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Law Enforcement and the Value of Higher Education

States has been largely operating under a model wherein certain jobs require significant amounts of training and immersion in high...

"Practical Life" Instruction - An Overview

education, in the most basic sense, is a fundamental pre-requisite for the acquisition of any skill-set in life, from the most bas...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

or they ignore the information. This is one of the reasons it is so important to instill that knowledge and those practices in chi...

HEALTH CARE POLICY ISSUE: PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSE TO FOOD LABELING

agencies, both of which demanded more nutritional information on food (Frazao and Lynch, 1991). At the time of the laws passage, t...

How to Encourage Innovative Ideas

in chaos. Durk Jager, former CEO of Proctor & Gamble placed so much emphasis on innovation that led to a decline in profits and l...

A Tool Against Child Abuse

This paper considers A-1654, a new New Jersey law requiring the education of new parents about what constitutes child abuse and ho...

Problems Associated with Economic Development

natural resources rent account for 8% of the national income the advantages of democracies are eliminated. Collier argues that if ...

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 ...

Is The Use Of Racial Categories In Educational Achievement Antiquated?

In todays western world there is equal access to education for all races, and may be argued as outdated and implying that there co...

Personal Narraive/2 Year RN to 4 Year RN

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

Creating a Survey Questionnaire

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

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Licensure: Education: Tennessee

in Tennessee (Rules of the State Board of Education: Tennessee, 2006). The last possibility is simply "good cause" which could cov...

Hiring Minorities: Diversity in Education

does not lead to the most able getting the job but that many positions are filled to make sure all goes accordingly in the "politi...

How Aristotle Opposes Plato's Attack on Poetry

the lyrics in modern songs, and in essence, the poets of today are Eminem and Jay Zee and Beyonce. Lyrics to emanate from these ar...

Multicultural Education - An Overview

come from different disciplines (Gay, 1994). For instance, educators might look at multicultural education from the point of view ...

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...

Teaching a Diverse Classroom

This draws upon the work of Bandura who conceptualized teacher self-efficacy as the beliefs that teachers have about their own ski...

Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

An Ethical Model for Teaching

AIDS education is something tied to a disease that has only surfaced at the end of the twentieth century and may have no relevance...

Chapters 4 and 5

In these and all other charts highlighting test scores over time for the after school group, the scores for two years...

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...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

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...