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Alternative Education and Magnet Schools

Since that time, the program - which continues to be an integral component to the public school system - has expanded to incorpora...

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...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

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

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

NYC Education Reform

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

Educational Supervision vs. Administration

in the clinical supervision model to help teachers improve their instructional skills. Clinical supervision in this case is the ...

Overview of Pragmatism

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

Educational Tool of Blogging

in which participants take discussions where they will. In education, Weblogs provide a venue in which students can gain individu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Murder of Cara Knott by California Highway Patrol Officer Craig Peyer and its Impacts

order to pull them over and harass them, and the general public is left with little about which to feel safe. This rising contemp...

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...

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...

Education Study and The Sick Role by Talcott Parsons

"(1) a person is exempted from ordinary social obligations; (2) 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...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

An Overview of the Time Period 1910-1919

if it was inherited, if she was married. The first suffrage parade took place in 1910, but it wouldnt be until 1919 that the ninet...

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...

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 ...