Purpose: This website is designed to help you complete your research assignment.

Choose one of the following topics to write about:

1) Should public school students be required to wear uniforms? )This is a hot topic around San Diego schools right now)

·         San Diego United School District website (http://www.sandi.net/), search under “uniforms”

o   Also search the websites of

§  Rosa Parks Elementary School/Morone Clark Middle School (http://parks.sandi.net/Pages/Uniforms.html)

§  O’Farrell Charter School (http://ofarrell.sandi.net/files/File/uniformpolicy0708.pdf and http://ofarrell.sandi.net/node/450 for “Jeans Day” Expectations)

§  Pacific Beach Middle School (http://pbmiddle.sandi.net --under “For Parents” then “Recommended Supply List)

§  Standley Middle School (sandi.net/standley/school/uniform.htm)

·         SDSU catalog, search “School Uniforms” under keyword; (One of the listings is an online government publication.)

·         Academic OneFile, search “uniforms and students” under subject

·         PowerSearch, search “uniforms and students” under subject

·         CQ Researcher, search under “school uniforms” (3/15/1996 Preventing Juvenile Crime has a bibliography of sources)

 

2) Does the grading system do more harm than good? Should schools replace grades with written evaluations of the students’ strengths and weaknesses?

·         Academic OneFile, search in Subject Guide Search under “Grading (Education) and look through subdivisions, such as “Methods” and “Evaluation”

·         Academic OneFile, search “grading education and student evaluation” under subject

·         PowerSearch, search “grading education and student evaluation” under subject (has article on “Grading Systems” in the Encyclopedia of Education.

·         Online book catalog, search under “grading and marking (students)”

 

3) Should high school students have to pass a standardized test in order to receive a diploma?

• San Diego United School District website (http://www.sandi.net/), search under “CAHSEE” (California High School Exit Exam)
• ProQuest, search keyword under “high school exit exam”; also search under “Graduation requirements AND Achievement tests”
• Academic OneFile, use ‘Advanced Search’ with this search set-up
  • Subject(su) “high school students testing AND Keyword(ke) “exit”

 

4) Should the smoking ban recently passed at Cuyamaca/Grossmont Colleges remain or be lifted?

• Librarian will give News Release of smoking ban to the instructor.
• Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District website (http://www.gcccd.edu), search under “smoking policy”
  • Minutes of Governing Board meeting mention when smoking policy was being discuss.
  • DVD of the entire board meeting available for viewing in the library; can watch the full presentation and discussion.

• ProQuest, search keyword under “Grossmont Cuyamaca smoking”; also search under “College & universities AND Smoking”