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Problems with high-stakes standardized testing in education

Across the world, students from the primary grades to post-graduate school have been taking standardized tests in order to qualify for the next level of education or to earn their degrees.

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Craig Clunas and John Fairbanks' contrasting approaches to Chinese culture

Craig Clunas and how he portrays material culture in his writings and how John Fairbanks expresses his views on Chinese culture

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Plato and Aristotle versus Derrida and Foucault on art

Philosophy is often mistakenly viewed as a single trajectory, leading from Socrates to Plato to Aristotle and through the rest of the classical period, hibernating somewhat during the Dark Ages, and being restored again with the Enlightenment thinkers during the Renaissance.

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The role of language in facilitating critical thinking

Language and Critical Thinking a. I had a friend once. He is no longer part of my life, but he remains part of my thoughts. He was a constant rock for me to lean on. Yet I never appreciated him. I didn't give him the respect he deserved, and took him for granted, no matter what he did for me.

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Corporate governance reform in the United States and United Kingdom

Corporate Governance Under Globalization in the U.S. And the U.K. The failure of governments both domestic and international to provide effective oversight of corporate activities over a period of significant economic growth would precipitate a pattern of misappropriation, corruption and willful…

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Written error correction methods used by ESOL teachers in East London

This study will focus on highlight the treatment of written error correction by ESOL teachers at a college in East London for all elementary (beginner), intermediate and advance level of students that are studying under the ESL program and curriculum being implemented at the college.

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Leadership styles across organizational and societal cultures

The focus of all leadership research shifting from traditional to transactional models of leadership has charisma as the central concept (Pillai, Schriesheim, & Williams, 1999).

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Origins and functions of Irish Round Towers

The name itself carries enough to become a description in its own right of these wonders of the Irish architecture.

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Nineteenth-century evolutionary theories of marriage, family, and religion

How do the methods of 19th Century Evolutionists explain the development of marriage, family, political organization, and religion?

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Corporate governance definitions and international convergence constraints

The proper governance of companies will become as crucial to the world economy as the proper governing of countries... strong corporate governance produces good social progress. The two go together. -- James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, 2002

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