The official homepage for the relief agency World Vision International. Students will find information on world crisis spots and on displaced people and refugees.

Students interested in a career in counseling will find a good overview to the certification requirements for the state of Oregon, along with lots of related information.

Enhanced by an introduction and commentary, read a speech given by U.S. President William McKinley to a delegation of Methodist church leaders in 1899 in which he defined the United States intervention in the Philippines as the proper...

Read Secretary of State Robert Lansing's letter to President Woodrow Wilson urging the President to avoid the term "intervention" to characterize the U.S. 1916 invasion of Mexico to capture the revolutionary Pancho Villa.

The rationale behind the United States' going to war against Spain was to insure Cuba's independence. Read the highlights of the Proctor Report, President McKinley's message to Congress asking for intervention, and the Teller Resolution...

Looking back on history, one can see the hubris of the French in dealing with the Vietnamese. Read about the imposition of French ideas of government, education, law, and economics in the 350-year involvement of the French in Vietnam,...

This site from the Fordham University provides one Frenchman's account of the allied intervention in the Boxer Rebellion, especially the Allied battle for and entry into Peking.

Dropout decisions may involve up to 25 significant factors, ranging from parenthood to learning disabilities. The most effective interventions address the various factors and employ multiple strategies, including personal asset building,...

This site provides a synopsis of educating ELL students who are struggling in school, and identifying learning disabilities in this population of students. Included are strategies for avoiding misidentification and implementing early...

Read about a 1996 study on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Learn about how FAS is caused and detected, and how this disease can affect one's physical and cognitive development. Included, are recommendations for preventing FAS through...

In Lalibela, Ethiopia, you can see 11 churches excavated from solid rock, considered by some as one of the wonders of the world. Ethiopian legend connects these churches with King Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty and angelic intervention.

From the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute, this site provides information about obesity management and the health benefits of psychopharmacology interventions.

Follow the course of historical events through a series of letters among European powers! These English translations of primary source documents from German diplomatic archives concern the intervention of the European powers by forcing...

In the after-action report filed by Marine Col. Jack Hawkins following the Bay of Pigs, he writes that the only way to oust Castro would be with another attempt using overt intervention with U.S. military power.

A review of the importance for caregiver-child interactions to understand the psychology of child development, relationships, and identification of the need for intervention.

Ten years after American humanitarian intervention in Somalia the Somalis have yet to create a central government. This article examines the economic, social, and political trends, the collapse of the state, and the three-phase framework...

Describes New Zealand during the Cold War. Looks at New Zealand's political landscape during WWI, WWII, its military interventions, its membership in SEATO, and its antinuclear stance.

This article discusses the impact of Islam in Somalia, reasons for its popularity and the effect of attempted interventions interested countries and institutions. (5 January 2007)

AAASP helps to promote the development of psychological theory, research, and intervention strategies in sport psychology. Learn how psychology applies to sports.

This website was put together by a professional who specializes in treating people with eating disorders. It includes bulimia facts, intervention information, news articles, and a bulletin board.

Economic freedom is freedom from government intervention in the production and distribution of goods and services. After World War II, governments were trying to rebuild their economies from the ground up. They looked to the ideas of the...

In this lesson plan, middle schoolers learn how the diagonals of a rhombus are related. They use interactive sketches to learn about the properties of the angles and diagonals of squares, rectangles, rhombuses, parallelograms, and other...

In this lesson, students explore different polygons by drawing them, measuring angles, and manipulating interactive sketches to find the angle sum for any polygon. Students also explore the angle measures in regular polygons. Included...

In this lesson, students learn more about the characteristics of parallelograms by folding paper and measuring the angles in a parallelogram. Students use a ruler and protractor to draw parallelograms with given properties. Then,...