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Maria Montessori’s ‘New Education’

education that was more teacher-centered, this was focused upon student learning (Rohrs, 1994). New Education is based upon the p...

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...

Analysis of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the district court prevented the state or ...

Frederick Douglass: The Inherent Cruelty of Slavery

a slave and, once he had escaped, carefully honed that skill along with his oratorical and writing skills for use as a tool in the...

Leadership: The Relevance of Education and Experience

important in the creation of effective leaders. People seek education in order to gain knowledge in a specific subject area or jus...

Standards-Based Education

among school organizations as a professional reaction to the need for improvement in student learning (Clark, et al, 2006). Since ...

Isocrates: Ancestor of Modern Liberal Education

words. Isocrates first important written work, "Against the Sophists," was an insightful commentary addressing prevailing philoso...

Improving Organ Donation Through Clarification and Education

biology alone (Koppelman, 2003). It involves equally complex realms of metaphysics, social values, and religious beliefs (Koppelm...

Sociological Theories' Impact On Education

values (Hoenisch, 2005). Durkheim believed that "society can survive only if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of...

America’s Grade Schools and the Importance of Technology and Technology Integration

rest of the world in ways early educators would have thought unimaginable. From early ages, children are exposed to technology, a...

Culturally Responsive Instruction

country illegally. Regardless of whether or not that is accurate, our school has been charged with attending to Jennys educationa...

Learning Theories Integrated Into The Online Instructional Approach

is essential to recognize this fact and implement such a program. A group atmosphere provides a sense of familiarity among studen...

Philosophy Shapes Research, Research Shapes Practice

serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Mans beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature (...

Medical Coders

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

Plagiarism in Adult Education

same assignments" (Jocoy; DiBiase 2006). Overall the study indicated that through strategies to reduce and educate about plagiaris...

Problems in New Orleans’ Schools

only one year, and school officials who were being indicted for theft and bribery (USA Today). There were budget deficits, and bui...

Eating Disorders: Health Concerns for Men

Although the subject of eating disorders are quite well publicized when it comes to girls and women being affected, a little appre...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

The Benefits of a Liberal Education

says that there are whole huge parts of life as American adults that nobody talks about, especially in commencement speeches (Wall...

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...

Public Education and Unequal Resource Distribution

In a nutshell, wealthier school districts are better off. Poor districts have to fight for their money, and those in the middle of...

2 Environmental Planning Articles Reviewed

together. III. DATA The data from Pendalls (2001) study is derived from the models of management Maine has utilized in the past....

Adult Education and Technology

that such will be its ultimate goal, it still does not need to achieve that goal in a single step. After the institution...

'A place in the family: an historical interpretation of research on parental reactions to having a child with a disability' by Philip M. Ferguson Reviewed

place in time. The point Ferguson goes on to make is that it is important to also consider the ways in which social attitudes and ...

Reasons Supporting Mandatory College Education

gets a college education, all new entrants into the business world will have had an equal education, at least to an extent. While ...

U.S. Fitness Programs for Children

are startling in terms of the how young his subjects are and the simple fact that many of the health problems could be alleviated ...

Dissertation Proposal on Special Education, Emotionally Disturbed Teens, and the Impact of Distant Intentionality on Anxiety, Self Esteem, and Depression

to illustrate the inherent effectiveness of the alternative approach of Distant Intentionality upon self-esteem, depression and an...

Special Education and the Uses of Assistive Technology

a) "students with disabilities participate in state and district-wide assessment programs, with accommodations where necessary (al...

Education Gender Inequities Proposal

male (NEA, 2001). That is a vast discrepancy and one children are certainly aware of. Recent studies have shown that teachers ten...

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...