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Teaching Strategies and Dyslexia

found that this genetic condition is also hereditary (Reilly, 2001). Numerous other researchers have also noted the difficulties w...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

NYC's PE Programs

Fay and Doolittle (2002) recount how in the early 1990s concern over standards-based reform in academic subjects actually generate...

Article 'Teaching Design Taking the First Steps' by Scott Warner

be brought together. The process involved with technological design, then, is systematic, creative and iterative, and recognizes...

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...

Work of John Dewey and Its Importance

be verified (Dewey, 1938). Pragmatism, then, is the application of scientific methods to areas commonly referred to as ideals and ...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Aspects of ECE or Early Childhood Education

She offers as an example a booklet used in schools entitled, "All About Me," which consists of a series of dittoed pages where the...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

Distance Education Investment Reasons

$95,000, Colbert does most of his work online and on the weekends. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture...

Sleeter and Grant on Multicultural Education Approaches

stereotypical attitudes towards different groups and working on respect and tolerance of differences. The school needs to move for...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

Phonics That is Synthetic and Analytic

quotes a previous Director, John Stannard, as saying that the essential elements of teaching literacy involve the identification a...

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

Importance of Family, Hard Work, and Education

and use the knowledge in his or her field. What tends to make ones life easier in the long run is if one has a quality education....

Career : Physiologist

clues for healing unhealthy organs and system. This is a general field that uses techniques from numerous other disciplines. The...

Mark Edmundson's "On The Uses Of A Liberal Education" - Argument Against His Point Of View

virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without the benefit of decision-making or to experience the decision-making...

Distance Education and the Isolation of Rural Schools

(2001). Therefore, some states have begun using the Internet to bring more materials to their rural classrooms (Christie, 2001). W...

Logistics Careers in the US

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

Technology

find a local class that would ultimately fit the criteria that Obama is talking about in terms of becoming more educated. ...

Rereading America: Education

are quite different, and sadly so. He puts it right out there: Americas schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1950s, o...

Hawaiian Creole English (HCE)

of HCE. HCE developed, then, integrating English words into Pidgin Hawaiian, but over time, Pidgin Hawaiian words were integrat...

Workforce Development Issues in Adult Education

think that adult education is a new idea. Yet, adult education is something that is an old institution. The first adult educatio...

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 ...