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This section contains links to pages/sites that are useful to see some of the tactics and mindgames public school teachers are required to use in their classes.

Achieve, Inc.
http://www.achieve.org  [report broken link]
This is an organization derived from an assocation of the (US) National Governors' Association, educational "experts," and business representatives. This organization has been the driving force behind last 15 years of school reform efforts in the United States. It provides a sense of the aims of these groups for American youth.
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After-School "Opportunities"
http://www.dropoutprevention.org/effstrat/after_school/after_school_over.htm  [report broken link]
Each weekday afternoon, at least 8 million "latchkey" children are left alone and unsupervised. Only 20% of a child's waking hours are spent in school. [Oh dear, that's AWFUL! ..not] This page is about how to make sure school takes as much time away from kids as possible.
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Discipline and School Safety
http://www.aft.org/topics/discipline/index.htm  [report broken link]
Disorderly schools severely compromise opportunities to learn. Teachers cannot teach, children cannot concentrate and "precious classroom time" is forever lost. - Seven essential elements to assure that our schools are safe and orderly.
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Discipline Help: You Can Handle Them All
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/teacher/list.cfm?cause=All  [report broken link]
Site which stereotypes kids' behavior into categories, like "The Agitator", "The Whiner", "The Underachiever", "The Spoiled Darling", among others. Site explains "Primary Causes of Misbehavior", and tries to explain how to "fix" them.
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Keeping Kids in the Classroom
http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/manage/tardy.html  [report broken link]
Suggested tactics for teachers on how to get kids to come to class on time. The tone of the article goes something like this: "One tactic that works with students who haven't given up on themselves as learners is to call parents the first time they skip and require a parent-student-teacher conference the second and subsequent times."
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Punished by Rewards: A Talk with Alfie Kohn
http://www.webtools.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,3-281-0-1,00.html  [report broken link]
Do this and you'll get that. Sound familiar? Rewards, like punishments, are useful for getting exactly one thing: temporary compliance. By bribing or threatening kids, you can get them to do what you want as long as the reward or the punishment keeps coming. You'll never get anything more substantial than that.
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U.S. Department of Education Home Page
http://www.ed.gov/  [report broken link]
What the name says :P
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