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Multicultural Education

are from a white European history can learn to appreciate others from other nations and cultures. For example, one author notes, "...

Parental Issues in Education

home-schooling vary, in general home-schooled children do very well in higher education. This is attributed to the fact that home ...

Roles in Education/Chapter Summaries

of community and religious leaders, as well as other stakeholders, is to facilitate and aid teachers in their jobs, not to try to ...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

Illustrative Paper on Animal Testing for Medical Purposes

humans suffering a particular disease. Many researchers maintain that animal DNA and human DNA are so similar, that test results ...

BANKING OF EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS

than creating automatons, passive people who have a misguided sense of reality (Freire 71). Despite Freires going somewha...

Gender Differences in Online Fashion Spending

not there are differences and the difference patterns seen in the market, with men buying clothes for men is associated with conve...

Take Charge, Take the Test, A CDC Campaign

This research paper describes and evaluates the CDC's "Take Charge, Take the Test," which is a campaign targeted at African Americ...

Issues in Nursing Education

This essay discusses issues about education and nursing education, including historical phases in education. The writer comments o...

Laws and Ethics of Testing

(2) informed consent is implied because testing is conducted as a routine educational, institutional or organizational activity" (...

Employee Assessment

this paper properly! 1. Types of Workplace Psychological Tests There are many different types of psychological tests that can b...

Canadian Drug Testing in the Workplace

Employers in Canada face legislative restrictions concerning their abilities to test employees for drugs. This foundation level p...

Class vs. Online Education: Nursing Education

This research paper pertains to the debate over online nursing education versus the traditional, classroom education. The pros and...

Statistical Assessment of Team Performance and Coaches Salaries

A correctional analysis is undertaken in order to test whether or not there is a correlation between basketball coaches salaries a...

WISC IV

The WISC was first released in 1949 as a downward extension of the adult IQ test. Wechsler revised it in 1974 and it has been revi...

The Development and Value of Alternate Education

students. In research by Green and Winters in 2006 it was found that African male students only had a graduation weight of 48%, co...

Educational Issues in Two-Year Colleges with Regard to the Hospitality Industry

national organization called FairTest, a criterion-referenced test is used to measure how well a student has "learned a specific b...

ADVERTISING, TEENS AND UNPROTECTED SEX

have HIV/AIDS and if they do, this isnt something they would likely share with their students), and how the topic is presented. It...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Developing Psychological Assessments

insofar as Dr. Zak left the questionnaires at each residence and residents did or did not complete the form through their own voli...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

California Colleges and Universities

also numerous changes to the accreditation process, some of which have to do with distance education. And, there are special provi...

Panama Invasion and George Bush

not a political one. The four reasons Bush the First gave for the U.S. invasion of Panama were "to safeguard the lives of America...

WRAT 3

The spelling and arithmetic portions of WRAT-3 can be directed to groups and individuals alike (Wilkinson, 2005). The reading...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...

Animal Testing Alternatives

doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternati...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

Generalists versus Specialists in the Ongoing Education Debate

something new. While ease of learning is not exactly the goal, the concept of generalist education helps students make a definite ...

Overview of the TAT Personality Test

the criminal justice system, an alliance that provides for better understanding of "the vast psychological perspectives" (Diviny e...