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Summary and Analysis of NCLB Act

contends that by including parents in the overall educational aspect provides a hands-on approach to fortifying existing programs,...

Taxation & School Revenue

policy survey conducted by this journal, the editorial then relates how various states are approaching this problem. This shows th...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Student Achievement/Achieving AYP

leadership providing "mapped, prioritized standards," which are then implemented with five general categories, which are: 1. Rese...

No Child Left behind; Data Analysis, Discussion and Recommendations

attainment figures. It is also notable that after a period of improvements the last few years, 2003 - 2005 appear to have...

ELL Funding

Furthermore, all language designed to promoting bilingual education has been removed from federal legislation pertaining to ELL ed...

NCLB Act and Requirements for Special Education Teachers

a great need to make them feel a part of the overall atmosphere, while at the same time establishing a separate learning basis fro...

Classroom Impacts of Technology Integration and Educator Qualification

qualifications (2004). While teacher qualification is something that many have paid attention to, and this is something that No C...

NCLB and the Process of Policymaking

Standards and Accountability; Improving Literacy by Putting Reading First; Improving Teacher Quality; Improving Math and Science I...

The NCLB, A School Improvement Idea

and kill" tactics that teach "to the test," i.e., focusing on specific methods that are designed to aid students in achieving high...

Shortcomings of a Cookie Cutter Education

get to the end at the same time as others of their age is a prospect that is near sighted to say the least. One questionable pro...

NCLB AYP Compare Two States

are Maryland and New York. The purpose is to demonstrate that it is possible to adhere to a law while using different methods to d...

Learning from Leapfrog

obviously the alphabet, each one of which was "equipped with a small sound chip (similar to those used in singing birthday cards) ...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

GEORGE BUSH AND HIS LEGACY

received negative response from allies (America, 2008). With little support from anyone, the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 -- and with...

Runaway Mothers: Reasons For Leaving

sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Potential Approaches to Statistical Assessment

is limited as the results are inconclusive as they cannot be subjected to an hypothesis test. The statistical test chosen needs ...

Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

Adjective Checklist for Personality Evaluation

In six pages this paper provides a personality evaluation adjective checklist test which includes a general overview of the text a...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Educational Psychology

(Darling, 2007). The authoritative parent is demanding but also responsive; this parent is assertive but not restrictive (Darling,...

California, the SATS and Problems with Standardized Testing

students and our African American students to continue to lag academically behind their peers" (Slater, 2008). He notes further th...

Instructional Supervision & New Curricula For Raising Academic Standards

by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand...

Testing In Education

or not standardized testing is the best way to obtain information about student performance. As Hughes (1980) points out, there ar...

Are Alternative Assessments Better than Standardized Testing

(ITBS) or the NEWAs (the North West Evaluation Association), individualized assessments that are provided at different times durin...

The Effects and Impact of Technology on Standardized Test Scores: A Literature Review

including the SATs, the scholastic aptitude tests, which produce both math and written language skill subtest assessments (CEOFor...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

School Testing and Bias

are very different from others. Kim Sweet, the executive director for a childrens advocacy group believes that when admission crit...

Toulmin Argument/Standardized Testing is a Mistake

This essay argues, using the Toulmin format, that standardized testing is a mistake, and provides sources that support this positi...