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Essays 1861 - 1890

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Fire Prevention and Public Education

by a ratio of 3:1 ("Fires"). With the past five years these statistics as these are easily accessible on the Internet and can be ...

Home-School Relations : Book Review

also provides tips and cues for identifying potential child abuse and neglect. The author who discusses Parent-Teacher Communica...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Inclusion Of Special Education Students

meta-analyses report a "small to moderate beneficial effect of inclusion education on the academic and social outcome of special n...

Microculture/A Middle School Classroom

demands of life" (Wilms 606). The emphasis in this system was regimentation and standardization, and to a certain extent, its cult...

Geography / Art Lesson Plan

relation to the United Kingdom and Europe. The teacher shows a picture of a satellite Atlas map (this can be found with a search ...

Creativity

activity than the adults brain (Jalongo, 2003). Theta waves are those that are active during the time "between being awake and fal...

Religion Curriculum in Schools

Perhaps the greatest similarities lie between the Christianity and Islam faiths; indeed, there are considerable concurrent issues ...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

School Principal's Changing Roles

One study found that between 1988 and 1998, 42 percent of all the elementary school principals in the United States left their job...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Education and Constructivism

which an individual learns and knows things, such as: * Knowing comes from the active and proactive nature of learners actions (Ho...

The Gleaners by Jean François Millet

he was relatively ambivalent about any political aspects of his work (Internet source). Pioche writes: "Being of peasant stock, he...

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.'s In Search of Excellence Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

be functional both internally as well as externally in order to maximize their effectiveness and generate revenues. By using seve...

English Schools and the Teaching of Citizenship

too narrow-minded and limited. During the aftermath of September 11, it became increasingly evident that when terrorism touched o...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Development of & Importance of School Finance

duty to provide a comprehensive education for all of its citizens. Smith reacted to British mercantilism and its limits on trade, ...

Reducing High School Dropout Rates in North Toledo

poverty from one year to the next (Bridgeland, DiIulio and Morison, 2006; p. 2). Bill Gates recently announced that he soon...

School Principal Shortage And Preparation

In 2006, Ryan reported there was a serious shortage of principals in the entire Northeast region of the United States, encompassin...

Issues In Being A School Principal

changing educational environment. In transformational leadership, as the name implies, administrative leaders, such as the school ...

My Educational Philosophy

are something that they do not have to stop and think about in order to use. This, and spelling, are one of the few instances in w...

Finding Balance/Article Commentary

author emphasizes how the culture of collaboration supports and values the teachers on which learning depends. As a new teacher, ...

Curriculum Development

the goals that are applicable to it. For example, the district board specifies the goal to implement a "challenging curriculum" t...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

Reality Therapy

Institute, 2006). No progress can be made until this relationship is developed (The William Glasser Institute, 2006). Effective p...

Creating Curiosity About Math

more data to test this prediction (Hunt for). Specific instructions and materials needed for the lessons described can be download...

Issues in School Mgmt.

education acknowledges the fact that knowledge is presented to students within the context of culture and that in a diverse popula...

Mardi Gras and Effects on the New Orleans Economy

quickly become important ("The History of Mardi Gras," 2007). Some call it Fat Tuesday, which is what the term Mardi Gras actually...

Supervision & Teacher Evaluation

(Sparks and Hirsh). Four operational principles are instrumental in achieving results-driven education. These are having "1) clari...