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Standardized Testing In Kindergarten

being used in todays state accountability programs-mandated standardized achievement tests-are causing educational harm, perhaps i...

Burlington Northern Railway: Fair Settlement In Genetic Testing Lawsuit?

- employees were predisposed to carpal tunnel is both grand and far-reaching; that they did so without knowledge of or written con...

Adult Learning Styles, Temperaments And Theories In "Educating Rita"

a person and requires the individual to participate fully and completely in the experience. The first segment of the Kolb Model -...

Teaching Character Education

Jean Piaget and also on the philosophy of American educator John Dewey (Barger). This model of moral development pictures children...

Special Education: Cost Effectiveness In Relation To The Educational System In Particular And American Society In General

critical information with regard to the need for these specialized focus points, reminding all that special needs students require...

The Debate over Bilingualism

the perception that the "melting pot" of American society worked better in previous generations. However, consider this quote conc...

Multicultural Education In The United States

of the exact research topic at the beginning, an idea that will become clearer as the researcher explores the literature. The wo...

STD Abstinence-Only Education/Is It Working?

any longer than the regular sex education curriculum that is taught in many schools and that "Morality needs to incorporate realit...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Social Justice and Democracy in Education

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

School Counselor Education Programs - Accountability

before one can measure effectiveness, it is crucial to know what it is you want to know (Brott, 2006). In other words, you cannot ...

Minorities in Higher Education

In one article the author notes that, "Flawed government policies and negative stereotyping of minority men have limited their eco...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Necessity of Music Education

disturbing since music has been shown to be important to child development "physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially and ...

Forest Gump, Ray, And Dangerous Minds

Association for Retarded Citizens was organized (Education Encyclopedia, 2006). In the 1960s, parents became even stronger in thei...

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...

Multicultural Education And Technology

the perfect duo? Teacher Competence to Teach Multicultural Education It seems the first question that needs to be addressed is w...

Teacher Education: Learner Analysis

strategy 6. Develop and select instructional materials 7. Design and conduct formative evaluation of...

Culturally Diverse Teaching

cultural backgrounds, planned efforts to cross social borders and develop caring, respectful relationships are essential" (Weinste...

Disproportionality In Special Education

this category (EMSTAC, Intro, 2007). Either overrepresentation or underrepresentation is a problem because it suggests the diagn...

Special Education Issues & Policy

with an appropriate education" (Douvanis and Husley). As this definition suggests, in general LRE is interpreted to mean general e...

A Case Study

inexperienced teacher whose pedagogical approach to teaching is not geared to a fourth grade level. What are the different perspe...

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 ...

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...

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.)....

Advantages and Disadvantages Associated With Independent Education in the UK

student in the state school system was ?2,320 (Graddy and Stevens, 2005). This is a far higher level of expenditure that is availa...

H. Thomas Johnson's Relevance Regained

In five pages this text review considers business practice and education in three sections that include history and accounting man...

Incentive and Retention for Special Education Teachers

a few non-conference meals. Table 1. Conference Attendance Cost per Teacher Item Component Cost Total Cost Conference registrati...