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Creating a Survey Questionnaire

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

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...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

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In todays western world there is equal access to education for all races, and may be argued as outdated and implying that there co...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Advantages Of Mergers And Acquisitions : For Profit Education

this is what caused the need to sell the campus (Hersch, 2006). Whatever the real reason, the sale will allow American College to...

For Profit Education - Relationships With Stock Analysts

million in 2006 (Smith, 2006). As a side-note, DeVry offers programs in technology and business; enrollment began declining after ...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Paper on Personal Learning Theory

of the development of the intellect is based not only in his conceptualization of the application of learning, but also in the dev...