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Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Robert W. Howard's "The Shrinking Of Social Studies" - Reaction

learning through more evenhanded methods. Howard (2003) duly points out how standardization benefits no one but the bureaucrats w...

Massachusetts: Educational Funding

In short, Massachusetts failed to honor its own state constitution whereby the Encouragement of Literature clause pointedly held t...

US. Versus Egypt: Role Of Culture And Religion In Education

Correspondingly, there is a battle being waged by parents and educators alike that says a public school education sorely lacks whe...

Clive Harber/Schooling as Violence

survive attendance. However, at this point, it is easy to dismiss this information as regrettable, but not applicable to most situ...

Why Teach About Ethnicities And Cultures

an overwhelming majority of teachers are White. Census projections suggest that by 2010, 95 percent of public school "teachers wil...

Education and the Impact of Parental Involvement

It is not adequate to approach parental involvement from only one of these components. Some parents may be very active but they ar...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

ECE and Teaching Diversity

testing, bilingualism, the "digital divide" in which some children have more technological advantages than others, gender issues, ...

Supporting Canonical Education

definition, it is easy to argue that it is the right course of action. Relativity never works. As the ebonics experiment clearly d...

Ongoing Educational Debate on a Nationalized Curriculum

testing and the expectations will be the same. Such an approach, from the standpoint of a teacher, may prove beneficial in that no...

UK's Vocational Education

1995). It is only partially true in the United States where there are regional differences. The major emphasis in the United State...

Education According to James Banks and John Dewey

truth is that they sometimes support antiquated principles. While Dewey wrote in a time when the 9 to 5 job was a given, fast forw...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Potential Career Directions

question as to whether a college degree is required for success in any field is dependent on artificially construed occupational p...

Education in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

they are adults who can understand issues at his level. By the time Scout attends her first day of school she is highly literate,...

Daryl Eldridge's The Teaching Ministry of the Church

educator should not be undertaken lightly. Whereas the disciples call is to learn, the Church and the family are called to teach. ...

Overview of Congestive Heart Failure

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...

The Relationship Between Minority Immigrants and Poverty.

released a report entitled "Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile". While this report covered a great many demographics r...

Social Inequality and Education

minority of home-schoolers - knowledge and skills are imparted within the context of a very specific organisational structure, sep...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Life Balance and Myths

the Internet that dealt with three topics: the values and beliefs of Hinduism; the advantages and disadvantages of a college educa...

Brown v. Board of Education and Societal Prejudice in the Law and in Cartoons

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

Distance Education Research

as being "respectable" and as representative of "real" science. During the 1960s and 1970s, that was not the case. Research of a...

Adult Education and Code of Ethics Framework

possibilities for ethical code violations in practically every aspect of our lives. Ethics of practice is, in fact, a pop...

Senility and Aging

allowing the elderly to stay mentally alert is: "a sense of belonging and purpose"...

Education Paid for By Students

their parents cannot afford to send them to college, will know that if they plan on doing so it will be hard. They thus begin, at ...

Pros and Cons of Bilingual Education

not concur with this claim. All one has to do is look to the past for a dramatic lesson in total immersion theories. Many...

School Dance Curriculum Proposal

reduce the chances of developing several chronic illness later in life. Regular physical activity reduces the chances of heart dis...

Troubled US System of Education

are sexualized by society and begin dating and having sexual relations early. There are drug problems in many schools as well. Mig...