Education Essays

Reconceptualization of Learning Disorders in Education: Individual Student Success
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Introduction: Learning disabilities have received a substantial increase in attention over the past decade, in an effort to minimize the potentially devastating effects on an individual’s ability to learn. C...

Validity of GRE Test in Predicting the Final GPA Scores and Degree Completion Frequency
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Introduction:                A relationship research question involving GPA and GRE scores  In the United States, many gr...

Understanding the Effectiveness of Aptitude Testing in the American School System
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Introduction:          Understanding that testing is utilized in the American Education system as a means of assessing the comprehensive ability of students in particula...

Dude, You’re a Fag by C.J. Pascoe: Homophobic Bullying in Schools
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Introduction: Dude, You’re A Fag Abstract Dude, You’re a Fag is a book that was written from the research of C.J. Pascoe. Pascoe studied the students, teachers, and administration at Rive...

Newtown Teachers’ Union and the Board of Education
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Introduction: PART 1 GENERAL BRIEFS   The Newtown dispute involved two parties; Newtown Teachers’ Union and the Board of Education. As agents for the Teachers’ Union, our a...

Factors for Student Persistence in Doctorate Programs
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Introduction: Factors for Student Persistence in Doctorate Programs  Abstract The purpose of this literature review is to investigate the factors that are associated with the ability of ...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Post-Secondary Education
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Impact of High College Tuitions on Poor Students
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Introduction: The cost of college education in the past 2-3 years has increased by as much as 3 percent in public and private colleges. This new development has resulted in the incapacitation and disadvantagin...

Achievement Gaps Among Low-Income Groups
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Introduction: An academic achievement gap is “the disparity in academic performance between groups of students” (Education Week 2011). These gaps affect everyone.  The role our society plays i...

Challenges to Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Sport
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Introduction: The full inclusion of people with disabilities in mainstream sport and physical activity is impractical and unachievable   Introduction When thinking about the mea...

Struggling Adolescent Readers and Strategies for Success
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Introduction:  The literacy skills of the typical American teenager have not improved since the 1970’s but the demand for literacy skills have increased dramatically according to Allington (2003). Strug...

Positive Impacts of Social Networks on Students
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Introduction:  There will always be debates surrounding social networking. Throughout the years, there has been rapid growth of social networking all over the world, specifically among younger generations...

Is Traditional Education as Effective as Homeschooling?
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Introduction: The last couple of years in America, homeschooling has grown exponentially in high school students. Even though there are more homeschooled students everyday, this does not mean that high schools...

Influence of Government and Policy Makers on UK Classrooms
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Introduction: “Mathematics educators have often emphasized reasoning as one of the primary goals of learning mathematics.” (Hwang et al., 2017) The aim of this essay is to analyse the emp...

Consequences of Sleep Deprivation on Students
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Introduction: School should start and end later because sleep deprivation in adolescents and children decreases both the ability to focus in the classroom and the drive to learn, often resulting in poorer perf...

Should Handwriting be Reintroduced to the School Curriculum?
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Introduction: Many of us remember in our early school years the grueling time spent on the formation of letters and words in cursive handwriting. We would spend twenty to thirty minutes, several times a week i...

A Look at the Effects of Standardized Testing
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Introduction:  Standardized testing in schools has long been a controversial method of measuring success and readiness. Such tests are claimed to be important indicators of not only student achievement an...

Evaluation of Self-regulatory Program Curriculum for to Improve Academic Achievement
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Introduction: How can using a Self-regulatory program curriculum improve academic achievement in secondary schools?  “Learning is about one’s relationship with oneself and one’s abi...

Arguments For and Against Uniforms in School
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Introduction: Oprah Winfrey once said, “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.” A debated question that faces challenging answers is: Should public middle school students be re...

Motivational Reading Environments for Children
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Introduction: What is a motivating Reading Environment? How are children encouraged to become independent readers for pleasure in primary school? The Annual Literacy Survey in 2016 states that there h...

Postman and Weingartner’s Concerns of Questioning in the Classroom
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Introduction: ‘The most important and intellectual ability man has yet developed- the art and science of asking questions is not taught in school! Moreover, it is taught in the most devastating way possible:...

Social Class Differences in Home and School Reading
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Introduction: Critique of Study: Stuart, M., Dixon, M., Masterson, J. & Quinlan, P. (1998) Learning to read at home and at school. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 3-14 Int...

Benefits of Comic Books for Education
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Introduction: Comic books and graphical novels are important aspects of an adolescent’s life before this decade. One of the biggest benefits of graphic novels is their ability to explain complicated ideas. T...

Technology Influences Learning in Science and Mathematics Courses
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Introduction: Introduction Mathematics is a subject many loathe, but also one that many love. It is foundational to many science disciplines that dictate day-to-day life, but not many people are divin...

Using a Holistic Approach to Assessment and Education to Support At-Risk Students
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Introduction: Students who are “at-risk” for school difficulties are impacted negatively by environmental and emotional difficulties in their personal lives. Because of this, psycho-educational assessment ...