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

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

separate Texas lawsuits where insured parties had sued their HMO for failure to provide procedures or care recommended by their ph...

a variety of models to increase academic performance of special education students. They have met with some success in that 65 per...

and Astronomy" Primordial gas is considered to be gas that has been in the universe since perhaps the beginning of time. I...

It is no secret that some schools are better than others and some teachers are better than others. Is the curriculum in any school...

non-participation. The independent variables for this study were the outcomes of student performance relative to standardized tes...

a significant clustering of fast food restaurants within a 1.5 mile radius when compared to other non down town areas. The researc...

develops the abilities of others towards higher performance levels (Zimmerman, 2005). Finally, such programs provide motivation fo...

the collective and tries to provide an understanding of how current social conditions have come about them, and how they interact ...

have a focus. How these schools are actually structured and implemented differs from district to district and from state to state ...

To potential value of a dialogic pedagogy has been recognized in different government policies. For example, in 2005 with the EPPI...

author emphasizes how the culture of collaboration supports and values the teachers on which learning depends. As a new teacher, ...

anecdotal evidence is very persuasive. She also draws on relevant literature to support her arguments. This discussion expands her...

greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...

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

scores on the states Comprehensive Assessment Report were strongly related to increases in technological use (Page, 2002, p. 389)....

in class to do that with every word. Therefore, students need to learn how to use the dictionary, thesaurus and other reference bo...

with the family. Of course, the other side of the coin is that this event is the first time--aside from Pearl Harbor--that America...

across the street from Prospect Park that may be enjoyed as well. Perhaps another day, a trip to the Aquarium is in order which is...

there were five things that had to be done for Americas school children. He listed providing a child with "a safe place to grow up...

inquiries, the scientific information covered in any particular lesson plan will undoubtedly be remembered long after memorized fa...

For example, according to Metzker (2003), school time can be conceived of as an inverted pyramid. The total time the school day or...

thing that was certain was the fact that simply having computers in a classroom did not mean they would have any effect on student...

the proposal. It became part of the districts strategic plan as an indicator of success. The board supported this goal with $500,0...

Anne Moody was raised in the rural South where she suffered extreme racism throughout school and beyond. She was a very active mem...

know how strong or weak their child is in specific skills. At this point, both the principal and the administrator agree that pare...

only twenty-four. The difference in age is negligible but even for students who are considered adults under the law, there is a co...

In five pages this paper considers teaching at a middle school or junior high school level in a presentation of a literature revie...

return to "routine and unfocused reading" (p. 10). This teachers style is contrasted with a second teacher who has her students ...