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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...

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...

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...

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...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Nursing and Self-Care

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

Birth Control & Teenagers

indicates that teens are often confused by abstinence-only programs, as this approach to sex education sidesteps around issues and...

Bradley, Kitzinger & Childbirth

contractions or "breath" the pain away (Childbirth Methods, 2007). However, both Bradley and Kitzinger emphasize slow, deep breath...

Erikson's Stages - Self-Analysis

graduations at about age 18, an individual goes on to higher education, further training or right out to the work world. The focus...

The Importance of Clear Communication in Education

This 6 page essay looks at education and how administrators can better communicate with the community. Problems are noted. A summa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Standards-Based Education

among school organizations as a professional reaction to the need for improvement in student learning (Clark, et al, 2006). Since ...

Academic Honesty and Plagiarism

of plagiarism noted many students may feel that if a research topic is the same in two classes they can simply change the wording ...

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND THE IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION

tests, falsifying term papers and so on. Many campuses believe that the honor code is enough to deter academic dishonesty. ...

Plagiarism in Adult Education

same assignments" (Jocoy; DiBiase 2006). Overall the study indicated that through strategies to reduce and educate about plagiaris...

Problems in New Orleans’ Schools

only one year, and school officials who were being indicted for theft and bribery (USA Today). There were budget deficits, and bui...

Eating Disorders: Health Concerns for Men

Although the subject of eating disorders are quite well publicized when it comes to girls and women being affected, a little appre...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

The Benefits of a Liberal Education

says that there are whole huge parts of life as American adults that nobody talks about, especially in commencement speeches (Wall...

Isocrates: Ancestor of Modern Liberal Education

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

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...