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Economics of Healthcare and Education Reform, 2006.
This paper argues that proposals, such as national healthcare and asset models for education, are noble attempts to fix inequities in the United States, but economic realities, namely resource constraints, make them impractical.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper explains that, although critics of the American system point out that there are too many poor, uninsured Americans and claim that national health care would eliminate this problems while providing better service at a lower cost, evidence shows that taxes would skyrocket and healthcare services would deteriorate under national healthcare. The author relates that critics of the U.S. education system attack the deficit model of education for reinforcing negative stereotypes about minority and urban youth and want to replace it with an asset model that builds learning strategies around the personal skills, interests, language and culture of individual students. The paper stresses that implementation of the asset model would call for additional funding to add teachers, but budget reductions is the current educational trend in at least 29 states.
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"Four minority groups, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, dominate the population of 185 counties and 2,000 towns and cities. And, there's increasing immigration from Central and South America, the Caribbean Islands, East Asia, and Slavic countries such as Russia. Given this diversity and the student to teacher ratios, it's difficult to imagine how teachers could possibly understand the dynamic and diverse social relationships of family, friendship and community that are unique to each group and incorporate them into their teaching."
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Thailand, the Internet and Healthcare Education, 2004.
An investigation into Thai youths' use of the internet for healthcare education.
8,986 words (approx. 35.9 pages), 32 sources, MLA, AU$ 272.95
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Today, the people of Thailand are faced with many of the same issues confronting their counterparts in both industrialized and developing nations. Around the world, concern is growing about who receives access to healthcare services. Some analysts suggest that the disparities in healthcare are actually increasing. These observers maintain that the shift in the healthcare system in advanced industrial countries from the principle of universal access to a more market-oriented system may be one cause of the growing disparities they observe; rising income inequality is another likely reason. To determine when, why and if Thai adolescents are using the enormous repository of valuable healthcare information provided by the internet, this study examines the scholarly literature and surveys a convenience sampling of Thai youths. An analysis of the data is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion, together with appropriate recommendations for policymakers and adolescent internet users in the rapidly industrializing Kingdom of Thailand today.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of Study
Importance of Study
Rationale of Study
Overview of Study
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature
Chapter 3: Methodology
Chapter 4: Data Analysis
Chapter 5: Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations
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"The ancient Kingdom of Siam is now the nation of Thailand, a modern country that enjoys a free-enterprise economy and encourages foreign investment. The country's exports feature textiles and footwear, fishery products, rice, rubber, jewelry, automobiles, computers and electrical appliances (Thailand, 2004). Today, Thailand has recovered from the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis and has became one of East Asia's best performers in 2002. Increased consumption and investment spending and strong export growth helped to drive GDP growth up to 6.3% in 2003 in spite of a sluggish global economy. Further, the highly popular government has pushed an expansionist policy, including major support of village economic development (Thailand, 2004). In this environment, many uoung Thais are becoming more self-reliant, and are asserting their independence from their families. according to a study by Starcom, a media-planning specialist and affiliate of Leo Burnett, these young people are becoming increasingly aware of social issues that affect their lives."
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Choice-based Education Reform, 2005.
This paper discusses choice-based education reform designed to ensure that under-privileged individuals receive a good education.
5,660 words (approx. 22.6 pages), 35 sources, MLA, AU$ 200.95
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This paper explains that the most promising systemic educational reform plan involves school choice, a school system that allows parents to select which school their children attend, thus giving parents the freedom to move their children out of ineffective schools while at the same time motivating the ineffective schools to improve. The author stresses that the government should only open the school choice program to families who 1) demonstrate economic need and 2) whose children would be assigned to an inadequate public school. The paper states that an effective educational system based on choice must include religious schools among the choice options.
Table of Contents
The Significance of Education
School Reform Efforts
School Finance Reform
Reform Plans Involving Forms of School Choice
Inter-district Transfer Plans and Controlled Choice
School Choice Systems in Milwaukee and Cleveland
Barriers to Choice-based Education Reform
Legal Obstacles to School Choice
A Pyrrhic Desegregation Policy
Political Barriers to School Reform
Conclusion: Constructing a Feasible School Choice System
Overcoming Legal Barriers
Religious "Choice" Schools
Designing a School Choice System
Targeted Participation
Maximum Number of Available Options
Funding School Choice
The Choice Process
Evaluating a School Choice System
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"Ironically, reform efforts to ensure equal educational opportunity have faced opposition from interests pursuing a strict desegregation enforcement policy. Some of these proponents of a strict desegregation policy have confused the means with the ends in providing for equal education through the desegregation doctrine established in Brown. The reasoning by the Court in "Brown" implied that the purpose of integration was to ensure that racial minorities received an equal educational opportunity: "We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?" This implies that equal "tangible" factors are necessary elements of an equal educational opportunity."
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Healthcare Education, 2002.
Education and supervision within the healthcare service.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 16 sources, AU$ 207.95
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This sixteen-page paper looks at and compares different models of clinical supervision, considering the Integrated Developmental Model and the Discrimination Model, noting similarities and difference as well as discussing ho they may be practically and conceptually used by supervisors within healthcare departments.
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The Economics of Healthcare, 2006.
Discusses the healthcare budgeting process and its impact on the broader healthcare industry.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 116.95
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This paper discusses healthcare budgeting process as it impacts the economics of the industry relevant to the government rules and regulations that define the overall process. Of particular importance are the Medicaid and Medicare programs and how recent changes in policies and the regulatory environment have impacted the healthcare industry. Overall, the regulatory environment of the Medicare and Medicaid government programs has made healthcare budgeting and economics a much more problematic endeavor.
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"While most administration officials view the economics of healthcare budgeting to be nothing more than a specialized version of the normal business budgeting process, in the healthcare industry, this viewpoint can be problematic. The core activities of the healthcare budgeting process are fairly straightforward and can be largely automated through specialized industry software. But the economic impact on the wider community that this process engenders is an extremely important consideration because the budgeting process determines pricing for services, taking into consideration insurance and government restrictions, and this process impacts affordability. Within this process are such line items as staffing requirements, workload activities, as well as a host of variables."
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Educational Reform in the Global Community, 2005.
A discussion regarding education reform and society in the global community.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 90.95
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This paper discusses reform related to education in the global community. The paper focuses on the attempts of eleven countries, spanning five continents that have attempted educational reform in the past several decades. This paper then further pinpoints the issues that surround the educational reform, the problems that it attempts to address, and the results of the reform in comparison with the other countries investigated. The paper is significant in educational research because it develops a pattern of global reform that should be addressed within countries that are developing educational reform systems.
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"Although the twenty-first century possesses great aspirations for students that dream of changing the world, educational systems across the continents often do not have the ability to assist with such intentions, and are struggling within society to implement educational reform. Often the complication lies in the ability of the social structure to be made aware of the difficulties that exist in education, or it is society's disenchantment with systems that were long contended as unchangeable that led to a dormancy in action to reform the methods that are devised to provide public education. However, the research indicates that battles are being waged across the globe to instill educational systems that will meet the needs of the children of today within the global community, and prepare a framework for the progress of education in the future."
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Higher Education Reform, 2007.
This paper argues that reforms are needed in the U.S. higher education system.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 80.95
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This paper argues that, although many Americans do not see the U.S. higher education system as a troubled area, if they were to look closer, they would recognize that it is in desperate need of reform. The author points out that, over the past few decades, our higher education systems have been lagging in four key components: access, affordability, quality and accountability. The paper relates that Secretary Margaret Spellings and the U.S. Department of Education did a year-long investigation of the Higher Education system in hopes of coming up with effective solutions to these problems. The paper underscores that many students do not feel ready for college because they are inadequately prepared and there are many financial barriers. The paper stresses that, because the system is so intrinsically linked to the future success of the children and the nation, its reform should be one of the highest priorities.
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"Just between 1995 and 2005, the tuition for attending a private four-year college rose about 36 percent, 51 percent in public institutions and 30 percent in community colleges (after adjusting for inflation). The worst part of this is that there are no incentives for colleges and universities to cut their costs because prestige is often measured by resources. Along with affordability is the problem of financial aid in the U.S. Our financial aid systems is too complex, long, confusing, inefficient, and usually does not provide aid for those who require it the most."
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Education Reform, 2002.
Explores James Bryant Conant's and Charles Van Doren's approach to school reform.
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This paper compares and contrasts Conant's and Van Doren's different approaches to school reform. Included, is an overview of the social and economic factors that contribute to poor academic performance and opinions of experts on education and school reform.
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"Conant and Van Doren were concerned for the future of the student. Conant saw the options as a consequence of education and thought that schools should offer programs geared to either the college bound or those needing skills for the job market. He advocated ?the creation of consolidated, comprehensive high schools. The best feature of such schools,?, was that they could offer students a wider variety of academic and vocational courses. "
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Education Reforms: Private or Public, 2002.
This paper covers the current faults and weaknesses of the American education system and why either private or public reforms are necessary to improve it.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 76.95
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This essay starts off by listing some of the current downfalls and flaws with the U.S. education system. It then proposes some practical solutions to the problems mostly though intervention by private businesses and the private sector as a whole and not just the public. Mention is also made of the government's failure to promote or improve the system as well as what the true goals of education should be.
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"The United States education system is not at par with general standards of quality education worldwide. The problem lies with our school and college curriculum and lack of sound reforms in the area of education. Though every year, our administration declares that education reforms is at the top of its political agenda, still each year we fail to notice any changes in the school and college education."
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Neoliberalism in Education Reform, 2008.
This paper discusses how the welfare state's benefits for its citizens are being undermined by neoliberal thought and policies.
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The paper looks at Alan Sears' contention that the neoliberal agenda reconfigures social services to reflect its own needs of aggrandizing wealth and profits. The paper focuses on educational reform as a means by which the neoliberal ideology eliminates the social programs it considers "waste". The paper draws on journal articles to highlight how citizens' benefits of the welfare state are being eroded down to a pay your own "fare" state.
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"At first glance it doesn't seem that the new global economy would have such a harmful effect on education. On the contrary, it would seem that more opportunities for employment would be opening up in an age of fast travel and business expansion, and what better means to prepare for it than progressive educational reform? The real question, however, is employment for whom? And the operative word is "recomposition". "Lean production" began to recompose society when wealth changed from the possession of land to that of capital. Just as the Industrial Revolution removed the farmer producers from the sources of production into the cities, so too a century later did their descendants become assembly line workers for unit production."
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Education - Curriculum Reforms - The Past 25 Years, 2008.
A review of the changes in curriculum over the past 25 years.
1,098 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 56.95
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The paper defines "curriculum" and states that the educational curriculum has undergone dramatic changes, reflecting the changes in culture today. The paper relates that the educational curriculum has undergone many reforms, as the classrooms of today are filled with students of diverse age, socioeconomic status, etc. and that their diversity is definitely greater today than at any other time in the history of education. This paper analyzes and outlines the reforms in the educational curriculum over the past 25 years and includes a discussion on diversity.
Outline:
Introduction
Definition of Curriculum
Curriculum Reforms
Diversity
Conclusion
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"Diverse educational goals, as well as varying life and economic circumstances, produce different patterns in student attendance. What was at one time the traditional college student, a white male of 18 to 20 years old, attending a four-year, liberal arts college full-time, and living on campus, is now a minority student in higher education. In addition to those students, the current college population also includes significant proportions of older students returning to school due to changes in the economy, women's roles, and work environments. Over half of the undergraduate population is over 21 years of age, and 41 percent are over 24 years of age. Another difference is the socioeconomic status of current students. This ranges from those whose families are able to finance their education fully, to adults whose incomes must also cover family expenses, to low-income students who require financial assistance. Students from lower economic and societal classes during their youth have led many of today's college students to value vocational training over learning for learning's sake. As compared to the past, women currently make up the majority of most institutions' undergraduate student bodies."
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Educational Reform and Accountability, 2002.
This paper addresses major innovations in educational reform since 1983 within the United States.
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This paper addresses major innovations in educational reform since 1983 within the United States. This paper focuses on increased accountability in education as a negative aspect of educational reform.
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Education Reformers, 2003.
An analysis of the theories of William James and John Dewey.
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This paper analyzes the theories of William James and John Dewey and how they influenced and continue to influence education in America. It expands on their ideology of education.
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"Education Reformers, John Dewey and William James are two educational philosophers whose ideologies of education continue to influence education in the United States. Both philosophers had an enormous impact on educational policy and procedures. Contemporary ..."
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Educational Reform, 2002.
A discussion of the state of education in the U.S. and the necessity for change.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 127.95
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Discusses state of education in U.S. & necessity for change. Need for self-study in schools. Various reform programs in place. Issues involved including motivatioin of students, assessment of student achievement; higher education. Needs of the business community & education including teacher communication, computer, accounting & job market skills.
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"Education in America is coming under close scrutiny as it is obvious that many students are not learning what they should, and are leaving school unprepared for the working world. This paper will look at how this situation can be remedied and make suggestions for the design of a New American School.
If a student is going to learn effectively in a school situation, there are many issues which need to be addressed. A non-profit, non-partisan organization known as New American Schools (NAS) is attempting to assist and support schools through the implementation of comprehensive school design (Hertling, 2000). Before reforms take place, it is necessary for schools to conduct a thorough self-study to carefully and realistically identify their strengths and weaknesses. Once this assessment has been made, the Education Research Service says..."
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Educational Reform Measures, 2001.
A look at reform measures and strategies suggested by researchers and educators and discussion on their effectiveness.
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"Educational reform has been identified as the vehicle for preparing our future vanguards to compete for the position of world leadership. Educational reform is one of several important issues that facilitates the continuation of the democratic republic in America."
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Educational Reform & Change, 2001.
Identifies significant issues in reform. Describes differing ideas of 10 prominent educators.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 21 sources, AU$ 115.95
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"Educational reform and change is a movement that was motivated by the 1983 report AA Nation At Risk,@ published by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. Response to the report elicited many ideas and methods of school reform. In March of 1994, President Clinton signed the GOALS 2000: Educate America Act, which established national education goals that focused on results, accountability and flexibility in the use of federal education resources. The 1994 Goals 2000 Act formalized into law the six original National Education Goals (school readiness, increased graduation rate, student achievement, mathematics and science, adult literacy and lifelong learning, safe schools) and added two goals on teacher education and professional development and parental involvement. This paper will identify some of the most significant issues in educational ..."
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