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U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Aspects of ECE or Early Childhood Education

She offers as an example a booklet used in schools entitled, "All About Me," which consists of a series of dittoed pages where the...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

Distance Education Investment Reasons

$95,000, Colbert does most of his work online and on the weekends. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture...

Work of John Dewey and Its Importance

be verified (Dewey, 1938). Pragmatism, then, is the application of scientific methods to areas commonly referred to as ideals and ...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Prime Time TV and the Images of Gays

watching audience of the 1970s, there has been a decidedly drastic change in the depiction of women as they appear in comedic role...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Contemporary Social Applications of the Human Rights' and Justice Theories of John Rawls

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

Adult Education Curriculum Defined

The contents will also need to be put together according to the needs of the class that is being taught. There has also been evide...

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 ...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

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...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

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

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...

Education in the U.S. and China

In five pages the systems of education in the U.S. and China are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

U.S. Multicultural Education

Americas schools is more prevalent in some states and in some regions of those states. This has to do with the fact that immigrati...

Preschool and Kindergarten Best Practice Curriculum

to Schweinhart and Weikart (1990), effective and developmentally appropriate programs for children (they are discussing Head Start...

Myles Horton and Paulo Freire's We Make the Road by Walking Conversations on Education and Social Change

with an introduction by the authors themselves, who outline their motivations for composing the text. They take turns describing ...

A Model For Making Schools Friendly for Inclusion

having a public education at all, subsequent research suggested that including children in regular classrooms was far superior (19...

New Zealand and the Socioeconomic Status of Women

Justice are just a few of the high visibility positions now occupied by women. This accomplishment is, however, very limited by w...

Punishment and Its Effectiveness

works. Yerkes demonstrated the principal in a simple T-shaped maze, as in one of the places, the experimenter placed a strip of s...