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Achieving Inclusion in Education

is through intervention to change the way that the disabled student is dealt with so that they can fit is with the status quo....

Designing a Research Framework

Cohen- Hoberman Inventory of Physical Symptoms (CHIPS) (Cohen and Hoberman 1983), this is a scale where there are the symptoms of ...

John Gatto on the Shortcomings of Education

of school is not to educate children and help them develop into thinking young people who grow into responsible adults, but to kee...

A Health and Nutrition Education Plan

their functioning around food, including monitoring their fat and sugar in-take and improving their diet as a whole. The whole fa...

Law Enforcement and the Value of Higher Education

States has been largely operating under a model wherein certain jobs require significant amounts of training and immersion in high...

"Practical Life" Instruction - An Overview

education, in the most basic sense, is a fundamental pre-requisite for the acquisition of any skill-set in life, from the most bas...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Australian Education: Grammar and Literacy

levels of education, there has been some concern that courses related to careers in information or printing, which used to emphasi...

The Educational Value of Cloud Computing

that the software can be accessed via an internet connection, rather than having to be downloaded to particular terminals (Crick S...

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...

The Problem with Literacy Teaching in Schools

To potential value of a dialogic pedagogy has been recognized in different government policies. For example, in 2005 with the EPPI...

19th Century American Reforms

virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities ...

Educational and Technological Solutions to Air Pollution

and to adhere to a policy of corporate social responsibility. Without laws and legislation enforcing environmental standards, ther...

Financing for Collages and Universities in Seven Countries; A Comparative Study

system is predominantly public system where public universities are deemed superior to private institutions and gain the more qual...

Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman

her text Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft takes direct exception with the story of creation in the Book of ...

Review of Article on Education

expectations for minority students" (Pettus and Allain, 1999). The study took place at James Madison University. More specifical...

Tutorial on Personal Education Views

childrens school (1997). The results have been shown across all grade levels, across all socio-economic statuses and in urban, sub...

A Special Education Integrative Literature Summary

The fundamental argument behind this vast sea of paperwork is that traditionally there has been distrust and fear between educator...

US Modern Culture and the Pragmatic Philosophy of John Dewey

learning, which was the current philosophy of his day (American Philosopher John Dewey). Since the inception of Deweys e...

Taking a Position on ''The Inequality Express' by Barry Bluestone

and their corresponding workforces (Bluestone, 1996). What I find particularly puzzling at this point in the essay however is that...

Mass Media and Education

in a peaceful, complimentary relationship. To some extent, purpose enters the picture, and to this end, Villamizar (1997) suggest...

Rochester, NY, and Education According to John Dewey's Philosophy and Carter G. Woodson's The Mis Education of the Negro

him to accept an inferior status" (1998, p. 84). Having African Americans accept their inferior status in American society was n...

The Controversy over Bilingual Education

this program allows children to retain their heritage and their home culture (Rothstein 672). Further, proponents comment that som...

Interactive Media and Audio of the Future

does bring to light some of the inherent problems with computer-enhanced learning. One of the potential problems that expe...

Overview of Interactive Data Visualization

in decision making (Sullivan, 2002). Data visualization can be used to "analyze information in a data warehouse or it can be used...

Student Posed Questions Answered in a Trio of Essays

When something needs to be done, it is often the consumer who has to do the leg work. Another pet peeve involves people who drive...

Higher Education Trends

or is hired for a position. Employers see the degree as a sort of prerequisite. Even if the degree has nothing to do with the posi...

Occupational Choices in the Field of Psychology

one will find that many fields are rife with opportunities for psychology majors. Many firms in fact hire anyone with a B.S. or B....

Traditional Education versus Distance or Online Education

education (The Higher Learning Commission, 2003; Online Education Resources, n.d.). The purpose of accreditation is to assure pro...