Texas is committed to better prepared students for educational endeavors after high school. Specifically, Texas seeks to increase participation in higher education by 630,000 students as well as to increase certificate ...

With increasing demands for schools to meet standardized test expectations, decrease drop-out rates, prepare a globally competitive workforce, and develop students who are college-ready, many schools are faced with the ...

Identified as the highest forms of cognition (Bruner, 1986), and as narrative illustrations of our lived experiences (Craig & Huber, 2007; Freeman, 2007; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), metaphors form the conceptual framework for ...

In this era of accountability created by federally mandated initiatives, school leaders are still searching for ways to improve schools. Principals must learn to manage schools efficiently while moving classrooms out of ...

Boys are falling behind academically in many schools in the United States. Over that past thirty years, girls have surpassed males in academic achievement in all subject areas, including those traditionally thought of as ...

A convincing body of research supports the significant nature of high quality child care. Yet, the quality of child care programs across the United States vary greatly and can be considered mediocre at best (Belsky, ...

It was the purpose of this study to determine if there is a relationship between student satisfaction with high-fidelity-patient simulation experience and self-confidence in learning among student nurses. The population ...