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No Child Left Behind - Illinois

black-white achievement gap in fifth-grade mathematics narrowed by seven percentage points" among others (NCLB making a difference...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

Diane Levin's Teaching Young Children in Violent Times

and to feel safe" (Corby). After addressing the impact of violence on children, Levin describes how to build a peaceful classroo...

Behavior and the Influences of Nutrition

the formulation of childhood externalizing behavior (Liu, et al, 2004). Addressing this need, Liu, et al (2004) formulated a lon...

Treatment of the Unborn Child, Surrogacy Laws, and Abortion

Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) with reference to the Abortion Act 1967 (Lexis, 2003). This makes abo...

Deaf Child and the Impact Upon a Hearing Sibling

sisters" (Lobato, et al, 1991, p. 398). While studies that have focused on the siblings of handicapped children are rare, there ...

Child Development and Verbal Abuse

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

Lessons and Developmental Activities for Children Aged Nine Months to Four 4 Years

the infant simply plays with the play dough, feeling it as it squishes through hands and fingers (The Baby School Company, Inc., 2...

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

In 12 pages this essay considers the five families who brought a lawsuit against the chemical companies responsible for poisoning ...

Mentally Retarded Child and Development of Ego

In eleven pages the development of the ego of a mentally retarded child is considered in a fictitious scenario involving a young g...

HIV, AIDS, and Children

In eight pages HIV and AIDS are discussed in terms psychosocial implications on children and offers coping suggestions. Seven sou...

Infants and AIDS

In five pages the transmission and progression of AIDS as it affects infants and young children are examined. There are five bibl...

Women's Halfway Houses and Transitional Housing

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Constructing Ego and Confidence in Children Who Are At Risk

no question that animals offer unconditional love and support, which is what most at-risk children desperately need. While this i...

Madonna and Child by Fra Fillipo Lippi

possessed a style "on which his great pupil Botticelli informed himself" (Olgas Gallery, 2007). At the time of painting Madonna an...

Crack Cocaine: Fetal And Child Impact

mother needs to take immediate measures to modify her diet and habits as soon as she realizes she is with child so they do not har...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Same-Sex Parenting: Supportive Position

Being that these are not gender-specific traits - single men and women alike raise emotionally healthy children with great regular...

Teaching the Autistic Through Pictorial Self Management

a week. The research results, hypothetically, indicate that more research is needed in light of the fact that the children who rec...

Third Grade Health/How to Protect Your Skin

so that they will not get skin cancer from getting sunburned. The saying means to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a h...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Are Latino School Children Treated Differently?

that inclusive classrooms are key to success. In such classrooms, all children should feel recognized and accepted just as they ar...

Allowing Children to Sleep with Parents

in this society it has generally been the case that the society believes the more independent a child learns to be the better it i...

Media and its Influence on Children

true that if the parents do their part, in a very active way, the media can prove far less damaging. However, there is ultimately ...

Are They Wrong? Or Did They Just Answer A Different Question?

but to a different question than the teacher had in mind; the boy was counting the surface area rather than the cubes. The questio...

Tried as Adults: Children Over the Age of 14

is a great deal of evidence that suggests a teenager is really not aware enough to stand trial, or to make the same kinds of good ...

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...

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...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...