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The Use of a New Math Program

articles in professional and popular media has placed a renewed concern about math performance of American students at the forefro...

Socialization

In five pages this paper examines socialization in an overview of peer groups, school, and family relationships. One source is ci...

Proposition 187 in California

This report consisting of ten pages examines a 1994 voter initiative that prevented children of immigrants from public school atte...

Home Schooling's Scholastic Advantages

children. Many have heard stories of youngsters who are high achievers-opening businesses, winning contests, obtaining perfect SAT...

Contemporary School Problems and Solutions

are kept on for quite awhile and their teaching skills have faded. They have not kept pace with educational research and this beco...

Issue of School Choice

the problem from a political point of view. Is the selection of schools another step toward democracy and free markets, or...

Charter Schools That Are State Funded

In eleven pages this paper discusses charter schools and their state funding in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. Eigh...

Knowledge Theories Empiricism and Rationalism

In six pages this paper examines these two philosophical schools of knowledge with the categorical imperative of Immanuel Kant and...

Funding Special Education Under the Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004

P?rez, Socias, Shkolnik and Esra (2004) researched the question, "How does special education spending vary across states classifie...

The Free Will Problem

determinism. It is often the case that philosophers see determinism as being the opposite of freedom or free will. That is, most ...

School Leadership

research in the field of school leadership. This vast field of study addresses the same issues that are addressed in the business-...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Copyright Law in Education

encouraged to visit libraries so they will be able to access information without cost. In recent years, libraries have expanded th...

THE PROBLEM WITH RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

home for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The clause, "Congr...

Canadian Aboriginal Schools as Cultural Genocide

system, the rationale for establishing the system was unabashedly one of assimilation. Nicholas F. Davin, who proposed the system ...

Anxiety In Children In The Classroom

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

Socioautobiography: Wife, Mother, Worker and Student

from the fact that I was adopted when I was seven years of age. Research indicates that for adopted children, the primary issues i...

Literacy Case Study

he reads words quickly regardless of whether or not he is reading them correctly, never stopping to self-correct. Furthermore, his...

Incentive and Retention for Special Education Teachers

a few non-conference meals. Table 1. Conference Attendance Cost per Teacher Item Component Cost Total Cost Conference registrati...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

Gaining Weight for the Young Athlete

nutritious meals per day. Sepe (2006) explains that the meals should be balanced between carbohydrate, protein and fat. He explain...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Career as a Network Administrator

administrator generally is required to be an onsite worker. That requirement is changing, but slowly. For the next decade or so ...

Advantages and Disadvantages Associated With Independent Education in the UK

student in the state school system was ?2,320 (Graddy and Stevens, 2005). This is a far higher level of expenditure that is availa...

Parental Issues in Education

home-schooling vary, in general home-schooled children do very well in higher education. This is attributed to the fact that home ...

Motivation at Starbucks

the lower order needs. Higher order needs are motivators such as the desire to belong, recognition, development and self actualiz...

Importance of Trust in School Administration

parents of special needs children, every ethnic background and grade level on the team (Johns, 2001). These parents are deeply inv...

Argument: Prayer Does Not Belong in Public Schools

a hole in that wall. The purpose of public schools is to "educate, not to proselytize" (Gaylor). Advocates of prayers in public s...

The Contribution Of Motivation Theories To Understanding Work Place Behavior

the idea that man was motivated economically. The increased efficiency meant that Ford could produce in one day what had previousl...

Educational Administration

stated: "In chaordic systems, order emerges. Structure evolves. Life is recognizable pattern within infinite diversity" (Durrance,...