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Interpretation of Readings on Culture, Language

and also how the idea of "class" enters into this equation. For example, Weis finds that issues concerning class, within the gener...

More Language Readings/Analyses

this point. For example, Brown (2008), as a writer, draws on her heritage as a Cuban American to create multicultural books for ...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Immigrant Trends and the Criticism of Multicultural Education

"multicultural education" seems to defy accurate description. Although there are "serious and substantial philosophical difference...

Shorris’ On the Uses of Liberal Education

that could help many people rise up out of poverty. Shorris indicates how one woman, a woman in prison who had grown up and live...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

Bradley, Kitzinger & Childbirth

contractions or "breath" the pain away (Childbirth Methods, 2007). However, both Bradley and Kitzinger emphasize slow, deep breath...

Erikson's Stages - Self-Analysis

graduations at about age 18, an individual goes on to higher education, further training or right out to the work world. The focus...

The Importance of Clear Communication in Education

This 6 page essay looks at education and how administrators can better communicate with the community. Problems are noted. A summa...

Technological Change: Anthropological, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives

example, is bypassed in favor of a machine to human interface. While the teacher is still involved in the classroom, that involve...

Effective Educational Leadership Today

the globe. Scoppio (2002) reported research regarding trends conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. This a...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Is Salary Correlated with Education Length

an hypothesis test, for this we need to state an hypothesis and a null hypothesis (Curwin and Slater, 1998). H1 There is a signi...

Decisions on the Educational Needs of Children With Down Syndrome

these parents had to mentally brace themselves for the harsh reminder that for every accomplishment the other twin made Avery woul...

Psychologists & Continuing Education

continuing professional education, Kavanaugh sees such laws as limiting and eroding the "defining characteristics of the professio...

Special Education/Ethical Issues & Disciplinary Actions

to a punitive approach to discipline do exist and have been shown to be successful with special education students. For example, i...

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Educational And Instructional Technology

430 silent filmstrips for military personnel between 1941 and 1945 (University of Texas, 2008). This technology was soon adopted i...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Language Acquisition Principles: Immersion

the article Dual Language Immersion by Jennifer Esposito, published in April 2006 by the periodical District Administrator. Langu...

Alternative Assessment v. Standardized

at answers (Moore, 2003). As this indicates, alternative assessment is more subjective in nature than traditional forms of assessm...

Fremont Technology Plan and Enhancing Education through Technology Grant Program

the district; 3. to create a list of benchmarks and a specific set of obtainable dates for the implementation of new hardware, in...

A New course on Global, Multicultural Aspects of Psychology

the teaching of psychology can be seen through an understanding of Black and Feminist perspectives as they can influence psycholog...

Structural Inequality And Diversity

Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the court ruled that "separate but equal" was fine, it was okay to have separate schools for whi...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

Training for Adults in Supply Chain Management

stage of development of the learner. Both young adulthood and middle-aged adulthood (Hsu, n.d.) age groups are likely to be repres...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

Evaluating A Health Promotion Pamphlet

it seems appropriate to suggest that a picture that appears less "faded" would be appropriate in conveying the message that the in...