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Public Schools and Character Education

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

Importance of Family, Hard Work, and Education

and use the knowledge in his or her field. What tends to make ones life easier in the long run is if one has a quality education....

An Overview of Adult Education

result, this first assessment tool must reflect elements that relate to these three areas. For this first assessment, then, a pro...

Adult Education Programs

Testing Service for the National Center for Education Statistics, suggested that it may be impossible for the United States to ach...

Overview of Global Higher Education

Altbach (2002) also reflects the views of a number of other theorists, who argue that there is an imperative for the globalization...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

Phonics That is Synthetic and Analytic

quotes a previous Director, John Stannard, as saying that the essential elements of teaching literacy involve the identification a...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

Sleeter and Grant on Multicultural Education Approaches

stereotypical attitudes towards different groups and working on respect and tolerance of differences. The school needs to move for...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

Distance Education Investment Reasons

$95,000, Colbert does most of his work online and on the weekends. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture...

Work of John Dewey and Its Importance

be verified (Dewey, 1938). Pragmatism, then, is the application of scientific methods to areas commonly referred to as ideals and ...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

Aspects of ECE or Early Childhood Education

She offers as an example a booklet used in schools entitled, "All About Me," which consists of a series of dittoed pages where the...

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...

Education Effects of Electronic Instruction

care about students welfare. Students dont want this stuff, Noble says" (McGinn, 2000; p. 54). Growth in for-credit distance lear...

Early Educational Programs Within Public Hospitals

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

Structuring a Teaching and Personal Learning Theory in Accordance with Albert Bandura's Theories

human motivation are Alfie Kohn and Douglas McGregor. Each of these researchers have their own particular version of what motivat...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Alternative Adult Education Models

adult education within the confines of a college, university or junior/community college. Adult students attend such institutions ...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

'Collegue' by Datatel and User Acceptance

The results, according to Stoik (2001), were that the "ability to systematically track student progress and intervene appropriatel...

Post 19th Century Indian Women and How They Have Progressed

a degree. Indian women too, however, are slowly gaining momentum in terms of equal rights. While in nineteenth century Ind...

Educational Implications of the Matrix Structure

corporate guidelines and objectives throughout the product development stages" (Numerof and Abrams, 2002, p. 42). In todays global...

Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Classrooms and the Obstacles to Technology Education

programs which are passive in nature, which equate to simple mouse clicks and button pushing did little to enhance the learning pr...

Neighborhood Programs for Recycling Improvements

became painfully apparent with the Mobro 4000 crisis in 1987 - that was the trash barge that drove up and down for thousands of mi...