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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...

Education and John Dewey

"in its interaction with the pupils present" (Garrison, 1999). Teachers need to do more than present the material in an orderly w...

Comparing the Educational Philosophies of Washington and Du Bois

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

Education, Retention, and Social Promotion

made for continuing students through the grade levels. The following is a case study that the student could incorporate into the...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

Varied Populations and Daily Lessons

basic rights (Weishaar, 1997). Inclusion and mainstreaming programs were developed as an offshoot of this premise, created in ord...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

Educational Leadership and American Literature

of referrals to these types of programs have resulted in the need to seek out better methods for enhancing educational leadership ...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Inclusive Theory and Small Group Instruction Integration

into step with age-appropriate performance goals. In such cases children might be temporarily grouped according to their needs. ...

Educational Funding Adequacy Determination

Commission might consider using this approach to defined sound basic education. The authors report there have been three approach...

Assessment of Section 504 Regarding Students with Special Needs

school districts have a legal - if not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they...

Changes in Education Curriculum Trends During the Next Decade

educational setting in recent years including the focus on the role of the educator, the need for accuracy in testing, and the int...

New Zealand's Inequality in Education

what is expected of all partners in the system and thirdly, it does not take enough account of the fact that students have differe...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

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...

Education and Social Theories

This research paper discusses functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism and how these sociological theories impac...

HOW THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY CAN FIX THE CURRENT PRIMARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION MODEL

Discusses how private-sector industry can help improve the U.S. educational system and why. There are 5 sources listed in the bibl...

A Review of Three Psychological Articles

The focus is ethics. Three different types of journal articles are reported with comments about ethics. The articles focus on reco...

Governance Considerations for Expansion of a US University into China

The culture and governance in the US and China are very different. The writer looks at the way these may impact on higher educatio...

Pestalozzi Gardner Dewey

This essay discusses the major concepts of several early educational psychologists including Noddings, Dewey, Vygotsky, Gardner, a...

Catheter-Associated UTI Training

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

Summaries, Chapters 13 and 14

This paper offers an overview of chapters 13 and 14 in Human Exceptionality, School, Community, and Family by Michael L. Hardman, ...

Nursing Education

This paper discusses issues related to nursing education, including educational practices used by nurse educators. Specific exampl...

Educational Policies and Technology

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at educational policies. Improvements in policies to better handle the use of technolo...