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Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

Socratic Philosophy and Plato

is good (Frost 84). For Socrates, "a life which is always inquiring and trying to discover what is good is the best kind of life, ...

ADHD and Issues in Classroom Management

with these other interventions. These approaches are typical based on positive reinforcement techniques. Many, including behaviora...

Religion Curriculum in Schools

Perhaps the greatest similarities lie between the Christianity and Islam faiths; indeed, there are considerable concurrent issues ...

Music and Its Role in the Classroom

already been addressed in the UK through "The Project Music in the Secondary School Curriculum." Which was established in 1973 at ...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

Academics and College Football

better players than readers. Its a dilemma, with both athletes and institutions caught in the middle (Major Violation: The Unbalan...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

Overview of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Life

In five pages the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton is considered in an overview that includes her early years, education, influences...

NCLB Act and Requirements for Special Education Teachers

a great need to make them feel a part of the overall atmosphere, while at the same time establishing a separate learning basis fro...

Handicapped Individuals and Recreational Activities

are all potentially disabled" (pp. S8). The point he goes on to make is that the vast majority of disabled people were not born wi...

Education Perspectives of Milton Friedman

private initiatives, takes money away from the public educational realm. They say that public education is in poor shape and so al...

Restraints and Education Needs Assessment

and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...

Class and Education

elitist attitude. If one gets through public school and makes something of himself and becomes well known, that is some feat. Yet,...

Literature Review on Special Education and Challenging Student Behaviors

such as non-compliance, aggression, disruption, self-injury, property destruction and anti-social responses (Scott and Shearer-Lin...

A History of Special Education in the US

children and this is also addressed before moving on to the recent history of special education in the US. Early beginnings In ...

Relationship Between the Canadian State, Schools, and Employment

society has been recognized, at least, since the time in which Plato wrote The Republic, wherein Socrates is pictured as discussin...

Personal View of Constructivism

time and then arrives at the place where it all "clicks" and makes sense to him in a form that did not earlier exist within him....

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...

Canadian Education Literature Review

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

Elementary Education and Technology Integration

typed their writing assignments, they were able to make more effective editing choices (Fletcher, 2001). Other findings included: ...

Stages of Development

1993, p. 3), Piaget and Vygotsky illustrate how this lopsidedness can create a considerable amount of frustration. Often misconst...

Education Concepts of John Locke

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Public Administration and Management

specially built for government use and their costs went up accordingly. President Reagan actively sought to reduce government was...

Legal Brief of Wisconsin v. Yoder Addressing Amish Religious Freedom

In four pages this paper examines the education law of the state of Wisconsin and religious freedom as they are addressed in the W...

Plessy v. Ferguson

there were public restrooms and water fountains with black and white designations. The law included prejudicial aspects. Also, as ...

Education Funding Changes

2.8 38.9 58.3 205 1,567 1957-58 4.0 39.4 56.6 447 2,792 1965-66 7.9 39.1 53.0 654 3,651 1980-81 9.2 47.4 43.4 2,742 5,641 1983-84 ...

Articles and Analysis of British Journal of Special Education

As such, the magazines publishes articles that focus "on any aspect of policy, provision or practice that relates to the pre-schoo...

Welfare Reform, Vocational and Adult Education

which tend to create adult learners who can be considered as "exploitable surplus laborers" rather than "empowered political actor...