Course Objectives: Transcultural NursingAccording to Andrews & Boyle (2012), the concept of transcultural nursing theory (TCN) has evolved in recent years to reference more broader concepts of culturally sensitive and culturally astute nursing. The w Continue Reading...
However, because of the long-term sustained economic growth engendered by dual-income families, wages have increased. Women have also increasingly sought professional degrees to further their earning power, to the point where they outnumber men on m Continue Reading...
Education for Immigrant Children The Importance of Education The Immigrant Issue The story of America as seen and known today has been built by immigrants. In fact, the motto of America is that it is a nation of immigrants. Yet many camps within t Continue Reading...
Variations are to ask each student to write their own sheet or to have small groups do so. (22) Value Lines: Students line up according to how strongly they agree or disagree with a proposition or how strongly they value something. This gives a visu Continue Reading...
As a result, many children were schooled at home. The modern home schooling movement is a recalling of these earlier days, modernized with home schooling curricula, Internet access and activities for children, such as sports, which bring them togeth Continue Reading...
Walton suggests that increasing reports of crimes on campus is one way to resolve the seeming conflict between FERPA's dictates of student privacy and a university's legitimate concerns about the ability to exercise authority over students, since FE Continue Reading...
How Technology Enhances ESL Students’ Learning Experience Introduction In the COVID-19 era, education has taken a dramatic turn towards distance learning, meaning that virtual classrooms are now more popular than ever. But what is the effect of Continue Reading...
Problem Statement A major problem in the US schooling system is the reluctance towards change and letting go of past practices that have proven to be ineffective and counter-productive. One such practice is grade retention, which can negatively influ Continue Reading...
Mandatory An attitude of 'firm persuasion' means that we have a sense of mission in what we do; a mission that cannot be easily diverted or silenced. At his core, Morrie's firm persuasion was that he was a teacher. Even when facing tremendous physic Continue Reading...
OCR recognizes that colleges and universities are under a lot of legal and political pressure to stop using racial and ethnic factors in admission," Clegg commented. "[In response,] the agency wants to intimidate colleges and universities to contin Continue Reading...
.....doubt, I would think, between the two of us that Tulane University is a great institution that has proven time and time again how elite and adept it is at developing and teaching the leaders and workers of tomorrow. Whether it be engineers, scie Continue Reading...
21-32; Lyster et al., 1999, pg. 457-467). Chaudron (1986, pg. 64-84) explained that the error correction exercise might not have statistical backup on its constrictive impact but nonetheless has proven to have a beneficial impact on the overall comm Continue Reading...
This was the group that learned the fifteen simple present tense Spanish verbs while awake and in a traditional academic setting that facilitates normal learning. The two experimental groups are proposed to show moderate success rates based on thee Continue Reading...
After the Columbine media coverage, the nation became terrified that our schools were no longer safe, even though the facts show they are safer than ever" (2003, p. 14). This point is also made by Kondrasuk et al. (2005), who note, "More recently t Continue Reading...
As recent events in the Middle East have clearly demonstrated, Facebook is more on the side of the politically disadvantaged and the poor as they have increasingly embraced Facebook and other social media while the governments in the region tried to Continue Reading...
Freedom of information is needed to ensure that government and business is transparent and accountable. However, the mass proliferation of computer and communication technologies has created a unique vulnerability that makes it difficult for agencie Continue Reading...
Allocation of funds for education as a model is a notion that is looked at in the academic construct. This work emphasizes this paradigm. The issues of this construct will be viewed as an exemplar. The issue of an equitable and justified funding inco Continue Reading...
Growth Aided by Data Warehousing Adaptability of data warehousing to changes Using existing data effectively can lead to growth Uses of data warehouses for Public Service Getting investment through data warehouse Using Data Warehouse for Busines Continue Reading...
Privacy or Surveillance -- Political Topic Privacy or Surveillance? We live in an age of heightened concerns about terrorism and public safety. The events of 9/11, the constant threat of future terrorist plots and mass shootings and public bombings Continue Reading...
Arguments for the assumptions: Pat's and Chris's suggestion that the company develop new products and launch them onto different markets is based on the fact that the recent statistics received from the Marketing Department are unsatisfactory. Eva Continue Reading...
working life of a grade school teacher. The author shadowed a first grade teacher for a full work week and then recorded her observations and findings. The author also included what the experience taught her and how the experience will be used in th Continue Reading...
Sociology) It doesn't take a rocket scientist to note that there have been disturbing trends in schools recently. While the spate of extreme violence appears to be waning, schools are still troubled places, with both students and teachers seemingly Continue Reading...
If they face the full extent of the penalties, hopefully those students will find the positive aspects to their experience and help them focus on what in life matters most to them. If I were in the situation of adjudicating their expulsion hearings Continue Reading...
" (7) Chomsky warns of ideological motivations of some scientific paradigms, just as with the aforementioned racial emphasis of early anthropology. Here, Russell espouses a Platonic episteme by enunciating the expectations of behavior between differ Continue Reading...
Early Education Shows No Benefit (HSLDA 2007) This article argues for the viewpoint that Head-Start-type early education is not only non-productive, but can actually lead to detriments to children's development as they enter formal school. The art Continue Reading...
Homeschooling Quality of Education The Need for and the Purpose of the Project The Subproblems Definitions and Abbreviations of Terms Books Methodology for investigating problems identified as subproblems Note on the Anti-Homeschooling Debate Continue Reading...
Ineffective Public Policy -- No Child Left Behind One of the most widely criticized educational policies of recent years was / is No Child Left Behind. It is widely referred to an ineffective policy (or legislation). Despite high hopes and bipartisa Continue Reading...
My services have spanned the fields of information technology; enterprise architecture; business process re-engineering (BPR); web and database development; and training and communication. My various clients have included the World Bank, IBM, AARP, Continue Reading...
(U of D. Office of Judicial Affairs Website " a Quick Reference Guide to Academic Integrity") On the issue of flexibility the policies and procedures of U. Of D. are also much more reasonable, allowing for proper investigation and variable sanction Continue Reading...
Capacity and Demand Reconcilliation Capacity & Demand Reconciliation Measure: Aggregate Capacity and Demand ABC University Library at the Dublin Business School has been charged with providing a capacity and demand report in anticipation of th Continue Reading...
One solution to enhance learning might be to require that all officers take the initial course and to then develop online content for 'follow-up' briefings and re-testing of knowledge every six months. This would be more rigorous than the current m Continue Reading...
Robots" a Review of Sherry Turkle's book "Alone Together" Sherry Turkle's book "Alone Together" relates to the contemporary society and to how it has come to be shaped by its relationship with technology. The online environment, as she describes it Continue Reading...
Preventing Disease Through Improved Hygiene: Low-income children in the Washington D.C. schools According to a 2011 study published in the American Journal of Infectious Disease Control, simple acts of good hygiene can have a lasting impact upon ch Continue Reading...
Gun Violence In December of 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT became just the most recent name to be added to the list of schools now infamous for the terrible tragedies to occur within. While it may on one level be anecdotal rather Continue Reading...
Emergency Management Disasters are political occurrences; they can either destroy or glorify politicians. The spectacular temperament of disasters calls for the involvement of these chief executives and they test their leadership merits. How politic Continue Reading...
That responsibility is of the school -- to ensure that the adult citizens so needed by contemporary society are produced by the school system -- those individuals being responsible for their views and able to analyze and synergize information so the Continue Reading...
Exploiting the Interrelation Between Creativity, Intelligence, Memory and Learning to Promote Academic Achievement One of the more mysterious aspects of the human condition concerns how some people are enormously creative throughout their lives whil Continue Reading...
