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Essays 1951 - 1980

Nursing Questions

with other organizations in order to achieve health objectives. For example, community-based resources may be used in conjunction...

How Government is Involved in Education

Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) were reauthorized in 2004, the members of Congress supported the growing evidence of valu...

The Theme of Vegetables in Kindergarten Curriculum

as well (Rog, 2001, p. 7). One of the difficult elements about creating these kinds of instructional strategies is that there are...

Forces Driving Change in Colleges

form of inertia wherein principals become comfortable with the way things are. An institution of higher education is a unique or...

Leading in Education

2009). Contingency styles consider the relationship between the leader and follower, the specific task, and power (Doyle & Smith, ...

A Tool Against Child Abuse

This paper considers A-1654, a new New Jersey law requiring the education of new parents about what constitutes child abuse and ho...

A Project for Nursing Administration

Introduction When patients experience cardiac arrest, the response of healthcare workers can have a significant impact on patient...

Teachers' Roles in Character Education: Examining the Controversy

ongoing debate about how much and how far the educational system should influence children. Is it appropriate for that system and ...

Education and Frederick Douglass

instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...

HEALTH CARE POLICY ISSUE: PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSE TO FOOD LABELING

agencies, both of which demanded more nutritional information on food (Frazao and Lynch, 1991). At the time of the laws passage, t...

How to Encourage Innovative Ideas

in chaos. Durk Jager, former CEO of Proctor & Gamble placed so much emphasis on innovation that led to a decline in profits and l...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

or they ignore the information. This is one of the reasons it is so important to instill that knowledge and those practices in chi...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

Law Enforcement and the Value of Higher Education

States has been largely operating under a model wherein certain jobs require significant amounts of training and immersion in high...

"Practical Life" Instruction - An Overview

education, in the most basic sense, is a fundamental pre-requisite for the acquisition of any skill-set in life, from the most bas...

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

Issues Concerning Advance Nurse Practitioners

This essay linked the IOM and QSEN reports by pointing out that advanced education would lead to nurses gaining the identified com...

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 ...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

The Impact of Nursing, Earthquake,

This research paper focuses on nursing care in regards to earthquake victims. The writer reviews relevant recent literature in re...

"The Lonely, Good Company of Books," Richard Rodriguez

This essay pertains to Richard Rodriguez's view of reading and education as expressed in "The Lonely, Good Company of Books," whic...

Nurses Educating Other Nurses

This 4 page paper covers the pursuit of a masters degree in nurse education. This paper explains how the student would like to use...

Theory and Practice Relationship

The relationship between theory and practice in education is a long-standing controversy. This is one of the issues discussed in t...

Aging and its Impact on Wisdom

This paper suggests that wisdom is not always a result of advanced age or even of education. There is one source in this three pa...

Teaching Advanced Students

In the recent past, the literature has been emphasizing including gifted children in the regular classroom rather than placing the...

Literature on PDAs in Nursing Practice and Education

This research paper presents summaries of two studies that focus on PDA efficacy in nursing education and practice. The paper also...

Paideia, The Thoughts of Douglas Wilson

This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...

Paideia, Werner Jaeger

This essay focuses on the scholarship of Werner Jaeger regarding the Greek term "paideia" [education]. Three pages in length, one ...

Paideia, Lockerbie

This essay presents an overview of D. Bruce Lockerbie's understanding of "paideia," which means "education." Three pages in length...