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Work or Graduate School?

scholarship may be gained for some or all of the education costs. On top of this there are also the lost wages whilst at graduate ...

Kindergarten Theory and Early Childhood Education

of education rested on four basic components: 1. Free self-activity, which sets the direction for development and allows children ...

Elementary Schools Improvement

essential skill. Recognizing this, the Maryland state legislature allocated $12 million over a four year period to improve that s...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

Equality in Education

High Schools and Equality Over the last several years, it has been frequently touted in the nations newspaper that young black st...

BROWN V. BOARD: IMPACT ON LEGAL HISTORY

the amendment was undermined (partly because the wording was so vague), and southern states passed new segregation laws and polici...

Logistics Careers in the US

with the most demand include transportation forms as well as wholesalers (The Logistics Institute, 2005). Positions such as logist...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

Win/Win Situation of Special Education

In twenty pages this paper examines the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act and Regulation 504 in an argument tha...

Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States

not do. Mexicans work for wages that white people laugh at. They slave away in agricultural fields producing the food we eat and w...

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...

U.S. Latinos and Issues of Education and Immigration

In eight pages this paper discusses the impact of education and immigrant issues upon the Latino communities in the U.S. Twelve s...

3 Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and Equal Protection According to the US Constitution's 14th Amendment

the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

An Evaluation of the U.S. Legal System

that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...

US and Community College Programs in Vocational Education

vocational educational program this may seem to be the case, but in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, many o...

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...

Education in the U.S. and China

In five pages the systems of education in the U.S. and China are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

Marketplace and Ethnic Minorities

In eighteen pages the U.S. marketplace is examined in terms of ethinic minorities such as Asians, Hispanics, and African Americans...

Montclair, New Jersey's Municipal Demographics

In six pages this typical suburban U.S. town is examined in a consideration of its municipal demographics including its geography,...

U.S. Higher Education and Government Assistance

In seventeen pages this paper considers college education and the government programs for financial assistance that were recommend...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

Multicultural Education - An Overview

come from different disciplines (Gay, 1994). For instance, educators might look at multicultural education from the point of view ...

Chinese and American Social Systems

the others. In one illustration of the differences, and slight similarities, between China and the United States we examine t...