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Essays 301 - 330

Implementation of the Perkins Educational Grant

educational achievement, such as limited proficiency in English (California Department of Education (b), 2004). When it co...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

Education and the Participatory Research Model

are legitimate issues in teaching strategy and the fact that the education system is not working and few know why. While vouchers ...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

Barriers to Communication for Deaf Children

rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the ...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Educational Leadership and Teamwork

or is supervising the team. Smialek reported training team members in group skills have been identified as the "most necessary ele...

Research Methods Journal Articles Reviewed

time period. The variables, as such, were the teachers, themselves. The study pointed out the need and the purpose clearly as th...

Use of a Journal to Teach Business Ethics

of ethical behaviour. The problem with ethics in business can be seen in the way that there is a conflict between the ideals of e...

Students from Low Income Families and Affirmative Action's Impact

increasingly diverse, affirmative action in college admissions is a national imperative" (Dervarics, 2003; 6). And while, as menti...

Karl Popper's Method and Educational Research

irrational attitude towards the customs of social life, and the corresponding rigidity of those customs" (Popper quoted in McInnes...

Computers a Household Necessity

taxpayers produce myriad receipts for purchases and expenses, it generally will blindly accept any self-designed spreadsheet of ho...

Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

"brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.). Not everyone agrees ...

A School Setting and Assessment and Accountability

a variety of issues that have influenced the process of educational assessments since the 1980s. These issues including things li...

Instruction and Educational Planning

Classroom management procedures should be explained to students and clear rules for discourse should be outlined. Students should...

Heath Care and Nursing's Pender Promotion Model

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...

Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

Society, Crime, and the Assistance Offered by Prerelease Programs

to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...

Learning that is Inquiry Based

may be given increasing autonomy in their learning activities. Martin-Hansen provides a chart that illustrates this by showing the...

US Desegregation Laws and Educational Practices

doors. Now, many decades later, a more insidious form of this type of harassment is before the legislature. Many predominantly...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

Issues of Educational inequality in Australia

which knowledge is passed on to the next generation through the family, or through small communities, and towards one in which edu...

High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

America and its Education Commitment

In a paper consisting of three pages America's troubled educational system is examined and President George W. Bush's No Child Lef...

Career Path of a Human Resources Department Vice President

the HR VP comes in so handy. He/she is responsible for overseeing the "human capital" and making sure the investment works to the ...

Reading and the Acquisition of Language Acquisition

In four pages this report discusses language acquisition processes for children and the applies those to reading educational proce...