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Pledge of Allegiance and the U.S. Supreme Court

lawsuit was filed in 2000, but failed to draw any media attention until a Ninth Circuit Court panel handed down a 2-1 ruling in Ju...

Memo Rewording Regarding 'English to English' Translation

pleased to welcome you to your new assignments, and I welcome the opportunity to become acquainted with each of you in person. I ...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

Government Roles for Women

based on criteria, but that criteria really should not include gender. Instead, it is thought that presidents choose based on all ...

Art of Stagecraft

Carra 104). The rationale behind these evaluations is based on the idea that the different positions enhance or weaken the emoti...

Sweetwater Chocolate Bars and Cookies Marketing Plan

is a quite conservative goal and may be one that we surpass merely by default after launching the most basic of marketing initiati...

Unemployment Rates and the Presidency

create new jobs, the Bush administration has "indelibly identified itself with the performance of the economy" (Beattie, 2003, p. ...

Industrialized Nations, Violent Crime, and High US Violent Crime Rates

that the determinants of violence are socio-economic and cultural factors rather than the availability of any particular deadly in...

Public Communication Issues

the degree of apprehension in an adult (Hale, 2002). Then there are the problems in that people with communication apprehe...

Education and Qualitative Content Analysis

In other words, the achievement of goals is clearly a focus of the assessment and testing process. But on an individual level, as...

Building a New High School in Neshaminy, PA

their replacements say theyll try to stop the loan with a lawsuit if necessary. The three challengers who were guaranteed board se...

Ethical Inquiry into Bias in Testing

test within the educational environment and the way in which the test will shape change in the educational environment. Recognizi...

Ethics, Assessments, and Testing

factors that are not within an educators or students control. For example, critics have argued that standardized testing is socio...

Double Blind Testing and the Tuskegee Experiments

is all about. By conducting such an experiment it is believed that the results will be completely unbiased. In this case we can cl...

New Testament's Mercy Theme and Religious Education

Holy Spirit. This implies: - the Revelation of God, of his "innermost truth," of his "secret," of the true vocation and dignity of...

Forensic Testing Issues

offender in court. This component of forensic psychology seeks to uncover how and why the crime took place, which ultimately lead...

A Case Study of Spanish-Speaking Student Populations

teachers teach certain populations. The purpose of this study is to provide insight to teachers of multilingual classrooms. Godin...

Ethical and Cultural Guidelines for the Release of Psychological Testing Data

providers are to hand over client requested health information. According to Celia Fisher, Ph.D., director of the Fordham Univers...

High School Experience Reflections

of keeping a proper balance between the informal and the formal, the incidental and the intentional, modes of education" (Dewey, 1...

Swedish Economy's Performance

(Heath, 2004, CIA, 2004). If we look at the levels of the labour force employment we can also see that there is a disproportionate...

Humility and Benjamin Franklin

of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...

Purchase Decisions and High and Low Involvement

as well as the physical need (Hooley et al, 1998). A product is rarely bought for what it is but for the need that it will satisfy...

2004 Presidential Election

preferred candidate for African-Americans at eighty-eight percent. In fact, other than the White vote, Kerry won out over Bush in...

College Math 'Survival'

with students, days with one solitary teacher standing well off in the distance addressing the class over a microphone and detaili...

High School Science Teaching

(Berube, 2000). This type of teaching follows what could be called the linear thinking model (Berube, 2000). But....science is not...

New Medications for Bipolar Disorder/A Research Proposal

bipolar disorder will participate in this study. Diagnostic procedures will include DSM-IV multiaxial evaluation, physical examina...

Statistics and Mean Starting Salaries

and well assume that the first and second columns are starting salaries of public accountants and financial planners, with the lat...

Economics and Trade Liberalization

Obviously, much of this process will depend on the extent to which trade barriers,...

United Kingdom Regulations and Legislation and How They Have Changed and Altered Banking Strategies

the strategy that is shaping that change is made within and in response to legislation. With the banking industry highly regulated...

A Research Proposal on Standardized Testing

examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...