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Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

Researching the International Baccalaureate Program

measurement signifies success of the program? * "Does there appear to be a positive correlation in the programs participants and a...

High School Students: Reasoning

or concepts being classified" (Maxwell, no date). Critical reasoning is a form of logical thinking where conclusions are drawn f...

The Core Model and Comprehensive School Restructuring (CSR)

such finding the state demands stability and predictability, non-manipulability, responsiveness, ease of administration, feasibili...

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...

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...

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 ...

Reality Therapy

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

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, ...

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...

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, ...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Middle School - Cognitive Development And Technology

Development Institute, 2006). Piaget also noted three fundamental processes that were involved in intellectual growth, assimilat...

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 ...

High School Athletic Handbooks

and regulations for the athlete. One high school, Chariho Regional High School, states that, "Participation in the athletic progra...

Behavioral Journal Article Review: School Violence

to meet at least one of the following criteria in order to be included in the sample: low socioeconomic status, educational failur...

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...

HRM and Training at Mobil

potential areas of improvement may be identified and the positive areas may serve as an example to other oil companies. 2. Litera...

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...

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...

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...

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...