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Academic Performance in the United States

In a paper consisting of five pages it is argued that the perspective as it relates to substandard academic performances must be c...

Home Schooling's Scholastic Advantages

children. Many have heard stories of youngsters who are high achievers-opening businesses, winning contests, obtaining perfect SAT...

Emotional and Academic Development

This paper addresses the issues of emotional and academic development The author contends that various factors, including teacher...

Educational Philosophies of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

Educational System of Hong Kong

agency, controls and administers the assessments at Secondary 5, 6, and 7 (Biggs, 1998, p. 317). These grade levels determined th...

Academic Plagiarism and Ethical Considerations

though? Carl is Brads best friend. Although he is aware that Brad has committed an act of plagiarism he is reluctant to turn him...

Survey Development

contains questions that appear to be important in determining effective curriculum reform but also contains two overriding deficie...

Teacher Mediation and Educational Interactive Media

distance education is that many of the teachers do not feel they are qualified to successfully coordinate interactive teaching wit...

American Universities, Colleges, Drug Abuse and Effects

their responsibilities. For example, the marriage between alcohol consumption and college life have long been accepted as the nor...

Monitoring the Progress of a Child Through Assessment is Essential

dispute over the way in which Massachusetts conducts its testing. Richards (1998) illustrates how the Massachusetts educational s...

4 Types of Legal Issues

only non-identifying information about the other person, such as physical descriptions, age, basic medical data, hobbies, and such...

U.S. Mentoring Programs and Impact

discussed. By reviewing actual examples of mentoring programs, the impact of such programs becomes more clear and evident. What...

Girls v. Boys and Different Socialization Expectations in an Academic Setting

male and female children. They contend that these differences are the result of differences in socialization. Observation of chi...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Modernism and Poststructuralism

(2003) of CNN claims: " "The New York Times" plagiarism scandal still in the headlines and still causing shockwaves in journalism ...

Educational Interactive Multimedia Software

text books (White, n.d.). The use of the software may be to teach or to reinforce, but the key factor in interaction is to allow...

5 Primary Reasons to Choose a College

schools like Harvard or Yale. Students must consider comparisons of any college within the collective of similar schools. Studen...

Student Conduct Codes Development

that ethics come into play in many of the decisions we make in life. This is true of both personal decisions and decisions we mig...

Concept of Human Relations

differences but rather to expose common ground (Wilbers, 1996). "...The power of rhetoric, Rogerian or not, to heal is as powerfu...

New Ethics Code for the American Psychological Association

that only recently went into effect seeks to focus solely on psychologists professional lives. Consistently and throughout the te...

Minority Students and Higher Accountability In Standardized Reading Tests

doing things that are developmentally inappropriate with students because they are trying to get through a certain amount of mater...

Student Reading of Nonacademic and Academic Articles

requires breaks to be taken, only a few seconds but also a break to get a drink. This may be due to the level of information being...

Traditional and Progressive Models Used in Curriculum Development

parents, and the work is reduced because the children simply cannot keep up. There are so many ways that teachers seem to cut corn...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Behavior Disorders in Children

that if left unchecked, the latter can develop into the former. The extent to which children with problems tend to "slip through t...

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 ...

The Benefits of Full Inclusion To Students

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

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...

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...

'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...