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  • Parental Particpation for Social Justice in Education

    Parental Particpation for Social Justice in Education

    Parental participation: for socially just schooling Socially just schooling aims to offer every student an education of equality regardless of factors such as ethnicity, gender or social class. Often however, achieving social justice in schools can be complex when considering what lies outside classroom-control: a student's home environment and the level of their parents' participation. The film Take the Lead illustrates through two characters how schooling can be experienced differently by those from differing backgrounds.

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    Essay Length: 331 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Southern Schools and Education

    Southern Schools and Education

    Throughout history the South seems to have always been at an educational disadvantage. Some of these shortcomings are due to lifestyle elements out of the states’ control; like a highly dispersed living style that made establishing a school district vastly complicating. Yet other contributions to these disadvantages were of personal choice. The lack of an organized, formal education in the South was highly the result of sexism, racism, and a lack of seeing education

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    Essay Length: 871 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Steve
  • Value of a College Education

    Value of a College Education

    Have you ever felt as though you were in a minority group because you were without a college degree? Those who never obtain a degree are actually in a group majority. Most of the adults in the U.S. lack a college degree. Over half the students who start a four-year degree program never finish. Many of us have been told since grade school, "If you don't have a college degree, you will never amount to

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    Essay Length: 649 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Parent Involvement in Education

    Parent Involvement in Education

    REFLECTIVE ESSAY: PARENT INVLOVEMENT Reflective Essay-Module 5 EDA614A- Theories and Applications of Educational Leadership Prepared for Professor Faculty at National University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Education Tier I Administrative Credential by Adriana Magallanes October 15, 2004 PARENT INVOLVEMENT Overview Creating a successful school site involves many aspects of the "school community" to be involved. The school's community consists of students, faculty, staff, parents, and community. In is tremendously important

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Education Psychology

    Education Psychology

    Ed Psych 04/20/05 This semester I was fortunate to do observation hours in a 7th grade history class at Smart Intermediate. I also had the chance to observe at Williams Intermediate and after completing hours at Williams Intermediate and Smart I believe that these are grade levels I would be interested in teaching. I had a good experience working with a teacher, who I will call Mr. Smith. The first few times during my observation

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: July
  • Teenage Pregnancy and Female Educational Underachievement

    Teenage Pregnancy and Female Educational Underachievement

    TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND FEMALE EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT This article discusses how teenage pregnancy and its effects on woman and their offspring has become a growing concern over the last few years. Studies have shown that teenage pregnancies are more common amongst school dropouts, because upon becoming pregnant, young women are likely to withdraw from education or at least reduce their commitment to continued education. As compared with girls who have become pregnant during their teenage

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    Essay Length: 540 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • Philosophy of Music Education

    Philosophy of Music Education

    Philosophy of Music Education Music is a basic part of everyday life. What makes music unique is its ability to create an emotional response in a person. A music education program should develop the aesthetic experience of every student to its highest potential. Aesthetics is the study of the relationship of art to the human senses. Intelligence exists in several areas, which includes music. The concept of aesthetics allows us to see into ourselves, which

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Problems in the United States Educational System

    Problems in the United States Educational System

    Free Term Papers Free Essays Free Book Reports Plagiarism? Citing Sources Top 100 Term Paper Sites Top 25 Essay Sites Top 50 Essay Sites Free College Personals Problems in the United States Educational System By: medvedov E-mail: vmedvedovsky@hotmail.com Today, the way the educational system works in the U.S. concerns a large number of people in this country. "Only 25% of adults have a great deal of confidence in the people running education, according to

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    Essay Length: 3,248 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Higher Education Act: Increasing Affordability?

    Higher Education Act: Increasing Affordability?

    Higher Education Act: INCREASING AFFORDABILITY? Lawmakers have recently reauthorized the Higher Education Act, is an attempt to increase enrollment rates by improving the affordability of a college education through raising financial aid eligibility to in need students. Over the last four years this rise in the federal budget for student financial aid has inflated the cost of a college education to an all time high. Due to these increases in student loan availability, not only

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Top
  • Education and Communication

    Education and Communication

    People use their languages to communicate, negotiate and express their feelings with others. Languages of individuals are elements of culture that contribute to every aspect of their relationships. People represent and idetify themselves through their languages and find what they will recreate themsleves through their languages. For people who can speak other than their first languages, they choose their languages to convey their thoughts or feelings depending on audiences who they communicate and negotiate. People

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    Essay Length: 1,757 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Jack
  • Sex Education Vs. Abstinence in California

    Sex Education Vs. Abstinence in California

    Introduction In the 1950’s society as a whole was more conservative than it is today, there were many social stigmas attached to activities which were not approved, persons who engaged in these activities were often looked down upon. Teen pregnancy was one of those activities which carried a social stigma. A modern example of this can be seen on the television show Desperate Housewives in which Bree Van De Kamp’s daughter Danielle becomes pregnant and

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    Essay Length: 2,874 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Steve
  • Private Health Care and Private Education Is Unfair

    Private Health Care and Private Education Is Unfair

    Private education and private health care are the most unfair and degrading systems to modern day living. People who can receive this ‘special treatment’ seem to be comfortable in their finances. In this essay I will try and prove a point on why I think private systems are unfair. Take for instance, why should people with more money receive better health treatment or send their children to go through a better education? The answer to

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    Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Monika
  • Brown Vs. Board of Education

    Brown Vs. Board of Education

    “’The Supreme Court decision [on Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas] is the greatest victory for the Negro people since the Emancipation Proclamation,’ Harlem’s Amsterdam News exclaimed. ‘It will alleviate troubles in many other fields.’ The Chicago Defender added, ‘this means the beginning of the end of the dual society in American life and the system…of segregation which supports it.’” Oliver Brown, father of Linda Brown decided that his third grade daughter should

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Jon
  • Brown Vs Board of Education

    Brown Vs Board of Education

    May 17, 1954 was a date that would change history not only in the field of education, but in most peoples lives. In the year 1954 a cased named " Brown vs. The Board of Education " had been taken up all the way to the Supreme court. It was a controversial court case that tried to pass a law to un-segregate public school. The law was eventually passed, but caused mass outrages but also

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Tommy
  • How Well Does the Leaflet Вђњis Your Child Missing Out?вђќ, Produced by the Department for Education and Skills, Achieve Its Purpose?

    How Well Does the Leaflet Вђњis Your Child Missing Out?вђќ, Produced by the Department for Education and Skills, Achieve Its Purpose?

    The front cover is dominated with a picture of an average classroom but one of the children in the class has been cut out. The picture relates to the title “Is your child missing out?” because the child who has been cut out of the picture is literally missing from the classroom and they are missing out on their education. The writing on the front is a variety of colours; red, blue and black so

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Multicultural Education in the Classroom

    Multicultural Education in the Classroom

    The Benefits of Multicultural Education in the Classroom I have grown up with Education being my catapult through life; I love it. I love to study children and figure out how they learn and how our educational experiences shape us as adults. Five years ago, I found myself accepting a position as a Toddler teacher in a government facility. To describe it simply, I was a fish out of water. I had experience with children,

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: regina
  • The Lesson of Education

    The Lesson of Education

    Donald So Miss Fadem English 12 March 14, 2006 The Lesson of Education Toni Cade Bambara demonstrates the value and importance of knowledge and education in young children's lives through her short story "The Lesson". She utilizes the theme of education to show the audience the positive affects it can possess on the youth, thus having a poor education will result with a negative impact. Although there are numerous other themes in this short story,

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Value of a College Education

    The Value of a College Education

    The Value of a College Education The value of a college education should not be under estimated. Behind many of the doors that are closed to non-college graduates lie the opportunities that can mean the difference between wanting to hit the snooze on the alarm clock for the fifth time and wanting to get up out of bed and get to work. The pursuit of a college education will have many impacts on one's personal

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    Essay Length: 1,861 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Are Computers Putting Our Childrens Education at Risk?

    Are Computers Putting Our Childrens Education at Risk?

    Computers are woven into every aspect of our lives. From the microwave oven that small children can learn to use to heat up a hot dog, to the computers under the hoods of our cars, we interact with computers whether we realise it or not. (Campbell, 1999). But when it comes to the education of our children, the use of computers becomes a controversial issue. Of course, as stated above, computers are an everyday

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    Essay Length: 387 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Key Planning Issues in Technology-Based Education

    Key Planning Issues in Technology-Based Education

    Key Planning Issues In Technology-Based Education Ball State University Elements of Effective Strategical Planning for Technology in Education Bizhan Nasseh Special Assistant for Educational Technology Ball State University RB - 237 Muncie, Indiana 47306 00b0nasseh@bsu.edu Ball State University Muncie, Indiana Abstract: Technology-based education is the hallmark of higher education institution's operations in the coming years. Advancement of Internet and web brought to higher education institution the possibility of the lossing geographic monopoly and provided tough

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    Essay Length: 4,286 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Role of the Educator in the Preparation of Tomorrow's Workforce in the Middle East

    The Role of the Educator in the Preparation of Tomorrow's Workforce in the Middle East

    The Role of the Educator in the Preparation of Tomorrow’s Workforce in the Middle East. William Arthur Ward once wrote; The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. It is not my intention to tell anybody here how they should teach, rather I would like to discuss the relationship between education, employment and the development of tomorrow’s workforce. To understand why countries developed various ways of organising

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Max
  • Computer’s Value in Education

    Computer’s Value in Education

    Computer’s Value in Education What is an education? Education is defined as “the knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process or an instructive or enlightening experience” (Dictionary 1).It says that it’s the knowledge obtained, but does it matter where this knowledge is obtained? We now use computers in our society, which allow us to do many things. However, in today’s society, children go through their entire education using the computer. There is

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    Essay Length: 1,034 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Vika
  • Greek Education V.S Roman Education

    Greek Education V.S Roman Education

    Similarities and Differences: Ancient Greece vs. Ancient Rome Many qualities of the Ancient Roman civilization were undoubtedly borrowed from their predecessors of the Greek culture (Bonner 1). Roman education, however, is only a reflection of the Greek education system. Ancient Roman education tactics differ from the education methods used by Ancient Greek instruction. Nevertheless, these two different approaches contain many similarities. Although the Romans made an effort to reproduce the style of education maintained by

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    Essay Length: 4,248 Words / 17 Pages
    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Effects of the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act Title Ix

    The Effects of the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act Title Ix

    The Effects of the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act Title IX The Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act was formerly known as the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act. President George W. Bush renamed this law on October 29, 2002 upon the death of the law's author, Patsy T. Mink. It was instituted in 1972 and eventually expanded to prohibit gender discrimination in any United States educational institution.

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Artur
  • Carl Orff’s Philosophies in Music Education

    Carl Orff’s Philosophies in Music Education

    While Carl Orff is a very seminal composer of the 20th century, his greatest success and influence has been in the field of Music Education. Born on July 10th in Munich, Germany in 1895, Orff refused to speak about his past almost as if he were ashamed of it. What we do know, however, is that Orff came from a Bavarian family who was very active in the German military. His father's regiment band would

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Edward

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