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Viability of Grade Retention

use of voluntary retention is a way to help a failing child succeed (Perry, 1999). The trend is really based on anecdotal evidence...

Early Retention in Education: Does it Improve Student Achievement?

is that before the start of the 20th century, children in schools were not even grouped according to grade levels, but instead bas...

Retaining Employees

of employees and looking for the best employees to increase the value created, possible to make up for letting some employees go. ...

Legacy System Dilemmas

productivity paradox indicated that there may never be a full return in terms of increased productivity (Lichtenberg, 1995). Tod...

Amish Culture

wheels and horse shoes" and complying with "public health inoculation programs, as well as compliance with other public health reg...

Hypothetical Study/Parent-Teacher Conferences

are numerous obstacles that can interfere with parents attending and understanding parent/teacher conferences. Some parents are im...

Upper Elementary Grades, Reading Achievement, and the Impact of Technology

fact that much more focus needs to be placed upon going back to the basics in order to give students the needed edge. However, th...

Elementary School Student Retention

In eight pages this paper discusses studies on elementary student retention with failing a grade student withholding among the top...

Elementary Education, Standardized Testing, and Grade Retention

In thirty pages this paper considers elementary schools' use of standardized testing such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in an e...

Connection Between Dropping Out of School and Grade Retention

reported that between 1975 and 1995, "overage students entering high school [rose by] almost 40 percent since 1975" (Owings and Ma...

GPA Assessment and Plan for Study

level higher than a 3 in the rest of the assessments. ICA001 is seeing a higher level of achievement, there have also been three...

Grade Retention 20th Century Events

These researchers report that just 5 percent of 169 studies analyzed reported significant benefits for the retained students while...

A Discussion of Three Concepts

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

Utilization of Research/Nursing Shortage

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

Employee Development in the U.S. Army

possible. Additionally, the right people also must be in the right positions so that they want to remain where they are, growing ...

Employee Motivation and Retention

JCs Casino, to advise them in how to best combat problems with employee retention. Both dealers and housekeepers at the casino hav...

Speaker Notes on Talent Loss

multiple rewards for his designs and was highly valued by his co-workers, and management and leadership at all levels. Unfortunate...

Differences in Memory Retention Between Television and Print Media

This paper provides a proposal for a research study on the topic of learning and memory retention. The author poses the question ...

A Third Grade Working Assessment

This is a model assessment containing 9 pages and applies Jean Piaget's developed theory of cognitive abilities and Howard Gardner...

Educational Progression Among First-Grade Students

This paper addresses reading ability among first-grade students as demonstrated by the case of Janice Herron, a first-grade teache...

California School District Budget Proposal

students); and three grade 6 classrooms (78 students). The professional staff includes one principal, one part-time assistant pr...

Transitioning to the Ninth Grade

have been established by many states, which leaves students with even more confusion and anxiety. They have trouble with the trans...

Freshman Academies for Transition

School. The increasing number of standardized tests adds another challenge for high school students (McCalumore & Sparapani, 2010)...

Achieving Goals

part of being a teenager and also plays an important role in the overall high school experience; however, in order to achieve my d...

Fine Arts/Washington State Standards

The book also explores drawing and painting techniques, as well as offering numerous examples of fine art. Fifteen lessons explo...

Analysis Of Lesson Plans

the lesson plan through the cooperative learning pairs. Students are given specific instructions on what to do at each step and wh...

Lesson Plans/NY Standards/Science

The column for "L" what the students have learned is left blank and filled in as the week progresses. Lesson 2 involves begins w...

Classroom Technology Integration

their writing" (p. 155). This was an urban multicultural classroom of 27 students, eight of whom were included in the study (Fletc...

Grades First through Fourth Content Area Writing and Reading Instruction

format in which reading is a significant component (Department of Staff Development n.d.). * Respond to Reading - Students are ask...

Twenty Item School Climate Survey

also agree that teachers listen to their ides. Since the principal is the one who must administer discipline, some students would ...