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Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

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...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

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

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...

What is Philosphy?

we have to consider what we mean by "everything," and if is it ever possible to identify everything. Would we have enough time to ...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

'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...

Academic Integrity, Student Research Methods, and Study Skills

the components involved" (Padgett, 2005, p. 56). For example, to locate general information on the best dog food brands, one woul...

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...

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...

Correlation Between High School Students with Poor Attendance and Academic Difficulties

Statistics showed that generally large school systems in low-income, inner-city urban school districts have a high incident of abs...

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 ...

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 ...

Athletic Funding and Academic Crowding Out

ten such programs in the country. By way of contrast, the University of Floridas football coach routinely receives a salary of mor...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

Athletes, Academics and the Failure Rate

their image of dummies who are terrible academically but are passed by their professors because the team needs them, are in fact l...

Cell Phones in the Academic Environment

and the negative sides of cell phone use in the academic environment and to present suggestions to bring those problems that do ex...

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

SUPPORTING INTEGRITY AND DISCOURAGING CHEATING IN HIGHER ACADEMICS

In a "good-news-bad-news" scenario, a recent study among 1,222 graduate students at a higher educational institution in the United...

Academic Honesty

most obvious forms of dishonesty involves plagiarism, whether it be intentional or otherwise. It appears as though the most common...

Physical Education: Importance To Academics And Overall Health

focused individual, noting that people who participate in some time of regular physical activity far surpass those who choose to r...

Collaborative Culture And Trust In The Academic Setting

just some of the concerns scholastic experts have discussed as a means by which to ascertain the true benefit of effective and ena...

Academic Day/Meeting with Teachers

The teacher who pointed this problem out to me was very sympathetic and helpful. I had a good impression of this teacher from the...

Academic Libraries and Barriers to International Students

Americans may not recognize it themselves, but American English is a complex language with complex sentence structures (Brown, 200...

Academic Performance and Self Esteem

People who have low self-esteem often try to "prove themselves" in order to impress others (Reasoner, 2004). They may "use others...

Academics and Groupthink

which is supposed to teach students how to think and be creative on their own? Johnson and Weaver (1992) point out that...

Academic Planning and Nursing Assessment

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...