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Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setti...

Kuwait's Private Education Industry and an Application of Porter's Model

is attempting to take away some of the market share of the existing companies in that sector. The first thing to consider in this ...

Educational Institutions and Leadership Models

social architect" (Leadership models, 2005). This leader focuses on such factors as structure, implementation and adaptation and ...

Changing Educational Organization

time will lead to change in the third section of the model. The best case scenario, the one capable of producing the win-wi...

James Popham, George Madaus, and Alfie Kohn Educational Assessments

be allowed to learn on their own in a manner that is encouraged and that they schools should "give students time to be confused an...

Instruction and Educational Planning

Classroom management procedures should be explained to students and clear rules for discourse should be outlined. Students should...

A School Setting and Assessment and Accountability

a variety of issues that have influenced the process of educational assessments since the 1980s. These issues including things li...

Computers a Household Necessity

taxpayers produce myriad receipts for purchases and expenses, it generally will blindly accept any self-designed spreadsheet of ho...

Students from Low Income Families and Affirmative Action's Impact

increasingly diverse, affirmative action in college admissions is a national imperative" (Dervarics, 2003; 6). And while, as menti...

Karl Popper's Method and Educational Research

irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...

Educational Leadership and Teamwork

or is supervising the team. Smialek reported training team members in group skills have been identified as the "most necessary ele...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

"brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.). Not everyone agrees ...

Education and the Participatory Research Model

are legitimate issues in teaching strategy and the fact that the education system is not working and few know why. While vouchers ...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Implementation of the Perkins Educational Grant

educational achievement, such as limited proficiency in English (California Department of Education (b), 2004). When it co...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

Barriers to Communication for Deaf Children

rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the ...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

Frankenstein Creature and His Education

begins to interact with the Delaceys he ceases to be just a creature reacting to his own base needs, but begins to develop a consc...

Educational Objectives' Renewal

most teenagers, I was interested in the present. Today, I look to the future and realize that the effort I put into my life today ...

Establishing a Program of Leadership Training Development

that Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has offered Kwami a position; and his organizational skills, charm and laid back a...

Education and Views of John Kerry and George W. Bush

Kerry further thinks that due to the demands foisted on the nation by the presence of a new global economy, all children must rea...

Middle School Differentiated Instruction

that emphasized low-level thinking instead of challenges (Shorey et al, 2004). Differentiated instruction takes into consideration...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

UK's Talented and Gifted Education

after the Sputnik launch in 1957 and plunged in the equal rights environment of the 1960s. Despite the hostility and naysaying of ...

Educational Activities for Toddlers and Infants

of learning opportunities that will be helpful at any given moment. Because younger children go from one activity to another rathe...

Technology and Future Schools

were infants. To reflect this savvy technological knowledge, teachers and theorists have determined yet another need for change. A...

A Learning Contract For Health and Safety Education

In writing the health and safety policy there are several objectives, the resulting policy document is one that necessitates a ran...