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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...

Educational Concepts of Immanuel Kant

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

Canadian Education Literature Review

decades. The greater diversity in our schools has resulted in new curriculum and instructional methodologies. Weatherspoon hints a...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

Issues of Educational inequality in Australia

which knowledge is passed on to the next generation through the family, or through small communities, and towards one in which edu...

Career Path of a Human Resources Department Vice President

the HR VP comes in so handy. He/she is responsible for overseeing the "human capital" and making sure the investment works to the ...

High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Nurse Practitioner's Role and Strategies

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

Education and Its Recent Reforms

and understanding this is essential to any success in the classroom. This is one of the points that are made by Lortie and one tha...

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...

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...

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...

Montessori Educational Program and Physical Environment's Importance

in which the child can grow and develop (MontessoriConnections, n.d.). Preparing the environment includes having the appropriate ...

America and its Education Commitment

In a paper consisting of three pages America's troubled educational system is examined and President George W. Bush's No Child Lef...

Educational Human Resources and Diversity Management

part-time students and 40 percent are over the age of 24, with 80 percent commuting to campus (Mellow, Van Slyck and Eynon, 2003)....

Learning that is Inquiry Based

may be given increasing autonomy in their learning activities. Martin-Hansen provides a chart that illustrates this by showing the...

US Desegregation Laws and Educational Practices

doors. Now, many decades later, a more insidious form of this type of harassment is before the legislature. Many predominantly...

Current Issues in Educational Diversity

have some measure of adaptation in order to perform to their highest scholastic potential. This fact is clear to both parents and...

Past and Present Educational Diversity Trends

made to correct this problem have been both limited and ineffective; the combative environment that is often the schools location ...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

The Social Importance of Relative Adoptions

PLIGHT OF FOSTER CHILDREN IN EDUCATION Theory In a related study, Emerson & Lovitt (2003) performed a meta...

Educational Value and Money

save D.C. schools from coming in dead last in educational results (Edmonds, 2002). Compared to other states, Mississippi is...

Master of Liberal Arts' Program Letter of Educational Intent

no study of economics can be complete without including a focus on the issues of globalization. Whereas companies sought to enter...

Educational Therapy and Inservice Training

competence as students throughout the school day. Clearly, the teacher is a crucial source of this information. Although teacher...

Educational Practices and Race

the same education. This, however, is surely not the case for most people in the nation are well aware of the fact that inner city...

Texas Education and Parental Involvement

class lawyer living in a large house in the rather wealthy Dallas suburb of Highland Park. On the other hand, the parent might be ...