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Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

Obama And McCain On Education

concerned with the former supporting a $4,000 tax credit to offset tuition costs and the latter endorsing "funds from federal trai...

Reflections on Bilingual Education Readings

the web of life are connected to societal paradigms and the need to move away from past behavior patterns of violence, mechanizati...

Interpretation of Readings on Culture, Language

and also how the idea of "class" enters into this equation. For example, Weis finds that issues concerning class, within the gener...

Ten Faulty Notions About Teaching And Learning By Heward

This student writer agrees with Heward, there are certain things students need to learn and they need to learn many of those thing...

The Importance of the Crioulo Language in Developing Education in Guinea Bassau

traditional languages within that area, those which were present before migration took place and new languages were adopted. Criou...

Educational Attainment and Social Origin

or the "subdominant cultures" who eventually settled there. The situation has become progressively more complex in modern society...

Diabetes Control: A Review of Literature

noted as statistically significant (Strine et al, 2005). The outcomes of this study are presented in a in a table broken do...

Peer Mentoring in Post-Secondary Education

study relates the concept of peer mentoring to a variety of practices that have become popular in the past few decades. Budge (20...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

Immigrant Trends and the Criticism of Multicultural Education

"multicultural education" seems to defy accurate description. Although there are "serious and substantial philosophical difference...

Shorris’ On the Uses of Liberal Education

that could help many people rise up out of poverty. Shorris indicates how one woman, a woman in prison who had grown up and live...

Technological Change: Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...

More Language Readings/Analyses

this point. For example, Brown (2008), as a writer, draws on her heritage as a Cuban American to create multicultural books for ...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

her text Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft takes direct exception with the story of creation in the Book of ...

Leadership Frames and Job Satisfaction

a group of faculty located on the same campus. Jewell (2007) hypothesized there would be a difference in the intrinsic, extrinsic...

Educational and Technological Solutions to Air Pollution

and to adhere to a policy of corporate social responsibility. Without laws and legislation enforcing environmental standards, ther...

How Difficult Can It Be?/Richard Lavoie

the class is ridiculous. However, just as CPR would be what this adult needs, accommodations are what LD student need and it is fa...

Language Acquisition Principles: Immersion

the article Dual Language Immersion by Jennifer Esposito, published in April 2006 by the periodical District Administrator. Langu...

Alternative Assessment v. Standardized

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

A New course on Global, Multicultural Aspects of Psychology

the teaching of psychology can be seen through an understanding of Black and Feminist perspectives as they can influence psycholog...

Structural Inequality And Diversity

Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the court ruled that "separate but equal" was fine, it was okay to have separate schools for whi...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

Argument: The Revisions to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) 2004 are Good for Both Students and Teachers

revisions are necessary and helpful, we will examine them in more detail. First, the revisions bring IDEA more closely in line wi...

Fremont Technology Plan and Enhancing Education through Technology Grant Program

the district; 3. to create a list of benchmarks and a specific set of obtainable dates for the implementation of new hardware, in...

Two Educations

were doing nothing but scraping along wondering if we will be able to survive until the next check, life can be very difficult and...

Early Retention in Education: Does it Improve Student Achievement?

is that before the start of the 20th century, children in schools were not even grouped according to grade levels, but instead bas...