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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...

High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Forensic Science and DNA Testing

RFLP is no smaller than a quarter, while with PCR Analysis the sample can be no bigger than a few skin cells. This seemingly insi...

America and its Education Commitment

In a paper consisting of three pages America's troubled educational system is examined and President George W. Bush's No Child Lef...

U.S., Free Speech, and Engel v. Vitale

prescribing religious devotions; the idea being that by keeping a strict line between religion and state, religious freedom is ens...

Definition and Diagnosis of WS Genetic Disorder

difficulty grasping mathematical concepts (Fidler, Hodapp and Dyken, 2002). While not every child with WS fits this profile, a lar...

Large Organizations and Whether or Not Bureaucracies Can Be Replaced by Team Structures

When looking at whether team based structures can take over from the bureaucratic structures we need to consider how these newer b...

Heath Care and Nursing's Pender Promotion Model

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...

Reform During the Progressive Era

morality within the corporate structure, essential concepts that were all but absent from any standpoint. Indeed, the very issues...

Taking Risks and Adolescence

that one can incorporate the extreme with the ordinary? Indeed, risk taking represents a bit of all of these definitions, inasmuc...

Society, Crime, and the Assistance Offered by Prerelease Programs

to become productive citizens upon their ultimate release back into society. Advocates of these programs have long argued how the...

HRM and its Role in Corporate Strategy

be and should be directly aligned to a companys strategic goals. According to Paauwe, another important part of HRM involved workf...

Educational Concepts of Immanuel Kant

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

Coping Strategy and Student Performance

be seen as a positive coping methodology as it relives the stresses that are placing pressure on the student. By understanding t...

Canadian Education Literature Review

decades. The greater diversity in our schools has resulted in new curriculum and instructional methodologies. Weatherspoon hints a...

Departmental Statistical Examination of Employees

pie chart to present these. Using these we can see although the number look similar in the graph chart, but presenting them in...

Education and John Dewey

"in its interaction with the pupils present" (Garrison, 1999). Teachers need to do more than present the material in an orderly w...

Race and UK Education Policies

Banlideshi community saw poorer result and the West Indians performed to the lowest level (quoted Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). T...

Parenthood and Its Problems

inflict gentle reprimands. Even within the toddler stage, there are several individual periods of growth where one stage ends and...

New Jersey Law and Genetic Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

California Schools' Drug Testing, Ethics, and Law

no evidence that suspicion is the case, is not overly approved of. However, there are schools where testing and active security is...

Third Grade Student and Childhood Learning Assessment

that it was a test that had also been given to her friend Haifa and that it was important to test more than one person. This seeme...

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...