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Labor Union Organization and Graduate Students

be Considered Employees? The student researching this issue and developing a research proposal related to the topic will, first o...

Biographical Profile of Philip Arthur Larkin

is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

British Scientist John Frederic Daniell's Life and Work

only due to contacts, but also dui to the reputation he had already been establishing for himself. Daniell had been conduc...

Economic Growth, Empowerment and Views of Both Black and White Cultures

past summer, the publication Black Enterprise (05-03) announced its 31st annual report listing the "top" African American enterpri...

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...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...

History and Achievements of the WTO

"After World War II, industrialized nations created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the General Agreement on T...

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 ...

Hellenistic and Classical Eras' Achievements in Science, Art, and Literature

say that a great deal of struggle was not taking place during part of the Classical era, but it was a time of ideas and trading an...

Educational Interactive Multimedia Software

text books (White, n.d.). The use of the software may be to teach or to reinforce, but the key factor in interaction is to allow...

Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills Tests and Science Portion of LEAP 21 Compared

sciences (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, 2003). There are 13 items within the nature of science section; each of the o...

Student Achievement and Class Size

contrast, instructional methodology, curriculum or technology can increase student performance, then the focus and expenditures sh...

Positive Customer Outcomes and HRM

might be that mom and pop shops have been replaced by Wal Marts. While that is true, Wal Mart prides itself on excellent customer ...

Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and its Contemporary Relevance

he ran for mayor of New York City but lost (2001). Roosevelt would go on in politics and eventually land himself the job as the Vi...

Comparison of U.S. Boarding Schools and Local Schools of Hong Kong

at the forefront of the learning curricula even at the preschool and elementary levels. Because household children often subsidiz...

Overview of NCAA

In terms of the scope of NCAA, in 1995-1996 over 323,226 students participated in NCAA-sponsored sporting activities (National Col...

Survey Development

contains questions that appear to be important in determining effective curriculum reform but also contains two overriding deficie...

Scholastic Achievement and School Vouchers

tuition at local parochial schools but less than half the costs of private nonsectarian schools (Thigpen, 2000). For more than tw...

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois and Myth

in human society, agreed with Carl Jung that certain myths appear to represent archetypal forms that are common to all peoples. Ca...

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Lives, Writings, and Speeches

pastors in African American Baptist church and his father, Martin Luther King Sr. was also a civil rights leader who used the chur...

Monitoring the Progress of a Child Through Assessment is Essential

dispute over the way in which Massachusetts conducts its testing. Richards (1998) illustrates how the Massachusetts educational s...

Rev. Billy Graham Life and Achievements

p. 12). As we can note, right from the beginning Graham was not a man who approved of strict guidelines and rules when it came to ...

Teacher Mediation and Educational Interactive Media

distance education is that many of the teachers do not feel they are qualified to successfully coordinate interactive teaching wit...

Leisure Concepts

so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...

Research Proposal on Achievement and School Uniforms

investigator controlled for demographics and socio-economic status (Seamon, Schultink and Slocum, 2002). The investigator administ...

Reflection, Experience, and Training Competence Building

and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...

Learning Principles of Lauren Resnick

conversation is always occurring in classrooms but it needs to be focused, it needs to be "accountable to the learning community, ...

Urban School Districts of the San Francisco Bay Area

experience on a daily basis. While the district works hard to address these ongoing issues, educators and administrators are ofte...

Life and Achievements of St. Joan of Arc

Joan was distinctive at even a very early age in that she was purported to hear the voices of St. Michael, St. Catherine,...