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Children's Services Activities

takes place approximately halfway through the year, and as stated, the purpose is to review the employees progress on those items ...

Accreditation Need and Distance Education

online" (MacGregor, 2001, p. 77). Although distance education encompasses all of the venues identified above and more, in todays ...

Past and Future of Educational Institutional Advancement

20, 2004. The key factor in the lotterys approval by the voters was the promise that all proceeds would go directly to Tennessee ...

Student Posed Questions Answered in a Trio of Essays

When something needs to be done, it is often the consumer who has to do the leg work. Another pet peeve involves people who drive...

Higher Education Trends

or is hired for a position. Employers see the degree as a sort of prerequisite. Even if the degree has nothing to do with the posi...

Traditional Education versus Distance or Online Education

education (The Higher Learning Commission, 2003; Online Education Resources, n.d.). The purpose of accreditation is to assure pro...

Education and Leadership

personal capacity. The most important role of a leader is to impact the people he leads and creating a link between the actions o...

Education and Views of John Kerry and George W. Bush

Kerry further thinks that due to the demands foisted on the nation by the presence of a new global economy, all children must rea...

Higher Education and the Curriculum Inclusion of Thomas Paine

(Generation Terrorists, 2004). In England, however, he was looked upon with great distaste as he stood, perhaps, for all that t...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Educational Philosophy

and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates wi...

Higher Education in California

in both US and CSU systems (UC Office of the President, 1999). To help with tuition, the state adopted the Cal Grant program to he...

Students With Emotional Disabilities and General Education Classroom Adaptations

more difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified teachers. Nowhere is this issue more prominent than in urban schools" (Sawk...

Computer Education and Doorsteps or Deliverance by Gary Bloom

classrooms across the world. However, as you ably point out, for all its glitter, computer technology is not pure gold. The Allia...

Socrates and Niccolo Machiavelli on Political Education

ground, whether that is through dialectical discourse or reason (1994). Barber claims that neither approach leaves any room for po...

The Debate over Bilingualism

third report was a meta-analysis of the subject matter; done by a non-education professional it is assumed to be relatively free f...

Self-Realization And The Liberal Arts: Assessing The Link

perceptional or inferential in nature (Studley 17). Contrarily, scientific approaches employ a very finite and empirical applicat...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Health Education Teaching Strategies

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

Accreditation & Regulatory Education Agencies

scope of service" (Eaton, 2001, p. 38). As this suggests, a college or university specializing in a specific field of study would ...

Social Justice and Democracy in Education

important because school systems have not kept pace with society. Change is needed and sometimes reform and renewal are vital elem...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

STD Abstinence-Only Education/Is It Working?

any longer than the regular sex education curriculum that is taught in many schools and that "Morality needs to incorporate realit...

Minorities in Higher Education

In one article the author notes that, "Flawed government policies and negative stereotyping of minority men have limited their eco...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

School Counselor Education Programs - Accountability

before one can measure effectiveness, it is crucial to know what it is you want to know (Brott, 2006). In other words, you cannot ...

Paulo Freire - Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

(Barkat shah kakar, n.d.). Another important concept in terms of education is Freires discussion of the banking model and the pr...

Assessment for Special Education

and other specialists typically ask for evaluation of areas that they feel constitute particular problem areas for the child, such...

Bilingual Education/Issue Pro & Con

associated with bilingual education, evaluating what works and what does not, is not an easy task (Gilroy 50). Both supporters an...