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Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

Action Research in a 7th Grade Classroom

when moving from one area to another; making remarks; laughing or giggling when there is nothing funny. 2. A survey of teachers at...

Application of Theory on Delinquency

that blockage of these goals can result in delinquency that indicates that deviant behavior is an illegitimate method for achievin...

Journal Writing for Elementary Grades

70 percent Hispanic and 24 percent limited English speaking (Calderon, 1991). The author does not state if the reader is to under...

Grade Inflation Causes and Evidence

to determine what can be - and should be - done about it. The basic definition of grade inflation is when a student receives a gra...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Technology and Learning Styles Among High School Freshman

about the impacts of specific instructional methodologies and motivational elements. As a result, Cohen called for the expansion ...

6th Grade Student, Mathematics, and Methodology

school students being displayed for comparison. GENERAL MATH FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION For most students the question arises at some...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Reading Instruction to a 5th Grade Boy Who Cannot Read

the sounds letters make. For him, a phonics program in which the starts out by learning letter sounds, how those sounds combine to...

Scholastic Performance and the Impact of Peer Programs

success of peer programs pertinent to academic achievement. II. Peer Leadership Peer feedback as well as modeling have been...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Overview of Project Based Learning

hold true for students at every grade level. While project-based learning has been gaining in popularity with educators over the p...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

Grades Seventh through Twelfth and Dropout Rates

and test performance, inasmuch as stereotype vulnerability has proven to predispose ethnic populations to related test anxiety. "...

Small Business Rewards and Compensation Program Proposal

people work is to make a living and everything else is secondary. II. Case Study In order to draft a compensation and rewar...

4th Grader and an Application of Lev Vygotsky's Theory

Vygotsky Lev Vygotsky, who was born in Russia in 1896, created his social development theory of learning during the early ...

Elementary Level Assessment of Portfolios

In ten pages this research paper examines elementary school grade level portfolios as an assessment alternative approach. Twenty ...

Viability of Grade Retention

use of voluntary retention is a way to help a failing child succeed (Perry, 1999). The trend is really based on anecdotal evidence...

A Target Behavioral Intervention Plan for ADHD

an anecdotal recording and data sheet summarizing a systematic classroom observation of the target student and a control student u...

Elementary Students and Creative Writing

In five pages this paper discusses the educational importance of creative writing in 1st through 3rd grades. Four sources are cit...

4 Topics Summarized

In six pages four topics are discussed and include learning disabilities and educational interventions, psychological and educatio...

The Concepts of Graded Structure, Central Tendency and Ideal Dimensions Among Tree Experts and Novices

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of an article by Lynch, Coley and Medin entitled: "Tall is typical: ...

Moral Permissibility of an Educator Raising the Grade of a Student

In five pages the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Rawls are applied to a consideration of whether or not it is ethically ac...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

Creation of Freshman Wings

In eight pages this paper examines ninth grade school transition issues and the impact of freshman wings' creation in schools as a...

2nd Graders and the Impact of Silence and Rap Music

In six pages this research paper provides a review of the pertinent literature regarding the process of learning and the effects o...

Education and Issues in the Classroom

Teachers in America face critical issues in making everyday classroom decisions. This paper examines a fictitious first-grade clas...