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U.S., Standardized Laws, and Gun Control

do so in Florida without having to meet state permit requirements, according to the Miami Herald" (Anonymous NA). The tourist tha...

The Use of Computer Aided Design and its Layer Standards

5 pages and 3 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the central components of the CAD operations with a specific focus...

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...

Performance Art and Theater

In five pages this paper discusses the differences between performance art and theater with an example of theater being the Broadw...

Stock Analysis of Hilton Hotels

female member; Donna Tutle making this o a board with only 9% female representation. The majority of board members are Caucasian m...

Airbus, BEA Systems, and Boeing

wide range of areas, form commercial aviation to defence, relationship with potential customers is also very important (Dussauge a...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...

Southwest Airlines' Economic Indicators

worldwide as passengers expressed fear of flying as never before. Southwest suffered less than most in the short term. Alw...

Definition of Standardized Testing and Its Importance

studies have found that urban and rural students do less well on these tests than do suburban students (Wakefield, n.d.; St. Peter...

Curriculum and Impact of Standardized Tests

school teachers and 66 percent of high school teachers reporting the same (What the numbers say, 2003, p. 8). Boston College profe...

NBA Performance and Genetics

the outcome of sports performance in particular. Others however, contend that other factors affect this performance. Obviously, ...

Share Valuation, CVA, and EVA

performance expectations. Measures such as this may still be subject to the environmental changes, but may be more reliable that t...

Children and Early Formal Educational Instruction

to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...

Literature Review on the Disadvantages of Standardized Testing

up a new job opportunity, for psychometricians, those who think about standardized tests (USA Today, 2004). These are people who d...

A Research Proposal on Standardized Testing

examine. Looking at raw data in respect to how well students perform is important, as is interviewing teachers from the states tha...

2005 Big Markets Emerging

located all around the world. Garten (1998) identified ten: "Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Poland, Turkey, India, Indo...

Programmer Bill Blizzard's Performance Evaluation

less satisfactory results than does the performance evaluation. Kniggendorf (1998) reports that many "supervisors resist the use ...

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

Swiss Franc Performance

at the country over this period of time it appears that inflation was not a problem, however, it did change over time, with the hi...

Racial Inferiority Concept

are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...

Shortcomings of Math and Science Textbooks

science texts were found to be unsatisfactory with little potential for helping students learn important ideas and skills(Stern, R...

Globalization, Standardization, and Theodore Levitt

for decades; Tom Peters and John Kao have supported the precepts of creativity. John Kao is certain that it is necessary to...

Educational Reform and 4 Relevant Issues

benefiting from the one-size-fits-all concept of standardized testing is the non-English speaking students. Aimed at testing all ...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

Schlosser: "Fast Food Nation"

Perris, California or Paris, France. Buying fast food has become so routine that we no longer think about it. If we really did sto...

No Child Left Behind and Standardized Testing

testing" as "standardized testing" that is used as "criteria for determining the quality of school, promotion of children to the n...

International Marketing

difficult competition a mature market in the home nation may push a company looking outwards towards developing markets. Opportuni...

Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecast for the US 2006 - 2007

1. Introduction The US economy and its management have been controversial for some time. The budget and trade deficit and weak d...

Apple Computers

over to Mac systems, the ability of Intel chips to be used in iMacs has also helped the movement as well as the increasing realisa...

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...