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NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

Barriers to Communication for Deaf Children

rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the ...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

Technology and Future Schools

were infants. To reflect this savvy technological knowledge, teachers and theorists have determined yet another need for change. A...

Utilizing a Learning Contract Within an Academic Setting

the company and gaining contracts with domestic and commercial customers. The main aim of the project will be to create a clear ...

Middle School Differentiated Instruction

that emphasized low-level thinking instead of challenges (Shorey et al, 2004). Differentiated instruction takes into consideration...

Students With Emotional Disabilities and General Education Classroom Adaptations

more difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified teachers. Nowhere is this issue more prominent than in urban schools" (Sawk...

Education Research Proposal Sample

and rudimentary at best. Such terms as "inflammatory" and "obscene" are subjective terms. The statue of Venus Demilo, for example,...

Standardized Testing Advantages

scores continued to decline, which caused politicians to decide that the US required national standards that included measures of...

UK's Talented and Gifted Education

after the Sputnik launch in 1957 and plunged in the equal rights environment of the 1960s. Despite the hostility and naysaying of ...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Frankenstein Creature and His Education

begins to interact with the Delaceys he ceases to be just a creature reacting to his own base needs, but begins to develop a consc...

Education and Views of John Kerry and George W. Bush

Kerry further thinks that due to the demands foisted on the nation by the presence of a new global economy, all children must rea...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

A School Setting and Assessment and Accountability

a variety of issues that have influenced the process of educational assessments since the 1980s. These issues including things li...

Computers a Household Necessity

taxpayers produce myriad receipts for purchases and expenses, it generally will blindly accept any self-designed spreadsheet of ho...

Students from Low Income Families and Affirmative Action's Impact

increasingly diverse, affirmative action in college admissions is a national imperative" (Dervarics, 2003; 6). And while, as menti...

Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

"brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.). Not everyone agrees ...

Education and the Participatory Research Model

are legitimate issues in teaching strategy and the fact that the education system is not working and few know why. While vouchers ...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Viability of Grade Retention

use of voluntary retention is a way to help a failing child succeed (Perry, 1999). The trend is really based on anecdotal evidence...

Reforming Education and Its Barriers

from families, teachers and others before it can implement much of anything, the good ideas end up becoming watered down. Unfortun...

Home, Workplace, and the Psychological Effects of Color

research difficult but within species research possible. In addition, it has been studied that the perception of color within a sp...