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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...

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...

Education Contributions of Desiderius Erasmus

preoccupation with metaphysical and theological subtleties rather than with biblically based ethics" (Gutek 101). Rather than get ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Educational Supervision vs. Administration

in the clinical supervision model to help teachers improve their instructional skills. Clinical supervision in this case is the ...

Traditional Scheduling vs. Block Scheduling

class for a longer period of time (Irmsher, 1996). For example: * Alternative day schedules mean that six or eight courses are spr...

TESOL Educator Effectiveness

language, including listening, speaking, reading and writing so as to convey these lessons to ESOL students. It is important for T...

Education Reflections

food for thought on this concept. Another phenomenon is that of Harry Potter where it had been suggested that it was the first tim...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Educators and Development of Technology Staff

In twelve pages this paper examines 3 journal articles pertaining to the development of technology staff in an educational setting...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Adult Education and the Theories of Program Design and Development

plus enough reading, and arithmetic to run their households, but that was all (Flaceliere 56). Ancient sources tell us, moreover, ...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Educational Tool of Blogging

in which participants take discussions where they will. In education, Weblogs provide a venue in which students can gain individu...

Girls v. Boys and Different Socialization Expectations in an Academic Setting

male and female children. They contend that these differences are the result of differences in socialization. Observation of chi...

Interdisciplinary Unit on Earth Day

day. Briefly, some facts the teacher would include in this introduction would include the following. The idea for Earth Day evol...

Anyon and Kozol on Education's Unequal Distribution

is impossible. It does not work. Today, years altering the bussing experiment, there are black and white neighborhoods and one can...

Low Income Schools and Technological Restraints

most aspects of our lives technology has made its way into the very fabric of the way we teach our children. The majority of clas...

Education on Learning Disabilities Through The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

[Gillys] fault" that her previous placements did not work out, it nevertheless leaves the readers and Gilly with the impression fr...

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

Definitions of Mild to Moderate Mental Retardation and Educational Considerations

who would be considered as mentally retarded and in need of some sort of special education. In addition to the below average intel...

Segregation Perils and Black Communities

their conditions they had to stand up to what wasnt right. In other words she saw that there was a combination of factors, and not...