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Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

Canadian Children and Poverty

only is "the rate of child poverty ... growing" particularly among recent immigrants and native peoples, but the widening gap betw...

Preschool and Adolescent Development in Terms of Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...

Children, Stress Fractures, and Tennis

will break. Repetitive stress fractures occur from the same principle. In other words, it is not the movement, per se, that causes...

Changes in Education Curriculum Trends During the Next Decade

educational setting in recent years including the focus on the role of the educator, the need for accuracy in testing, and the int...

Preventing Injury and Other Preschool-Care Issues

as treatment. Postgraduate Medicine, 103(6). Retrieved September 22, 2005 from http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1998/06_98/than...

Child Rearing and the Reasons Fathers Are Not Necessary

their children than do fathers" (Phares, 1999, p. 3). In the United States and throughout the world, it is the mothers that spend...

Children Who Lack Awareness of Phonemes and Remediation Strategies

abilities and reading performance for young children. Assessments of both phonological awareness and phonemic awareness have been...

Literature Review on Primary School Music Education for Children Ages 5 through 7

applied even after the end of British rule in 1966. This review of literature will consider the nature of music as a cultural man...

Children With Learning Disabilities and Failure Statistics' Data Collection

that the process of evaluating the subjects and providing for questionnaire responses is an element of consideration in evaluating...

Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Children and Ecological Systems Theory

2005). The mesosystem layer connects the various components of the childs microsystem, perhaps a teacher with a parent, a church ...

Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Communication and Autistic Children

2003). Scientists have learned that it is necessary to first expand some basic skills in autistic children before communication c...

Activities for Preschool Children

work with puzzles shows that he recognizes patterns and his art work shows imagination and the ability to build on the information...

ELL and NCLB's Implications

No Child Left Behind Act, it is hard to dismiss the problems it has brought for some populations. For example, it seems that child...

UK Welfare Benefits and Asylum Seekers' Dissertation Proposal

and then will face a large number of barriers such as language and culture barriers. The barriers can create difficulty in finding...

Child Mathematics' Instruction and Zero

imagine that young minds may have difficulty grasping the notion. The existence of zero does create problems. Zero is responsibl...

Research on After School Programs

computers and a brighter future for themselves" (U.S. Department of Education, 1998). It has long been known that quality after ...

Inappropriate Discipline of Spanking

III. EMPIRICAL STUDIES AGAINST SPANKING A study conducted by Landsford et al (2005) focused upon the cultural approach to s...

Cognitive Development Theories of Elizabeth Spelke and Jean Piaget

"behind their cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own specia...

Different Scenarios For Child Care

enjoy. Caregivers might also use childrens books written about hygiene as teaching tools; there are many books devoted to the sub...

Child Abuser Sterilization

for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...

A Review of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

thought which suggests that if a patient doesnt believe in it, it wont work, so perhaps Lias parents were right.) There was als...

Michel de Montaigne's On the Education of Children

truly speak to hear themselves talk, as the saying goes. Some people see conversation as a means to show others how grand and impo...

Cinderella's Contemporary Variations

own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...

4 Journal Articles on Youth Sports

at different ages (Libman, 1998; Stryer et al, 1998). Childrens mental and physical abilities develop at different rates and this ...

Pastoral Counseling

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...

The Huge Decision to Have a Child

journey. But, in making the decision to have a child one looks within themselves and examines if they are the type of person who c...

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

Problems and Solutions Related to Parenting

getting into a power struggle with a toddler is not only counterproductive, but detrimental to the childs urge to explore and lear...