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Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

1815 to 1860 U.S. Reform Movements

insert citation from Chapter 12). While Walden is even today held up as the epitome of how any individual can maintain and retain ...

Seeking a Job in Investment Banking

field in which frustrations mount - but on the other side, there are times when you feel exhilaration when everything falls into p...

Impacts of Plato, Pythagoras, Wolfgang Kohler, and B.F. Skinner on Education

(Bosomolny, 2002). He founded the Pythagorean school of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. His teachings soon attract...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

Lack of Anti Satellite Weapons' Control by the Soviet Union and the United States

this position we need to look at the way it was reached including the historical context, as this is the way the current military ...

Sex Survey Statistical Analysis

analysis show to be untrue. Using linear regression and correlation, one can see that some of the numbers given in Ms. Smiths ar...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

New Supermarket Product Line Developed

of the market, compared to Sainsburys 15.8% and Tescos 22.5% in October 2002 (Harrington, 2002). However, out of these top three i...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

Children and IQ Testing

caregivers educational level, home environment, socioeconomic status and prenatal exposure to substance abuse, violence exposure w...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

Educators and Development of Technology Staff

In twelve pages this paper examines 3 journal articles pertaining to the development of technology staff in an educational setting...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Alternatives to Student Learning Assessed

is made. Further, a great reliance on norm-referenced standardized tests has emerged over the last few decades. Standardized norm-...

Adult Education and the Theories of Program Design and Development

plus enough reading, and arithmetic to run their households, but that was all (Flaceliere 56). Ancient sources tell us, moreover, ...

Costs and Workplace Drug Testing

In six pages mandatory workplace drug testing is examined in terms of costs and effectiveness. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

Legal Issues Involved in Mandatory Workplace Drug Testing II

In six pages this research paper presents 3 cases in a consideration of the state and federal laws addressing mandatory drug testi...

Hair Use and Drug Testing

In four pages workplace drug testing is examined with a focus on the disadvantages and advantages of hair sample usage. Six sourc...

Seek Specific Job Opportunities Based on Bilingualism

as well as mentors, training programs, internships and more. Clearly, the bilingual person is almost never without job opportunity...

The Development of a Job Focus in the Area of Pediatric Care

Six pages with four sources used. This paper provides an overview of the central career opportunities in the area of pediatric ca...

The Focus on a Career as in Recreational Therapy

4 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the career of recreational therapist. This paper relates a number...

Nina Zaragoza's 'Rethinking Language Arts'

strengths and power of all children, rather than the weaknesses (Zaragoza, 1997) Perfectionism is an issue because it distances th...

Lecture Methodology and Linguistics

In five pages this paper examines the lecture educational instruction method in terms of student learning improvement and the impo...

In Support of Bilingual Education

In an essay consisting of 6 pages the results of successes are implemented to support an argument in favor of public school system...

Article Review on Whole Language in the Classroom Education

qualities; author studies where students read several books by the same author becoming very familiar with style; independent writ...

A of Whole Language Curriculum Assessment

those students in a mid-sized midwestern school district which had committed to the implementation of whole language curriculum. ...

Naturalistic and Traditional Diagnostic Testing Uses in Speech Aphasia

In twenty pages this paper discusses the options available to speech pathologists regarding two types of diagnostic testing approa...