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Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

TESOL Educator Effectiveness

language, including listening, speaking, reading and writing so as to convey these lessons to ESOL students. It is important for T...

Education Reflections

food for thought on this concept. Another phenomenon is that of Harry Potter where it had been suggested that it was the first tim...

Traditional Scheduling vs. Block Scheduling

class for a longer period of time (Irmsher, 1996). For example: * Alternative day schedules mean that six or eight courses are spr...

Segregation Perils and Black Communities

their conditions they had to stand up to what wasnt right. In other words she saw that there was a combination of factors, and not...

Education Career Assessment

drive a car, much less repair it. The tools one needs for life are those that allow him or her the greatest degree of competency...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

Educators and Development of Technology Staff

In twelve pages this paper examines 3 journal articles pertaining to the development of technology staff in an educational setting...

Adult Education and the Theories of Program Design and Development

plus enough reading, and arithmetic to run their households, but that was all (Flaceliere 56). Ancient sources tell us, moreover, ...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

New Zealand's Inequality in Education

what is expected of all partners in the system and thirdly, it does not take enough account of the fact that students have differe...

Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

Seeking a Job in Investment Banking

field in which frustrations mount - but on the other side, there are times when you feel exhilaration when everything falls into p...

Impacts of Plato, Pythagoras, Wolfgang Kohler, and B.F. Skinner on Education

(Bosomolny, 2002). He founded the Pythagorean school of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. His teachings soon attract...

Learning Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

some concrete ideas in his mind as to how things work. When a new idea is introduced such as our example of learning how to open ...

Overview of H.R. 3801 Education Research Bill

States as well as in other nations ("Bill Summary," 2002). In addition to the compilation of statistics, it establishes training p...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

A Lesson Plan For Infection Control

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

Education and Leadership

full members, 275 planning schools and 558 exploratory schools (AEL, 2000). The major goal of this coalition is to "help create sc...

UK Mathematics and GCSE Level Expansion

and A/S levels. The A level is the two year course and is seen as the traditional course, however, there is also an A/S level, thi...

Developing a Plan for Nursing Education

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Contemporary Classroom Invention of Music and Montessori

childhood education. She would not only enact an educational methodology which would directly aid the societally disadvantaged ch...

Belize and Conditions for Women

workers rights are in as much a quagmire as womens rights. So what is the solution? Identifying that poverty is one of the underl...