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Georgia, School Performance, and Educational Reform

have even worse records that others. Dekalb County, for example, has the largest school system in the state yet its graduation ra...

Educational Reform and the Tool of Standards

measure "how much students should know and be able to do" (Stites). These standards tell math teachers, for instance, what "mathe...

World Diversity and Catholic Education

This is because the Church realizes that what individuals believe in regards to religion or morality is frequently contingent on t...

Girl Scout Camp Workplace Environment

Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) issued the first broadly disseminated information that identified the features of...

Michael Rohd's 'Theatre for Community Conflict and Dialogue'

incorporating drama in the classroom but it also provides us the ammunition to move the impact of that drama from the classroom an...

Tertiary Distance Education Student Adjustment

in class time in Germany, Brazil and China. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture from a CD-ROM, checks ...

Preferences of Adult Learners

school (Belzer, 2004). This conflict is clearly shown in Belzers article and her case studies of five students. All the subjects...

Heath Care and Nursing's Pender Promotion Model

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...

Race and UK Education Policies

Banlideshi community saw poorer result and the West Indians performed to the lowest level (quoted Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). T...

Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

Society, Crime, and the Assistance Offered by Prerelease Programs

to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...

Gender and Educational Issues

suffer a decline in self-esteem at adolescence (AAUW Report). Because of their lack of self-esteem the report stated that gild fal...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Schools in Malta and Prayer

to religion can be understood as a foundation of the current education system. The main legislation is the Education Act 1988, u...

Education and the Value of Ethics

entire point of such papers is to merely assist students, not do their work for them. This is the reason papers such as produced b...

Educational Institutions and Leadership Models

social architect" (Leadership models, 2005). This leader focuses on such factors as structure, implementation and adaptation and ...

Changing Educational Organization

time will lead to change in the third section of the model. The best case scenario, the one capable of producing the win-wi...

Changes in Education Curriculum Trends During the Next Decade

educational setting in recent years including the focus on the role of the educator, the need for accuracy in testing, and the int...

Assessment of Section 504 Regarding Students with Special Needs

school districts have a legal - if not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they...

Inclusive Theory and Small Group Instruction Integration

into step with age-appropriate performance goals. In such cases children might be temporarily grouped according to their needs. ...

Educational Funding Adequacy Determination

Commission might consider using this approach to defined sound basic education. The authors report there have been three approach...

Varied Populations and Daily Lessons

basic rights (Weishaar, 1997). Inclusion and mainstreaming programs were developed as an offshoot of this premise, created in ord...

Phillip E. Schlechty's Inventing Better Schools

some of the motivation that seeps through these pages. Schlechty blames todays problems in the school system not just on the poor...

Paulo Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education'

The student could therefore point out that the educational system as a whole is not one which facilitates an exchange of ideas, bu...

Making Action Plans or the McGill Action Planning System (MAPS)

Canada. It was named for the university where it was developed, McGill. Initially, the system was intended to be used as a part of...

17th and 18th Century European Military Education

In twelve pages European military officer training during this time period is examined in a discussion of informal British approac...

Educational Reform and 4 Relevant Issues

benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...

Significance of Music Activities in Montessori Education

In ten pages this paper examines the incorporation of music into the classroom in a consideration of Maria Montessori's educationa...

PE's Educational System Value

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the educational value of physical education. Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliography...

Reading and the Acquisition of Language Acquisition

In four pages this report discusses language acquisition processes for children and the applies those to reading educational proce...