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Essays 1831 - 1860

The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

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...

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...

Problems Associated with Economic Development

natural resources rent account for 8% of the national income the advantages of democracies are eliminated. Collier argues that if ...

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...

Education for Prisoners Is of Vital Importance

locked up while the other half watches it. Prison populations all over the globe are exploding, with the United States as one of t...

Which Punishment is Best

alarming rate. Although the crime rate in general has dropped, there is little evidence to show a direct causal relationship betwe...

Culture Influences Higher Education

skills" (The University of Tokyo, Introduction, 2009). The Charter of Todai found at http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gen02/b04_01_e.html...

New Higher Education Institution

by all higher education institutions today. Demographic Information for Student Population This college has a mission of excelle...

Social Issues in Brazil

wealthy elite and a massively poor population; women are making strides but injustice and problems based on gender are rampant; an...

Identifying Child Abuse Early

low protection from it. Academic performance was much better for low risk, high protection students. It was also shown that girls ...

Educating Today’s G.I.

group of highly trained people who gather together in fortifications barricaded against the enemy. Now that picture is changing, a...

Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education

the consequences, to the point where you can actually tell the difference between those who are sexually educated and those who ar...

Development and Human Rights as Addressed by Bolivian President Evo Morales

as a deep concern for human rights and a commitment to his countrys economic development (Trujillo, 2007). Having confronted adve...

The Common Core Standards

reasons. Heldenfels observes, for example, that while South Korea achieves a 96 percent graduation rates, US students fall far beh...

American Social Systems in Economic Crisis

retirement for older Americans, perhaps the most overlooked factor in the devastation caused by the economic crisis. Older America...

Issues in African History

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Health Care Delivery in the United States

Impact of the Health Care Delivery System on the Availability of Health Education Services in the United States...

Multicultural Students and their special needs

are doing everything in their power to meet the needs of multicultural students. Yet, many still question if there is more that ca...

MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN EDUCATION

Discusses how online education helps perpetuate organizational change on the educational institution offering it. There are 3 sour...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

Facilitation and Education

that for example, therapists can act as facilitators, but what they ordinarily do should not be accomplished in the context of fac...

Changes in What is Required in Education and to What Degree

According to recent statistics, seven out of ten high school graduates will enroll in a college or university after graduation (Le...

Teaching Our Children About Sex

When considering the question of whether we are repressed sexually it is important to recognize that sexuality is as diverse as hu...

Summations/Analysis of Five Education Articles

the lack of direct instruction on how to go about accomplishing these goals in the classroom, she effectively convinces her reader...