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The paper discusses Viktor Frankl's work about his experience in a concentration camp and explains that what gave Frankl and the other prisoners who suffered in extreme and cruel conditions the will to live over those who gave up on life was the promise of a future - either a task they were due to fulfill or a loved one that was waiting for their return. The paper asserts that Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" are extremely applicable in this case and can be abstractly applied to the college experience and courses that are not necessarily desired, but must be taken for education completion.

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"Viktor Frankl's work about his experience in a concentration camp was powerful and enlightening. What gave Frankl and the other prisoners who suffered in extreme and cruel conditions the will to live over those who gave up on life was the promise of a future - either a task they were due to fulfill or a loved one that was waiting for their return. Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" are extremely applicable in this case and can be abstractly applied to the college experience and courses that are not necessarily desired, but must be taken..."

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This paper is written as report in reply to a school board's Request for Proposal (RFP) that was released to its educational researching and consulting program. The report is produced by the large urban school district somewhere in the northeastern United States, which is currently in the process of implementing a series of advanced placement and honors study courses for their core curriculum courses in three senior high schools. Prior to the district administrators feeling confident that they can indeed approve and eventually allocate the necessary funding for the proposed advanced placement and or honors study courses, the board's leaders have allocated funding to undergo a thorough planning study that will help facilitate and provide a clear picture of the overall process of implementing the new advanced placement and or honors study courses in the three district high schools. This proposal provides a hypothesis; a background that provides the school board with an understanding of the nature and scope of the advanced placement and/or honors courses; a statement of the issues and problems when implementing such courses in urban schools; a methodological section that provides details on the procedures proposed; analytic methods used; and the potential significance of the project. The paper includes a graph.

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"Urban schools present a particular challenge to school leadership. However, when educational leaders champion the diversity and commit themselves to serving the student bodies within the urban community, these schools have an opportunity to become both academic and social diamonds in the rough. These goldmines can offer new and positive opportunities. The school system through this program has decided to increase the amount of money spent per pupil and this offers an incentive for experienced teachers. "In our large cities, the majority of young Americans end compulsory education in high schools that feel oppressive at worst and irrelevant at best, despite the well intentioned best efforts of the adults who serve them. If education is to be the practice of freedom, then we are not yet free, and some of us are freer than others." (Jubb) Smaller but more challenging classes will encourage teachers to teach those disgruntled levels of students."

Tags:AP, teacher, Educational, Testing, Service

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This paper presents a chronological review of academic sources relating the importance of vocational courses in addition to academic courses to keep students in high school and to prepare them for work after graduation. These international sources cover topics such as no national standards for vocational curriculum and the importance of the Perkins bill that supports vocational education. The paper includes reviews of articles about the importance of students having choices and a variety of options because each student is different.

Table of Contents:
Reasons
What's Not Working
Initiation Into the Real World
Career and Technical Education
No National Standards or Curriculum
Perkins Bill
Minority Similarities and Differences
Reasons Students Drop Out of High School
Helping Students Prepare for Life
Discrepancy in Matching Students' Employment Opportunities
Minority Students Relationship to School Outcomes
Linking Learning
Not All Learning Suits Every Student
The Ability to Choose Their Own Courses
Different Opportunities
High School Reform Considerations
OVAE

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"Gore, Kadish and Aseltine (2003) examine whether students participating in career-centered high school programs experience a better work-life after they graduate from high school. Initially, during the winter and spring of 1998, and then approximately 2.5 years later, a second time, the authors collect data from a group of 1,143 high school seniors. Schools included a University-based consortium of schools involved in curriculum development for school-to-work initiatives."

Tags:intervention minority dropout, life skills, research

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The paper notes how the internet can be used successfully to introduce assignments - though it is not without limitations in this regard. The presentation also highlights the benefits and weaknesses of online learning courses when it comes to grading materials. Finally, the paper concludes by looking at how we can assess the overall effectiveness of online learning courses. In the end, the paper concludes that web-based or online distance learning can be efficacious when it comes to instructing young nurses - assuming certain precautions are taken.

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"The following presentation will discuss how we (nursing professionals) can assess the effectiveness of online learning programs. The paper will begin by noting how the internet can be used successfully to introduce assignments - though it is not without limitations in this regard. The presentation will also highlight the benefits and weaknesses of online learning courses when it comes to grading materials. Finally, the paper will conclude by looking at how we can assess the overall effectiveness of..."

Tags:learning, distance, web, based

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The paper discusses courses on general psychology, forensic psychology, abnormal psychology and on persuasion and resistance. The paper asserts that for those entering the psychology profession but uncertain as to where their skills and interests might be applied, these four courses discussed would constitute a very informative starting point for defining a future focus.

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"There is an automatic difficulty in reconciling the claims of some historical accounts with those of others. For example, more empirically inclined traditions of thought are certainly predisposed to reject any history of psychological evolution that includes deference to scientifically unfounded psychotherapy. And contrarily, there are certain overlaps in every history which point to an occasional inevitability in reconciliation, perhaps due to the universally evolutionary leap of certain moments. Such is evidenced by the common reference, across histories, to the work of Freud and others, though such ideas are adapted and parsed as needed for correspondence to different ideological perspectives."

Tags:general, forensic, abnormal, persuasion, resistance, behavior, treatment

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This paper examines how traditional classrooms and correspondence courses are similar in offering different types of learning styles. It also looks at how they are different in that students taking correspondence courses must be actively involved in their learning and motivated, they must communicate with their instructor outside the normal environment such as through e-mail, they must learn to be flexible with different types of technology, and be dedicated in their desire to get their degree.

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"While many people may question getting their education through correspondence courses, research shows that correspondence courses have been an educational option for many years. "The earliest form of distance learning took place through correspondence courses in Europe" (Sherry, 1996, p. 337). Correspondence programs continue to be an option for many people today. Actually, these schools and traditional schools and colleges have many similarities when it comes to learning. Correspondence schools and other distance learning programs have benefits that make it possible for some people to obtain their degrees. Traditional classrooms and correspondence courses are similar in offering different types of learning styles, yet they are different in that students taking correspondence courses must be actively involved in their learning and motivated, they must communicate with their instructor outside the normal environment such as through e-mail, they must learn to be flexible."

Tags:correspondence, traditional, education

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This essay examines and analyzes the issue of humanities courses at a technical university in terms of their function and value to technical university students. The author argues that humanities courses are vital.

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This is a research paper that attempts to ascertain whether or not students who were taking reading at the time they took a standardized academic test scored better (or worse or the same) than students who were not taking a reading course. The paper hypothesizes that students that are taking reading courses at the time that they take the standardized test will out perform students who are not taking a reading course at the time test is taken.

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"The issue of reading courses and their impact on standardized testing is significant because it has an effect upon the way that students are perceived. The issue of the emphasis that schools place on standardized testing is controversial in and of itself. These are additional controversies that arise when we bring into questions the type of instruction that students receive prior to taking such tests."

Tags:arizona, instrument, measure, success, stanford, 9, administered, questions, evaluating

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This paper discusses Shelby Foote's book "Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863", which offers a historical account of the true events of the campaign in a novel format. The paper describes the author's technique of building the characters and setting the scenes, thereby giving the reader an appreciation of the human side of this period of history.

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"The major feature of Shelby Foote that impacts on the book is that he was both a historian and a novelist, with a special interest in the civil war. His previous book titled Shiloh was a fictional account of the civil war and was well-received. Because of the interest in this book, Shelby was requested to write a history of the civil war. His trilogy was the result, with Stars in Their Courses an excerpt from this trilogy. This background of Foote's explains his unique approach to writing the account. Foote combined his talents as a novelist and a historian to write an account that combined the best features of both. Foote was focused not only on the facts as a history book might list them, but on what the experience was like for the people involved. This resulted in the main aspect that sets the book apart from other historical accounts, the focus on not just describing the facts but telling a story."

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The paper presents the argument that financial management should be the subject of a mandatory course which will be required of all graduating students. The paper goes on to discuss how there is a mentality in college which de-emphasizes both the value of money and the imperative to begin saving or spending responsibly. The paper strongly contends that since many students do not recognize the implications of a reckless and unsustainable budget, their spending habits that must be reversed before they leave school. The paper suggests teaching sound financial management that includes practical economic concepts and the ability to resolve debt.

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"This idea of maintaining a good credit score is also of essential importance in educating the student, who may not be aware of the significant effect which can be brought to bear by one's credit score. As one text denotes, individuals typically will not read or understand the fine print in their credit card contract agreements. (Usigan, 1) Accordingly, one of the biggest areas of concern for college students is that of credit card debt. Students will often lack the cashflow or income to meet the types of spending priorities which they will make for themselves. Either because their focus is drawn to their studies and prevents them from seeking part-time employment or because they lack the awareness to know the long-term implications, many students will spend their college years relying upon credit card spending. This is a way that many students accumulate the kind of bad debt that can follow them for years to come. This is an area especially where students must be educated if they are to enter the professional world on an equal competitive footing. As it stands, most students enter into this part of their life already held over by tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. While they must prepare to make important regular payments on these loans, students must also often work to redress the debts built by inadvisable credit spending."

Tags:budget, debt, savings, credit, money