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How They Compare 'Ungraded' or 'Multi-Age' Classrooms

This paper consists of 10 pages and chronicles the evolution of school organization from the nineteenth century and continuing wit...

How to Teach Writing

This paper discusses methods for teaching writing. It argues that writing is not a gift but a skill that can be learned, and that ...

Creative Essay 'The Grass Rider'

In three pages this creative essay considers how a new neighborhood kid attempts to learn how to ride a bike as a way of making fr...

U.S. Criminal Law and the Massachusetts 'Au Pair' Trial

In twelve pages this research paper examines what can be learned by American criminal law by studying the case of the Commonwealth...

Crime Causation

attachments to family, school, and religion are weak. Lowered self-concepts can result from negative family and school experience...

Criminology Theories

In five pages social learning and labeling theories are applied to a consideration of criminal behavior. Ten sources are cited in...

Social Learning Theory in '8 Ball Chicks'

there is nothing else "but us" to provide protection, safety and survival for the girls who join gangs. Within those gangs, they ...

Essays on Deviant Behavior

In seven pages essays based on deviant behavior and criminology textbook are presented with theories and concepts such as politica...

Cultural Aspects of the Biology of Memory and Learning

This paper examines the various cultural differences that affect learning and memory techniques and practices throughout the world...

Hands On Instruction Increased Through Group Investigation

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses US test scores in a discussion of how in science and biology classrooms the group ...

Management of Classroom Styles Assessment and Observations

In five pages this essay considers the classroom observation of a certain teacher with process described, what was learned, and th...

Learning Fundamentals and Primates in the Classroom by Bernhard

In six pages this text is critiqued within the context of evolution and how it has impacted upon the process of learning. There a...

Grades Seven through Twelve, Literacy, and Cooperative Learning

In five pages the development of literacy skills through cooperative learning in grades 7 through 12 are examined through a consid...

Cooperative Learning, History, and Reading

is incredibly generalized (Vacca; Vacca). Baer and Nourie strongly agree and illustrate this: "Frequently, teachers fail to take ...

Mathematics and Cooperative Learning

In five pages the benefits of cooperative learning when applied to the teaching of mathematics are examined. Five sources are cit...

Job Based Versus Formal Education

This paper addresses the issue of what type of education would provide more of a benefit for students, job based learning, or a fo...

Learning Abilities and the Impact of Variables

In eight pages this research paper assesses the impacts of motivation, locus of control, influence of peers, socialization, achiev...

Education Improvements

In thirty pages this paper examines various educational theories in a discussion of academia problems and methodologies on improve...

Education and Action Research Benefits

In seven pages this paper examines education in a consideration of the positive aspects of action research as it pertains to stude...

Special Needs Children and Early Psychological Studies

In six pages this paper examines 1950s and 1960s psychological studies of children with special learning needs and emphasizes the ...

Autistic Student, Reading and Writing

In five pages this paper discusses autistic students and the responsibility a special education teacher has to properly develop or...

Effective Study Strategies

In eight pages this report discusses how students can learn more successfully through the application of effective study strategie...

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...

Third Grade Reading and Cooperative Learning

best instilled at a young age. Elementary and teachers have what amounts to an almost moral obligation to assure that the children...

Education and Attitude Variations of Staff and Faculty

In twenty five pages this paper considers academic attitudes regarding distance learning, technology, promotion, tenure, and share...

Examination of Charter Schools

In six pages the hybrid creation of charter schools are examined in terms of encompassing the classification of a public learning ...

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...

Senior Citizens and Education

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

Teaching Math by Computer and Standard Textbook Math Education in Terms of Benefits

In a study consisting of ten pages the hypothesis that teaching math by computer generates significantly higher learning outcomes ...

What I’ve Learned About Foreign Policy by Dorrel

former U.S. Attorney General and is in Segment 9, illustrates how Kissinger, in relationship to the Iran/Iraq War claimed that the...