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Educational And Instructional Technology

430 silent filmstrips for military personnel between 1941 and 1945 (University of Texas, 2008). This technology was soon adopted i...

U.S. Employment Prospects in History Teaching

quality of the programs would gather more attention than the state lottery. But, this isnt a perfect world and there are no perfec...

Work or Graduate School?

scholarship may be gained for some or all of the education costs. On top of this there are also the lost wages whilst at graduate ...

Kindergarten Theory and Early Childhood Education

of education rested on four basic components: 1. Free self-activity, which sets the direction for development and allows children ...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

Doing Business in Ethiopia for an American Company

In many cases it is not only the firm that benefits economically but also the African people themselves. Many regions of Africa w...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

Structural Inequality And Diversity

Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the court ruled that "separate but equal" was fine, it was okay to have separate schools for whi...

The Clean Slate

be seen as lacking this soul. However, their lack of exposure to the great works and ideas also means that when they are exposed t...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

Musical Differences Between the U.S. and India

of any kind. The notes and the instruments within any piece of music represent virtually everything, including inanimate objects,...

Physical Education Evolution and Growth

education training had proven to be the reason for this regiments success. After the Civil War, the government expressed concern a...

The Relationship Between Minority Immigrants and Poverty.

released a report entitled "Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile". While this report covered a great many demographics r...

Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States

not do. Mexicans work for wages that white people laugh at. They slave away in agricultural fields producing the food we eat and w...

UK Elementary Education

also be of benefit to their parents, and ultimately, to the economic growth of society as a whole. Education was not, therefore, s...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

Education Perspectives of Milton Friedman

private initiatives, takes money away from the public educational realm. They say that public education is in poor shape and so al...

Education in the U.S. and China

In five pages the systems of education in the U.S. and China are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

School Deviancy and Crime

a perspective, and as such will act accordingly. As two authors note, "Until we make schools engaging learning communities whose m...

FERPA of 1974

educational records (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2001). Once the student reaches the age of 18, the rights under this Act tra...

Role of Nurse Administrator

role has changed in nursing home facilities. Long gone are the days when a modern amount of nursing care and dietary supervision w...

U.S. Public Education Crisis

In five pages this paper considers various perspectives in this examination of the U.S. public education crisis. One source is ci...

Problems with Public Education in America

In five pages this paper discusses financial and racial disparities, low curricula content and inadequately prepared teachers in t...

Risk Management and Schools

In twelve pages this paper discusses the education sphere in terms of risk management issues with history, increasing violence, OS...

U.S. Legal Cases Regarding Citizenship and Race

In six pages this paper discusses 4 landmark U.S. cases regarding citizenship and race issues including 1857's Dred Scott v. Sandf...

Overview of the National Collegiate Athletic Association

In five pages this paper discusses the history and higher education functions of the NCAA with the controversies associated with i...

US and Community College Programs in Vocational Education

vocational educational program this may seem to be the case, but in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, many o...

Seriously Considering Education in the U.S.

In ten pages an emphasis upon science and mathematics is featured in this U.S. public education consideration of 'borders and fron...