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John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

Teachers' Roles in Character Education: Examining the Controversy

ongoing debate about how much and how far the educational system should influence children. Is it appropriate for that system and ...

Achieving Inclusion in Education

is through intervention to change the way that the disabled student is dealt with so that they can fit is with the status quo....

Which Punishment is Best

alarming rate. Although the crime rate in general has dropped, there is little evidence to show a direct causal relationship betwe...

Opposition to School Vouchers

Phi Delta Kappa in the summer of 1996 claimed that about 60 percent of the people polled said that students should not be able to ...

Law Enforcement and the Value of Higher Education

States has been largely operating under a model wherein certain jobs require significant amounts of training and immersion in high...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

A Health and Nutrition Education Plan

their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

The Educational Value of Cloud Computing

that the software can be accessed via an internet connection, rather than having to be downloaded to particular terminals (Crick S...

"Practical Life" Instruction - An Overview

education, in the most basic sense, is a fundamental pre-requisite for the acquisition of any skill-set in life, from the most bas...

Australian Education: Grammar and Literacy

levels of education, there has been some concern that courses related to careers in information or printing, which used to emphasi...

UK Post World War II Comprehensive Education Development

on the basic skills, such as numeracy, reading and writing (University of Derby, 2002). Most students left the school at about age...

Education Influence of Former US Education Secretary William Bennett

going on in schools at all levels (Bowen, 1987). Still, he was disliked by just about everyone. That all began to change during ...

2 Contemporary Issues Confronting Our Country

just too large a bureaucracy to be able to deal with the myriad problems the people face today that cause them to turn to drugs or...

Education and John Locke

independence of judgment marked him throughout his life (1998). While Lockes contribution to the ideas of education is quite sign...

Importance of Education and Teen Pregnancy

"is the best possible option for kids" and should be the primary, if not the only, lesson that schools teach (Curran, and Witt, 20...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Text Chapter 'Continuing Professional Education' by Donna Queeney

knowledge required and they may even be able to demonstrate an ability to apply the knowledge in their jobs but competence is anot...

Student Posed Questions Answered in a Trio of Essays

When something needs to be done, it is often the consumer who has to do the leg work. Another pet peeve involves people who drive...

Education and Leadership

personal capacity. The most important role of a leader is to impact the people he leads and creating a link between the actions o...

Occupational Choices in the Field of Psychology

one will find that many fields are rife with opportunities for psychology majors. Many firms in fact hire anyone with a B.S. or B....

Traditional Education versus Distance or Online Education

education (The Higher Learning Commission, 2003; Online Education Resources, n.d.). The purpose of accreditation is to assure pro...

Rochester, NY, and Education According to John Dewey's Philosophy and Carter G. Woodson's The Mis Education of the Negro

him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was n...

The Controversy over Bilingual Education

this program allows children to retain their heritage and their home culture (Rothstein 672). Further, proponents comment that som...

Interactive Media and Audio of the Future

does bring to light some of the inherent problems with computer-enhanced learning. One of the potential problems that expe...

Overview of Interactive Data Visualization

in decision making (Sullivan, 2002). Data visualization can be used to "analyze information in a data warehouse or it can be used...

Taking a Position on ''The Inequality Express' by Barry Bluestone

and their corresponding workforces (Bluestone, 1996). What I find particularly puzzling at this point in the essay however is that...

Mass Media and Education

in a peaceful, complimentary relationship. To some extent, purpose enters the picture, and to this end, Villamizar (1997) suggest...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...