Essays 271 - 300
1980s, combined with crisis in the public education system led to plummeting rates of African American college enrollment in the e...
less satisfactory results than does the performance evaluation. Kniggendorf (1998) reports that many "supervisors resist the use ...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...
that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...
to the politics and divisions within a culture. Theorists like Jean Anyon and Robert Reich have recognized that there is a link b...
the worlds largest retailer. By the end of 2004, Brown (2004) reported that Wal-Mart was expected to have 22 percent of the toy m...
AGE In Hollywood, Disney started his own cartoon illustration business, the first of its kind on the West Coast (Sito, 1996). Dis...
hot or warm, and soft drinks by definition are nonalcoholic. The other two qualifications, however, no longer apply. Coca-Colas ...
to season ticket holders. Some clubs with long waiting lists for the opportunity to buy season tickets have had empty seats, whic...
current-account deficits, and countries with large savings would be expected to have large surpluses. This has not occurred (Capit...
men and women in public places. This increasing informality is also present in the business world and it is straining business re...
in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...
teams. The main problem of the current time appears to be that of motivation, or rather the absence of motivation. With a...
the transfer of level of innovation and uniqueness found in a single haute couture item into the mass market through pr?t-a-porter...
documentary that asked why American manufacturing enterprises could not be as successful as Japanese enterprises (Heller, 2005). B...
indicates that teens are often confused by abstinence-only programs, as this approach to sex education sidesteps around issues and...
in clothes prices as the multi-fibre agreement came to end, which has aided companies such as Wal-Mart looking for low cost suppli...
This problem is one that does not look like it will go away in the near future. It is also an emotionally sensitive...
substitute products (or services), and the power of purchasers and suppliers. Porter does not see these external factors as workin...
Derr reveals how human settlement from prehistoric times to the eras of European colonization have used and abused the land to ach...
factory workers at the "Kaho Indah Citra garment factory on the outskirts of Jakarta" (Klein xvii), where the workers make the equ...
million in 2006 (Smith, 2006). As a side-note, DeVry offers programs in technology and business; enrollment began declining after ...
true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...
This, notes Brantlinger (2003), is precisely the situation that has manifested where academic injustice is concerned, inasmuch as ...
In short, Massachusetts failed to honor its own state constitution whereby the Encouragement of Literature clause pointedly held t...
some school systems are at a greater disadvantage due to cultural insulation while others struggle with integration due to social ...
says something interesting about leaders, namely that although we face difficult and complex problems in all areas of our lives, w...
or the "subdominant cultures" who eventually settled there. The situation has become progressively more complex in modern society...
achieve parity with the academic achievement of the white mainstream. Lyons (2006), based on his evaluation of the NCLB on the l...
this issue by conducting a qualitative study that explore how a teacher incorporated cooperative learning strategies in an eighth ...