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Drug Testing for High School Athletes

can be required to submit to suspicionless drug tests as a condition of athletic participation...the response was initially tepid:...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Study Proposal/Postoperative Nausea Medications

additional criteria for consideration is that the "ideal antiemetic drug" should be sufficiently cost-effective for routine use (D...

Curbing Drug Use in North Idaho

The people in the home that they were taken from were killed, and one of those individuals was their mother. Yet, one has to wonde...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

Instrumentation Paper

step by step approach. The primary research will be based on a descriptive qualitative case study of Ryanair, using a case...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

Major Pedagogical and Educational Psychology Theories

the use of rewards" (Seamons, 2002). Perennialism comes out of the struggle to reconcile Idealism and Realism; the middle positio...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

SIM Test Strategies: Literature Review

students. There are four conditions that must be maintained within this group: 1. "Both group and individual needs are valued and...

Legal Issues in Education

the US courts in regards to public schools : The authority of the public educational system finds its origin within a "constitutio...

Christology/Who do you say I am?

Jesus was more divine than he was human (Meacham 40). The issue that underscored the early ecumenical councils, once incidental ri...

DNA Evidence and the Daubert Test

such evidence, "crime lab scientists from the Illinois State Police testified that lip prints are as unique to an individual as ar...

Comparison of Obscenity

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

Readings/Educational Philosophy

the teacher would be naturally drawn to the Socratic method of instruction, which relies on the teacher attempting to bring forth ...

Weight Study Proposal

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

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...

Scholastic Issues

with a few of the students laughed. Most of the students did not even see Sam trip but, typical to Sam,...

ESL Teaching's Negative Aspects in Puerto Rico

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Introduction Teaching English as a second language in Puerto Rico...

Hypothesis Testing and Power Analysis

the null hypothesis. The first is the level of confidence that is set, meaning the alpha. This is an arbitrary measure at best, an...

Alternative Education and Magnet Schools

Since that time, the program - which continues to be an integral component to the public school system - has expanded to incorpora...

Vygotsky's Social Cognition, Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, and Constructivism

plans (Lan et al, 1995); if the instructor tries to teach a child a particular lesson when he or she has not yet reached that leve...

The Development of Career Models based on Existing Theory

becoming more open towards new aspects that are not governed by ideals of the organisation, by comparison in the static career the...

Role of Educational Philosophy Papers by Kieran Egan, George S. Counts, and John Locke and Classroom Experience by Teachers

upon them. For Egan, the teachers role is to allow the students to learn through abstract thought, previously thought too cognitiv...

Nigeria and Free Education at All Levels

areas, would the funding go further if it were entrenched in a project to feed, clothe and shelter the people? Money can only be s...

Reforming Campaign Finance

reform campaign financing practices (opensecrets.org, nd). The Congress did not follow Roosevelts advice (opensecrets.org, nd). A ...

Research Proposal on Testing Gucci's Differentiation Value

in which differentiation has been pursued as a competitive advantage may then be appreciated. Gucci has a very chequered backgro...