School Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

“A Reflection on Service Learning: Working with Eric” is reflectory essay written by Onnalee l. Gibson that chronicles his adventures in a Michigan school, Waverly High School tutoring a young African American 11th grader named Eric Johnson.
This well written piece utilizes a variety of literary devices and the final product is a really captivating tale. The underlying thesis of Gibson’s essay is that Waverly High School is unlike any other school because of its unique approach of handling the educational, social and behavioral needs of its students in an individual manner. This theory is comprehensively substantiated throughout the essay by ...

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a problem that has faced the United States for over two decades. With so many health issues associated with obesity and so many children becoming obese the problem is in need of a solution. It has been found that children from low socioeconomic status areas are more likely to become obese. Between their families and schools lack of ability to provide healthy meals and not enough resources to fix the issue many children are not learning ways to beat obesity for their future. This study aims to find out if there is a strong correlation between low socioeconomic status in ...

Importance and Impacts of Mentoring

Abstract
In the present paper, the impact of mentoring on students and employees has been investigated. It has been hypothesized that mentoring positively impacts their overall well-being if provided considering the specific conditions of mentees. Development Mentoring is an approach to school-based mentoring in which high school students work with junior elementary school mentees. Rhodes (2002) stated that around 50 percent peer-mentoring meetings end within initial three months. However, there is a lack of research conducted on premature meetings termination and mentors' absenteeism. Karcher study, though, makes a significant contribution to the literature does not answer the reasons for ...

Introduction

the government is at the forefront of fighting against prostitution without understanding the reasons that motivate citizens to engage in prostitution

Authors thesis : the C-36 bill introduced by the government is aimed exploiting prostitutes

Prostitutes are prone to human trafficking and violence from customers which necessitates the introduction of the C-36 bill; The government is committed to the elimination of sexual adverts that target school going children and the larger society; each society has moral values; human rights violation such as human trafficking and violence affects prostitutes; and that the essence of legislation is to protect the vulnerable groups against prostitution

Body of the Essay

1. 1st argument: government of Canada is in the forefront of ...

Introduction

Incidences of horrific violence such as the 2012 shootout in Chardon, Ohio, has put immense pressure on the local agencies as well as states to provide the students with learning environments that are conducive and safe. The fatal day ended with three students dead (Losinski, Katsiyannis, Ryan & Baughan, 2014). The education system has been accused of being marred by inequalities in terms of socioeconomic conditions, race, and ethnic affiliations. These factors have been listed as some of the reasons that have led to incidences such as the above mentioned (Teske, 2011). Gage, Sugai, Lunde and DeLoreto (2013) suggest that ...

Introduction

There are multiple definitions of racism as well as different perspectives. According to the oxford dictionary, racism is an advanced set of attitude that involves resentment based on the superiority of a particular group or an individual towards other supposed inferior groups or persons. Racism is solely premised on either the skin color or racial affiliation. In that sense, racism is relatively high in numerous educational institutional and is a real issue that consistently hits numerous social networks. Racist attitudes are critical issues as they can appear in any ethnic group and negatively implicate the current potential custom of ...

Ahnee-Benham, M.K.P., Napier, L.A. (2002). An alternative perspective of educational leadership for change. Reflections on native/indigenous ways of knowing. In K.A.Leithwood& P.Hallinger (eds.) Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration (pp. 133-165)
The article by Ahnee-Benham& Napier (2002) is dedicated to considering traditional and new ways of applying indigenous knowledge in order to improve the understanding of educational leadership. In this regard, the article has three major aims. Firstly, it attempts to locate, systematize and discuss leadership theory and practice, as understood and practiced in various indigenous communities. Secondly, an important task of the research is contrast contemporary ...

Nursing

1.) Title
The title of the article “Evaluation of Hand Washing Program for 2nd graders” describes the type of the study, the major variable and the population to which it applies. It can be inferred from the title that the purpose is to assess and evaluate the hand washing program for the second graders. However, the variable can be inferred from the behavior change and early interventions among children so that they will develop the hand washing as a well-practiced habit (Tousman, Arnold, Helland, Roth, Heshelman, Castaneda, Fischer, O'Neil, & Bileto, 2007).
2.) Research/Aim
A. The purpose of ...

Article Review: Homeschooling vs. Public School

Summary:

In "School choice: four case studies of home school families in Connecticut," Cappello et al. (1995) performed a series of case studies of Connecticut families who chose to home school their children. The goal of this study was to determine the validity or to examine the ways in which homeschooling was conducted within these family units. The participants of the case study included four families in Connecticut, all with children of varying ages and equivalent years in education. These families volunteered for the study, and had been homeschooling for at least a year. Families were used from different state home ...

Abraham, Deleon in his article presents the issues surrounding school shooting and compares it with the urban crimes that take place, According to him, the school shootings are tied to the discourses that emanate from urban setting view. The urban crime setting is seen as the lens to school shootings. This is because school students are able to borrow from the past psychological profiles, reports from the media and other activities that come from the urban setting to build a social problem that result to school shootings.
According to Deleon, sources link the blacks who leave in Ghetto with ...

Musical Lyrics

The title of the song is Walk Away and the man behind the song is a British singer Michele Monro known as Matt Monro. As an artist, Monro has a romantic voice, capable ofsensitively caressing the ballads, and he provides pleasant vocal interpretations of pop and Hollywood standards. The artist writes the song for reasons such as being happy and being sad. The title itself reflects a negative meaning but as you listen to the entire lyrics of the song it conveys positive emotions. It is full of love, compassion, and great concern. He sings from the heart and soul.
The ...

Reference:

Young, A., Dollarhide, C. T., & Baughman, A. (2015). The voices of school counselors: essential characteristics of school counselor leaders. Professional School Counseling, 19(1), 36-45.
The article under the study puts light on the qualitative research, which lacks in majority of schools. Most of the schools focus more on the quantitative analysis instead of qualitative analysis. The article argues on different practices of the leadership in elementary schools, which are seen to play an important part in the lives of the young students. Many elementary schools fail to realize the importance of certain characteristics which needs to be developed ...

Program Objectives

The primary objective of the study is to assess the effectiveness of the state-funded clinical school-based health centers (SBHCs) and their influence on the students’ health, school attendance and the costs students spend for the health care. In general, the program is aimed at comparing health outcomes and health care costs of the students who have the abovementioned centers in their schools with those students who don’t.

Research Design Utilized for the Evaluation

Parents of 1134 students allowed their children’s participation. Moreover, 1027 parents agreed to take part in the survey. Those parents who agreed to take part in the evaluation received a ...

A. Brief Overview of “Is Hooking Up bad for Young Women?”

Several authors look at the sex culture in today’s youths in comparison to the baby boomers. Jessica Valenti(2010) for instance argues that the problem with America today is not the casual sex as it is not new but the moral panic that exists. The mass media has driven sociologists and psychologists to investigate young hookups even more closely. Statistics by CDC and the NHSLS show that young adults today are having far less sex than the baby boomers. Hookups are not free for all as portrayed by the media but is rather a safe manoeuvre by young adults ...

Based on the two articles, the authors utilized different designs in their respective researches. The study conducted by Marker, et al. (2013) utilized a case study design wherein the development and situation of one particular school is observed overtime. In their study, they considered the budget cut experiences of Stake Elementary in Bakersfield County, North Carolina and its effects on the faculty and students of the school. The use of a case study in their research allows intensive study on the research participants especially when dealing with the observations of the participants’ behavior which is what the researchers what to observe ...

Reading: Learning and the Importance of Knowing: Student Perspectives on Centralising Indigenous Knowledge in their Preparation as Teachers

Question: What is the importance of knowledge in understanding the indigenous perspectives on the social practices of racism, dominant cultures superiority, ignorance and the blame factor?

Reading: The Challenge to Deculturalisation: Discourses of Ethnicity in the Schooling of Indigenous Children in Australia and the USA

Ethnicity is a phenomenon that surfaces in different institutions worldwide. The education sector is among these institutions. In the United States and Australia, indigenous children are susceptible to ethnicity in their schooling. The discourses of this ethnicity are significant to the schooling of these children. Settler societies in Australia and the USA evoked differential opinions concerning indigenous populations and incoming populations. In most cases, these opinions and invasions disrupted the organizations and operations of ...

Section One

Wyandotte County is situated in the US and is bordered by Johnson on the shores of river Missouri. The county has an average of 156 miles and is one of the smallest counties in the city, and this reason has forced residents to work or reside in the neighboring areas. As indicated by the county's population statistics, it is evident that the county had a steady growth but later declined during the ‘80's and ‘90's. However, it is worth noting that the decline in population growth negatively affected the economy of the county, but its revival in early 2000 ...

In the article Chicago Schools’ Financial Controls Assailed in Report, Caroline Porter discusses how mismanagement and inefficiencies are draining the cash strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This is evidenced by the financial report that had been released for the fiscal year 2013. According to the Chicago Board of Education’s oversight office, there were a number of deficiencies in internal controls and a number of cases of detrimental employee misconduct. In a particular instance, the report showed how a former technological worker had been suspected of embezzling more than $400000 from the schools. Consequently, Porter set out to identify the failure of management ...

The essay “Farm Girl”, written by Jessica Hemauer, is one that is full of wisdom and detail about a little girl growing up on a farm and how her time spent doing chores there has helped her to prepare for most of life’s great difficulties (Hemauer, 2011). She writes this essay with such experience and confidence in her knowledge and emotions while describing daily duties such as waking up at 5:00 a.m. at ten years old and “cleaning out various huts and pens.” This essay significantly describes the emotions and responsibilities in the life of a farm girl (Hemauer, ...

Upon the announcement of changes in the admission test of the Gifted and Talented programs by the New York City Education Department, several test preparation organizations started coming up with new preparatory content such as the NNAT 2 material by Bright Kids. In addition, many schools are also concentrating on altering their admission process such as a public school named Hunter which instead of allowing parents to choose a tester out of 16, lowered the choice of one out of four testers (Anderson, 2013).

The reason for changing the admission test exams by the New York City Education Department was mainly ...

Sayreville War Memorial High School came into limelight last month when news regarding bullying and sexual harassment came on surface. According to the reports, a senior football players of the Sayreville team tortured freshman in the locker rooms. The victims reported that senior players targeted freshman in the locker room, pinned them on the floor and assaulted them via inappropriate manners which included touching their private parts and hit them while other senior players of the team held his arms and legs. (MARGOLIN) The news came as a shock to many, as charges were filed against 7 senior players of the ...

Brief Summary

Knowing the definition of “gifted and talented children” is important. Unfortunately, there really is no general meaning for it. The Angleton Independent School District (2013) defines “gifted and talented” as someone who has the potential to achieve an outstandingly high level of accomplishment and who can display a high performance capability, compared to others of the same age, experience, or environment. It refers to someone who excels in a specific academic field (Angleton Independent School District, 2013).
In the article Do Gifted and Talented Students Need Special Schools?, the opposing views of John Cloud (2007) and Susan Winebrenner and Dina ...

I did my observation at The Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School (GBLUES). The school works in joint agreement with the University of Shippensburg, and this laboratory school is also attached to the university’s College of Education and Human Services. The Luhrs School has a reputation of being the first certified green school building in Pennsylvania, as the building is designed to be energy efficient with minimum environmental impact. The school has a healthy, appealing and pleasing physical environment and is known to be a role model for other school districts in Pennsylvania.
In my 12 hours of allowed schedule ...

ARTICLE 1

In “Parental predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption in treatment-seeking overweight children” M L Vanhala, J Laitinen, K Kaikkonen, S Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, and R Korpelainen explored the role of family dietary behaviors in the design intervention of the effective treatment of childhood obesity. The study involved fifty-four treatment seeking overweight and 65 normal-weight 8-year old kids and their parents. The study accessed the children’s and parents consumption of FBV using a food frequency questionnaire. The study used voluntary recruitment mechanism where willing participants were recruited by school nurses to participate in family-based treatment for overweight kids. The cities target includes ...

Psychology is a unique science that deals with human personal and social problems. This field of study has a lot of different directions. In order to have the scientific findings organized in a logical manner, there are different themed psychological scientific journals that publish articles on relevant topics. This paper examines two articles from different journals. The first article is «Gender typing in stepmothers: A phenomenological analysis» by Gosselin, J., & Rousseau, K. (2012) published in Qualitative Research Journal. The second article is «Parenting and academic socialization as they relate to school readiness: The roles of ethnicity and family income» ...

Article: Future Directions in Coaching Life Skills: Understanding High School Coaches’ Views and Needs (Daniel Gould, Yongchul Chung, Paige Smith, and Jackie White)
The article discusses the study designed to assess the knowledge of the social and personal issues by high school players and the possible perceived roles of coaches in developing the life skills in players. The focus on sports as the method to develop life skills in students has increased and the coaches play a significant role in this. The personal development facilitated by coaches and their role in it has evolved as a subject of research. This ...

Abstract

In the society, there are various aspects that affect well being of people more so high school teenagers. High school teenagers are highlighted in this case as they are mostly prone to peer pressure from adolescence that drives them to some of the negative vices. The negative vices discussed in this paper are: absence of exercise; tanning in the sun; inability to deal with anxiety disorders; and binge drinking. They are discussed in the form of article reviews with personal opinions on how they affect the community being incorporated.

Article 1: Exercise is Wise

Summary

The article by Mary L. Gavin titled “Exercise is ...

A Review

Part A
Working with the families of children with disabilities can be delicate for many reasons, not the least of which is that they may not be able to fully participate in ways which are meaningful (Dunst, 2002, 143). Knowing how to participate can also be difficult due to its changeable nature; in preschool families may be able to participate fully in the education of their child via the provision of special schools which allow for parental interaction during class (Dunst, 2002, 144), or by creating family-specific areas where they can ‘learn-by-doing’ when it comes to their children, perhaps ...

The story of LeBron James begins and ends with discussion about his legacy. He emerged as a 14 year-old boy in Ohio—the prodigal son destined to resurrect a city and end a championship drought. But when he struggled to produce, he was heavily criticized, and eventually left town for Miami where he promptly won two championships. James has returned to the city he left five years ago, hoping to bring the championship clout with him. Gary Washburn accurately displays this conflict in his Boston Globe article “LeBron James is giving us a lesson in leadership.”

Washburn quickly explains the conflict in ...

Summary of the Intersection Analysis

Summary of the Intersection Analysis

Introduction

Planning use of collected date for completing an intersection analysis (IA) requires use of the four data measures intersecting in the target school with implications for continuous school improvement. The following provides the intended use of the final collection of data forming a profile of the target school project for this course of study

Problem solving as part of the differentiation process in educational goals of teaching/learning uses data collected through needs assessment, professional collaboration, and reflection building a profile of the target issue in the school with the ensuing information. This profile gives better understanding ...

Children having children

The article ‘Children having children’ by Claudia Wallis aims at drawing society’s attention to the problem of teen pregnancy. Throughout the twentieth and twenty- first centuries, raising of this issue may seem corny. However, people have realized the negative effects of being an under-age parent and started reacting to the problem not a long time ago. Surely enough all the consequences are caused by certain reasons. Accordingly, the author is aimed to find out and investigate both – the reasons and the consequences of teenage pregnancy. One can find a lot of causes mentioned in the article, though a low ...

Article review

The name of the reviewed article is Ontario's Public High-School Teachers Preparing for Possible Fall Strike. The article is written by Jane Taber and published on 5th June, 2015. The main focus of the article is the representation of the four unions who prepare for a strike and their appeal for a government to take the matter seriously. The author of the article foresees a mass strikes in the region of Ontario as "two million students head back to school in the fall" (Taber, 2015). The demand of the representatives of the teachers includes a demand for conciliator because the high-school representatives believe ...

"Moving Beyond AYP: High School Performance Indicators" by Lyndsay M. Pinkys examines the effectiveness of AYP and reveals how performance indicators need to be established to determine a school's effectiveness. Adequate Yearly Progress is a measurement defined by the United States federal “No Child Left Behind Act” that allows the Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. It is based on the improvement in the tests results and minimal increase in total graduation rates, but it does not show the students’ readiness for the college and future career. In order ...

English Composition

In Michael Moore’s essay, “The Idiot Nation”, he contradicts the general assumption of the American population that every person needs to access free education, and that high school graduates are urged to continue to college and subsequently help the country reach the goal of becoming a smarter nation. According to Michael Moore, this whole assumption makes America become a nation full of idiots. He argues that most Americans spend much of their time in things that are of less importance compared to those that they should actually put sufficient interests. For instance, he uses the example that an average adult ...

The article

Critical Week in Senate for Gun and Immigration Bills emphasizes the attempts by the United States Senate to put more legislative regulation on the gun acquisition and use. This heated debate follows the recent bloody shootings of the Sandy Hook Elementary School children. In this deliberation, there is conflicting stands between the Democrat senators and their Republican counterparts. The democrats advocate for the expansion of federal background checks on individuals seeking to purchase and own fire arms in the United States to verify their eligibility. The democrats also believe that 90 percent of the United States citizens are backing ...

The article ‘Examining the push for three year bachelor’s degree’ tries to examine whether the implementation of three year degree courses can be effective and favorable to the people. The article evaluates the benefits and the problems that can result to the various stakeholders in the education sector if the decision is implemented.
In the first place, implementing the program will not work immediately since adjusting the current system will be difficult. According to the article, the change needs additional resources in form of more instructors. In addition, some courses will require more than three years to ...

Introduction

Child development involves continuous changes psychologically, biologically and emotionally from the time of infancy up to the end of adolescence. Growth and development are always used interchangeably, but it is important to note the difference in that growth involves the physical changes in child’s body shape, size, height, weight, arms, and legs length whereas development encompasses a continuous progression in complex knowledge. A child’s growth and development are always divided into four periods; infancy, preschool years, middle childhood years and adolescence.
The study in this article is about the need to belong theory which gives the relationship ...

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The present paper reviews three different articles that are focused on teaching and learning concepts. The first article is based on fixed versus growth mindset which is written by Popova (2014). In this article, the author discussed the fundamental belief that is most common among people. Most of the people believe that the character, intelligence and creativity are the hereditary blessed traits that cannot be changed. These people are classified as fixed mindset individuals who believe that striving for success is worthless and it better to avoid ...

Nowadays, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental health diagnoses among school children. At the same time, it is a controversial case, as a lot of researchers still argue if ADHD is a real metal impairment. The main problem here is in the difficulty of diagnosis of this condition among children. The acceptance of the disorder is still problematic among both the specialists and families blaming pharmaceutical companies for promoting unnecessary drugs. Though, the supporters assume that the condition severely impacts children’s life and due to the complex symptomatic require special educational program. According ...

Action Research - Participatory teacher development at schools: Processes and issues.

Introduction
Several researches have been done into the effect that reflective processes have on a teacher’s learning process. Many are based on the assumption that teaching is associated with tr previous experiences in schooling and their cultural values. In a bid to assist teachers in recognizing the extent of their knowledge and to overcome any misconceptions that they may harbor, as well as to help them to gain a conventional understanding of what they teach and learn, they have to be given a way to explore their culture and knowledge.
They have to be exposed to a reflective process that promotes ...

Good nutrition is critical for growing children, both for physical and cognitive development. Elementary age children are challenged every day in school and a nutritious and balanced breakfast is critical for them to learn. Many studies have been completed that consistently demonstrate the importance of a good breakfast on learning.
According to a study completed by Anjos et al (2013), good nutrition begins with expectant mothers and continues throughout a child’s life from infancy to childhood. The acquisition of nutrients is important for proper brain development. The authors have implemented a large scale research project named NUTRIMENTHE which is examining the effects ...

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Storeygard, J. & Tierney, C. (2005). Including all students in meaningful mathematics: The story of Darrell, TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 1(3) ,Articles 4. Retrieved [January 31, 20014] from http://escholarship.bc.edu/education/tecplus/vol1/iss3/4
“Including All Students in Meaningful Mathematics: The Story of Darrell” by Storeygard and Tierney is the story of an intelligent, lively boy called Darrell who is with some learning disabilities. The school system and teachers did not adopt the right approach for his mathematics education, ...

The article has clearly brought out the importance of linking the school siting to the land use planning. Schools are very important elements of the local infrastructure since they have a direct influence on the functioning of the communities. It has been noted that constructing new schools especially the small ones within a neighborhood has vital land use implications for the growth of the residence. Through the construction of smaller schools near the residence of people would encourage smart growth policies which leads to better neighborhoods as well as more livable communities. Schools are considered to be serving a more integral role ...

Teaching is one of the most challenging professions in the world. This is so because as a teacher, one gets to interact with a variety of personalities in one setting and therefore has got to devise mechanisms of identifying these personalities and addressing each individual personality according to their own needs and wants. A class of thirty students will comprise of thirty different personalities and it is the role of the teacher to address these student’s personalities without excluding any. Identifying the student’s strengths and weaknesses therefore is the most important thing to do. In order to meet the ...

Introduction

The book Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement is a collection of 9 essays edited by Irvin D. S. Winsboro to reconceptualize the impression that Florida was more temperate than other southern states in regard to its relationships with civil rights leaders and the Blacks’ demands for equal rights. The author accomplishes this by exploring multiple racially motivated events, including black agency, racist assaults and political stonewalling to put his point across.
The time frame of this volume ranges from 1940s to the late twentieth century. The other contributors whose essays ...

The Value of Culinary Education: Evaluating Educational Costs, Job Placement Outcomes, and Satisfaction With Value of Associate Degree Culinary and Baking Arts Program Graduates by Jean L. Hertzman and John Maas
This article tries to evaluate the educational costs, job placement outcomes and satisfaction with value of associate degree graduates. It tries to ascertain whether the job in which a person is placed satisfy his or her educational qualification. It also tries to know the cost of an associate degree in culinary or baking and pastry arts which varies significantly on whether the program is housed in public, private, ...

Executive Summary

Talent management in any institution is a key concept that should be totally differentiated from human resource management. This is because proper talent management leads to increased productivity and loyalty among the employees. The article “Strategic Talent Management: A review and research agenda”, Human Resource Management Review, 19: 4, 304–313” by Collings, D.G. and Mellahi, K. (2009) helps to shed light on the issue of talent management and human resource management.
The following report analyses the views and issues raised by the authors by looking at the validity and reliability of the research methods used by the authors, ...

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Abstract
Determination of eligibility for special education is a long and an involving process which requires information gathering from all sources including school, peers, parents and specialists. Various assessment tests are undertaken and then special courses of education are designed for each student individually, on basis of his or her area of disability.

Determination of Eligibility (special education)

According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Public Law 101-476, there are 13 separate categories of disabilities due to which children may be eligible for special education and such other allied services. To understand whether or not each child lies in any of the ...

This article, compiled by Brenda Morrison in February 2002 at the Australian Institute of Criminology, has critically analyzed bullying and victimization in schools especially in elementary and high school levels not only in Australia but also in many other parts across the world. The main idea that Ms Brenda Morrison has tried to bring out is that bullying in children that mostly take place in schools has both short term and long term effects, with effects affecting both the physical as well as the psychological wellbeing of the child both in his young age as well as later age, ...

In the article, “Diverging Development: The Not-so-invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States”, Furstenberg said that social class is quickly beginning to shape the development of children, even before the child is born. Classism is alive in the form of less opportunities for lower social classes, forming a class that isn’t necessarily unintelligent, but uneducated. There exists a stereotype against those of lower social classes that these people do not strive to rise in the social hierarchy, and they often receive sub-par assistance, in part, through this prejudice. The article argues that social class is part ...

Sanchez, D., Steece-Doran, D., & Jablon, J. (2013). Planning for positive guidance. Teaching Young Children, 6(2), 8-10. Retrieved from http://www.naeyc.org/tyc/article/planning-for-positive-guidance
The article entitled Planning for Positive Guidance speaks of the effort of teachers to become role models as they reach out to their students. The main purpose of the study is to implement positive guidance in the classroom with the use of the three powerful steps of interaction which are: to be present, to connect and to extend learning. The interaction method was implemented in a classroom of preschool children in Pahoa, Hawaii.
In trying to implement the three ...

The Miracle In Front of You Jamie Lynnn Schuster's recent article titled “Miracle In Front Of You” interviews pediatric oncologist and Duke University Professor Raymond Barfield on the intersection of medicine, philosophy and theology and his views on integrating palliative care for children and adults alike. In this interview, Barfield speaks of his personal background, history and underlying philosophy that guides his research and work with pediatric cancer patients. He also speaks on his current medical research which examines immune therapies and quality of life issues for children with terminal illness. He also speaks on how his doctoral work ...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112.
This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater knowledge that experience ...

Modern technology has changed education, both in and out of the classroom. This study examines not only how teachers utilize technology in the classroom, but also how technology creates new issues within the classroom, such as potentially creating wider disparities between students of different socio-economic statuses. Although this study does not encapsulate the issues of every school, it does provide interesting insight in how the field of education is shifting thanks to technology.
The intended audience of this report includes a wide range of personnel, including educators, school board members and other policy makers. This study covers quite a range ...

1. In Schenck v US, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), members of the socialist group distributed antiwar circulars to new military recruits in violation of the Espionage Act. The Court held that words are not protected by the First Amendment when they are used in a way that bring about substantive evils to which Congress has a right to prevent. This clear and present danger test was subsequently used in Abrams v. US 250 U.S. 616 (1919) and Gitlow v New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925). In Abrams, the Court upheld the conviction of the defendants on the grounds of clear and ...

Reflections to journal articles

Language, language acquisition and language teaching are areas of interest that have engaged the attention of linguists, psychologists and educationists for centuries. Zest in research in these areas continues with new issues being raised as a consequence of development in technology and means of communication. While experts continue to discuss first and second language acquisition, the truth is that it is difficult to find an individual who uses one pure language. Increasing contacts between language communities in a global scenario have resulted in bilingualism and multilingualism. According to Kumar and Yunus, “No society speaks just ‘a language’ that is ‘pure’ in its ...

Assignment

Richard W. Robins, Samuel D. Gosling, and Kenneth H. Craik
Psychology is a science, and as such, it uses the scientific method to explore previously unknown areas, while elaborating written reports to share with fellow peers and the general community, in order to guarantee its own progress. An important component of a modern psychologist then, is the ability to accurately read and interpret the works of others. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to critically analyze the paper entitled An Empirical Analysis of Trends in Psychology (Robins, Gosling, & Craik, 1999).

Research Question

Introduction
In the introduction section, the authors perform a ...

The story is about the Mexican immigrant family travel “the circuit” of crop harvesting jobs around California. The story reflects the extreme poverty and poor living conditions which the immigrant’s family was experiencing. The oldest son narrates the story explaining the disappointments they pass throughout to the hard work, constant movement, and seasonality of the job as well as the children having to skip school to work.
The theme of the story is the survival of the immigrant family in a foreign land. Use of imagery paints the theme. The speaker describes the structures and life in a dramatic ...

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Evaluation of the impact of Budget Cuts on Education Funding
Headline; 5 year impact of budget reductions in education.
Rising costs of school equipment / textbooks / supplies vs budget cuts have devastating influence on educational spectrum. However, it could only be sensed by those who face the realities on a daily basis. The cost of school textbook and supplies are aggravating at a rapid pace because of different and innovative methods applied for textbook development and distribution. The Us Government accountability office commented in this reference that the prices have faced twice a raise as that of inflation within ...

Article Review: “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow

Article Review: “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow
The article “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow (1935) addresses the issues facing applied psychology and the limitations imposed by different schools of psychology, such as behaviorism and the psychoanalytic school. Even though he commends Watson’s desire to move psychology from theoretical science to applied science and Freud’s appreciation of the importance of emotions and subconscious mental processes in structuring the human mind, Jastrow believes a naturalist perspective would benefit psychology as a unified science with practical implications. However, most of the article is dedicated to lamenting the current state of psychology ...