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Viability of Grade Retention

use of voluntary retention is a way to help a failing child succeed (Perry, 1999). The trend is really based on anecdotal evidence...

Reforming Education and Its Barriers

from families, teachers and others before it can implement much of anything, the good ideas end up becoming watered down. Unfortun...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Education Study and The Sick Role by Talcott Parsons

"(1) a person is exempted from ordinary social obligations; (2) a...

An Overview of the Time Period 1910-1919

if it was inherited, if she was married. The first suffrage parade took place in 1910, but it wouldnt be until 1919 that the ninet...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Definitions of Mild to Moderate Mental Retardation and Educational Considerations

who would be considered as mentally retarded and in need of some sort of special education. In addition to the below average intel...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

Educational System and Issues of Culture, History, Economics, and Politics

disabilities did not receive equal opportunities for education and even though the enactment of compulsory attendance laws was ini...

Education Career Assessment

drive a car, much less repair it. The tools one needs for life are those that allow him or her the greatest degree of competency...

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...

Segregation Perils and Black Communities

their conditions they had to stand up to what wasnt right. In other words she saw that there was a combination of factors, and not...

Educational Administration and 10 Important Issues

ability to overshoot its traditional counterpart in virtually every area. Correspondingly, the findings indicated how charter-exc...

Anyon and Kozol on Education's Unequal Distribution

is impossible. It does not work. Today, years altering the bussing experiment, there are black and white neighborhoods and one can...

Girls v. Boys and Different Socialization Expectations in an Academic Setting

male and female children. They contend that these differences are the result of differences in socialization. Observation of chi...

Interdisciplinary Unit on Earth Day

day. Briefly, some facts the teacher would include in this introduction would include the following. The idea for Earth Day evol...

The Americans with Disabilities Act

with interpreters free of charge under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Knight, 2003). Yet, that is just one smal...

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Adult Education and the Theories of Program Design and Development

plus enough reading, and arithmetic to run their households, but that was all (Flaceliere 56). Ancient sources tell us, moreover, ...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Educational Supervision vs. Administration

in the clinical supervision model to help teachers improve their instructional skills. Clinical supervision in this case is the ...

Education Reflections

food for thought on this concept. Another phenomenon is that of Harry Potter where it had been suggested that it was the first tim...

Overview of Pragmatism

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

Educational Tool of Blogging

in which participants take discussions where they will. In education, Weblogs provide a venue in which students can gain individu...

Traditional Scheduling vs. Block Scheduling

class for a longer period of time (Irmsher, 1996). For example: * Alternative day schedules mean that six or eight courses are spr...

TESOL Educator Effectiveness

language, including listening, speaking, reading and writing so as to convey these lessons to ESOL students. It is important for T...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

Motivation and Acquiring a Second Language

"brain plasticity" is the reason learning a second language after childhood is more difficult (Clyne, n.d.). Not everyone agrees ...