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Reggio Emilia and the Zone of Proximal Development of Lev Vygotsky

and educational focus as a whole. II. Vygotsky Vygotsky suggests that learning is based within the zone of proximal developme...

Education and Gender Prejudice

In twelve pages schools are discussed in terms of how gender prejudiced is evidenced in sex segregation, textbooks, and teacher cl...

Do Schools Have a Gender Gap?

In twenty five pages this research paper examines schools in a literature review and survey pertaining to the issue of gender ineq...

Elementary School and DISTAR Reading Program

DISTAR reading program is being used more widely all the time" (Hone, 1994, p. PG). First introduced in the 1960s, DISTAR -- whic...

Elementary Education, Computers, and Test Scores

In eight pages this paper considers how using computers in elementary school classrooms produce benefits including assisting stude...

Urban Setting and Funding of Public Schools

In ten pages this paper examines educational program types used in urban areas and discusses the effects of public school funding ...

Public Education and the Impact of Social Problems

In six pages this paper discusses public education and the hefty price tag that is attached to societal problems in a consideratio...

Schools and Mandatory Uniform Policies

Mandatory uniform policies for schools are assessed in a paper consisting of four pages. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograph...

President Bill Clinton on Public School Uniforms

of the best ways to reduce violence and improve discipline within our public schools. This declaration came after the President s...

U.S. and Education Privatization

which we should concern ourselves with. These are: Would the implementation of privatization in our public school systems result...

Inner City Schools and Privatization

for Change To those who have been fighting the good fight for much more radical school reform in cities such as Hartford, Con...

Overview of the Edison Project

that has a student enrolled in the Edison Project receives a home computer. Edison uses these computers to keep in communication w...

Suburban v. Urban Schools

Crime and delinquency often run rampant through the halls of any citys public schools just as they do through the streets. The ve...

San Francisco's Unified School District and the Reconstitution Process

In seven pages this paper discusses the reduced use of the Reconstitution process by San Francisco Unified School District Superin...

Public Schools and Students with AIDS

In six pages this paper discusses the benefits of allowing students with AIDS to attend public schools. Seventeen sources are cit...

Learning's Theoretical Components

from personal experience, including elements of culture; 3. the development of learning through the function of the brain is relat...

Action Research and Education

In five pages this essay subdivided into 2 sections considers the merits of action research in a new math class for high school st...

Student Supplied Fictitious Case on Prayer in School

In five pages this student submitted fictitious case considers school prayer and the implications regarding students with unconven...

Elementary Education Classroom Situation

In two pages the elementary school classroom is the setting for a scenario involving the teacher's December holiday class preparat...

Canada's Private and Public Education

In six pages this paper discusses Canada's public education system and the growing popularity of private and home schooling. Ther...

Education and Philosophy

In eight pages this paper discusses reconstructionism, progressivism, essentialism, and perennialism philosophical approaches to p...

Brown v. Board of Education and Subsequent School Integration

landmark case, a case almost everyone has heard of, which purportedly ended discrimination in the school systems all throughout th...

Teh Beginning of Operant Conditioning

Skinner's legacy is reinforcement. This theory has been applied in learning settings, such as schools, and also in counseling and ...

Dramatic Changes in One District

One school district in a very remote and isolated area needed to change dramatically. They were in crisis. This paper describes ho...

An Article Critique, Duane and Satre (2014)

This paper presents an article critique of Duane and Satre (2014), which describes the implementation of a collaborative testing m...

Improving the Mental and Physical Health of Hispanic Adolescents

This 3 page paper provides a discussion of a few methods proposed to improve the health of Hispanics of adolescent age. This paper...

Hispanic Students Health

This 3 page paper provides a discussion of a few methods proposed to improve the health of Hispanics of adolescent age. This paper...

Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me

This book review pertains to Jean M. Twenge's text Generation Me, which is a study of the differences between the attitudes and se...

IHP Accreditation, The ACICS Process

This research paper describes the accreditation process being initiated by the Institute of Healthcare Professions (IHP) with the ...

American Schools, the Problem of Racial Inequality

This research paper pertains to the issue of racial inequality in the U.S. school system and the gap between the academic achievem...