In order to reach any conclusion on whether a teacher is or not effective, one must first proceed to an evaluation of the teacher's role. Is a teacher not required by norm to be effective? Should not the act of teaching in itself imply effectiveness? According to the Oxford Dictionary for Adva...

Chabert 1 Guy Chabert Mr. Adkison English 102 12 April 2000 Solution in School Murder It is 7:30 on a normal Tuesday morning at Westside Elementary School. The buses have begun to pull into the child unloading dock and have unloaded the students. As the buses pull off, the student...

Homeschooling is currently a hot social issue because of the major increase of homeschooled American children in the last decade. There are two major opinions on this issue: parents who believe they have a right to choose how their children are educated and those who believe that children need to b...

Better Education: The Controversy Over School VouchersEducation remains America's most influential avenue of opportunity. Most Americans recognize the necessity of an elementary and secondary level of education to succeed within the highly competitive world beyond adolescence. Without a basic foun...

In our society there is a growing concern that the number of literate individuals maybe on a rapid decline. Much blame that television may be the main cause of this decline. Others insist that our education system is not demanding enough literacy building skills from students. Statistics show that...

Education had an emphasis on many different aspects during the time prior to the Civil War. There was a certain irony that set the mode of this time making things that were said irrelevant to the actions that were taken. The paradoxes of education in Pre civil war America, are evidenced in subject m...

During my daughter\'s first grade year, several disturbing revelations concerning her early education precipitated what has since developed into an extended personal exploration of American education reform. I came to realize that our neighborhood public schools, whose primary function I believed sh...

People who choose the path to becoming teacher will usually have an enormous amount of patience and a big heart. But sometimes heart and patience are not enough when it comes teenagers. Sometimes it can be annoying and trying when they do encounter those special ones, the troublemakers who give them...

Multicultural Education in America America has long been called "The Melting Pot" due to the fact that it is made up of a varied mix of races, cultures, and ethnicities. As more and more immigrants come to America searching for a better life, the population naturally becomes more diverse....

Excellence in Education The concept of excellence in education is one that, on the surface, seems to be unquestionable. After all, who would not accede that students within our schools should, in fact, excel? Certainly teachers, parents, and administrators can agree on excellence as an aim to ...

Introduction Cheating has seemingly become an everyday phenomenon in exam situations at most of Hungarian universities. Almost every student prepares for the examinations making handy little bits of paper, contemplating on where to sit and, during the exam itself, the most sophisticated even use th...