Essays on Dropout

Chapter 5

The Texas education system raised concern since the declaration of independence in 1836 following the failure of the government to begin the public education system. However, in late 1983, a constitutional amendment that advocated for the provision of bonds by the school fund was passed through voting. Currently, school funds generated an income of approximately $756 million dollars thus, making education facilities more available to the students (Champagne and Edward 16). The dropout rate is the indicator of the holding power of various schools in Texas during that period. Data indicates that 106 counties recorded a reduction in the ...

Literature Review

The literature review was conducted in relevant academic journals that relate to elementary school-aged obesity. In essence, the review was carried out on home-based interventions, school-based interventions effectiveness, and sustainability of the methods adopted in curtailing obesity.

Obesity Epidemic

Childhood obesity is linked with severe health risks. Primarily, obesity is associated with diabetes mellitus, increased risk of coronary heart disease, orthopedic complications, and more stress on weight-bearing joints, and lastly, it is a cause of pediatric hypertension (CDC, 2016). Moreover, hospital costs associated with the treatment of obesity are dramatically high. Besides, being obese can set back children psychosocial status. In ...

Both China and the USA are some of the biggest contributors to the global market. Both economies produce large quantities of good that are shipped globally. Since bulk production requires a lot of labor, and the prevailing poverty rates among the citizens, children start to work in the dangerous environments of the labor market. The safety and workers right as well as the employment standards are irrelevant when it comes to the means of eking a living. Consequently, children have joined the labor market to eke a living, denying themselves an opportunity to pursue education and develop a higher ...

GENDER INEQUALITY IN CANADA

When focusing on equal rights in any country it is common to see several very similar trends. One similarity is the disparity between men and women involving employment opportunities, while another is the rate of pay that each receives. Worldwide it has been noted that many countries have encountered this disparity and have done very little if anything to counter it. In fact the worldwide average pertaining to what men and women earn shows that women earn roughly four thousand dollars less than men. In Canada the difference in pay is twice as much as the worldwide average. The ...

The cohesive and all-sided education policy in the U.S. and some other Western countries includes a strong focus on the ‘holistic’ development of young individuals, which means combining development of not just mind alone but also body. Therefore, athletics has been literally embedded in the academic culture in multiple levels (Sitkowski17). However, given the nature of the issue, the correlation and impact of both athletics and academics on the individual’s performance and development outcomes have been debatable. Supporters of athletics and especially intercollegiate sports typical for the U.S. education system argue that sport is extremely helpful in building ...

U.S. Public Education U.S. Public Education The U.S. public education system is under scrutiny in recent years. This scrutiny is informed by deeper issues of race, social justice and in more recent years, rising classicism. The debate over education, particularly public education, has gained further significance (as is evident in current presidential race) given how education has become critical in recent years for social mobility, a central ethos in U.S. culture. Given a long history of racial segregation, black students continue to experience different modes of visible and invisible segregation in U.S. public education system. In earlier periods, black ...

The Components of Cultural Match in Psychotherapy

Available evidence suggests that when clients from ethnic minority seeking mental health treatment are paired with therapists from the similar ethnic background, the rates of drop out is lower, and there is an increased utilization of treatment. Based on previous studies about culture, I believe this is true to a large extend. For example, Hofstede (2001) pointed out that there are six cultural dimensions in the world including uncertainty avoidance, indulgence, individualism vs. collectivism, long-term orientation, masculinity vs. feminism, and power distance. These cultural dimensions might affect the relationship between the client and the therapist, and also treatment outcome. ...

Introduction

Currently, college dropouts in particular among the young people are very frequent and devastating. A dream of every academic student is to join postgraduate institutions and further his academics to have his dream job with more employment opportunities. When joining college, every student do have a mission and a goal to achieve setting standards for their achievements at the end of learning period. In the process of learning, not all students are equal as we all come from different societal communities, creating separate social groups in the learning institution. Having this in mind some of the students family backgrounds ...

Abstract

The study has focused on the topic of substance abuse among African American teen residing in Mott Haven area of Bronx United States. The paper has started by giving an overview that entails defining the topic’s key terms. Also, the study has highlighted and discussed the statistics showing the frequency of drug and substance abuse among the African American youngsters. As the report has indicated, the teens fall under the age bracket of 12 to 17 years. The paper has explained the drugs abused most by the youngsters with alcohol taking the lead, followed by marijuana, inhalants as ...

Introduction

Current secondary schools in the United States and Canada are multipart organizations whose program delivery, organizational society, and fundamental structures combine to produce characteristic mini-societies within their walls. Learner arrangement and commitment have principally and traditionally dedicated to growing his or her positive behaviors, accomplishment, and a sense of fit in among students so they might live together in school. Since the attention and emphasis of this study are on high school accomplishment, research on student commitment and arrangements targets scholars in O-level. Secondary school is where disentanglement naturally develops an anxiety (Archambault et al. 662). The student commitment ...

Abstract

The common notion of the use of uniforms in schools is that it impacts positively on student achievement through improved academic performance leading to a reduction in drop-out rates. However, this perception lacks backing from empirical studies and has often been subjected to debate, opponents of the policy argue that the imposition of uniforms in schools is an infringement of students’ individual rights (Bodine, 2003). The research will determine the effect of uniforms on achievements by students in northern Florida in light of the increased number of schools adopting a mandatory school uniform policy. We will use stratified sampling ...