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The Debate About Standardized Testing

students really learn ("Readers Poll," 2006). The exact statement provided for readers to rate was as follows: "Standardized testi...

Humanism in Adult Basic Education

endorsed, but personal development is practiced; Brookfield wonders why the contradiction exists, and finds his answer in the text...

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Aristotle and the Role of Moral Education

Aristotle manages to come up with a provisional definition (Book II, Ch. 6, 1107a): Aret? is a state or condition of soul that is ...

Rousseau/Emile or On Education

amour-propre. The first category, amour de soi, is self-love that does not derive from others. Rousseau asserts that it is part of...

Reading Assessment - Nonreader

gets frustrated easily and wants to give up. At the same time, John wants to read books. Also available were the Stanford 9 Achie...

Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education

typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...

Culture, Education and Legislation in Plato's Laws

three characters (a stranger from Athens; Cleinias, from Crete; and Megillus, a Lacedaemonian) are discussing their various types ...

Standards-Based Educational Reform

progress (AYP) goals will face corrective action (U.S. Department of Education, 2004). The term higher standards is found consist...

Substance Abuse and Adolescents

entire population of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 used illicit drugs in 2004 (SAMHSA, 2005). This represents a slight decre...

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...

Statistical Analysis Simulation

services they buy and use. In all cases there is the need to determine the target of the research and use a sample that is a fully...

Business Department Disbands Prior To Student Completing Studies: Damages

by virtue of the voluntary nature of that agreement. Known as the will theory, its transformation into contemporary society has l...

Admission Essay

and customs to the University" and toward that end this year we held an information event on campus. The Embassies of Saudi Arabi...

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...

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

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...

High School Dropout Prevention

not included in the total dropout rate. The figures used by the Gates Foundation take these individuals into account as well. ...

The Effects of Truancy on Society

gang activity. It is also noted that in particular graffiti and burglaries may subside as a result of targeting truancy. One may t...

E-Learning Assessment

graduating class in the history of U.S. education will be in 2009 (Romano, 2006). These students have grown up with the Internet, ...

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...

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...

Improving Teaching Practice In Diverse Classrooms

for their adult lives. 2. Mastery of Program Competencies Meeting the needs of all students in a diverse classroom requires som...

PhD Admission Essay

rate throughout the country and have been active in Texas for some time ($130 Million Committed, 2003). Texas is one state that f...

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...

Emotionally Disturbed Students and Special Education

numbers of students classified as disabled and educated in largely segregated environments (Zernike, 2001). Mooney, et al (2003)...

Attending a Meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous

about 30 people, but in the end, about 20 attended. The people who were already in the room seemed to know one another, and were c...

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...