Essays and Research Papers on Education & Social Issues

A 3 page paper which examines how a librarian is also an instructor/teacher. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page discussion of Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and the challenge it presents in education. Discusses the finding that more LEP children are native than foreign-born and speculates on the reasons for this development. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper responds to specific questions about Tyack's book: How as the one best system better and worse than the rural system it replaced. What information in the book is relevant to the bilingual controversy today? How does Tyack's argument of some immigrants being able to use schools for advancement than others because ...

A 6 page paper. Excusism is a word that is not found in abundance in the literature. It means the ability to come up with an explanation or excuse for just about anything and everything. The writer discusses the fact that we live in a society where excuses are offered for everything and personal accountability ...

A 4 page discussion of the dangers of HIV and AIDS. Centering the discussion around the facts presented in a September 15, 2004 article in the Houston Chronicle by La Monica Everett-Haynes, the author of this paper points out the many misperceptions that perpetuate HIV infection. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page research paper that address how consultants, working with school personnel, can employ an action research approach as outlined by Lusky and Hayes (2001) in order to device a value-drive needs assessment for guidance counselors working within the elementary setting. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page overview of the labor strike that occurred at Yale University in 2003. Everyone it seems had an agenda in the 2003 Yale University Strike. While the strike was supported by national labor unions, the employees that were striking were quite dissimilar to the employees that spawned those labor unions to ...

3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses the implementation of Appreciative Inquiry as it relates to the Act. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 14 page research paper that explores the use of psychoactive drug use in the US with schoolchildren. The first half of the paper offers a legal analysis and the second half an ethical analysis. The writer concludes from a review of available research that while these drugs are crucial for some children (1 to ...

This is a 5 page annotated bibliography for a paper in the files (PGstst.rtf). 14 sources are included in the document.

This 3 page paper reviews a journal article on the clinical preparation of school counselors. The investigators reviewed the clinical experience component of 59 universities to determine requirements for clinical practice and supervision. This essay summarizes the article, including results and comments on the importance of the article and its limitations. Bibliography lists 1 source. ...

A 12 page research paper/essay that examines the relationship between a nation's schools, employment and its government, with particular emphasis on Canada, seeks to explain how connections between these three societal factors. This examination reveals that the mechanism behind social reproduction, not only serves to replicate the a culture, but also constitutes an inherent factor ...

This 8 page paper offers a description of a new school system. The essay begins by discussing the hidden curriculum and how one author related the hidden curriculum to the social classes each school served. The writer also comments on the impossible demands placed on schools today and the fact that schools cannot solve the ...

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the central characteristics of the WISC, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, and the WAIS, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 12 page paper provides an overview of some modern views on learning. Learning takes place in a variety of different environments, and experiential learning has been recognized as a substantial part of learning models and educational theory. In fact, a number of theorists, including Skinner, Vygotsky, and Lave and Wenger have all ...

A 7 page research paper. Historically, educational goals could be considered under guidelines that were basically separate from the realities of the workplace. However, this paradigm is no longer applicable to the realities of the contemporary world. The following literature review, first of all, investigates various aspects of how education relates to workplace preparedness. ...

This 5 page paper provides an overview of this issue and relate them to the current literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This study considers the problem of high school dropout rates in the District of Columbia and assesses reasons for high drop out rates in this area, with a specific focus on the students of Ballou High School. This study relates a number of problems that are currently prevalent in the educational system in the ...

One of the most difficult problems in the modern health care environment is that even when effective treatments are available, not everyone can afford them. Many medical programs provide diagnostic services, testing and even support service, but do not cover expensive prescription drugs. Many patients, including the elderly, people at risk of repeated ...

This 50 page paper provides an overview of this issue. Educators are the population in the most difficult position when assessing the implications of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001. Though administrators may find that NCLB defines specific trends and changes in curriculum design that may influence administrative processes, educators ...

This 15 page paper provides an overview of this issue. Job satisfaction is an imperative part of retaining highly qualified employees. Educational institutions, including public school districts, have recognized the need to assess job satisfaction in correlation with job performance and relative to their capacity to retain their professional staff. Employee satisfaction, ...

A 3 page essay that discusses what it means to be a teacher today and the particular challenges that face teachers in today's world. The writer discusses a personal view of high-stakes testing and the standards movement, expressing the opinion that this does not meet the needs of education in today's world. Bibliography lists 5 ...

This 3 page paper provides an introduction and limitations section for a paper on charter school attrition rates.

This 22 page paper looks at the increasing level of challenging behaviors by adolescent students in schools which is developing into a complex problem. The paper looks at what factors are contributing to these complexities, including theories that look at deviance, the development of challenging behavior and the way in which schools have dealt with ...

This 8 page paper presents a review of the book Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit (1995). The writer reports the key points of the book and supports some of Delpit's opinions with comments from other authors. The writer concludes by responding to this question: Would you recommend the ...