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Standardized Testing Criticisms

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. A favorable position is taken towards the use of such tests. P...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

1990s American Education Legislation

In order to fully understand how legislation impacts the U.S. educational system, and also to consider the problems that are inher...

Elementary Education, Computers, and Test Scores

In eight pages this paper considers how using computers in elementary school classrooms produce benefits including assisting stude...

Standardized Assessment Performance and Student Motivation

overall test scores; enforcement for the requirement comes in the form of threat of loss of federal funds or permission for famili...

Amish Culture

wheels and horse shoes" and complying with "public health inoculation programs, as well as compliance with other public health reg...

Legacy System Dilemmas

productivity paradox indicated that there may never be a full return in terms of increased productivity (Lichtenberg, 1995). Tod...

Potential Approaches to Statistical Assessment

is limited as the results are inconclusive as they cannot be subjected to an hypothesis test. The statistical test chosen needs ...

Retaining Employees

of employees and looking for the best employees to increase the value created, possible to make up for letting some employees go. ...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Journal Writing for Elementary Grades

70 percent Hispanic and 24 percent limited English speaking (Calderon, 1991). The author does not state if the reader is to under...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

Elementary Level Assessment of Portfolios

In ten pages this research paper examines elementary school grade level portfolios as an assessment alternative approach. Twenty ...

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...

Upper Elementary Grades, Reading Achievement, and the Impact of Technology

fact that much more focus needs to be placed upon going back to the basics in order to give students the needed edge. However, th...

K through 5 Education Quality and Method Diversity

In twenty pages this paper examines teaching elementary school students from kindergarten to grade 5 in a consideration of various...

Relationship Between School Attendance/Academic Successes

a 2002 paper on improving school attendance in the elementary grades, J.L. Epstein of Johns Hopkins University observed, "Dropping...

Literature Review on Absenteeism

do not exceed 3 percent of the school years (Romero and Lee, 2007). Risk Factors for absenteeism Researchers have noted that the...

Delimitations, Limitations, Summary/Research Proposal

criminal justice system (Romero and Lee, 2008). This suggests that the proposed study could be delimited still further by focusing...

Fine and Gross Motor Skills

(and) throwing," in normally developing children are well established, but continue to develop during these years (Davies, 2004, p...

Social Studies Instruction/Parental Involvement

in the education and over all development of their childrens obtaining of academic and social skills is an objective for which bo...

Journal Article Review on Teaching Fifth Graders Science

There have also been reports of lack of support for hands-on science teaching. Classroom management is another issue, particularly...

A Lesson Plan on Bats

are very different. Can you name some of the ways in which bats are different from birds? 2. Bats are night creatures. How can th...

The Elementary School Classroom

in one corner of the playground there was a collapsible table covered with pots of paste, construction paper, crayons, chalk, scis...

'Inner Discipline' of Educational Theorist Barbara Coloroso

them ways to solve the problem; and 4. It leaves their dignity intact (Give Poor Parenting a Time-Out, 2002, p. 12). Barbara C...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Plan For Building School, Parent, Community Partnership

for the grade level (Epstein, 1995). * Parent conferences are held twice each year at this school. The process will change to req...

Teaching Elementary Science/Epistemological Framework

text addressing geology encompasses chapters explaining minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, geologic processes and geologic time. Ea...

Hypothetical Study/Parent-Teacher Conferences

are numerous obstacles that can interfere with parents attending and understanding parent/teacher conferences. Some parents are im...

Literacy Case Study

he reads words quickly regardless of whether or not he is reading them correctly, never stopping to self-correct. Furthermore, his...