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  • Computers and Education

    Computers and Education

    Computers and Education As the days go by, things change. For now, technology is slowly replacing those labored hands that has controlled th8ings for many years. In the two essays, “From Learning as Torture to Learning as Fun” by Don Tapscott and “Makes Learning Fun” by Clifford Stoll, the two authors discuss the use of computers in education. Both authors discuss the positive and negative points that new age generation technology has had on today’s

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    Essay Length: 1,078 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Jack
  • Patient Education Assignment

    Patient Education Assignment

    Patient Education Project The purpose of this paper is to develop a plan to teach a specific target group of clients regarding the risk of skin cancer and the impact that skin cancer has on one's health. Included in the discussion will be the assessment of what the patient needs to know, readiness to learn, and educational methods to be used. Skin Cancer Skin cancer, which is caused from ultraviolet rays, is extremely prevalent, with

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    Essay Length: 1,365 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Edward
  • Education in Victorian England

    Education in Victorian England

    Education in Victorian England was different from today's schooling in many aspects. The malicious treatment of students at boarding schools frequently included being beaten and almost starved. Some children died as a consequence of the harsh way of life. Officials at these schools commonly censored mail and did not let pupils take vacations home, so parents had little to no knowledge of these problems. However, many children still attended these schools, because public education

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    Essay Length: 543 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Victor
  • Sex Education Should Be Taught in School

    Sex Education Should Be Taught in School

    If you discovered your child had taken up cigarette smoking, how would you respond? Would you simply accept it as typical teenage behavior and supply him with the safest brand of cigarettes available--those lowest in tar and nicotine--or would you respond in a manner that would relate to your child that smoking can cause serious diseases and even death? What if you found out your newly licensed teenage child was drinking alcohol? Would you check

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Monika
  • Traditional Vs Distance Education

    Traditional Vs Distance Education

    Education is an essential element in societies throughout the world. For many years education has been provided in classrooms on campuses worldwide, but there has been a change made to the conventional method of classroom learning. With the advancements in technology, education has been restructured so that it may be accessible to everyone through taking courses online. Distance learning takes place when the teacher and student are separated from one another due to their physical

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Jack
  • Crm in Education

    Crm in Education

    Scheduled downtime on Tuesday from 07:00 UTC. See the mailing list (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-June/040080.html) for information. FedEx Corporation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Fedex) The Federal Express was a passenger train operated on the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route. FedEx Corporation Type Public (NYSE: FDX (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=FDX)) Founded Memphis, Tennessee (1971) Location Memphis, Tennessee Key people Frederick W. Smith, President/CEO Alan B. Graf Jr., EVP/CFO T. Michael Glenn, EVP/Marketing Industry Air Courier Products See complete products listing.

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Dubois and Washington on Education

    Dubois and Washington on Education

    DuBois and Washington on Education Over 100 years ago W.E.B DuBois and Booker T. Washington began a debate over strategies for black social and economic progress, which is still prevalent today. Booker T. Washington believed that the role of education for African Americans should be an industrial one, where as W.E.B DuBois wanted African Americans to become engaged in a Liberal Arts education. Washington’s approach to solving the problems African Americans faced was rooted in

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Bred
  • Problems with Education in America

    Problems with Education in America

    Many people believe that there is a crisis in the educational system in America right now. People are especially worried about the low scores that high school seniors recently received after taking an international placement test. The U.S. was ranked very low in comparison to forty other industrialized nations. Because of this, a large group of politicians and educators want to increase the standards expected by high schools for their students. However, there are several

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    Essay Length: 538 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Jack
  • Alternative Education

    Alternative Education

    CHARTER SCHOOLS Charter School Since President Clinton signed into law, H. R. 2616, the "Charter School Expansion Act of 1998" charter schools have been providing an alternative for parents of public school students (Lin, Q., 2001, p.2). To date, charter schools enroll over 500,000 students (Fusarelli, 2002, p. 1). Charter schools have been favorable because it is believed that they can provide for a way to enhance student achievement by serving students who have been

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    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Jon
  • Diversity in Education

    Diversity in Education

    As the student population in our elementary schools becomes increasingly more diverse, teachers must amend their current ways of thinking and teaching to be considerate of the multiple cultures that are now present in their classrooms. Teachers, themselves, must be open to new ideas that different cultures will present as well as a mass of culturally based viewpoints. Diversity in the classroom is not something that can be ignored or shoved under the rug, but

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Jack
  • China Education System: Past, Present, and Future

    China Education System: Past, Present, and Future

    China Education System: Past, Present, and Future. Jocelyn F. Smith Global Operations and Strategy School of Professional Studies Professor: Emilio Iodice It is hard to deny a country economic growth that has increased 9.3 percent in one year. China has made great contributions in growth to its income per capita, much faster than any other region in the world. This is a good move for a large country with a large rural population. China rural

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    Essay Length: 2,637 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: July
  • Philosophy of Education

    Philosophy of Education

    Philosophy of Education I believe all children can learn and want to learn. How much they learn depends a lot on the effectiveness of the teacher and whether or not they accept their responsibility to do the best they can. Doing the best they can depends on a lot of things, not just the child's minds but also, the child's home life, family, friends, any learning difficulties and socio-economics standing. This entire thing having to

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Challenge of Defining a Single Muliticultural Education

    Challenge of Defining a Single Muliticultural Education

    The Challenge of Defining a Single "Multicultural Education" As stated in the first paragraph of this article, "Multicultural education has been transformed, refocused, reconceptualized, and in a constant state of evolution both in theory and in practice." Multicultural education is always changing. Culture is something that changes on a day-to-day basis. The way our society changes is no one's hands, but our own. Multicultural education can be something that is as simple as a change

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    Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Educational Reform

    Educational Reform

    The California educational system that is presently in place is one of the most challenged in the entire nation. The educational system of any state or country is a direct reflection of that region’s particular values, standards and priorities. In comparison to the educational systems in place in other parts of the world, especially in Asian and “Eastern” portions of the world, we see ourselves dragging behind in the curriculum itself and in our efforts

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Jack
  • What Is the Negative and Positive of Internet on Education?

    What Is the Negative and Positive of Internet on Education?

    There are several positive and negative impacts of the Internet on education. For rural areas especially, the access to information that the Internet offers is an incredible positive force, allowing almost anyone to find the answers to basic questions simply and easily. It helps education in that when someone is curious about something (and therefore open to learning), they can find out some information to feed that "learning hunger" immediately. If you are curious about

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    Essay Length: 325 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Fatih
  • My Phlosophy on Education

    My Phlosophy on Education

    My Philosophy on Education When I first read over the assignment on educational philosophy, it was not something I gave much thought to. It also seemed like a daunting task as I read the handout. The terminology alone was foreign, Metaphysics, Epistemology and Axiology. I had to look Axiology up in the dictionary, I thought it might be some sort of medieval craft lumberjacks practiced. Then when reading chapter nine things became somewhat clearer

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • What I Plan to Do in the Future as a Result of the Education I Receive

    What I Plan to Do in the Future as a Result of the Education I Receive

    There are several goals that I expect to reach as a result of the education that I will receive in the future. First and foremost, I hope to get accepted into a commendable university that offers the pharmaceutical field where I can pursue my dream of attaining a pre-pharmacy degree. My desire to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry originated from my fascination in the subjects of math and science and also from my

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    Essay Length: 415 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Monika
  • Objective Summary (the End of Education by Postman)

    Objective Summary (the End of Education by Postman)

    Objective Summary Postman encourages people to grow and change because of something they have learned so that their life is more diversified. However, there must be a reason and a means for such change. A reason is not always something that is kept in mind. It is usually abstract and hard to identify. It deals with systematic thought, yet it is completely different than motivation. Reason is the power of acquiring intellectual knowledge and dispassionate

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Peace Education

    Peace Education

    Specific purpose: To inform my audience about developments that will impact positively on peace education in the future. Central idea: Peace education development should be put to use in every school in the world in order to stop violent and useless actions. Introduction: I) The meaning of peace education: three distinctions in peace keeping. II) Its contents start by discussing the causes of war and how to avoid it. Body: I) Definition of peace education:

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    Essay Length: 311 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Janna
  • Democracy and Education

    Democracy and Education

    “Democracy and Education” The most interesting argument of Booker T. Washington’s speech, “Democracy and Education” is that instead of hating the white men, Washington not only forgives them, but sympathizes with them. In his speech, Washington says, “I thank God that I have grown to the point where I can sympathize with a white man as much as I can sympathize with a black man. I have grown to the point where I can sympathize

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Providing Educational Programs for Female Prisoners

    Providing Educational Programs for Female Prisoners

    Providing Educational Programs for Female Prisoners Toward the end of the twentieth century nearly 84,000 women were incarcerated in a state or federal correctional institution within the United States (Gillespie 91). Currently “the number of incarcerated women has exploded within the last twenty years” (Davis 79). After serving their sentence, leaving behind a life composed of bars, guards and time to reflect upon their crime. Most female offenders are released only carrying a few items

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Steve
  • Quality Assurance Perspectives in Higher Education in Oman Вђ¦ Can They Lead to Structuring an Effective Higher Education System?

    Quality Assurance Perspectives in Higher Education in Oman Вђ¦ Can They Lead to Structuring an Effective Higher Education System?

    Abstract The current paper examines the wisdom of quality assurance move in Oman’s higher education system when many of the conditions necessary for its success are not present. There is growing interest in the quality of higher education in Oman; now that the structure of the system of Higher Education has been established with more than fifty institutions offering programmes to approximately forty thousand students, the Sultanate is turning its attention to the quality of

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    Essay Length: 5,359 Words / 22 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Edward
  • Religion and Education

    Religion and Education

    Religion and Education Since the beginning of mankind, every civilization shows evidence of some sort of the religion and education institutions. These institutions are essential to organized human society. From teaching your grandson to assemble a tomahawk to worshipping the Greek god of war, people show religion and education in many different ways. What does it mean to be religious? It means almost everything because religions deal with the whole of human life and death.

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    Essay Length: 1,237 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Education Reform

    Education Reform

    December 8, 2004 Education Reform Education reform means to make education better by removing faults and defects. True educators are always thinking of more effective ways to enhance and democratize the way children learn. With the continuous change of growing population, economics, culture, family, and global communication, there has to be continuous educational reforms to keep the society abreast with these changes. One of education’s early reformers is John Dewey. Dewey operated and experimental

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Kevin
  • A Moral Dilemma: Should Health Care and Public Education Is Granted to Illegal Immigrants?

    A Moral Dilemma: Should Health Care and Public Education Is Granted to Illegal Immigrants?

    Illegal immigration has been a complicated issue for the United States for the last century and a half. With the days of Ellis Island steamboats and open-door policies behind us, we are struggling to define the rights of those people who are coming to our country illegally. A multitude of issues arise from this situation: should illegal immigrants be able to work? Should they receive health care? Should they be educated in the public school

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Steve

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