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Obama And McCain On Education

concerned with the former supporting a $4,000 tax credit to offset tuition costs and the latter endorsing "funds from federal trai...

Online Education: Balancing School With Other Life Responsibilities

wanting them to enroll in non-credit continuing education courses associated with their existing position; soon, these classes seg...

Can Unsuccessful Districts Change

Is there any way to help schools that are seldom successful? It seems that changes are always being made in our public schools yet...

The Energy Crisis in California and the Impacts on Education

with the state Capitol in order to "protect schools from shocks generated by Californias energy crisis" (Anonymous #2 PG). The ve...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

Is The Use Of Racial Categories In Educational Achievement Antiquated?

In todays western world there is equal access to education for all races, and may be argued as outdated and implying that there co...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Multicultural Education - An Overview

come from different disciplines (Gay, 1994). For instance, educators might look at multicultural education from the point of view ...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

State of Tennessee: Education Report Card

that Pickett County is a white county in relationship to students. This is not necessarily something that can be fixed for it is n...

Education: State Averages: Tennessee

In Reading/Language/Writing, in 2005, the students were 8% below, 51% proficient, and 41% advanced. Those who were economically di...

Impact Of Globalization On Universities

in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States hold their classes in English (Altbach, 2004). What is...

Online Learning and Teaching

been accomplished in a matter of minutes in a traditional classroom. Reflective journals are a learning strategy that is well-suit...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

Chapters 4 and 5

In these and all other charts highlighting test scores over time for the after school group, the scores for two years...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

Legal Issues in Education

the US courts in regards to public schools : The authority of the public educational system finds its origin within a "constitutio...

Personal Narraive/2 Year RN to 4 Year RN

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

Creating a Survey Questionnaire

and audiences as to their legitimacy" (p. 179-180). Some of those characteristics are that qualitative research * "Takes place in...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

The Influence of the Home Background on the Achievement of Secondary School Students

better attitudes toward school and have higher aspirations" (Othrow and Stout, 1999). Regardless of their economic status, educati...

Advantages Of Mergers And Acquisitions : For Profit Education

this is what caused the need to sell the campus (Hersch, 2006). Whatever the real reason, the sale will allow American College to...

For Profit Education - Relationships With Stock Analysts

million in 2006 (Smith, 2006). As a side-note, DeVry offers programs in technology and business; enrollment began declining after ...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

'Praxial Music Education' According to David Elliott

other reason than the fact that the results of human action cannot be adequately understood apart from the motives, intentions, an...

Literature Review of Mathematics Distance Learning

schools and colleges have worked collaboratively to support the introduction of online instructional models. In California school...

Minorities Overrepresented in Special Education

for special education services (Samuels, 2005). It honed in on the minority problem as well. Samuels (2005) writes: "Districts wit...

Emotionally Disturbed Students and Special Education

numbers of students classified as disabled and educated in largely segregated environments (Zernike, 2001). Mooney, et al (2003)...