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Educational System and TBI

functioning, cognition, sensory-motor processing, attention and memory (2003). It may further affect speech and language and somet...

Contemporary Thought Reflected in William Butler Yeats' Poetry

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

Overview and Analysis of School Social Work

work closely with schools and community groups to promote understanding and communication. In Boston, the Womens Education Associa...

School and University Partnerships and Physical Education

showers can be very traumatic for these youngsters (Temple University, n.d.). This ties in with their psychological and social dev...

US Public Schools and Prayer

or discourage prayer, or participate in such activities with students" (Uncle Sams Prayer Stick, 2003, p. 38). At what appeared to...

Public Schools and Character Education

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

Higher Education Trends

or is hired for a position. Employers see the degree as a sort of prerequisite. Even if the degree has nothing to do with the posi...

Leadership According to Principals and Faculty

learning of this, was distressed that she was not consulted. Hilbert relates, "My feelings were hurt" (p. 16). However, her princi...

The School Nurse and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

Ineffectiveness of Zero Tolerance School Violence Policies

toward school violence, rather than helping the situation, appear to have altered a beneficial trend. In fact, incidences of serio...

Implementation of the Perkins Educational Grant

educational achievement, such as limited proficiency in English (California Department of Education (b), 2004). When it co...

Architecture and its Controversies

to a particular interpretation (2002). In some way, modernisms influence never left. Modernism may also be construed as an archi...

Williams Syndrome in Children, Problematic Behavior, and Pain Management

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

Bauhaus School of Design and 'Craft'

his belief that a distinction between "art" and "craft" was essentially counterproductive. Therefore, art had to be considered in ...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

A Brief History of Cubism

first example of Cubism. The portrait of five nudes assembled around a fruit arrangement is truly a mind-boggling combination of ...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Metropolitan Kansas City and School Inequality

time being pressured by political agendas. The role of teacher encompasses myriad elements that are critical to the overall...

Education and Virtual Reality

We now have another way to gain knowledge of the world, through virtual reality (Winn, 1993). Immersion in a virtual world allows ...

Disaster at Floreffe, PA's Ashland Oil Company

until the leaks had been plugged. A crisis management team was formed at the company headquarters in Ashland, Kentucky, and plans ...

School Violence in Russia, China, and the US in Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

for the unleashing of such aggressions, are often a "source of criticism and rejection" (De Wolfe et al, 1995, p. 315) where child...

Exclusion, Suspension, and Effective Management of Behavior

In seven pages schools and their student management are examined in terms of the roles of suspension and exclusion with the advant...

Turnover of Employees and Contribution of Management

Years of tradition dictate that employees will work harder and more productively just for the promise of higher pay. Practice and...

Making Changes in Education

change leadership styles the author had described. This initiative required all students to lease and IBM ThinkPad in order to sup...

Childhood Obesity/The Role of Schools

and adolescents from 1990 to 2000. Furthermore, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that 7 percent of in...

Observation of a School Board Meeting

a meeting of the School Board, which was highly attended by students, teachers, parents and even grandparents, as well as the boar...

The Variety of Personal Influence

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...

WWIS-IV Case Study

Bowles & Skibbe, 2006). There are several cognitive assessment tests that can be used with preschoolers. These include the BSID-II...

Guns Shouldn’t be Allowed on School Campuses

As the recent shootings at Virgina Tech and other violent incidents in schools around the nation attest, incidences of violence in...

A School Activity in the Multicultural Setting

by offering Parent Workshops during the school year, which relate directly to math, literacy, and the overall curriculum. These p...