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Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Children and Ecological Systems Theory

2005). The mesosystem layer connects the various components of the childs microsystem, perhaps a teacher with a parent, a church ...

Changes in Education Curriculum Trends During the Next Decade

educational setting in recent years including the focus on the role of the educator, the need for accuracy in testing, and the int...

Preventing Injury and Other Preschool-Care Issues

as treatment. Postgraduate Medicine, 103(6). Retrieved September 22, 2005 from http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1998/06_98/than...

Child Rearing and the Reasons Fathers Are Not Necessary

their children than do fathers" (Phares, 1999, p. 3). In the United States and throughout the world, it is the mothers that spend...

Children Who Are Orally Deaf Speech Evaluation

cochlea and, in turn, electrical signals are passed on to the acoustic (auditory) nerve where they travel to the brain (Bowdler an...

Deprivation Consequences and the Acquisition of Language

that there are cognitive structures that are "hardwired" in the human brain concerning language acquisition, but Lennebergs perspe...

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,...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

Book Review of Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children

teacher instead acts as a "chum," the message sent is that this adult has no authority, and the children react accordingly" (Delpi...

Relationships in Denise Chong's 'The Concubine's Children'

to insure a good life back in China. The strain between the two begins to show, however, as May-ying criticizes Chan Sam when he ...

Health Challenges to U.S. Children

serious health challenge for keeping Americans children healthy is the fact that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportion...

Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Communication and Autistic Children

2003). Scientists have learned that it is necessary to first expand some basic skills in autistic children before communication c...

Children, Stress Fractures, and Tennis

will break. Repetitive stress fractures occur from the same principle. In other words, it is not the movement, per se, that causes...

Joseph Abruscato's Teaching Children Science and an Example of 'WebQuest'

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/bats/facts1.htm A web-friendly search engine that is appropriate for elementary-age school children...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

NCLB and AR Program

determining comparative success in educational. The NCLB has not only redirected educators to a "teach to the test" method for in...

Examining the Truth of a Proverb - Children Learn Prejudice, It Is Not Inborn

up to possess their parents values. Or a research may address what kind of negative events in ones life affected their prejudices....

Various Aspects of Child Development

for instance (Ginn, 2004). Piaget did allow for some flexibility in the age ranges for each stage but there is no flexibility in t...

Research on After School Programs

computers and a brighter future for themselves" (U.S. Department of Education, 1998). It has long been known that quality after ...

Inappropriate Discipline of Spanking

III. EMPIRICAL STUDIES AGAINST SPANKING A study conducted by Landsford et al (2005) focused upon the cultural approach to s...

Cognitive Development Theories of Elizabeth Spelke and Jean Piaget

"behind their cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own specia...

Different Scenarios For Child Care

enjoy. Caregivers might also use childrens books written about hygiene as teaching tools; there are many books devoted to the sub...

Child Abuser Sterilization

for them in many respects. This is something to consider when arguing for involuntary sterilization of child abusers. In the sam...

A Review of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

thought which suggests that if a patient doesnt believe in it, it wont work, so perhaps Lias parents were right.) There was als...

Michel de Montaigne's On the Education of Children

truly speak to hear themselves talk, as the saying goes. Some people see conversation as a means to show others how grand and impo...

Cinderella's Contemporary Variations

own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...

Joel Turtel's 'Homeschooling Saves Your Child From Destruction'

start somewhere and to nurture and build creative, intelligent, and caring individuals teaching them at home is a very powerful op...

Ethical Aspects of Counseling Children

is it ethically correct for counselors to report suspected abuse (Lambie, 2005), but it has also become legally mandated (Bryant e...

Children, Adolescents, and Ethics of Psychologists

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...