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School Funding Alternatives Assessed

in school funding and enhanced equitable distribution of financial resources. Current The scenario to be changed is that in...

Evaluating a Program on Special Education

important questions be asked. For instance, he asks a specific question in respect to an example provided: "How well are students ...

Alternatives to Student Learning Assessed

is made. Further, a great reliance on norm-referenced standardized tests has emerged over the last few decades. Standardized norm-...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Psychology As A Career

of a few areas of practice. Because the elderly population is growing so fast, those trained in geropsychology may have less chall...

Distance Education and the Isolation of Rural Schools

(2001). Therefore, some states have begun using the Internet to bring more materials to their rural classrooms (Christie, 2001). W...

The Benefits of a Liberal Education

says that there are whole huge parts of life as American adults that nobody talks about, especially in commencement speeches (Wall...

Career : Physiologist

clues for healing unhealthy organs and system. This is a general field that uses techniques from numerous other disciplines. The...

Race and Gender in Education

and the sexes, in particular with efforts like those put forth by the womens movement, to reshape not just male and female identit...

Disruptive Students and Alternative Programs

isolation does not appear to be a homogeneous status. Examining the roots of peer status resulted in two distinct images of isolat...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

Collaborative Learning Communities

2007, p. 166). Livesay, et al (2007) point out that participation in professional collaborative learning communities helps teach...

Efficacy of Tutoring Programs & Math

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

The Impact of Part Time Jobs on Students

prospects being a dominant influence (Robinson, 1999). The research concerning part time work in students, looking at the motivat...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

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...

English Language Learners, Learning Disabilities and One School Setting

population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...

Inequities in School Funding

income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...

Third Grade Geometry Standards

Education, 2006). Each includes a list of specific skills, for example, under problem solving, we find: "Solve problems that arise...

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...

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...

Jazz Curriculum for Korea

to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...

The Potential for Robots in Schools

robot as "A robot is a reprogramable multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices, ...

Georgia Tech - Parking Case Study

cost $4,000 per parking space to construct. Ground parking lots cost $1,000 per space to construct. The mathematical model upon w...

Hispanic Heritage

in an after-school program that aids non-English speaking students with the requirements of their academic studies. This program h...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Pressure Ulcers; Risk Management

In 1997 it is estimated the pressure ulcers cost the Australian healthcare system A$350 million and with patients that develop ulc...