Employed Students
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This 5 page paper argues that student employment during High School, although having a few detrimental effects, is a positive endeavor that results in the student's learning how to socialize in a work setting, skills necessary for budgeting and a sense of self worth derived from the autonomy that is afforded as well as being able to reach a goal. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Employee Training: An Interview with the Head of a Medium Sized Technology Based Firm
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An 8 page discussion of the importance of employee training. Based partially on a literature review this paper presents its points as though many were obtained in an interview with a fictional human resources manager at a medium-sized high technology organization. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Employment Outcomes for Minority Students
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7 pages in length. Many schools today offer school-to-work initiatives which serve the purpose of helping students prepare for their futures outside of the classroom environment. School-to-work initiatives have been found to be extremely productive in giving students a chance to try different occupations and get an idea of what they want to do with their lives. But do these programs help all the students equally? Many studies show that minority students do not have the same opportunity to take advantage of the school-to-work programs; this paper takes a look at the issue. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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English Education Over The Last 100 Years And Effect Of Drama
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A 20 page paper. Part A provides an overview of education over the last 100 years beginning with the Committee of Ten. The emphasis is on English education. Part B discusses how drama has been and is being used in English and language arts classes. Experts discussed include Heathcote, Spolin, Applebee, and Courtney, among others. Bibliography lists 23 sources.
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Enrollment practices: for-profit v. traditional colleges
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A 15 page research paper that examines the conditions behind the flourishing for-profit institutes of higher education versus the those of the declining small, traditional college. The writer argues that the principal reason behind the success of the for-profits versus the decline of small colleges appears to be due to the fact that the for-profit institutions readily accept the concept of using marketing to focus the attention of potential students on their strong points. Bibliography lists 17 sources
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Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation": Critical Analysis Based Upon Thoman And Freire's Opinions
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7 pages in length. Critically analyzing Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" based upon the opinions of Thoman and Freire enables one to better understand the extent to which Schlosser's concept is adopted – sometimes subtly, other times more obviously – throughout the vastness of academic psychology. Clearly, the fundamental purpose of Schlosser's book is to illustrate how homogenized society has become in direct relation to the fast food mentality; as such, contemporary education has been unwittingly drawn into the downward spiral of this existence, serving to deny students the ability to apply self-determination rather than coercion, intentionality rather than reaction, creativity rather than homogeneity and rationality rather than chance. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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ESL and It's Impact
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This five-page-paper presents a discussion on the history, need, and future of English As A Second Language programs in America. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Essential Skills and Understanding Needed by Junior High School Teachers
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This 5 page report discusses a number of issues related to working with and teaching junior high or middle school students. Primarily a literature review, areas covered include student stress and coping, developmental concerns, creating awareness in students of the world outside the classroom, and the characteristics of a positive junior high experience for students. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Ethnographical Research In Education
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This 5 page paper explores the use of ethnographic research methods is to gain insight and perspectives into the educational system. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Evaluation Of School Preparedness For Terrorist Attacks
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A 4 page paper. In this scenario, the writer has been asked to evaluate a pilot program in 30 NYC high schools that is intended to teach students what to do in case of a terrorist attack. The paper describes some of the many topics that would be covered in such a program and then discusses how the program would be evaluated. Finally, the writer responds to the threats to the validity of the evaluation and how these may be lessened. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PGterev.rtf

Extraordinary Minds (1997) - Howard Gardner
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(5 pp) In Extraordinary Minds (1997),Gardner poses an important question: Is there a set of traits shared by all truly great achievers - even those we might think of as extraordinary - no matter their field or the time period within which they did their important work? In an attempt to answer this question, Gardner first examines how most of us mature into more or less competent adults. He then examines closely four persons who lived unquestionably extraordinary lives - Mozart, Freud, Woolf, and Gandhi - using each as an example of a different kind of extraordinariness Bibliography lists 1 sources.
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Factors Impacting Learning
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A 5 page paper that looks at some of the numerous variables that affect learning processes. The emphasis is on physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of the student. Theorists mentioned include: Freud; Piaget; Vygotsky and Erikson. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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