Kant's views on education, which influenced the liberal and democratic ideals that guide educational theory today
From the schools of ancient times to the present day, Gary Thomas looks at how and why education evolved as it has.
In the papers collected in Education: Assumptions versus History, Dr. Thomas Sowell takes a hard look at the state of education in our schools and universities.
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What Are Learning Disabilities ? As mentioned in the previous section , children with specific learning disabilities comprise the category that includes the greatest number of special needs children served . IDEA '04 defines a specific ...
Branch , Robert Maribe , and Fitzgerald , Mary Ann , ed . Educational Media and Technology Yearbook . 23rd ed . Englewood , Colo .: Libraries Unlimited , 1998. 296 p . $ 65.00 . ISSN : 8755-2094 . ISBN : 1-56308-591-7 .
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In American society, the ends and means of education have been debated vigorously throughout its history. Most Americans enthusiastically and eagerly supported the development of public education in the mid-19th century.
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GAO estimated that before the 1980 amendments: (1) about 1.4 percent of the incarcerated felons were receiving social security disability benefits of approximately $17 million a year; (2) about 1 percent were receiving VA disability ...
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Hetmanek 1965 shows what happened to Islam and its institutions after the Russian Revolution, and Ro'i 2000 examines the same process in depth up to the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. ▻Bennigsen, Alexandre, and Chantal ...
With new cases in every chapter that bring readers into the real world of teaching, this widely admired text now integrates the core foundations of education with case-based analysis, practical...
It was Melanie's birth that prompted Harry to focus on the field of special education. Melanie was born with cerebral palsy, ... In 2010 she published a memoir, Melanie, Bird With a Broken Wing: A Mother's Story. Harry 166 EDUCATION.
' Steve Munby This ground-breaking book is both a manifesto and a call to arms to inspire all those involved in education to consider new visions and values for the future of the school system.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The improvement network Un Buen Comienzo (A Good Start) is a case of a third-party nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Fundación Educacional Oportunidad (FEO). FEO is a social infrastructure comprised of over a hundred ...
Discusses the development of formal education during the Middle Ages, describing various methods of education, types of schools, curricula, who went to school, the rise of higher education, and more.
Provides an introduction to the concepts of literary and non-formal education and adult programmes at grass-root levels, of the education in economic development, of the ways in which technology can enhance distance learning.