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Relationship Between School Attendance/Academic Successes

a 2002 paper on improving school attendance in the elementary grades, J.L. Epstein of Johns Hopkins University observed, "Dropping...

Academic Dishonesty

of proper citation but rather those who knowingly involve themselves in academic dishonesty. One author notes that "Basically, c...

Education: Curriculum And Instructional Supervision

of instructing many different types of students within a single classroom. Various methods have been introduced as a means by whi...

Hispanic Heritage

in an after-school program that aids non-English speaking students with the requirements of their academic studies. This program h...

Academic Integrity, Student Research Methods, and Study Skills

the components involved" (Padgett, 2005, p. 56). For example, to locate general information on the best dog food brands, one woul...

Student Accomplishment and the Principal's Role

relationship, however (Hallinger, Bickman and Davis, 1996). The principals actions shape and affect the learning climate, which, i...

Report on Genetic Modification of Food

1. Genetically Modified Foods; The Issues In recent years there has been a great deal of attention paid to the concept as well...

Correlation Between High School Students with Poor Attendance and Academic Difficulties

Statistics showed that generally large school systems in low-income, inner-city urban school districts have a high incident of abs...

Theory of Standardized Academic Assessments

ask far too much from such a diverse collection of learners. As a direct result, educators are caught in the middle of trying to ...

Academic Success and Emotional Intelligence

managing emotions, which includes being able to prioritize activities. Take, for example, a situation where friends ask you to go ...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

'The History Book' and School Textbooks on History

One that attracts a great deal of attention as been the American Kennedy Family, others may be less well known as it s the accumul...

ADHD and a Male Black Teen

of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...

Elementary School Student Plan of Inclusion

has, such as health problems (Strosnider, 1997). The regular educator needs to be aware of any special circumstances that would ha...

School Excusism

students not being able to complete an assignment either as directed or as scheduled. In these cases, teachers must have a measur...

The Ramayana Version by R.K. Narayana

elicited. Narayanas rendition of "The Narayana" thus fits Richmans contention that specific historical factors play a role in sha...

Guardian Higher Education Supplement Article on Academic Stresses and Challenges

not prolific writers. The pressure of meeting publication deadlines not only adds to general levels of workplace stress, but also ...

Multicultural Learning Community Development

- but perhaps it isnt. Boyer "defined community as an undergraduate experience that helps students go beyond their private inter...

Comparison Between High School and College

is that college courses are simply more difficult and that they are more difficult because they present more difficult factual inf...

The Benefits of Full Inclusion To Students

with or without disabilities, by establishing learning communities in age appropriate general education classrooms (Kavale and For...

Child Development and the Impact of Socioeconomic Status

("Chaotic," 2004). This is of course known. However, there is a stigma for those with low IQ scores. Therefore, because of this an...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Georgia, School Performance, and Educational Reform

have even worse records that others. Dekalb County, for example, has the largest school system in the state yet its graduation ra...

The Problem of Unintentional Plagiarism

be written in a particular way as not to mimic the words precisely of another author. Some universities have adopted a five word r...

Academic Cheating

How and Why Students Cheat and What to Do In a tongue-in-cheek article from the University of Arizona, Rebecca Missel and Phil Vi...

Education: Micro And Macro

Stereotype vulnerability is the manner by which ethnic populations believe themselves as being subordinate to their white counterp...

Sociology

(Delaney, 2003). He originally sought to call his newly emerging field "social physics", a term that clearly reflected his belief...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

Modern Gender Roles

Danica Patrick being stopped by a police officer. As the officer comes over, Danica begins to primp, suggesting that she will get ...

A Healthy Self-Concept

or her ability and worth. For example, when this writer/tutor was an adolescent, I judged my math ability negatively on both my ...