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The Influence of the Home Background on the Achievement of Secondary School Students

better attitudes toward school and have higher aspirations" (Othrow and Stout, 1999). Regardless of their economic status, educati...

Advantages Of Mergers And Acquisitions : For Profit Education

this is what caused the need to sell the campus (Hersch, 2006). Whatever the real reason, the sale will allow American College to...

For Profit Education - Relationships With Stock Analysts

million in 2006 (Smith, 2006). As a side-note, DeVry offers programs in technology and business; enrollment began declining after ...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?

(Loan Shark, n.d.). There are two distinctions here that clearly separate payday loan businesses from loan sharks. The fir...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

Economics in Healthcare; Increasing Inputs and Cost Benefit Analysis

is the way money is allocated, as well as private insurance there are sources of funds from social welfare schemes such as Medicai...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

State of Tennessee: Education Report Card

that Pickett County is a white county in relationship to students. This is not necessarily something that can be fixed for it is n...

Education: State Averages: Tennessee

In Reading/Language/Writing, in 2005, the students were 8% below, 51% proficient, and 41% advanced. Those who were economically di...

Impact Of Globalization On Universities

in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States hold their classes in English (Altbach, 2004). What is...

Higher Education and Quality Improvement

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at higher education and quality improvement initiatives. Los Angeles Community College i...

Creating a Survey Questionnaire

and audiences as to their legitimacy" (p. 179-180). Some of those characteristics are that qualitative research * "Takes place in...

Aging of the World

This study uses several research studies about social workers as its core. The focus is on social workers and the elderly. Technol...

Early Childhood Education, Three Approaches

This research paper describes three approaches to early childhood education, which are the Constructivist Approach, the Montessori...

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,...

Leadership Studies in High Education

This paper offers summaries of three studies. The writer describes the research question, summary of findings and the value of fin...

Aging and its Impact on Wisdom

This paper suggests that wisdom is not always a result of advanced age or even of education. There is one source in this three pa...

Teaching Advanced Students

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

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 ...

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...

Paideia, Lockerbie

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

PTSD, Effects on Life Circumstances

This research paper describes the symptoms of PTSD, but then goes on to discuss the effects that PTSD has on the lives of its vict...

Curriculum and Teaching, Integrating Knowledge

This essay draws upon research to discuss adult learning theory and student-centered learning and then discusses how this informat...

Education Needs Systemic Change

This essay discusses education as a system and supports the premise that real improvement will only come from systemic changes. I...

Effective Educational Tenets

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at higher education and its pillars. Technology and funding are explored as important ...