Fresh articles from Articlear.comhttp://www.articlear.com/ http://www.articlear.com/Art/185696/623/History-Learning.html The learning of history is a complex undertaking Cognitive research done since 1980, much of it in Great Britain and North America, has indicated that it is more difficult to learn and understand history than previously thought http://www.articlear.com/Art/185696/623/History-Learning.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185689/623/Team-Teaching.html Team teaching involves a group of instructors working purposefully, regularly, and cooperatively to help a group of students of any age learn Teachers together set goals for a course, design a syllabus, prepare individual lesson plans, teach students, and evaluate the results http://www.articlear.com/Art/185689/623/Team-Teaching.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185688/623/Civics-And-Citizenship-Education.html For more than 200 years–from the time of the country's founding to the early twenty-first century–Americans have believed that the primary purpose of U S schools is to educate young people for responsible citizenship http://www.articlear.com/Art/185688/623/Civics-And-Citizenship-Education.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185687/623/Accreditation-In-An-International-Context.html The United States, and a small but increasing number of other countries, use the process of voluntary accreditation to assure minimum standards of quality in the operation and delivery of educational services http://www.articlear.com/Art/185687/623/Accreditation-In-An-International-Context.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185686/623/Federal-Funds-For-Higher-Education.html The federal government plays a critical role in providing financial support for higher education In fiscal year 1996 approximately $40 billion, or one-fifth of the total revenue received by degree-granting institutions of higher education, originated from the federal government http://www.articlear.com/Art/185686/623/Federal-Funds-For-Higher-Education.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185654/623/Motivation-Self-Regulated-Learning.html Self-regulated learning refers to the processes by which individual learners attempt to monitor and control their own learning There are many different models of self-regulated learning that propose different constructs and processes, but they do share some basic assumptions about learning and regulation http://www.articlear.com/Art/185654/623/Motivation-Self-Regulated-Learning.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185652/623/Learning-Conceptual-Change.html he term conceptual change refers to the development of fundamentally new concepts, through restructuring elements of existing concepts, in the course of knowledge acquisition Conceptual change is a particularly profound kind of learning–it goes beyond revising one's specific beliefs http://www.articlear.com/Art/185652/623/Learning-Conceptual-Change.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185651/623/Institutional-Advancement-In-Higher-Education.html With the rapid increase in the costs associated with higher education, there has been an ever-increasing pressure placed upon colleges and universities to raise funds for institutional support Fund-raising drives in excess of $1 billion are commonplace among top tier institutions in the early twenty-first century http://www.articlear.com/Art/185651/623/Institutional-Advancement-In-Higher-Education.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185650/623/Harvard-University.html Harvard University, the oldest educational institution in the United States, was founded sixteen years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts Established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 and later chartered in 1650 in what is now the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, http://www.articlear.com/Art/185650/623/Harvard-University.html http://www.articlear.com/Art/185647/623/Drug-And-Alcohol-Abuse-School.html Drug and alcohol abuse are important problems that affect school-age youth at earlier ages than in the past Young people frequently begin to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during the middle school years, with a smaller number starting during elementary school http://www.articlear.com/Art/185647/623/Drug-And-Alcohol-Abuse-School.html