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Grade Inflation Causes and Evidence

to determine what can be - and should be - done about it. The basic definition of grade inflation is when a student receives a gra...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Reading Instruction to a 5th Grade Boy Who Cannot Read

the sounds letters make. For him, a phonics program in which the starts out by learning letter sounds, how those sounds combine to...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Overview of Project Based Learning

hold true for students at every grade level. While project-based learning has been gaining in popularity with educators over the p...

ESL Graphic Organizers and Action Research

This graphic can be used for any type of content (TeacherVision.com, 2004). * The Sequence Pattern asks the student to determine ...

Scholastic Performance and the Impact of Peer Programs

success of peer programs pertinent to academic achievement. II. Peer Leadership Peer feedback as well as modeling have been...

Action Research in a 7th Grade Classroom

when moving from one area to another; making remarks; laughing or giggling when there is nothing funny. 2. A survey of teachers at...

A Grade-School Lesson Plan

This paper provides a lesson plan for grade-school students and covers topics, methods, activities, objectives. This three page p...

Grades Seven through Twelve, Literacy, and Cooperative Learning

In five pages the development of literacy skills through cooperative learning in grades 7 through 12 are examined through a consid...

How They Compare 'Ungraded' or 'Multi-Age' Classrooms

This paper consists of 10 pages and chronicles the evolution of school organization from the nineteenth century and continuing wit...

Fourth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension Skills Improvement

grades, and the development of alternative reading programs has come as an extension of teachers response to this problem. Purp...

Lesson Plan for First Grade Recognition of Words

(Adams, 1990). Quite the opposite. For example, Chall said that instruction in skills was essential for many children: "The resear...

Upper Elementary Grades, Reading Achievement, and the Impact of Technology

fact that much more focus needs to be placed upon going back to the basics in order to give students the needed edge. However, th...

Inner City Students, Counseling, and Academic Improvement

In sixteen pages this paper considers inner city students who are at risk in a discussion of counseling alternatives and specifica...

Georgia Education Demographic Analysis

In this paper consisting of six pages Georgia demographic data based on 1990 census information is applied to the educational syst...

Schools and Reality Therapy Uses

Dr. William Glasser's reality therapy is considered in a research paper of five pages that focuses on the school applications of c...

Grade School Lesson Plans for Recycling and the First Thanksgiving

In four pages this paper includes descriptions for writing process, art, and social studies lesson plans in a consideration of thi...

Resolving Conflict and Verbal Aggression

In seven pages this paper presents a pre Kindergarten to 4th grade study critique in a multicultural urban school regarding confli...

When the Tuition Bill Arrives Remain in School!

A one page paper contains a letter of persuasion directed toward school administrators that claims a student's grades, commitment ...

A College Student's Appeal to Stay in School

In a paper consisting of one page a letter appealing to university administration officials to allow a student with a substandard ...

7th Grade Textbook Representation of Human Circulation

In three pages this paper examines the primary components of the circulation system for humans as they would appear for a young re...

Lesson Plans For Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

more than 350 years ago still receives such attention. In other words . . . whats the big deal? Why is "Julius Caesar" relevant t...

Keyboard Skills and Further Technology

that computer access offers. However, the childs interaction with the computer is only as effective as his keyboarding skills, wh...

Physical Education and Literacy Integration

In five pages 2 lesson plans are presented that illustrate how PE classes can integrate various literacy skill with purpose, recom...

Mundurucu Culture Females and Yolanda and Robert F. Murphy's Women of the Forest

This paper examines females in the Mundurucu culture as represented in this text from an anthropological perspective consisting of...

Research Proposal on Standardized Testing of Third and Fourth Graders

In eight pages this research proposal studies the impact of standardized testing upon students in third and fourth grades with pro...

Elementary School Student Retention

In eight pages this paper discusses studies on elementary student retention with failing a grade student withholding among the top...