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Which is Best, Public or Private Schools

way to receive a strong education is either through a privately funded school or even home schooling. Williams, who is a 1...

A Review of an Internet-Based Educational Activity for Children

greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...

District Professional Development Plans

the teachers themselves to assess the plan. As this suggests, the plan is accessible to the teachers in this district and open to ...

An Article on Literacy Reviewed

the entire article and the question is specifically: "What do teachers in our schools value in literacy?" (Dadds, 1999, p. 9). Thi...

U.S. Quality Education Decline

that can only be provided in smaller-size classrooms (Gilman and Kiger, 2003). Unfortunately, with most U.S. education budgets be...

Changes in IDEA

out. An example of how special education fails comes from Freedman (1995) as he explains that as a special education hearing offic...

Four Blocks Literacy Framework Adoption and Change Management

test is administered each May. Boiling Springs has always received a rating of excellent on the school report card. This ended i...

Failing Grades and LD Students

the legal system that the best place for special education students - psychologically and otherwise - is within the mainstream sys...

Communication in Film Dead Poets Society

formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...

Impact of Inclusion Upon Learning Disabled Students

"like frequent breaks or a small-group setting" (Rubenstein and Quinones, 2004). The state reports that 84 percent of students wit...

Math Instruction in High School and Diversity

current math performance and the skills required to meet future goals (Miller and Mercer, 1997). Fuchs (2003) conducted a study ...

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 ...

Correlation Between Educator Attrition and Mentoring Programs

pages. Please review some Masters Theses in your school library. Hope these notes help you to better understand this type of resea...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

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...

Compulsory and Post Compulsory Education Teaching

needs to be an ability of post compulsory education to meet the needs of the students attending it in practical terms. Education c...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

Educator Supervision and Appraisal

1993, p. 15). The purpose of supervision in any field is to "ensure that staff performance is up to standard, organisational and ...

Interpersonal Relationship Formation and Adolescent Development to Young Adulthood

change that is then made even more complex by changes related to sexual awakening and reproductive capabilities. It is also the po...

Educators' Guide to Dealing with a Blind Student

students ability to fully explore the environment. Without the visual stimulation to move toward something, to be curious about so...

ADHD and Children

thing that the experts can do is to state that they do know that it is biological in nature, though environment can over stimulate...

Elementary and High School Virtual Computer Field Trips

of Blooms taxonomy had the assignment not limited their access to the Internet. These outcomes were not uniform for all ind...

Classroom Technology and Research into Brain Function

prunes connections based on experience." The cycle is "most pronounced between the ages of 2 and 11, as different development are...

Professional Education Organizations

Consider St. Louis, for example, where at the turn of the century students completed less than three years of school prior to ente...

Demographic Changes and Education

consistently adapt their instructional methods in an effort to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students ...

The Teaching Profession from a Philosophical Position

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

Educator Evaluation of Technology Needs

in classroom focus relative to the introduction of technology, but also suggests the problem of gender bias may come into play in ...

What Talents Are Necessary to be a Good Teacher?

such an important talent to bring to the teaching profession. The role that critical thinking plays within the teaching com...

Women's Liberation Cause and the Contributions of Aishah Abd al Rahman

In six pages this paper examines the life and contributions of this influential 20th century Islamic teacher and writer who inspir...

Small Victories by Samuel G. Freedman

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the teachers of Seward High School, especially Jessica Seigel as depicted in this ...