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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...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Effective Educational Leadership Today

the globe. Scoppio (2002) reported research regarding trends conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. This a...

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...

Teaching Strategies and Dyslexia

found that this genetic condition is also hereditary (Reilly, 2001). Numerous other researchers have also noted the difficulties w...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

NYC's PE Programs

Fay and Doolittle (2002) recount how in the early 1990s concern over standards-based reform in academic subjects actually generate...

Gender Bias and the Developmental Stages of Kohlberg

can negatively influence a persons choice of careers in either science or mathematics (Adams, 1998). As a result, these fields ar...

Wine Store Opening

on its side to prevent corks drying and sediment being mixed up as well as the advantageous and a darker environment the preserve ...

Online Degrees and Distance Learning

for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical proximity...

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...

K-12 Online Professional Development

(2001) identified the scope of the problem, recognizing that distance education technologies are expanding and that online instruc...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

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...

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...

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...