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Change Process

questioning is strongly discouraged (Brennan n.d.). Employee behavior is monitored and controlled, often through the use of punis...

Learning Social and Emotional Skills

responsible decisions: 1. Manage your emotions and regulate feelings so they help rather than impede (Elias, 2003, p. 9). 2. Under...

The Relevance of Culture for African American Students: Methodology

American learners? The goal of this study is to better understand the impact of African American culture on the academic achi...

SUPPORTING INTEGRITY AND DISCOURAGING CHEATING IN HIGHER ACADEMICS

In a "good-news-bad-news" scenario, a recent study among 1,222 graduate students at a higher educational institution in the United...

Academic Honesty

most obvious forms of dishonesty involves plagiarism, whether it be intentional or otherwise. It appears as though the most common...

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...

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act

and well-being of the nations children as an aspect of national security" (p. 1693). Today, people discuss nutrition quite differe...

Instructional Supervision & New Curricula For Raising Academic Standards

by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

The Problem of Unintentional Plagiarism

be written in a particular way as not to mimic the words precisely of another author. Some universities have adopted a five word r...

School Counseling And Student Achievement

school counseling program would improve achievement (Brown and Trusty, 2005). As an example of strategic intervention, the author...

Sociology

(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

Academic Cheating

How and Why Students Cheat and What to Do In a tongue-in-cheek article from the University of Arizona, Rebecca Missel and Phil Vi...

Education: Micro And Macro

Stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations believe themselves as being subordinate to their white counterp...

Why I Want to be a Mechanical Engineer

where tools may be seen in manufacture, but also in areas such as remote healthcare, allowing surgeons to operate remotely, and mi...

Academic Disparity: Article Summaries

tendency to perpetuate the familys migrant worker history is too often a strong deterrent to the desire - or ability - for parents...

ESOL: Science Lesson

the interactive environment of group sharing. Directed Reading/Thinking Activity is accomplished in five specific steps: preview,...

What is Philosphy?

we have to consider what we mean by "everything," and if is it ever possible to identify everything. Would we have enough time to ...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

A Healthy Self-Concept

or her ability and worth. For example, when this writer/tutor was an adolescent, I judged my math ability negatively on both my ...

Researching the International Baccalaureate Program

measurement signifies success of the program? * "Does there appear to be a positive correlation in the programs participants and a...

Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Report on Genetic Modification of Food

1. Genetically Modified Foods; The Issues In recent years there has been a great deal of attention paid to the concept as well...

Detrimental Effects of Coeducational Schools on Females

pressure and intimidation inherent to performing as well as their male counterparts in the coeducational setting speaks to the rea...

Student Accomplishment and the Principal's Role

relationship, however (Hallinger, Bickman and Davis, 1996). The principals actions shape and affect the learning climate, which, i...

Theory of Standardized Academic Assessments

ask far too much from such a diverse collection of learners. As a direct result, educators are caught in the middle of trying to ...

Academic Integrity, Student Research Methods, and Study Skills

the components involved" (Padgett, 2005, p. 56). For example, to locate general information on the best dog food brands, one woul...