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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...

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...

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...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Current Issues in Educational Diversity

have some measure of adaptation in order to perform to their highest scholastic potential. This fact is clear to both parents and...

Educational Therapy and Inservice Training

competence as students throughout the school day. Clearly, the teacher is a crucial source of this information. Although teacher...

Master of Liberal Arts' Program Letter of Educational Intent

no study of economics can be complete without including a focus on the issues of globalization. Whereas companies sought to enter...

Educational Practices and Race

the same education. This, however, is surely not the case for most people in the nation are well aware of the fact that inner city...

Texas Education and Parental Involvement

class lawyer living in a large house in the rather wealthy Dallas suburb of Highland Park. On the other hand, the parent might be ...

Benefits of Reducing Class Size

"rarely instructed how to learn" (p. 71). Moreover, Applebee (1984) strongly suggest that strategy instruction is all but absent ...

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...

Educational Research Data and Graphics

of the type of disruption observed. This is a researchable problem, but only within the context of careful design. It can ...

Reading Levels and Education Research

of whole language instruction, however, is that many children have difficulty moving from totally free self-expression to masterin...

Students with Autism or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Education

Within six years the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (1997). While the names have changed, that d...

College Admissions' Essay

of "teachers." I believe that the students that I meet will be a part of the learning experience, and will expose me to different...

Historical Development of the Irish Language

its history, was a country that was invaded many times, and settled by a variety of different groups (Irelandseye.com, 2004). By t...

U.S. Schools and Segregation

be found in the suburbs as well (The Economist, 2003). Schools that were once mostly white are not mostly Latino or Black (The Eco...

Teen Alcohol Abuse Socioeconomic Policy Control and Proposition

pricing adolescents out of the alcohol market. As Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow state, the theory of supply and deman...

The Social Importance of Relative Adoptions

PLIGHT OF FOSTER CHILDREN IN EDUCATION Theory In a related study, Emerson & Lovitt (2003) performed a meta...

Mountain Settings and Education

human life after the dark green of the forest cover begins to blaze yellow, red and orange in the fall, however, for a thin column...

Ohio's Oberlin College and Its History

one of Americas most influential ministers. One year prior to 1833, when its doors opened, Shipherd found it in his heart to found...

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 ...

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...

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...

Tertiary Distance Education Student Adjustment

in class time in Germany, Brazil and China. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture from a CD-ROM, checks ...