Dropout Rates: Differences in Culture and Gender
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A 5 page overview of dropout rates and the factors which influenced them. Provides statistics for the differences in dropout rates between the sexes emphasizing that with one exception, that of Hispanics where overall there are fewer gender differences in the dropout rate, females are more likely than males to complete high school and to enroll in college. Notes that this observation is invalid for some Hispanics groups in which females are actually more likely to dropout. Suggest that high drop out rates are the result of a number of factors including familial responsibilities. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Dropping out of School & Its Causal Factors : ("Dropping Out
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A Look at How to Determine and Predict Factors that Lead to Deviance and Complete Failure in Education.") A 7 page study including literature review and bibliography listing 8 sources. Excellent for those studying education, sociology, and various aspects of psychology.
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Drug Addiction and University Success
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This is a 9 page paper discussing drug abuse and how it affects students in a university environment. A tutorial approach is used which suggests further research in some areas. Definitions of drug abuse, the issues of social factors, stress and interventions are also discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Drug Testing, Religion, and Disabled Children in Public Schools:
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This 5 page paper discusses the issue of drug testing, religion and disabled children in public schools and examines the pro's and con's of each controversial issue. This paper shows both sides of these issues and provides evidence and examples as support. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Early Childhood Education And The Theory Of Kindergarten
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A 4 page paper that discusses the initiation of kindergarten by Friedrich Froebel. Froebel's philosophies and premises are explained. The adoption of kindergarten in the U.S. is also discussed. The essay then turns to early childhood education and presents the first attempts with this concept in the early 1800s. The next serious movement towards early childhood education was the Head Start program, which began in the 1960s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Economics and Ethnicity / Their Importance In Education
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A 3 page overview of the concepts of ethnicity and economic background and their importance to academic success. Relies heavily on 'Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society' (1998) Donna Gollnick and Philip Chinn. Concludes that it is neither ethnicity nor economic background which is a primary determinant of academic success but presentation and attitude. No additional sources citred.
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Education & The Elderly
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A 10 page proposal that considers the elements of learning (general knowledge, reading comprehension and learning style) and the problems related to effective health education for the elderly. It is the hypothesis of this proposal that the study presented can reflect a correlation between these learning factors that can be utilized as a tool in effective educational programming. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Education / Minority Community
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A 25 page research paper that looks at the literature on lack of access to education for minority groups vs. majority groups, specifically African American and Native American, the cultural underpinnings of the issue, and preventative and rehabilitative reform programs. The paper posits that the educational community must make sweeping changes in its approach to reform—the ideas and programs for which have been available for decades. The reason for the new immediacy is competition from the business community because of its desire to diversify its structure. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Education And Culture: Oppression
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5 pages in length. Education is the key to freedom. As succinct as this statement may be, it holds within its brevity the singular ability to emancipate oppression and improve dire economic situations. According to Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, education – or rather the lack there of – has long stood in the way of cultural progress, inasmuch as the access to academic learning has forever been restricted to certain social classes. An example of the practices described in Freire's book is that of Peter Hoeg's Borderliners, which follows the lives of three social misfits who find themselves living amidst an entirely different class of orphans, causing them to speculate as to the reason they were all assembled in such an obviously educationally imbalanced environment. No additional sources cited.
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Education and Socioeconomic Background: A Research Proposal
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A 6 page research proposal designed to assess the effect of such factors as culture, economics, and family structure on educational achievement. Provides an extensive review of the literature and suggest a research project which couples the results of nationally standardized tests with questionnaires designed to identify students culture, economics, and family structure. Concludes that student achievement can be influenced in a number of ways. Positive outcomes of socioeconomic factors are often overridden by negative factors. Poor educational attainment is all too often the outcome. Even negative socio-culturally determined factors such as family structure and financial situation, however, can feasibly be overridden by an effectively designed educational program. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Education and the Labor Movement
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A 10 page research paper that examines the various stances taken by labor in regards to education. The writer explains how two basic viewpoints battled for supremacy. On one side were the leaders of organized labor who favored vocational training and universal public education. Other labor advocates, however, argued that formal higher education, the established universities, unconsciously reflected the views of big business, and, therefore, workers needed education designed specifically for them. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Education Article Review
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This 3-page paper reviews a journal article: Pettus, Alvin M. & Allain Violet Anselmini. (1999, July). Using A Questionnaire To Assess Prospective Teachers' Attitudes Toward Multicultural Education Issues. Education 119. The writer summarizes the article and comments on the quality of it. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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