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• Many Students with Learning Disabilities Are Not Receiving "Special" Education
  Article by Daniel P Hallahan

  Special education is based on the core principles of intensive, relentless, structured, appropriately paced instructi...

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  The Academy Awards: Genuine Merit, or Popularity Contests?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  Nominees for the very first Oscars—in an even dozen categories that included Artistic Quality of Production, Comedy Direction, and Title Writing—were selected by the 33 industry VIPs who became Academy founders at a lavish Ambassador Hotel dinner thrown by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mogul Louis B....

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  Rise of For-Profit Vocational Schools
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  By the time I graduated from high school, I had signed up for another four years of school – because getting a bachelor’s degree was the next step. I knew plenty of people who were setting themselves up for years of loan payments and somehow, this sense of solidarity helped assuage my...

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  Single-Sex Dorms: Gender Separation and Education
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  The President of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. recently wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal to explain his decision to return all of the school's student housing to same-sex dorms. He states that more than 90 percent of college residence halls are now co-ed...

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  GED Popularity Grows Despite Job Challenges and Impending Changes
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  In 2002 participation in the General Education Development exam (GED) dropped 43.6 percent . That was a substantial decrease for a test that attracted 1,016,000 takers in 2001. The drop reflected tougher standards and new, open-response questions that aligned with an increase in high school...

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  How Effective is Unschooling?
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  In a world where gaining a public education is deemed important, a small percentage of people are not participating in public school systems, or home schooling. Unschooling is a different approach to learning without tests or grades. In other words, without a set curriculum, unschooling...

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  The Ongoing Debate of American Education
  Topic by Nidhi Singh

  With the upcoming 2012 Presidential Election drawing closer, candidates are sure to address the U.S. education system. As students in the United States continue to lag behind countries such as India and China in math and science, the issue of American education remains an unsolved problem....

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  Why Are There Teacher Cheating Scandals?
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  In July 2011, it was discovered that 178 Atlanta public school teachers and principals were involved in a cheating scandal. The educators were responsible for raising student test scores on state standardized tests. Some educators blame their actions on the pressure of meeting standards set...

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  China's New Prada Bag: The American Diploma
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  In upwardly mobile China, labels have always mattered, whether the goods behind the label are genuine or not. The latest must-have brand names for wealthy Chinese are not Prada or Louis Vuitton; they are Harvard and Andover. Studying abroad is not a new pursuit in China, but the number...

• Charter Schools, Online Schools & Public Education
  Topic by Marta Segal Block
• Failure, The Unrealized Trend in Today's Schools
  Topic by Kirsten N Lemmons
• Academic Ethics: Why Students Cheat
  Topic by Nidhi Singh
• Kierkegaard and Nineteenth Century Continental Theology
  Article by Matthew Hisrich
• "Pain:" An Excerpt from "Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?"
  Article by Denise Jones
• What is the Relationship Between Ethical and Legislative Policies Regarding the Media and Innovation?
  Topic by William W Bauser