Army recruiters have continued to strategize on how to maximize recruitment of officers from the public. However, majority of their target group is high school students who have completed and graduated with a diploma. In fact, they went ahead to create a database with all the personal information of individuals aged between 16 – 25 years. This may imply intrusion of privacy of their target groups, most of which are high school students and a few who have graduated. This even went over board when the 2002 act of “No child left behind” was passed. The act required that all beneficiaries of federal ...

Introduction

Research Topic and Research Question
The research labors to find out the effects of recruiting army officers in high school. Upon finding out the effects of recruiting the officers at the tender age, it then sets to answer the question,

Should the government abandon recruitment of army officers in high school?

Justification of the Research
Following the inception of “No Child Left Behind” Act of the year 2002, recruiters of the United States military personnel have access to all schools that receive State funds to target recruitment of high school children. The act targets to recruit students aged between 14 to 18 years to join the American armed ...

Introduction

Preparation of the students for their future career roles is increasingly becoming an important role for the teachers and their counselors. Design and technology is a technical course that requires massive attention if the overall achievement in the student is to be enhanced (Paul, 2005). Hopefully, as a teacher and mentor, the highest inspiration will be to develop students that are full societal contributors coupled with providing the best learning opportunity that will enable them to live a productive life in design and technology career.
This article investigates the importance of design and technology course in preparing the student for their ...

Introduction

Bullying in schools is not a new phenomenon but is an activity that has been in existence for ages. A good proportion of students and adults have accounts of their experiences with bullying or have witnessed their peers bullied in what a turned out to be a serious problem in the society with variant detrimental effects that range from emotional effects to negative effects on a student’s academic performance. Teens between the age of 13 and 19 year are perhaps the greatest users of the technology, particularly the internet. The National Crime Prevention Council (2007) contends that teens between the age of ...

Abstract

Groton is a small town in the state of Vermont. It is facing a few social issues. Seniors in the town do not feel the urge to cook a meal for themselves. Additionally, they feel more isolated from others for not being conversant with new communication technologies such as email, internet browsing, and mobile text messages. Young students of Groton are facing a completely different problem. Students are no longer taught home economics at school, which is one of the many reasons for the consumption of cheap fast food to escalate among youths. This has led to higher level ...

Classical English Literature

Introduction
Teen pregnancy is a complex issue due to social, economic, emotional, and physical consequences that badly affect the life of teenage girl. In the United States, 3 out of every 10 teenage girls become pregnant before attaining the age of 20 (Shuger). There are about 50% of the high school students that have sexual intercourse in their teenage (Schuster, Bell, Berry, and Kanouse). The teen pregnancy, however, brings considerable economic and social cost to the teenage parents, to their children, and to their communities. One half of the teenage mothers do not even complete their high school.
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Introduction to the topic

Parental support is an exteremely important factor of human development. Graham-Clay believes, that «strong communication is fundamental to this partnership and to building a sense of community between home and school. In these changing times, teachers must continue to develop and expand their skills in order to maximize e ective communication with parents» (Graham-Clay, 2005). Among the socialization factors, the most important and influential is a parent and a family as the basic unit of society, the influence that the child experiences when he is most receptive. Family conditions, including social conditions, occupation, financial level, education of parents, largely ...

Virtual architecture model

Virtual learning environments (VLE) are management systems that mediate between the functionality of computer communication software such as bulletin boards, emails, newsgroup, and white boards, with on-line delivering methods of course work. These systems are purposed to produce classroom environments by provision of new technological tools that facilitate learning. The virtual learning model uses these systems in providing an environment that boosts learning (In Carvalho, , and In Goodyear, 2014). Whiteboards, being one of the systems incorporated in the model, provide instructions, methods, mathematical signs, and interpretations of the solutions, using the virtual learning approach.
The theory ...

The objective of the present study is to determine the effects of implementing a policy that requires the students of a subject educational institution to wear a school uniform when going to school. The working hypothesis in this paper suggests that wearing school uniforms directly and positively affects the student’s educational outcomes (and academic achievement levels). For the second part of the proposal, the author focuses on reviewing the current best evidence on the topic of wearing school uniforms.

Theory

There are numerous factors that can directly or indirectly (sometimes both) affect a student population’s educational outcome and ...

The trend of changes in education raises the issue of partnership in the field of education, the creation of a special creative environment of educational institution. Therefore, this paper presents an analysis of works that focus on the educational aspect such as the elaboration of recommendations for teachers and parents, the administration of educational institutions for partnership organizations to overcome the main barriers that violate the effective interaction. This paper presents a review of scientific articles on the theory and methodology of professional education, pre-school child development, humanities, theory and methodology of education. The article reveals the possible solutions ...

Despite the decline in teen pregnancies, the problem is still an issue for many young women ages fifteen through seventeen that causes problems for these girls socially, emotionally and academically. The rates of birth for teens age fifteen declined from 17.9 per 1000 fifteen year olds in 1991 to 5.4 per 1000 in 2012; 36.9 to 16.9 for sixteen year olds and 60.6 to 23.7 for seventeen year olds (Cox, Pazol, Warner, Romero, Spitz, Gavin and Barfield 2014). The rates of teen pregnancy is higher for Hispanics, 25.5 per 1000 and African Americans, 21.9 than white teens, 8.4 and ...

1) Problem Statement
Regardless of the fact that the Hispanic population is one of the largest cultural groups in the country, it is still classified as one of the minority groups by the federal government. According to the federal government, Hispanics is the official name of ethnic groups that originate from Latin America. This mix up in the cultural background of different Hispanic groups has resulted in complications in talent development based on both cultural and social factors in the elementary school education setting.
2) References
David, Jr. Carey, Robert Atkinson. Latino voices in New England . ...

Step 1

The population of American Muslims is largely based upon the migrants 63% that come from the other countries since 1990. Most of them called a first generation of Muslims in America that have parental country such as Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Pew Research Center (2011) justified that 37% of the Muslims were born in the America. The ultimate object of this study is to explore the role of education on religious behavior and attendance of Muslims in the America. What are the circumstances through which Muslims in America failed to maximize their attendance? On the other hand, ...

Institutional of Affiliation:

During my early days in school, I had a great passion for numbers and arithmetic, which at the time involved basics tasks like addition, and subtraction. I was later on introduced to general calculations, and Finance related Arithmetic. Dealing with these made me realize my inner desire to become an Accountant. I have since then pursued my passion by taking every opportunity that comes my way. After completing high school studies, I volunteered to work for an auditing firm, a job that kick started my accounting career. Although all I received was just a token as a show of ...

How to Use Policy to Change Public School’s Funding and Resources Allocation

Ph.D. in Education-Leadership, Change, Policy in Education

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the funding disparities deprive many minorities and low-income families of the opportunity for education success. The research endeavors to explore different ways policy can be used to equally allocate educational resources and use them to the advantage of the less fortunate sections of the society. As one of its important goals, this prospectus paper informs the research as to how to weigh the options available to the school managements and the education policy makers. The paper provides a purpose to the proposed study by dwelling upon ...

The Effect of Student Leadership in University Classroom Management on Attendance

Background of the study
Literature Review
Leadership is all about influence in the sense that the leaders find ways in which they can be sources of power to people who look up to them and in this case the followers. Transferring the leadership notion to the school area is in order. It is quite evident that school leaders ought to offer an environment where is the element of support, guidance and behavior that promotes changes in the performance and the behavior of the said school; this is according to Morgan (2015, p, 10). Morgan continues to add concerning the ...

Abstract

Public and private schools, colleges and universities are increasingly spending much resources implementing technology for use in the teaching and learning processes in their institutions. Indeed, the proliferation of technology in the daily lives of people is spurring increased adoption of education technologies in these institutions. However, despite its wide acceptance in the private lives of many people, and evidence of easing daily tasks, adoption of technology in the teaching and learning experiences in schools remains challenging, with the full extent of its achievement still debatable. The advocates of integration of technology in the classroom acclaim that once technology ...

Improvements in Public Education

1598 Camarillo Street

Anaheim, California

818.432.2465

Dear City Councilman Roberts:

I appreciate speaking with you and the Anaheim City Council about the formal proposal for improving the standard of education in Anaheim public schools. In response to your interest in our company, I am submitting this formal proposal to provide an outline of our services to your city regarding future educational plans after the failure of the Anaheim Union High school District to improve the standards in failing schools.
This proposal outlines the benefits of having Winston Educational Trust to propose future plans to better the educational system in public schools in the city of ...

Overview

The University of Houston’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders has recognized the value of providing clinical services to the local communities. The Sunnyside community in Houston, Texas has actually been categorized as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the United States . Due to the increased congestion of residents, in conjunction with lack of economic and social support, youths in the area were identified to resort to criminal activities as a means for survival. In this regard, newly graduates from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences have formed a non-profit organization, the Sunnyside Youth Ministry, to provide ...

Aggressive Behavior Influence by Media Violence

Listening to news these days, it is easy to notice that there has been an increase in teenage violent behaviors, which has led me to conclude that the increase in media violence has a hand in the aggressive behaviors of teenagers. Recently, the topic of aggression and aggressiveness became widely discussed at various levels. In addition, among psychologists, there are held many conferences, symposia on the topic. The problem of studying aggression became the subject of many studies. There has been an increase in mass school shootings, drive by shootings, rape and senseless killings of teenagers. An example of some ...

Introduction

Soccer is the most popular sport on the planet; it is now truly the number one game in the globe more than before. Soccer has its nerve-centers traditionally in Latin America and Europe. It has since grown to join the entire world, notably in North America and Asia. No other sport has an effect in the rest of the world like soccer. People have conjured up different endeavors of sports to entertain them; however, soccer has been dominant over all the others, why has this been so? There must be positive effects of soccer that most countries have emulated ...

The field I have developed an interest in is education at the Graduate level in an effort to achieve my goal of becoming a successful and motivated teacher. Enrolling in Teacher Education and Teacher Development studies will enable me to achieve my ultimate educational and professional goals. I strongly believe that I would bring a maturity and seriousness of purpose to my research studies. Therefore, as far as my professional goals are concerned, my long term goal is to pursue a career as a teacher of humanities in a public high school. However, enrolling in a Master’s program first will enable me to gain a ...

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine from a developmental assets approach similarity and differences in single parents and adolescents’ perceptions of parenting competencies.

Problem Statement

Today parents face many challenges which sometimes surpass their ability to respond accordingly. Lately, there has been awareness that children majorly from most backgrounds in a technological society are exposed to significant dangers and risks. People are generally hesitant to acknowledge that every family has limitations that more or less may require much support externally in order to succeed in the current environment. Arguably, a knowledgeable outlook is aware that even low income families could also be ...

Introduction

In the labor market, there are several factors which affect it. The market comprises of ethnic groups, social class and sexual orientation. (Pager, D.2009). In this paper, I am going to discuss about the effect of race/ethnicity, social class, or sexual orientation on labor market.
First and foremost, the issue of ethnicity and race in the labor market has really been an issue since in most of the highly racist countries, the black are looked down upon and they cannot be treated the same way like the whites. They suffer from wage inequality as well as stereotyping and ...

Chapter One: Introduction3

Background of the Research6
Statement of the Problem7
Purpose of the Study 7
Research Questions..7

Definition of Terms .7

Limitations ..7

Significance of the Study7

Organization of the Study7
Chapter Two: Review of Literature 7
Introduction..7
Spady’s (1970) Theory of Student Departure16
Tinto’s (1975) Student Integration Theory19
Pascarella’s (1980) Attrition Theory 24
Astin’s (1984) Student Involvement Theory26
Bean and Metzner’s (1985) Student Attrition Theory28
Cabrera’s (1992) Integrated Retention Theory7

Criticism of the theories.7

Conclusion 7
Chapter Three: Method .7
Introduction 5
Research Paradigm.7
Research Questions7
Research Design.7
Participants7
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A number of research questions have a valid impact on the effect of education on the religious behavior and religious attendance of Muslims in the United States. The most pertinent issues on this topic include:
- What is the education level of the average Muslim in the United States?
- How have education levels affected the religious behavior of Muslims in the United States?
- How have education levels affected the religious attendance of Muslims in the United States?
- Is there a correlation between education and religiousness of Muslims in the United States?

Step Two

In order to ...

Centering Questions

In an age when public dollars are becoming increasingly scarce for funding elementary and secondary education, while the imperative to expose students to an increasingly broad spectrum of technology is becoming more and more crucial, the selection of technological items and the implementation of those items comprise two vital decisions for instructional designers.

In one area of technological expansion is the ability of students to contribute to an interactive technological discussion, both inside and outside the classroom. Many school districts have set up the necessary bandwidth to allow for many different elements of Web 2.0 implementation, such as teacher ...