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Maria Montessori’s ‘New Education’

education that was more teacher-centered, this was focused upon student learning (Rohrs, 1994). New Education is based upon the p...

BROWN V. BOARD: IMPACT ON LEGAL HISTORY

the amendment was undermined (partly because the wording was so vague), and southern states passed new segregation laws and polici...

Leadership: The Relevance of Education and Experience

important in the creation of effective leaders. People seek education in order to gain knowledge in a specific subject area or jus...

Learning Styles And The Mature Learner

themes relative to the mature students first year in higher education degree courses that lent themselves to success, including: a...

Academic Dishonesty

of proper citation but rather those who knowingly involve themselves in academic dishonesty. One author notes that "Basically, c...

Funding, Access and Teaching: The Canadian Experience of a Mass System of Higher Education

gradually Canadians as a whole were looked on in that same light. Not only were concepts such as fairness and justness responsibl...

Language Acquisition Principles: Immersion

the article Dual Language Immersion by Jennifer Esposito, published in April 2006 by the periodical District Administrator. Langu...

Alternative Assessment v. Standardized

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

Fremont Technology Plan and Enhancing Education through Technology Grant Program

the district; 3. to create a list of benchmarks and a specific set of obtainable dates for the implementation of new hardware, in...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

Argument: The Revisions to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) 2004 are Good for Both Students and Teachers

revisions are necessary and helpful, we will examine them in more detail. First, the revisions bring IDEA more closely in line wi...

Unemployment; Impact on Apollo Inc.

economic cycles which have been seen. In figure 1 the unemployment level is shining with the pink bands showing the periods of rec...

Two Educations

were doing nothing but scraping along wondering if we will be able to survive until the next check, life can be very difficult and...

Early Retention in Education: Does it Improve Student Achievement?

is that before the start of the 20th century, children in schools were not even grouped according to grade levels, but instead bas...

Viewpoints on Public Education

successful. It is likely that Powell is an aberration. At least, he is a well known leader who has done a great deal in life. Yet,...

A New course on Global, Multicultural Aspects of Psychology

the teaching of psychology can be seen through an understanding of Black and Feminist perspectives as they can influence psycholog...

Training for Adults in Supply Chain Management

stage of development of the learner. Both young adulthood and middle-aged adulthood (Hsu, n.d.) age groups are likely to be repres...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

Sleeter and Grant on Multicultural Education Approaches

stereotypical attitudes towards different groups and working on respect and tolerance of differences. The school needs to move for...

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Aspects of ECE or Early Childhood Education

She offers as an example a booklet used in schools entitled, "All About Me," which consists of a series of dittoed pages where the...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

Phonics That is Synthetic and Analytic

quotes a previous Director, John Stannard, as saying that the essential elements of teaching literacy involve the identification a...

An Overview of Adult Education

result, this first assessment tool must reflect elements that relate to these three areas. For this first assessment, then, a pro...

Adult Education Programs

Testing Service for the National Center for Education Statistics, suggested that it may be impossible for the United States to ach...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...