Community EngagementIntroductionChapter 1 states that community engagement is about relationships between and among communities, researchers, and research institutions (p. 18). One of the keys to establishing a successful relationship is for all part Continue Reading...
Compare the costs of different programs. There is a wide variety, and costs are not always related to quality." can say from my own personal experience, education has gained more emphasis than actual work experience. Now, more and more, employers a Continue Reading...
Just as stress increases as life-change events accumulate the motivation to cope with change through engagement in a learning experience increases" for the individual (Zemke & Zemke 1984). Money or enhancing one's salary is a fairly obvious, bu Continue Reading...
(Rosow, 1994, p. 797) From this review there is a clear sense that success with regard to community college students is determined by their ability to successfully complete the first term of study, as well as by their ability to receive financial a Continue Reading...
Nontraditional families in America have seen a remarkable increase in numbers over the past twenty years. The traditional family unit depicted in sitcoms on television and spoken about in the literature still dominates the social scene but in actual Continue Reading...
Delinquency Family environment as a predictor of adolescent delinquency According to the study entitled "Family environment as a predictor of adolescent delinquency" by Monique Matherne and Adrienne Thomas (2001), juvenile delinquency has long been Continue Reading...
Houston's large supply of land means that demand growth primarily results in more construction, not higher prices" (McCullagh & Gilmer, 2008). However, it is important to realize that land supply is only one part of the reason that new home con Continue Reading...
Community Colleges in America In 1983 and 1984, a dozen major reports on the United States' schools were published. All stressed the need for "excellence" in education. These reports are the subject of: Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Polic Continue Reading...
Fractions: What Happens between Kindergarten and the Army? This article deals with the idea that the way that children learn about fractions and other mathematical concepts might actually be hurting them. The concern is that traditional teaching met Continue Reading...
Karl Popper and Falsification Karl Popper's Nontraditional Views on Science: Is Falsification Correct? Falsification, also called refutability, is the logical possibility that an assertion, hypothesis, or theory can be contradicted by an observatio Continue Reading...
A similar trend was seen in many areas of U.S. society, such as the restriction of medicinal claims on products and other trends that began in the same decade. It was very interesting to find that the U.S. Armed Forces had any part in distance educ Continue Reading...
What are the most significant student demographic changes at this school over the past ten years? The most significant changes at the school include Edison's expansion of its child care facilities and its single parent assistance program. These ha Continue Reading...
Community Teaching Plan Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal Directions: Develop an educational series proposal for your community using one of the following four topics which was chosen within your CLC group: Bioterrorism/Disaster Environmenta Continue Reading...
As Lisa Mastny, an expert for the Worldwatch Institute, argues that sustainable tourism has been a new approach that forces many within the tourism business to take positive steps to "become more environmentally and socially responsible" (Mastny, np Continue Reading...
Some writers have also reverberated the dread that human security could become a philosophical tool. Does Respectable Conception it work? Altering Facets OF Human Safety. Founded on this apparently un fluctuating contrast of opinions produced by p Continue Reading...
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). Wit Continue Reading...
College Education What should be included in a college education? What courses, skills, experiences, and expectations should be required? Research the requirements of other campuses and compare these to Appalachian State University's requirements. Continue Reading...
State education agencies and local school districts needs to work to incorporate the major provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2004a). The evaluator feels it is imperative that as teacher preparation programs, a Continue Reading...
Role Development for Advanced Nursing AS HIGH-QUALITY CARE PROVIDERS Researcher -- an ANA-Masters-prepared nurse or Advanced Practice Nurse continues to increase and expand knowledge for her own practice and to contribute to the body of knowledge o Continue Reading...
(Feldman & Greenberg, 2005, p. 67) Staffing coordinators, often nurse leaders must seek to give priority to educational needs as a reason for adjusting and/or making schedules for staff, including offering incentives to staff not currently seeki Continue Reading...
The corporation or seller could benefit by developing marketing strategies prior to consumer reviews being available online. Seller Response to Novice and Expert Consumers Before allowing consumers to post product reviews on a corporations or sell Continue Reading...
Approximately one in six students enrolled in a college or university, or over 3 million individuals, participated in one or more online course in 2004. This was despite the fact that a leveling off was expected. Another report for 2005 by Sloan sh Continue Reading...
Coca-Cola Company Company Analysis: Coca-Cola Company The Coca-Cola Company began humbly in 1886 when Atlanta pharmacist, John Pemberton, mixed up a caramel colored liquid and carried it a few doors down to have it mixed with carbonated water. Here, Continue Reading...
However, a detractor might respond that it is unfair for online learners to only focus on their educational needs, and that simply getting grades and meeting the requirements for a degree is not really getting the full benefit of a college experienc Continue Reading...
Even in the purported technology rich Asian countries, women are still in need of special attention with regard to technology access and organization. Without such address Lui argues that the feminist agenda will falter and that real change will not Continue Reading...
evolution of perception of the role of school members over the past 2 centuries or so and how the analyses of these perceptions also changed over time. This discussion is followed by an examination of the antecedents of tension for school board memb Continue Reading...
With the difficulties of resolving budget controversies, contending with myriad resource shortfalls and enduring a federal economic perspective toward education that is today, inconsistent at best, criminally negligent at worst, the superintendent m Continue Reading...
The anxiety that difficulties in juggling family and work tasks can negatively affect worker presentation has led some employers to offer on-site child-care or add family leave to benefit packages. If such initiatives, employers have assumed, reduce Continue Reading...
3. Variables Such as Gender There are various disparities in the overall demographics of this type of offense. As one report on the demographics of sex offenders in the United States, notes; "… although the vast majority of attention on sex Continue Reading...
The acculturation model developed by Schumann (1978) consists of a taxonomy of variables that were developed based on the concept that both social (group) and affective (individual) variables are the primary causative variables as shown in Table __ Continue Reading...
The subjects were 613 injured Army personnel Military Deployment Services TF Report 13 admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from March 2003 to September 2004 who were capable of completing the screening battery. Soldiers were assessed at appr Continue Reading...
Child Abuse? The issues of child abuse in the larger society are often unnoticed until it is too late. Unfortunately, public perceptions of the precursors to abuse are limited, and the unfortunate reality of 'out of sight, out of mind' is prevalent Continue Reading...
Stacey describes the Mosuo as matrilineal -- all family ties pass down through the mother's line, even though it is not a culture where women rule over males. The Mosuo's social structures question the presumed naturalness of patriarchy and that of Continue Reading...
It is not always easy to keep childcare arrangements running smoothly and problems may arise from time to time. . In addition to these stresses, familial stresses might occur. For instance, Grandparents and parents may have different views about ra Continue Reading...
This was usually the case with the proliferation of British rule at the time; trade was the predecessor to British Colonialism. For administrative purposes, Singapore became a part of Penang and Malacca which were two other settlements in the region Continue Reading...
76). As automation increasingly assumes the more mundane and routine aspects of work of all types, Drucker was visionary in his assessment of how decisions would be made in the years to come. "In the future," said Drucker, "it was possible that all Continue Reading...
Americans judged the Chinese according to the own ideals and customs. This distorted the American view of China was that it was much like the United States in many ways (Jesperson, 1996, p. 8). When China came under communist control, Americans made Continue Reading...
growing recognition of the changing educational needs of college students, particularly those attending community colleges. In response to this awareness, reform efforts have been implemented in order to meet the needs of students. As reform efforts Continue Reading...
