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A History of Foreign Language Curricula in American Schools

of the world speaks languages other than English. Hence, there is good reason to speak the language. Yet, American public schools ...

The Under Representation Ethnic Minority Students in College Attendance Figures

a lower proportional number of collage degrees than countries where there is an average or lower than average ethnic population. ...

The History of Turkish Higher Education

In many ways Turkey contradicts all of our images of an Islamic nation. While many quasi experts have...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

Higher Education and the Affirmative Action Issue

the direction has changed so much that white males are now looked upon as minorities in many educational, economic and employment ...

Healthcare's Changing Trends

and less centralized. The traditional executive-level professional who makes all the decisions will become less common. More decis...

Four Questions on Business Economics

Increased number of women enrolling in higher education * Technological Environment * Technological advancements * Pervasiveness o...

Sexual Harassment in Oleanna by David Mamet

personal and concern the house that John is purchasing. John has recently learned, though has not yet received confirmation in wri...

United Kingdom's Higher Education Performance Indicators

the results of the degrees awarded. However, this is also one of the most widely criticised measures, it is both subjective in ter...

Culture, Demographics and Socioeconomics of the Black American Family

earned a bachelors degree by March 2000. This is considered as the highest degree of educational attainment ever recorded in Afric...

History and Trade School Problems

is such a need for utility engineers: "The energy-delivery industry must realize that the work force needed to maintain the reliab...

Education's Worth According to the Elitists

Platos works. Indeed, those who go to college are more educated than those who do not. That is true to some extent. At the same ti...

Higher Education Leadership Models

very clearly defined both with the university as a whole and within each department. * Legally based tenure (Wertheim, 2002). In ...

Higher Education Increases in Tuition for Washington State

pursue higher education at a public institute. "As an independent student and as somebody who is not supported by their parents, ...

Canadian Education Literature Review

decades. The greater diversity in our schools has resulted in new curriculum and instructional methodologies. Weatherspoon hints a...

Privacy, Record Unit Tracking, and College Student Information

Education Statistics has suggested to Congress the concept of the unit record system as a way to track a students progress as he o...

Critical Response to Educational Technology

needs of a constantly changing and always challenging new student population and maintaining a method for flexibility inherent in ...

Education in Health Care

This essay comments on four aspects of education in health care beginning with using the COPA model for basic nursing education an...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

The Prevalence of Seasonal Affective Disorder in the Nordic Countries

the increased distance from the equator. In Studies in North America Rosenthal (1983) observed a prevalence in the winter of 1.4%...

Women and Higher Education

are deeply entrenched ("Academic Women Face Quiet Desperation," 2008). That is, there are inequalities in the profession, but they...

Funding, Access and Teaching: The Canadian Experience of a Mass System of Higher Education

gradually Canadians as a whole were looked on in that same light. Not only were concepts such as fairness and justness responsibl...

Downsizing and Retrenchment in Higher Education

quickly, but these are times that the institutions have to appear as if they are making rational decisions (Ashar & Shapiro, 1990)...

THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN CLIMATE CHANGE

of greenhouse gasses, in other words, CO2 and other gasses that are emitted into the atmosphere and increase the temperature on ea...

HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

a long history; though the actual founding date is somewhat foggy, teaching and education in some form existed at Oxford in 1096, ...

Higher Education and the Gender Gap

gender gap in higher education. There are other plausible explanations for the status quo such as affirmative action, poor treat...

Higher Education and the Need for Assessment Programs

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at curriculum mapping as a change strategy for universities. The assessment of such chan...

Higher Education Accountability

This essay discusses factors needed for establishing a culture of assessment, which would demonstrate accountability. Steps needed...

Higher Education Change Leadership, Three Studies

This paper offers a summary of three studies that focus on the topic of change leadership in high education. Five pages in length,...

Two-Year Higher Education

Two-year colleges known as junior colleges or community colleges serve a very diverse population. They offer degrees and certifica...