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School Counseling And Student Achievement

school counseling program would improve achievement (Brown and Trusty, 2005). As an example of strategic intervention, the author...

A Healthy Self-Concept

or her ability and worth. For example, when this writer/tutor was an adolescent, I judged my math ability negatively on both my ...

Plato's Apology/Capital Punishment & Academic Freedom

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

What is Philosphy?

we have to consider what we mean by "everything," and if is it ever possible to identify everything. Would we have enough time to ...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

Literature Useful in a Review Assessing Influences on Change during a Recession

needs to be undertaken in a rapid manner. Furthermore, in many cases the changes may need to create significant changes to the org...

Marketing - Is There a Gap between Research and Practice?

gathered need to be reliable and reflective of the population that are being researched. If the practitioners were not able to ach...

Nursing Programs, Academic Success

This research paper describes the strategies and factors found in recent nursing research that are associated with achieving acad...

Academic Writing and ESL Students

This research paper pertains to the problems faced by English as a Second Language (ESL) learners when faced with the challenges o...

American Schools, the Problem of Racial Inequality

This research paper pertains to the issue of racial inequality in the U.S. school system and the gap between the academic achievem...

Commercial Agreements and Academia

The commercial sponsorship of academic research may increase the level of research that takes place, but the practice remains cont...

The Importance of Silence, Schultz

The paper presents analysis of a study conducted by Katherine Schultz, which points the importance of silence is promoting student...

When Are Your Creations Yours

Copyright laws have been in force for decades. They tend to be somewhat vague leaving people confused about things like plagiarism...

Writing Strategies and the Optimization of Homeland Security

These strategies ensure a well-structured and properly supported academic paper. There are three sources in this six page paper...

Academic Success and Environmental Assessment

147). In addition, it appeared that students who were identified as having possible EBD were referred for assessment "using tradit...

How College Program Supports Career Goals

and even the safety of the elevators (Salary.com, 2007). This is an extremely broad requirement of the job and, in fact, says the ...

Personal Action Plans

ensure that anything handed in is original student work. This includes taking steps to ensure that materials that are utilized ar...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

Relationship Between School Attendance/Academic Successes

a 2002 paper on improving school attendance in the elementary grades, J.L. Epstein of Johns Hopkins University observed, "Dropping...

Academic Dishonesty

of proper citation but rather those who knowingly involve themselves in academic dishonesty. One author notes that "Basically, c...

Education: Curriculum And Instructional Supervision

of instructing many different types of students within a single classroom. Various methods have been introduced as a means by whi...

Academic Honesty and Plagiarism

of plagiarism noted many students may feel that if a research topic is the same in two classes they can simply change the wording ...

Hispanic Heritage

in an after-school program that aids non-English speaking students with the requirements of their academic studies. This program h...

Culture and Teaching ESLs

a mix that is becoming increasingly more diverse in the present era. 3. Multicultural education: Multicultural education refers ...

ESL CAN WORK: REFUTING CUMMINS' POINTS

if their communities are similarly doomed, there is a good deal of evidence that ESL can be taught in even uncaring communities. T...

Effects of Academic Dishonesty on Higher Education

al., 2008). A 2002 study of nearly 50,000 undergraduate students in various U.S. colleges and universities conducted by Professor...

Doctorate of Nursing Goals A

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

Nursing Student Evaluation/Social Issues and Ethics

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...