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Special Education Achievement Assessment and Uses of Student Portfolios

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the Education for All Handicapped Act in a consideration of special education student achiev...

Policies of Higher Education in Scotland

This paper addresses the policies and stance of higher education in Scotland. The author also includes future proposals for integ...

Education and the 'Blank Slate' Concept of John Locke

In five pages this report discusses the 'blank slate' of the human mind according to John Locke and also considers education's rol...

Gifted Education Programs and Students

In five pages this paper examines students and gifted education programs in a consideration of disproportionate representation of ...

Analysis of Massachusetts Changed Education Law

In six pages this paper uses Fisher's framework in order to analyze the change in Massachusetts' education law that reduces 'free ...

Legal Requirements for Special Education

In four pages this paper examines special education students in this summary of the 1997 Individuals with Disabilities and Educa...

Mass Media and Education

in a peaceful, complimentary relationship. To some extent, purpose enters the picture, and to this end, Villamizar (1997) suggest...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...

Tutorial on Personal Education Views

childrens school (1997). The results have been shown across all grade levels, across all socio-economic statuses and in urban, sub...

Student Posed Questions Answered in a Trio of Essays

When something needs to be done, it is often the consumer who has to do the leg work. Another pet peeve involves people who drive...

Taking a Position on ''The Inequality Express' by Barry Bluestone

and their corresponding workforces (Bluestone, 1996). What I find particularly puzzling at this point in the essay however is that...

Rochester, NY, and Education According to John Dewey's Philosophy and Carter G. Woodson's The Mis Education of the Negro

him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was n...

Higher Education in the Supreme Court

question, as well as the basic rights of student athletes who are often governed under the auspices not just of schools but of ind...

Foster Students

This paper reports six journal articles. Three focus on foster youth and education and three discuss sub-themes such as vulnerabil...

Adapting Lesson Plans for Use with Special Needs Learners

In a paper of six pages, the author reflects on modifications that have to be made for special education learners in general educa...

Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, Role of Education

This essay is on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The writer looks at the role of educ...

The Challenges and Experiences of Aboriginal and Islander Tertiary Education Students

any hint of shame mixed in with the pride. In some way Higgins already felt different, otherwise she would not have felt this conf...

At the Classroom Forefront Apple Computers Remain

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which innovative marketing has kept Apple in control of the education market are e...

Education According to Newman

of itself, has remained a distant second to the pursuit of capitalism, one can readily argue that Newmans own pursuit of education...

Late 19th Century Education

In five pages late 19th century education is discussed in a consideration of the 'New Education' contributions of Dr. William T. H...

Florida and Education Prior to and Following the U.S. Civil War

In five pages education in Florida during the nineteenth century is examined in terms of the implications of social, economic, and...

Education Support and the State Lottery of Florida

of the class, and helps prevent them from entering the dropout path" (Anonymous e1lott1.htm). At the same time, the Internship Pr...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Importance of Education and Teen Pregnancy

"is the best possible option for kids" and should be the primary, if not the only, lesson that schools teach (Curran, and Witt, 20...

Education and John Locke

independence of judgment marked him throughout his life (1998). While Lockes contribution to the ideas of education is quite sign...

Text Chapter 'Continuing Professional Education' by Donna Queeney

knowledge required and they may even be able to demonstrate an ability to apply the knowledge in their jobs but competence is anot...

Reviews of Articles about Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

Young Teens, Education in Schools, and AIDS

ignorant, uneducated attitudes. The social, political, economical, cultural and religious activities experienced in everyda...

Capitalism and Democracy

unleashed a joining together of the people so that new economic and political ideas could be shared in a way they had not been bef...

Education Influence of Former US Education Secretary William Bennett

going on in schools at all levels (Bowen, 1987). Still, he was disliked by just about everyone. That all began to change during ...