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The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

4 Concerns Regarding Education and Law

In eight pages this paper considers 4 legal and educational issues and includes an evaluation of school prayer, teacher and studen...

The Debate About Standardized Testing

students really learn ("Readers Poll," 2006). The exact statement provided for readers to rate was as follows: "Standardized testi...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

Definition of Standardized Testing and Its Importance

studies have found that urban and rural students do less well on these tests than do suburban students (Wakefield, n.d.; St. Peter...

Racial Conflict, Diversity, and Standardized Testing

their effectiveness in the testing situation" (Steele et al, 1995, p. PG). III. METHODOLOGY The student may choose to empl...

Standardized Testing Criticisms

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. A favorable position is taken towards the use of such tests. P...

Standardized Testing In Kindergarten

being used in todays state accountability programs-mandated standardized achievement tests-are causing educational harm, perhaps i...

Michigan Educational Assessment Program

The Michigan Educational Assessment Program is the assessment program for several subject areas in certain grade levels. This is t...

High School Graduation Rates and Implications for Cultural Concerns in the United States, China, and South Africa

Abstract: High school dropout rates remain a vital concern in many parts of the world. This is by no means a problem confined to...

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...

What It Means to Be a Teacher

educational policy, such as high stakes testing, which places more emphasis on meeting a preset criterion than on a teachers profe...

U.S. Pregnant Teenagers

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the issue of teen pregnancy in the United States in a consideration of rates, alternatives,...

Higher Education and Standardized Testing Biases

In twenty one pages this research study presents an overview of higher education admissions and issues of bias in standardized tes...

A New Standard for Social Studies Education Analyzed

and the rebellious forces of Cromwells parliament, and these tensions exploded into a violent and bloody civil war in England in 1...

Shortcomings of Math and Science Textbooks

science texts were found to be unsatisfactory with little potential for helping students learn important ideas and skills(Stern, R...

Budget Distribution Within North Carolina Public Schools

role of seeing to the administration of the entire school. The principal is also in charge of dealing with the teaching staff and...

Mathematics Test Anxiety

format and move towards problem solving, which is more interactive and more exciting for students. Mathematics Anxiety and Test A...

Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards

studies (Green, 2004). Because of the changes facing school administrators and leaders, many believe that preparation programs f...

Issues in School Mgmt.

education acknowledges the fact that knowledge is presented to students within the context of culture and that in a diverse popula...

Community, Cultural Diversity, and Academic Achievement

are even internal differences in the drop out rate among Hispanics in regard to the place of origin. This is true both in regard ...

Teachers Assessment of Principals

In five pages this paper examines the importance of school principal and teacher communication and the benefits offered by princip...

Olympics and the Relevancy of High School Athletics

In seven pages this paper examines Olympic training and the significance of high school sports and high school athletic programs. ...

Crisis and Effective Leadership

and church activities. Also, due to the small population, every one knows everyone else and each individual is considered to be a...

Instruction in High School Grammar Lesson Plan

Teach the teacher a new instructional design or some better way of grammar instruction! There are three parts to your task, and e...

Opportunity Costs of College

those pursuing college degrees. Indirect costs include tradeoffs between less leisure time and greater education and knowle...

Improving Schools from Within by Barth

being perceived as lacking in competence if they admit to a lack of knowledge regarding new skills and practices, but are then sub...

Controversy Surrounding the Historical Drama, Lean on Me.

In this we see that the principal, wielding a bat, may be seen as a violent individual himself, thus not offering the students a g...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...