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Book Review of Near Failure in Kosovo by Wesley Clark

Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was i...

Bilingual Reading Studies and Using Multicultural Stories and Literature Circles to Improve Levels of Reading

years, the debate has been waged about the efficacy of bilingual education, bilingual enrichment, immersion programs, ESL (English...

Comparing the Educational Philosophies of Washington and Du Bois

an emphasis on more practical learning in higher education (Boyce, 2003). Du Bois would focus on the importance of knowledge inclu...

Teacher Made Test Assessments

on the testing outcomes as a whole. Both questions 16 and 20 include grammatical errors or language that appears faulty, again i...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

Varied Populations and Daily Lessons

basic rights (Weishaar, 1997). Inclusion and mainstreaming programs were developed as an offshoot of this premise, created in ord...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

Educational Leadership and American Literature

of referrals to these types of programs have resulted in the need to seek out better methods for enhancing educational leadership ...

Girl Scout Camp Workplace Environment

Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) issued the first broadly disseminated information that identified the features of...

Michael Rohd's 'Theatre for Community Conflict and Dialogue'

incorporating drama in the classroom but it also provides us the ammunition to move the impact of that drama from the classroom an...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

Gender and Educational Issues

suffer a decline in self-esteem at adolescence (AAUW Report). Because of their lack of self-esteem the report stated that gild fal...

Schools in Malta and Prayer

to religion can be understood as a foundation of the current education system. The main legislation is the Education Act 1988, u...

Education and the Value of Ethics

entire point of such papers is to merely assist students, not do their work for them. This is the reason papers such as produced b...

Six Questions on Hypotheses Testing

In five pages this table template provides answers to 6 hypothesis testing questions with equation form of H[sub 0] and H [sub A]...

Regression Analysis and Hypothesis Testing

less than calculated t of 2.13. The z score for 2.11 is .4834, which is used to calculate a risk. Alpha risk...

Educational Institutions and Leadership Models

social architect" (Leadership models, 2005). This leader focuses on such factors as structure, implementation and adaptation and ...

Changing Educational Organization

time will lead to change in the third section of the model. The best case scenario, the one capable of producing the win-wi...

James Popham, George Madaus, and Alfie Kohn Educational Assessments

be allowed to learn on their own in a manner that is encouraged and that they schools should "give students time to be confused an...

Planning and Leadership Assessment

and areas that may need improvement, especially for leaders (MBPT, 2005). A person who demonstrates an ISTJ personality (Introver...

Kuwait's Private Education Industry and an Application of Porter's Model

is attempting to take away some of the market share of the existing companies in that sector. The first thing to consider in this ...

Overview of the Slosson Intelligence Test

mental competencies and handicaps through the view of its specific domains. The SIT-R provides a basis for assessing intelligence...

Change Strategies Planning Assessment

on the part of both parents, including an unwillingness to support assessments for services that might improve Stuarts school perf...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Overview of Polygraph Testing

(CQT), the Directed Lie Test (DLT) and the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT) (Carroll, 2005). When the CQT is used, the examiner "compa...

Procedure and Criminal Law IV

do not always perfectly align, however. Though the police had the right to arrest Frank and they needed to respond to the worried...

Inclusive Theory and Small Group Instruction Integration

into step with age-appropriate performance goals. In such cases children might be temporarily grouped according to their needs. ...

Education, Retention, and Social Promotion

made for continuing students through the grade levels. The following is a case study that the student could incorporate into the...

Methodology and Literature Review on Improved Testing and a South Tech Charter High School's Social Studies' Educator Evaluation

The call for accountability on a state and national level has been reflected in the increasing concentration on standardized testi...