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Teaching Advanced Students

In the recent past, the literature has been emphasizing including gifted children in the regular classroom rather than placing the...

Literature on PDAs in Nursing Practice and Education

This research paper presents summaries of two studies that focus on PDA efficacy in nursing education and practice. The paper also...

Paideia, The Thoughts of Douglas Wilson

This essay focuses on the position of theologian Douglas Wilson in regards to "paideia," which means education in Greek. The conte...

Paideia, Werner Jaeger

This essay focuses on the scholarship of Werner Jaeger regarding the Greek term "paideia" [education]. Three pages in length, one ...

Paideia, Lockerbie

This essay presents an overview of D. Bruce Lockerbie's understanding of "paideia," which means "education." Three pages in length...

ISLLC Standards, an Overview

This essay offers an overview of the six standards established by the School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) in regards to sp...

Higher Education Change Leadership, Three Studies

This paper offers a summary of three studies that focus on the topic of change leadership in high education. Five pages in length,...

Operant Conditiioning in Learning

Skinner believed that we are what we do and he also believed that we can change what we do for the better. The key to his theory a...

Mountain Settings and Education

human life after the dark green of the forest cover begins to blaze yellow, red and orange in the fall, however, for a thin column...

Description of a Fictitious Ideal Community

unite them instead of what separates them. Children would go to school together and would learn about each others backgrounds, cu...

Bush vs. Kerry, Ideals Compared

as well as create government programs (i.e., national park maintenance) while forcing employers to offer health care benefits to e...

Aristotle and Plato Critiquing Education

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

Safety and Seat Belts

a long list of governmental intrusions on their lives. The problem that presents itself, therefore, is how to convince these last...

High School Experience Reflections

of keeping a proper balance between the informal and the formal, the incidental and the intentional, modes of education" (Dewey, 1...

Democratic Approaches to Education

Oakes & Lipton have said lies in individual educators who "construct something whole and wonderful." (Oakes & Lipton, 2002, 3). In...

Special Education Concepts

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

Public School versus Private School for Preschool Teachers

settings (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). Preschool teachers most often begin as an assistant teacher and progress to the leve...

Parents of Special Education Children

November 25, 2004 from http://www.state.nj.us/njded/parights/prise.pdf. Parental Involvement in Special Education. (n.d.). Natio...

Children and Early Formal Educational Instruction

to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...

American Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

Supporting Canonical Education

definition, it is easy to argue that it is the right course of action. Relativity never works. As the ebonics experiment clearly d...

Policing and Higher Education

2002). Senior officers are expected to train their subordinates and all officers must have excellent communication and organizati...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Social Change is Not Reflected by Statutory Law

positivistic rather than classical criminal justice theories. Classical criminal justice theory states that if a person is...

Thurgood Marshall and Brown v. Board of Education

This 7 page paper is a first-person exercise, written as if Thurgood Marshall were the author, in which he writes about himself an...

Pros and Cons of Bilingual Education

not concur with this claim. All one has to do is look to the past for a dramatic lesson in total immersion theories. Many...

School Dance Curriculum Proposal

reduce the chances of developing several chronic illness later in life. Regular physical activity reduces the chances of heart dis...

Senility and Aging

allowing the elderly to stay mentally alert is: "a sense of belonging and purpose"...

Education Paid for By Students

their parents cannot afford to send them to college, will know that if they plan on doing so it will be hard. They thus begin, at ...

Children's Scholastic Success and the Involvement of Parents

finishes with a section on parental involvement and its affect on school success through attendance as well as improved performanc...