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Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

Canadian Children and Poverty

only is "the rate of child poverty ... growing" particularly among recent immigrants and native peoples, but the widening gap betw...

Impoverished Children and Better Nutrition Promotion

spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well ...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

Montessori - Reflection On Quotations

them involved. We have the opportunity to educate parents about how the environment affects their childs learning and development....

Suffer the Restless Child by Alfie Kohn

children every year, all pointing to the fact that it is really not just one condition, and that many factors play a part in how p...

Public Health in Haiti; A Research Proposal

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...

Logico-Mathematical Thought And Montessori’s Mathematical Mind

to the thought (Durak, 2005). This process is needed for mathematics and logic to exist, as it is a way that a student will create...

The No Child Left Behind Act

implications that definitely go against the grain of some long-established educational practices. Given the problematic n...

The Role of Mothers in the Social and Educational Upbringing of Their Children, Particularly in Japan

differences they expect to find as they observe mothers with their children are not gross; that is, they dont expect to find Ameri...

Child Abuse and Its Relationship to Sociology

that within a group there exists "the possibility for a contagion of emotional and irrational thoughts and behavior which causes a...

Insensitive Teachers and Ethnic Students

has to do with her background as well; if her parents didnt value other cultures, they will not have passed that appreciation to h...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Article Review/Childhood Motivation

that driving time was a factor in selection and that all interviews were conducted in person, it can be assumed that the study was...

Intervention - Recovered Memories And Trauma

be validated through other means (Science Daily , 2007). An overwhelming majority of victims who recover such memories are women. ...

Starting a Nursery in Jeddah

and tuition for the older children. The plan will require a new building that will be specifically designed for its purpose aimed ...

Children & Junk Food/A Media Slant

on family food purchases of "cereal, candy and fast food" has been estimated to account for $500 billion per year (Lopes). This fi...

Alcoholism: Children of Alcoholic Parents

2007). In first examining this condition, from a broad perspective, it is helpful to note some of the facts concerning families/ch...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Selling Pokemon to the West

it. This demonstrated that it was possible, however it was determined that there was a large potential. The games that were devel...

No Child Left behind; Data Analysis, Discussion and Recommendations

attainment figures. It is also notable that after a period of improvements the last few years, 2003 - 2005 appear to have...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Learning Disabilities in Young Children

disability is limited proficiency in English, or "lack of instruction in reading or math" (Guidelines, 1999). The guidelines also ...

Jane Eyre as a Child

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

High Risk Family Assessment/Violence

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...

California Should Encourage More Adoptions

to adopt white infants, which, among other things, gives the lie to the myth that Americans love children. If they did, all childr...

ELL Funding

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...