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Perfect Competition and Unemployment

can make judgements regarding what purchases to make in a more informed manner. The products or service will usually be di...

Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Ongoing Educational Debate on a Nationalized Curriculum

testing and the expectations will be the same. Such an approach, from the standpoint of a teacher, may prove beneficial in that no...

U.S. Fitness Programs for Children

are startling in terms of the how young his subjects are and the simple fact that many of the health problems could be alleviated ...

Developing an Educational Curriculum and the Value of Teacher Involvement

are to be truly effective, since it is up to the teachers to be the main implementers of change in our schools" (Klecker and Loadm...

Alternative School Development

districts in the nation had at least one alternative school and about 88 percent of high school districts had at least one alterna...

Sharks and Rays Course Outcomes

for millions of years, the shark is able to adapt itself to its surroundings and the changes in its environment. The adaptability ...

Academic Planning and Nursing Assessment

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

Higher Education and the Curriculum Inclusion of Thomas Paine

(Generation Terrorists, 2004). In England, however, he was looked upon with great distaste as he stood, perhaps, for all that t...

Online Degrees and Distance Learning

for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical proximity...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

6th Grade Student, Mathematics, and Methodology

school students being displayed for comparison. GENERAL MATH FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION For most students the question arises at some...

Lester and Onore - Learning Change

reread the same text while logging summaries, connections and questions that arose. As a follow-up they were divided into groups ...

Traditional and Progressive Models Used in Curriculum Development

parents, and the work is reduced because the children simply cannot keep up. There are so many ways that teachers seem to cut corn...

A Curriculum Design Strategies Assessment

indicated (Barnett et al, 2001). The prescriptive models of curriculum design look to the end that is required rather than at the...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

The Future Of Education

access arts in their own homes from their own computers and interactive televisions. 6. Technology. Although children will come to...

Differences Between Girls and Boys

and often the meaning. Without realizing it, parents verbally address their male children differently than they do their fe...

Survey Development

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

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Academic Curriculum and the Importance of Music Education

how to be creative. While some critics of public school want the "back to basic" criteria to extend into elementary school -- el...

Future System of Elementary Schools

benefits in the way of museums, industries, and artistic venues that make downtown locations vital areas for learning to take plac...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

Impacts of Plato, Pythagoras, Wolfgang Kohler, and B.F. Skinner on Education

(Bosomolny, 2002). He founded the Pythagorean school of philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences. His teachings soon attract...

PAUSCH, LAST LECTURE AND TEACHING REQUIREMENTS

psychology: Rather than blaming situations over which you have no control (such as a control-freak mother or, in the case of Pausc...

Importance of the Anti-Bias Curriculum

simply reprimand the child that this remark was rude and insensitive, a teacher following an anti-bias curriculum ensures that bot...

Article Summary/Veenema (2008)

The American Red Cross, after an extensive peer review of the program, which was conducted in 2006, adopted Veenemas curriculum as...

P.E. Curriculum

learned the body of skills needed to perform a variety of physical activities? 3. Does the student demonstrate a willingness to m...

A Review of Dodge's Creative Curriculum

the outdoors, sand, water and table toys (Dodge, 2010). Within each of these areas, the teacher can integrate different elements,...