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Theory of Standardized Academic Assessments

ask far too much from such a diverse collection of learners. As a direct result, educators are caught in the middle of trying to ...

Detrimental Effects of Coeducational Schools on Females

pressure and intimidation inherent to performing as well as their male counterparts in the coeducational setting speaks to the rea...

Report on Genetic Modification of Food

1. Genetically Modified Foods; The Issues In recent years there has been a great deal of attention paid to the concept as well...

Student Accomplishment and the Principal's Role

relationship, however (Hallinger, Bickman and Davis, 1996). The principals actions shape and affect the learning climate, which, i...

Academic Disparity: Article Summaries

tendency to perpetuate the familys migrant worker history is too often a strong deterrent to the desire - or ability - for parents...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

Sociology

(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...

Education: Micro And Macro

Stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations believe themselves as being subordinate to their white counterp...

The Problem of Unintentional Plagiarism

be written in a particular way as not to mimic the words precisely of another author. Some universities have adopted a five word r...

A Healthy Self-Concept

or her ability and worth. For example, when this writer/tutor was an adolescent, I judged my math ability negatively on both my ...

School Counseling And Student Achievement

school counseling program would improve achievement (Brown and Trusty, 2005). As an example of strategic intervention, the author...

Marketing Nigeria As a Tourist Destination and Improving Its’ Image

other developing countries with lacking infrastructures have pursued tourism as a sustainable economic policy. The idea of touris...

Same-Sex Classes

dont understand mathematical theory very well except for a few days a month when their estrogen is surging (Martin and Schwartzman...

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

ARTICLES ON DIVERSITY AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN BUSINESS

This 4-page paper offers a review of two academic articles dealing with diversity and relationships among multicultural work teams...

Influence of Parental Income/Education on Academic Achievement

educational attainment. Literature Review Davis-Kean (2005) conducted a study that focused specifically on he influence of the p...

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act

and well-being of the nations children as an aspect of national security" (p. 1693). Today, people discuss nutrition quite differe...

Education, Politics And The Student: How Traditional Cultural Expectations Challenge And Shape Twentieth Century Educational Systems

and speak the truth; without the ability to stand against wrongdoing, people remain pawns of a contemptible political system run b...

Academic Dishonesty

of proper citation but rather those who knowingly involve themselves in academic dishonesty. One author notes that "Basically, c...

The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

Change Process

questioning is strongly discouraged (Brennan n.d.). Employee behavior is monitored and controlled, often through the use of punis...

Learning Social and Emotional Skills

responsible decisions: 1. Manage your emotions and regulate feelings so they help rather than impede (Elias, 2003, p. 9). 2. Under...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

Culture and Teaching ESLs

a mix that is becoming increasingly more diverse in the present era. 3. Multicultural education: Multicultural education refers ...

English Language Learners (ELL): Families And School

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

Nursing Student Evaluation/Social Issues and Ethics

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

Effects of Academic Dishonesty on Higher Education

al., 2008). A 2002 study of nearly 50,000 undergraduate students in various U.S. colleges and universities conducted by Professor...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

ESL CAN WORK: REFUTING CUMMINS' POINTS

if their communities are similarly doomed, there is a good deal of evidence that ESL can be taught in even uncaring communities. T...

Education: Curriculum And Instructional Supervision

of instructing many different types of students within a single classroom. Various methods have been introduced as a means by whi...