SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Applying Motivational Theory to Education

Essays 2551 - 2580

Immigrant Trends and the Criticism of Multicultural Education

"multicultural education" seems to defy accurate description. Although there are "serious and substantial philosophical difference...

Shorris’ On the Uses of Liberal Education

that could help many people rise up out of poverty. Shorris indicates how one woman, a woman in prison who had grown up and live...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

The Importance of Clear Communication in Education

This 6 page essay looks at education and how administrators can better communicate with the community. Problems are noted. A summa...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Peer Mentoring in Post-Secondary Education

study relates the concept of peer mentoring to a variety of practices that have become popular in the past few decades. Budge (20...

Educational Attainment and Social Origin

or the "subdominant cultures" who eventually settled there. The situation has become progressively more complex in modern society...

South Africa's Youth Issues

This paper examines South African youth in this post apartheid overview that addresses HIV and AIDS heath concerns, education, cri...

Article Critique and Summary on Multicultural Education

In five pages this paper presents a summary, analysis, and critique of an article on multicultural education. One source is cited...

Women's Educational Views in Juan Vives' The Education of a Christian Woman and Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women

This paper contrasts and compares these works in terms of how they depict the education of women in 5 pages. There are 2 sources ...

Massachusetts' Educational Law and Least Restrictive Environment Implementation

In five pages this paper examines the Chapter 766 update of Massachusetts' educational law regarding special education and childre...

Health Promotion and the Positive Impact of Education

In five pages this paper considers health promotion, illiteracy, and the positive impact of education as a way of solving global h...

Advantages Of Mergers And Acquisitions : For Profit Education

this is what caused the need to sell the campus (Hersch, 2006). Whatever the real reason, the sale will allow American College to...

For Profit Education - Relationships With Stock Analysts

million in 2006 (Smith, 2006). As a side-note, DeVry offers programs in technology and business; enrollment began declining after ...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

Chapters 4 and 5

In these and all other charts highlighting test scores over time for the after school group, the scores for two years...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

The Influence of the Home Background on the Achievement of Secondary School Students

better attitudes toward school and have higher aspirations" (Othrow and Stout, 1999). Regardless of their economic status, educati...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

Degree Programs Online Advantages and Disadvantages

today is that many old, established and respected universities are offering many courses online, and increasing numbers are offeri...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

ADHD and Issues in Classroom Management

with these other interventions. These approaches are typical based on positive reinforcement techniques. Many, including behaviora...

Religion Curriculum in Schools

Perhaps the greatest similarities lie between the Christianity and Islam faiths; indeed, there are considerable concurrent issues ...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

Personal Narraive/2 Year RN to 4 Year RN

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

Creating a Survey Questionnaire

and audiences as to their legitimacy" (p. 179-180). Some of those characteristics are that qualitative research * "Takes place in...