The concept of "alternatives" to traditional state certification leaves a great deal of room for varied meaning. It can mean alternative ways to meet teacher certification requirements--such as a graduate level masters' degree program ...

Imagine a corporation whose ambitions are unbounded and whose main product seems indispensable. Imagine that it has threatened to withhold this product in order to impose its will on competitors and manufacturers who require it. Imagine that it has ...

Establishing tuition rates at institutions of higher learning is always of fundamental strategic importance to college administrators who are suffering adverse financial effects from reduced allocations from external sources and increased ...

Every discipline can be seen as a particular knowledge system that is a component of a more general knowledge system. Within each discipline, journal articles, books, and monographs fill the fundamental role of storing and distributing information. ...

Long-term outcome of psychological trauma in childhood after parents divorce is inevitably difficult to trace or to identify. Many complexly interacting factors shape the lives of children, and the conceptual and methodological problems in studying ...

In all the different educational systems throughout the world, there are different views that are taught and seen; different ways that educational systems are run and paid for; these are all part of the educational system. Everyone is learning. ...

A framework for an educational psychology of assessment for teaching and learning is proposed, consisting of three dimensions: epistemology and theories, the interpreter and user, and assessment characteristics. The dimension of interpreter and user ...

"Increasingly central to the role of the new professional teacher is the ability to employ technology to improve student learning and to employ technology in the many facets of professional work. This will require new understandings, new ...

When we think of leadership, we often think first of famous individuals. We may think of great political leaders: Washington, Churchill, Roosevelt. We may think of the leaders of social movements: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Caesar Chavez. In fact, ...

Fundamental motor skills is one of the most essential assessment in the physical education setting that provide a wide base of movement abilities from which more advanced skills can be developed. A child whose fundamental motor skills are not amply ...

I have been planning a career in Counseling for several years, but as an undergraduate I concentrated on getting a solid background in psychology and sociology. After graduation, I took a job to allow myself time to thoroughly think through my plans ...

For a long time, achieving good grades and nothing more has been the ultimate goal in a my academic life. This is a standard that was set centuries ago by "grownups" that needed a way of ranking students based solely on letters or numbers. ...

Over the last 30 years, increasing attention has been paid to 'early childhood education and care services'-by governments, by parents, by employers, by local communities and by researchers. The reasons have been varied. As women have joined men in ...