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Survey Development

contains questions that appear to be important in determining effective curriculum reform but also contains two overriding deficie...

Monitoring the Progress of a Child Through Assessment is Essential

dispute over the way in which Massachusetts conducts its testing. Richards (1998) illustrates how the Massachusetts educational s...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

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 ...

Academic Success and Emotional Intelligence

managing emotions, which includes being able to prioritize activities. Take, for example, a situation where friends ask you to go ...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

'The History Book' and School Textbooks on History

One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...

Comparison Between High School and College

is that college courses are simply more difficult and that they are more difficult because they present more difficult factual inf...

Child Development and the Impact of Socioeconomic Status

("Chaotic," 2004). This is of course known. However, there is a stigma for those with low IQ scores. Therefore, because of this an...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Education and Copyright Fair Use Model

be used outside of class related activity. It is illegal to make copies copyrighted material without the signed permission of the ...

Managing Classroom Disruptions

not have video games, CD players, cell phones or other electronic devices, but not all school systems have been willing to take st...

Teachers and Tutors of ESL Adult Learners and a Phonemic, Web Based Instructional Approach Preproposal

and phonological similarity of verbal items in memorized sequences" (Mueller, et al., 2003; p. 1353). The phonological-loop model...

Part II of Web Conferencing and eLearning

them. Symbols beneath the participants list enable anyone involved in the meeting to "raise a hand" to be called on for a t...

Future Learning Improved by a Quality Preschool

for the district" (Childrens Action Alliance, 2003). The findings reported in the above outline demonstrate many and diverse bene...

Guardian Higher Education Supplement Article on Academic Stresses and Challenges

not prolific writers. The pressure of meeting publication deadlines not only adds to general levels of workplace stress, but also ...

The Ramayana Version by R.K. Narayana

elicited. Narayanas rendition of "The Narayana" thus fits Richmans contention that specific historical factors play a role in sha...

School Excusism

students not being able to complete an assignment either as directed or as scheduled. In these cases, teachers must have a measur...

Multicultural Learning Community Development

- but perhaps it isnt. Boyer "defined community as an undergraduate experience that helps students go beyond their private inter...

Teen Drug Use and Its Effects

people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...

Scholastic Achievement and Families with Single Parents

for, for example). They strongly recommend that school staff make themselves aware of the kind of constraints which are faced by s...

Academic Achievement and Class Size Research Study Proposal

Problem There is a long history of research and opinions regarding the effects of smaller class size on student achievement. Alth...

Reading Disabilities and Exceptional Children Interventions

events and the relations of those events. This simultaneously gains insight into the brains representation of language and into t...

Social Process of Communication

language - generally English - is not the official language and not the native language of most of the workers in those countries,...

Team Building Through a Virtual Team Experience

written about the importance of teamwork, are working relationships plagued with frustration and disappointment" (p. 56)? When pe...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

A Review of an Internet-Based Educational Activity for Children

greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...

Utilizing a Learning Contract Within an Academic Setting

the company and gaining contracts with domestic and commercial customers. The main aim of the project will be to create a clear ...

Scholastic Performance and the Impact of Peer Programs

success of peer programs pertinent to academic achievement. II. Peer Leadership Peer feedback as well as modeling have been...

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 ...