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Isocrates: Ancestor of Modern Liberal Education

words. Isocrates first important written work, "Against the Sophists," was an insightful commentary addressing prevailing philoso...

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...

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...

Educational And Instructional Technology

430 silent filmstrips for military personnel between 1941 and 1945 (University of Texas, 2008). This technology was soon adopted i...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Is Salary Correlated with Education Length

an hypothesis test, for this we need to state an hypothesis and a null hypothesis (Curwin and Slater, 1998). H1 There is a signi...

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...

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...

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...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Finding Forrester: Education and the Arts

respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...

Minorities Overrepresented in Special Education

for special education services (Samuels, 2005). It honed in on the minority problem as well. Samuels (2005) writes: "Districts wit...

'Praxial Music Education' According to David Elliott

other reason than the fact that the results of human action cannot be adequately understood apart from the motives, intentions, an...

A Review of Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

interests them the most, on the not unrealistic expectation that they might pursue a career later in the same field that interests...

Literature Review of Mathematics Distance Learning

schools and colleges have worked collaboratively to support the introduction of online instructional models. In California school...

Education Philosophies and Quote Interpretations

fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...

Performance Anxiety and Music Education

She worked hard and won first chair in both the band and the orchestra; however, when the moment of her first solo performance cam...

Public Education and the Impact of School Vouchers

beneficial members of a civilized society. While this notion is easy enough to understand, reaching that objective through such p...

Adult Education Contributions of Mary M. Bethune

Moodys Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. She understood, as she grew, that many African American children...

Time Management and Distance Education

Beyth-Marom, Saporta and Caspi (2005) undertook a research study seeking to determine factors contributing to the success of onlin...

Education: “Good Will Hunting” and “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose

Wanna Be Average" the writer illustrates how his high school years were filled with being educated in a school where he was mistak...

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...

Emotionally Disturbed Students and Special Education

numbers of students classified as disabled and educated in largely segregated environments (Zernike, 2001). Mooney, et al (2003)...

Education, Arete or Virtue, and Plato

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

Democracy and Education by John Dewey

educated people, saying they live in "ivory towers" and dont understand whats going on in the real world.) Dewey believes that the...

Online Learning and Teaching

been accomplished in a matter of minutes in a traditional classroom. Reflective journals are a learning strategy that is well-suit...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

Mortality and Morality in the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the role of Enkidu in the education of Gilgamesh and his understanding that accepting his mortal...