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Gas Industry, Academic Training, and Final Training Report

Those projects that get so far out of hand that they openly fail are worse. These projects run the risk of being terminated befor...

Academics and College Football

better players than readers. Its a dilemma, with both athletes and institutions caught in the middle (Major Violation: The Unbalan...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

Implementing Six Sigma at the Academic Medical Hospital

manner. This is an important time for AMH as the system can be rolled into other departments. 2. Current Issues and Opportunities...

Athletes, Academics and the Failure Rate

their image of dummies who are terrible academically but are passed by their professors because the team needs them, are in fact l...

Cell Phones in the Academic Environment

and the negative sides of cell phone use in the academic environment and to present suggestions to bring those problems that do ex...

Collaborative Culture And Trust In The Academic Setting

just some of the concerns scholastic experts have discussed as a means by which to ascertain the true benefit of effective and ena...

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...

Physical Education: Importance To Academics And Overall Health

focused individual, noting that people who participate in some time of regular physical activity far surpass those who choose to r...

Olesker's "Journeys To The Heart Of Baltimore"

world. This blending of such culture has been credited with bringing societies closer together and allowing people to understand ...

How Different National Cultural Perspectives Can Impact Negotiations In A Multicultural Context

the more contemplative nature of India, cannot function at this nonstop pace and, as such, would feel undue pressure to make a dec...

What Kind Of Cultural Identity Should Public Schools Promote?

et al, 2005). Citing how public education in America "has historically been both the panacea for societal ills and the target fo...

Academic Day/Meeting with Teachers

The teacher who pointed this problem out to me was very sympathetic and helpful. I had a good impression of this teacher from the...

Academics and Groupthink

which is supposed to teach students how to think and be creative on their own? Johnson and Weaver (1992) point out that...

Academic Performance and Self Esteem

People who have low self-esteem often try to "prove themselves" in order to impress others (Reasoner, 2004). They may "use others...

Academic Libraries and Barriers to International Students

Americans may not recognize it themselves, but American English is a complex language with complex sentence structures (Brown, 200...

Cultural Development Of Vietnamese Women

majority of them helpless to a life of nothing other than self-sacrifice for their homes and families. For Vietnamese women...

Women In Chinese Culture: Historical Analysis

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

Diversity In The Workplace

addressing gender and cultural prejudice within the ranks so as not to perpetuate the ill-will that has typically existed. II. IN...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

Student Achievement/Achieving AYP

leadership providing "mapped, prioritized standards," which are then implemented with five general categories, which are: 1. Rese...

Chubb and Loveless's Bridging The Achievement Gap

educational agencies, universities, and so forth. Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore present their findings of Tennessees Project ST...

Assessing Achievement Through Student Portfolios

the student or parents choose to save some particularly meaningful effort. Even then, virtually everything else is lost and canno...

Social Work Case Study on Task Achievement Scaling Intervention

to at an earlier time. Though assignment of levels 1 - 4 is subjective in that it is not solidly based on measurable results, the...

Student Achievement in Empire State College

they are truly a college that cares about what people want to do with their lives because many of the students come to the college...

Student Achievement and Classroom Behavior Improvements Through Choice

lead to a "healthy psychological balance" (Tassell, 2004; St Olivers Community College. 2004). People make choices in what they do...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Language Arts Standards Achievement

diversity (NCTE). Helping students to achieve these goals requires a variety of learning strategies. For example, research indic...