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Education and the 'Blank Slate' Concept of John Locke

In five pages this report discusses the 'blank slate' of the human mind according to John Locke and also considers education's rol...

Gifted Education Programs and Students

In five pages this paper examines students and gifted education programs in a consideration of disproportionate representation of ...

Twentieth Century Education and the Influence of Jean Piaget

In five pages the four stages of education developed by Jean Piaget are discussed in this consideration of his 20th century influe...

Education and Computer Uses

In five pages the evolution of computers in the field of education is traced to the 1944 MARK 1 installation as discussed in the J...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...

Education and John Locke

independence of judgment marked him throughout his life (1998). While Lockes contribution to the ideas of education is quite sign...

Importance of Education and Teen Pregnancy

"is the best possible option for kids" and should be the primary, if not the only, lesson that schools teach (Curran, and Witt, 20...

Special Education Achievement Assessment and Uses of Student Portfolios

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the Education for All Handicapped Act in a consideration of special education student achiev...

Higher Education Trends

or is hired for a position. Employers see the degree as a sort of prerequisite. Even if the degree has nothing to do with the posi...

Traditional Education versus Distance or Online Education

education (The Higher Learning Commission, 2003; Online Education Resources, n.d.). The purpose of accreditation is to assure pro...

Education and Leadership

personal capacity. The most important role of a leader is to impact the people he leads and creating a link between the actions o...

Student Posed Questions Answered in a Trio of Essays

When something needs to be done, it is often the consumer who has to do the leg work. Another pet peeve involves people who drive...

Higher Education and the Curriculum Inclusion of Thomas Paine

(Generation Terrorists, 2004). In England, however, he was looked upon with great distaste as he stood, perhaps, for all that t...

Teenage Pregnancy: An Overview

United States each and every year Huus, 2010). Experts differ in their analysis of what trend is responsible for this rise in te...

Achieving Inclusion in Education

is through intervention to change the way that the disabled student is dealt with so that they can fit is with the status quo....

The Cultural Revolution and Educational Reform

the most heavily debated political and ideological programs in the history of the world. Established by Mao Tse-Tung as a reaction...

Changes in Education: The Field of Science and Social Change

about science instruction that falls into areas of ethics have influenced how many science educators pursue instructional content....

Education According to Newman

of itself, has remained a distant second to the pursuit of capitalism, one can readily argue that Newmans own pursuit of education...

At the Classroom Forefront Apple Computers Remain

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which innovative marketing has kept Apple in control of the education market are e...

Compulsory School Attendance

In ten pages this paper argues in support of education's privatization and away from the policy of mandatory school attendance. S...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Educational Philosophy

and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...

Tutorial on Personal Education Views

childrens school (1997). The results have been shown across all grade levels, across all socio-economic statuses and in urban, sub...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

Students With Emotional Disabilities and General Education Classroom Adaptations

more difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified teachers. Nowhere is this issue more prominent than in urban schools" (Sawk...

Computer Education and Doorsteps or Deliverance by Gary Bloom

classrooms across the world. However, as you ably point out, for all its glitter, computer technology is not pure gold. The Allia...

Special Education Overview

the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) in 1990. This legislation mandates that all children with disabilities receive a "fre...

Special Education/Literature Review

Itards efforts to help the child are widely acknowledged as constituting the beginnings of the history of special education (Smith...

Terminology and Educational Applicability

for example, is properly analyzed by first looking at and defining the word "authentic" and then looking at and defining the word ...

Adequate Progress Brochure

New Jersey Department of Education. (May 2007). Wright, Peter W. D. and Pamela Darr Wright. Use Appendix A as a Tool. (n.d.)....

Legal Issues & IEPs

an IEP. First of all, the IEP must include statements that offer an overview of the students current level of academic achievement...