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Testing for Learning Disabilities
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This 10 page paper evaluates several tests for detecting and diagnosing learning disabilities. The paper focuses on the tests, and a comparison of tests is made . Information about learning disabilities in general is also provided. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: SA230ld.rtf

Testing In Education
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A 5 page paper that discusses nine articles sent by the student, each of which discusses some aspect of assessing students. The overall theme is whether or not standardized testing is useful and beneficial. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Texas Schools Practicing Full Inclusion of Disabled Children
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5 pages. This research paper gives the methodology and statistics for Texas schools in the ratios of their full inclusion of disabled children into the mainstream classrooms. Studies have proven that these disabled children are able to raise their testing scores when they are included with the other children in full inclusion programs. The State of Texas is working towards improving their goals each year. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: JGAtxkid.rtf

TEXTBOOK ALIGNMENT
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This 5 page paper outlines the problems with science and math textbooks and shows the movement with Project 2061 to reform the nation's textbooks. Specific examples of textbooks shortcoming, underlying issues of standardized testing reforms and more. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBtext.rtf

Textbooks and Elementary Mathematics Instruction
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A 3 page discussion of the problems that regional diversity and expectations have caused in regard to textbook production. The author contends that because textbook producers are struggling to produce a book that will attract the greatest buying audience, they attempt to incorporate all of the varying criteria that our diverse school system presents. The result is too often a book that is not only bulky but that has room to explore only a few topics in the depth that is needed to properly instill mathematical concepts in the elementary classroom. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PPmathCh.rtf

Thank You Letter to Lissa Weinstein
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This 3 page paper is a letter from a mother to author Lissa Weinstein, thanking Weinstein for writing her book “Reading David,” about her experiences teaching her dyslexic son to read. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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The 'Banking' Concept of Education
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A 5 page analysis of the essay 'The 'Banking' Concept of Education,' by Paulo Freire. Freire illustrates how our education system, and that of most of the world, is subject to conditions where the children are nothing ore than vacant receptacles for the information the educators wish to give them. They are not taught to evolve with any level of consciousness as human beings, and are controlled, for the most part, by the system. In addition to detailing Freire's essay, education in this country, and in Hong Kong, is discussed as it relates to the essay. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAbank.wps

The 2003 Yale University Strike
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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 inception around the turn of the twentieth century! Citing the tremendous costs and ludicrouscy of the Yale strike, the author of this paper suggests abolishing the unions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPyaleSt.rtf

The ABCs of a New Century - Combining Whole Language & Direct Phonics in Teaching Language Arts
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A 6 page paper that examines both the direct instruction phonetic approach and the whole language approach to teaching elementary language arts as well as the debate that currently exists regarding the effectiveness of each. Discussed are the merits as well as the shortcomings of each of these approaches and the possibility is presented of combining the two in order to arrive at a more effective overall teaching approach. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: LCABCs.doc

The Academic Benefits of Homeschooling
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This 8 page thesis paper includes an annotated bibliography. The premise that homeschooling is conducive to academic achievement is supported by a slew of statistics. Homeschool students are compared to their pubic school peers. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA123hom.rtf