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    IDEA 2004 IDEA 2004 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) was created so that any student with any type of physical or mental disabilities would receive an equal opportunity for a better education. I feel that IDEA 2004 has satisfied its purpose. Idea 2004 has implemented special education teachers to teach the students with disabilities. Since the first time that the act was created‚ it has been modified several times. Each time implementing special elements that aid mentally challenged

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    ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN INDIA Rangan Banerjee Vinayak P. Muley Sponsored by Observer Research Foundation Department of Energy Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai‚ Mumbai – 400076 December 16‚ 2008 Engineering Education in India Executive Summary India has the potential to be a global technology leader. Indian industry is competing globally in software and even in areas such an automobiles‚ chemicals and engineering equipment. A critical issue

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    ethnicity. It has been said that education is a “major social institution”. According to functionalists socialization should be provided by education. In this way young people learn how to become contributing citizens by means of formal subjects. The hard work of these young people is rewarded by the acquisition of formal recognised qualifications. By teaching subjects‚ such as English‚ history and religion education promotes a sense of national identity. In addition‚ education is conducive to

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    Essay 1 Is involvement or interaction with one’s society necessary for the growth of the individual? This is a difficult ongoing social issue‚ one addressed by both Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Self-Reliance” and Ruth Benedict in “The Individual and the Pattern of Culture” They both think that the society and the individual are inseparable‚ but they have two sharply different approaches. Compared to Emerson‚ Benedict emphasizes individuals and their interaction with their local culture‚ while Emerson

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    Education should be one of the highest priorities of a country. Education serves the interests both of the modern state and individual. It serves the state by creating citizens with a common understanding of their identity that manifests itself as nationalism as well as an appreciation of rights and responsibilities. Also it serves the interests of individuals because it enables them to participate in the production of the modern world’s economy‚ politics and society. But lack of high quality and

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    Education” is a broad term that can have many meanings‚ but it is generally defined as the process of learning and acquiring information. Formal learning in a school or university is one of the most common types‚ though self-teaching and so-called “life experiences” can also qualify. Communities around the world place a high value on educating people of all ages‚ whether formally or informally. It is widely believed that constant exposure to new ideas and skills makes people better workers‚ thinkers

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    Radhakrishnan committee report The Radhakrishnan Committee had lot to say about the University Education but it reviewed the secondary education in the country as well. It was this commission which remarked that "Secondary Education continues to be the weakest link in our educational machinery and needs urgent reform." It recommended: (i) A twelve year secondary course instead of ten years‚ (ii) That teachers’ lot be improved‚ (iii) Admission to the university be after intermediate examination

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    The Education Essay Learning is a natural ability that is wired into many animals DNA; the way that humans should learn has been debated by the various educators because of the endless ways to teach. Teachers and parents take this matter seriously like Ralph Waldo Emerson in “From Education” and Todd Gitlin in “The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut” who created essays on education; and Billy Collins in “The History Teacher” entail for then and who wrote a poem concerned with the status of education

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    Education is a vital process that enables pupils and students to acquire knowledge and skills that can earn them a living and a respectable life. Within most education systems are measures such as user charges and cost recovery. These measures are put forward so as to improve the quality of education. In Sub-Saharan Africa countries‚ the user charges and cost recovery measures have been criticised by some people on equity grounds although within the same region other people have defended the measures

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    Outline the New Right view of the role of education. 20 marks New Right theorists agree with Functionalists that industrial societies should ideally be organised as capitalist societies and that education systems should operate to meet the needs of capitalism but these New Right theorists also argued in the 1970s and 1980s that in practice state education systems were organised inefficiently and that both their formal and hidden curricula were not geared to meeting the needs of industry. New

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