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Comparing E.D. Hirsch and John Dewey

In five pages the educational theories of John Dewey and E.D. Hirsch are compared as they are reflected in the works Dewey on Educ...

College Curricula Revamping

In five pages this hypothetical case study presents a mock interview of 3 students in which their input is sought to revamp an und...

Inner City Education and a Baltimore Case Study

In ten pages education in urban areas are discussed with an examination of Baltimore's failed 1990s' school improvement initiative...

Educational Ethical Issues: Standardized Tests

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the ethical education issue of standardized tests. This paper includes how the test scores ...

Teh Beginning of Operant Conditioning

Skinner's legacy is reinforcement. This theory has been applied in learning settings, such as schools, and also in counseling and ...

Changing Education

This essay is based on two sources that discuss different issues with schools. One focuses on the attributes needed for effective ...

Operant Conditiioning in Learning

Skinner believed that we are what we do and he also believed that we can change what we do for the better. The key to his theory a...

Education Reform and the Decline of Moral Education

Starting with the common school movement of the nineteenth century, the author of this paper discusses how the emphasis on moral e...

ISLLC Standards, an Overview

This essay offers an overview of the six standards established by the School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) in regards to sp...

Education Needs Systemic Change

This essay discusses education as a system and supports the premise that real improvement will only come from systemic changes. I...

Nursing Hybrid Program

to gain experience as a member of the health care team. At the end of the two years, some students will have earned 14 college cr...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Case Study Middle School Math

as they expected. They expect special education students to gain more than a months growth for each month of instruction with spec...

Math Performance and Middle School Students

the views of educators and school psychologists regarding the importance of high-stakes testing and the implications for varied le...

Diane Ravitch, Her Views on American Public Schools

countrys leading educators and has been a vocal advocate for both testing and accountability initiatives in the public schools. A ...

Making Changes in Education

change leadership styles the author had described. This initiative required all students to lease and IBM ThinkPad in order to sup...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

Multicultural Students and their special needs

are doing everything in their power to meet the needs of multicultural students. Yet, many still question if there is more that ca...

Changes in What is Required in Education and to What Degree

According to recent statistics, seven out of ten high school graduates will enroll in a college or university after graduation (Le...

Teaching Our Children About Sex

When considering the question of whether we are repressed sexually it is important to recognize that sexuality is as diverse as hu...

Educational Programs in High School and Transgender Issues

programs should evolve to address transgender issues. There are some that emphasize advocacy of transgender inclusion in textbook...

Public Schools and Corporate Sponsorship

place, but there is little in the way of coercion. The company gives freely and there is no quid pro quo. An example of a good con...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

Bauhaus and Architectural Design

but remains a symbol of modernism. When consider the term modern, until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated m...

Childhood Obesity and the Role of the School System

systems around the nation began to report BMI on report cards. The BMI or body mass index is a calculation involving height and we...

The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

California School District Budget Proposal

students); and three grade 6 classrooms (78 students). The professional staff includes one principal, one part-time assistant pr...

Teaching Strategies and Dyslexia

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