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Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

2nd Graders and the Impact of Silence and Rap Music

In six pages this research paper provides a review of the pertinent literature regarding the process of learning and the effects o...

The Concepts of Graded Structure, Central Tendency and Ideal Dimensions Among Tree Experts and Novices

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of an article by Lynch, Coley and Medin entitled: "Tall is typical: ...

Moral Permissibility of an Educator Raising the Grade of a Student

In five pages the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls are applied to a consideration of whether or not it is ethically ac...

Elementary Students and Creative Writing

In five pages this paper discusses the educational importance of creative writing in 1st through 3rd grades. Four sources are cit...

4th Grader and an Application of Lev Vygotsky's Theory

Vygotsky Lev Vygotsky, who was born in Russia in 1896, created his social development theory of learning during the early ...

Small Business Rewards and Compensation Program Proposal

people work is to make a living and everything else is secondary. II. Case Study In order to draft a compensation and rewar...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

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...

Rain Forest Interdisciplinary Unit for Second Grade

Objectives Related to Pennsylvania Standards * Know at least ten animals that live in rain forests and some that have become extin...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Overview of Project Based Learning

hold true for students at every grade level. While project-based learning has been gaining in popularity with educators over the p...

Reading Instruction to a 5th Grade Boy Who Cannot Read

the sounds letters make. For him, a phonics program in which the starts out by learning letter sounds, how those sounds combine to...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Grade Inflation Causes and Evidence

to determine what can be - and should be - done about it. The basic definition of grade inflation is when a student receives a gra...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Journal Writing for Elementary Grades

70 percent Hispanic and 24 percent limited English speaking (Calderon, 1991). The author does not state if the reader is to under...

Gap in Scores in Texas

Schools are required to administer exams each year in certain subject areas and in certain grade levels. Texas has revised their e...

Michigan Educational Assessment Program

The Michigan Educational Assessment Program is the assessment program for several subject areas in certain grade levels. This is t...

Personal and Professional Goals

This 5 page paper outlines some personal goals on how to achieve professional appeal. This paper states various minor goals such a...

Social Studies Instruction/Parental Involvement

in the education and over all development of their childrens obtaining of academic and social skills is an objective for which bo...

Different Approaches to Reading Instruction

relative to some basic central features, which include the patterns that are stressed during reading, the pitch and expressiveness...

Human Nature - The Philosophical Perspective

view is that the appetite for wisdom is the most noble of the possible forces that can drive humanity, and as such, the one which ...

Upper Primary Grades, Teaching Reading

main difference," "in contrast to," and "compared to" (Hertzberg, 2012, p. 64). The sentences that the students composed showed su...

Nursing Hybrid Program

to gain experience as a member of the health care team. At the end of the two years, some students will have earned 14 college cr...

Solar Energy (Grant Paper)

real possibility. The grade level for which this proposal is aimed is 4th grade. Age appropriate content will be for ten to eleve...

Attribution Theory And Achievement Goal Theory

3) the observer must determine if the person was forced or coerced into doing that behavior or not (Kearsley, 2008). If coercion w...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Literacy Case Study

he reads words quickly regardless of whether or not he is reading them correctly, never stopping to self-correct. Furthermore, his...