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Parenthood and Its Problems

inflict gentle reprimands. Even within the toddler stage, there are several individual periods of growth where one stage ends and...

Children and Early Formal Educational Instruction

to say that more and more states are recognizing the value of investing in early childhood education by enacting laws that provide...

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...

Principals' Accountability and Test Scoring

Leithwood, Louis, Anderson and Wahlstrom (2004) reviewed literature focusing on public school principals to identify the traits of...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...

Methodology and Literature Review on Improved Testing and a South Tech Charter High School's Social Studies' Educator Evaluation

The call for accountability on a state and national level has been reflected in the increasing concentration on standardized testi...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

Children's Learning and TV's Effects

reinforced over interactive learning, it can be stated. Shows such as Barney and Sesame Street encourage small spuds to become cou...

A Pennsylvania Appellate Brief

FACTS: * Ginger Meeks is HIV-positive. * Ginger is not ill and shows no symptoms of AIDS. * The local school...

Ethical Issues in Psychology

the therapist needs to be based on the childs age and maturity as well as the determined goals for the process (Fisher, 2009; Isaa...

Benefits of Statistical Testing

2008). Nevertheless, it is widely acknowledged that using testing measures to screen for depression is beneficial, as this identif...

WWIS-IV Case Study

Bowles & Skibbe, 2006). There are several cognitive assessment tests that can be used with preschoolers. These include the BSID-II...

The NCLB Act and Pros and Cons

yearly progress (AYP) goals, they could face corrective action on the part of the federal government, including lost federal fundi...

Standardized Testing and Educational Reform

a factor that makes this assessment method "objective" (Crighton, 2012). However, standardized testing is no longer believed to be...

Supporting Pregnant Mothers Receive Mandatory HIV Testing

In seven pages for reasons of both mother and child this paper argues in favor of pregnant mothers receiving manditory testing for...

Beta Thalassemia Condition Testing and Medical Ethics

In five pages this paper examines the ethics of testing a child for this rare and fatal condition using Kantian and utilitarian ph...

Academic Testing - All Children Left Behind

allow a teacher to see how much material the students retain. A second point in favor of the testing is that students have to lear...

Lydia Maria Child's Mrs. Child's Reply

we can see that such words would clearly irritate one who was not ignorant of the truths. And, in all honesty, Child spares no exp...

Children and IQ Testing

caregivers educational level, home environment, socioeconomic status and prenatal exposure to substance abuse, violence exposure w...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

History Of Child Rearing Practices

(Hulbert, 1999). More children were attending school towards the middle of the century and the trend in education was away from th...

Transracial Adoption

families differ there is the potential for a number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by ...

Moral Development Of Six-Year-Old Children

the time the child enters elementary school, so about age 6, they may be capable of conventional morality although they could stil...

Traditional Practices and Child Abuse Distinctions?

an overseeing entity be in place that looks out for the interest of those that cannot look out for themselves....

Montessori, Piaget, Logico-Mathematical, Liebeck

They see clocks, signs, calendars, television channels, and so on (Brown, n.d.). The exposure to numbers becomes a good opportunit...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

Advancing Physical And Intellectual Competence In Children

year of life, where infants develop an understanding of the world around them by combining sensory experiences with physical activ...

Baltimore Child Protective Services

specific, desired goals, by employing combination of efforts that support, direct and utilize authority (DHR). The CPS case worker...

A Case Study and Analysis on an Obese Child

address childhood obesity in a responsible manner (Templeton). An examination of this case scenario from a utilitarian perspect...