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The Economics And Financing Of Urban Schools: Toward A Productive, Solution-Oriented Discourse, Faith E. Crampton Sep 2010

The Economics And Financing Of Urban Schools: Toward A Productive, Solution-Oriented Discourse, Faith E. Crampton

Educational Considerations

Across the nation, a surprising number of both critics and advocates of urban schools demonstrate a naïveté about the limits and possibilities of funding in relationship to the academic success of urban students.


Perception Of Good Leadership Among The Academics In Nigeria: Case Of Benue State University, Makurdi, Umbur Demekaa Jul 2010

Perception Of Good Leadership Among The Academics In Nigeria: Case Of Benue State University, Makurdi, Umbur Demekaa

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

The objectives of the study were: i. To determine the influence of gender on the academics perception of good leadership. ii. To examine the influence of status on the academics perception of good leadership. iii. To determine the influence of religion on the academics perception of good leadership iv. To determine the influence of discipline on the academics perception of good leadership.


Distributed Leadership Influence On Professional Development Initiatives: Conversations With Eight Teachers, Jeffrey Pedersen, Stuart Yager, Robert Yager Jul 2010

Distributed Leadership Influence On Professional Development Initiatives: Conversations With Eight Teachers, Jeffrey Pedersen, Stuart Yager, Robert Yager

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

Achieving the kind of balance that encourages all children to learn, work, and contribute to their fullest potential has been a continuing challenge as the world grows more complex and our communities enveloped with various challenges of socio-political and economic disintegration. With rapid changes in technology and global competition in all facets of human endeavour, it is more crucial than ever that adolescents are fully equipped to compete for knowledge and technology based jobs. When students are not well prepared for the challenges ahead most especially from the secondary school stage of education, the cost to individuals and the implication …


Reconciling Challenges And Opportunities In Academic Scientific Writing, Kamaruzaman Jusoff Jul 2010

Reconciling Challenges And Opportunities In Academic Scientific Writing, Kamaruzaman Jusoff

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

To initiate the governmental strategy in Thrust 2 of the Ministry of Higher Education Strategic Plan Core Thrusts launched in 2007, and to nurture “First Class Mentality”, in the currently running Ninth Malaysia Plan (2005-2010); the need is vital for the educational sector to pick up the drive to manifest it. The second thrust emphasizes on the strategy to raise the capacity for knowledge and innovation. For that, it is apt that the academia contributes towards the effort to achieve excellence. In addition, its fourth thrust that is enhancement in teaching and learning; and the fifth thrust that is strengthening …


Implementing Active Learning Strategies: Tales From Two New Life Science Professors At Research Universities, Nichole Barger, Stuart Grandy Apr 2010

Implementing Active Learning Strategies: Tales From Two New Life Science Professors At Research Universities, Nichole Barger, Stuart Grandy

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

Past research examining the effects of lectures on student learning suggests that they limit interactions in the classroom, place the responsibility for learning solely with the instructor, and do not provide an environment that compliments a range of learning styles (Silverthorn 1998; Landis et al. 1998; Aboudan 2009). Fortunately, there are many different active learning techniques such as role playing and group activities to more directly engage students and develop their ability to synthesize information, communicate clearly, and adapt to changing knowledge (e.g. Mason 2005; Colley 2008; Cornelius- White 2007). In this paper, we share our experiences implementing active learning …


Psychological Correlates Of Job Satisfaction Among Selected Secondary School Counselors In Ogun State, Nigeria., J.T.B. Oluwatimilehin Apr 2010

Psychological Correlates Of Job Satisfaction Among Selected Secondary School Counselors In Ogun State, Nigeria., J.T.B. Oluwatimilehin

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

The purpose of the study is to give school counselors in Ogun State Secondary Schools an opportunity to express their opinions about their work as counselors with a view to assessing their level of job satisfaction. It has been observed that the rate of counselors’ turnover is high. The need therefore arises to find out the problems encouraging the turnover in the bid to reduce or eradicate the phenomena especially now that there is need for more school counselors to handle the guidance roles in the school curriculum.


Teacher Perceptions Of Administrative Support For Democratic Practice: Implications For Leadership And Policy, Audrey Murphy Apr 2010

Teacher Perceptions Of Administrative Support For Democratic Practice: Implications For Leadership And Policy, Audrey Murphy

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

This paper reports results from a qualitative study that examined perceptions of administrative practice expressed by members of a grassroots teacher group committed to the practice of democratic education. The group (the Friday Roundtable) was comprised of K-12 public school teachers in rural Appalachian Ohio who spent considerable time together trying to answer the collective question how can we be better teachers? A key element of that dialogue involved consideration of increased state and national pressures that often included educational expectations of their building administrators that the teachers perceived as undemocratic. Using case studies of eleven individual teachers situated in …


K-12 Virtual Schools, Accreditation, And Leadership: What Are The Issues?, Trudy A. Salsberry Apr 2010

K-12 Virtual Schools, Accreditation, And Leadership: What Are The Issues?, Trudy A. Salsberry

Educational Considerations

When I was young, I attended my neighborhood school. It was a square brick building with three floors and was situated on a corner just five blocks from my home. That building was torn down not long ago, and I asked my family to save a brick from that building to remind me of all the experiences I had there learning to read, use math, discover other countries, understand basic scientific principles, and communicate.


Perceptions Of Teachers & School Leaders On Competencies Of Teachers & Training Needs, Sailesh Sharma Jan 2010

Perceptions Of Teachers & School Leaders On Competencies Of Teachers & Training Needs, Sailesh Sharma

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

Government of Thailand recognizes the need of Human Resources Development of teaching professionals as a key to maintain standards of education at an internationally competitive level. Considering the large number of teachers currently in service whose expertise in new teaching and learning approaches will be critical in implementing the educational reform, it is surprising that very little work has been done in planning, developing and delivering training in new teaching and learning methods. The biggest impact of the teaching and learning reform rests with the teachers currently in the classrooms and yet little attention has been given to (a) developing …


Does Poisonous Arsenic Support Life?, Atbin Doroodchi Jan 2010

Does Poisonous Arsenic Support Life?, Atbin Doroodchi

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 7


Discovery Of Two New Horned Dinosaurs, Natalie Mitchell Jan 2010

Discovery Of Two New Horned Dinosaurs, Natalie Mitchell

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 8


Scientists Solve The Mystery Of Life?, Kavita Nadendla Jan 2010

Scientists Solve The Mystery Of Life?, Kavita Nadendla

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 11


Lessons In Failure, Helen Lin Jan 2010

Lessons In Failure, Helen Lin

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 14


My Phage, My Miracle, Mira Patel Jan 2010

My Phage, My Miracle, Mira Patel

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 15


The Fruit Of Locke's Experience, Yvette D. Riley Jan 2010

The Fruit Of Locke's Experience, Yvette D. Riley

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 19-20


Don't Be Afraid Of Math, Rachael Rosales Jan 2010

Don't Be Afraid Of Math, Rachael Rosales

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 22


Upregulation Of The 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Receptor In Neonatal Brain Injury, Aditi Jani, Melinda Clarke, Brian Sims Jan 2010

Upregulation Of The 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Receptor In Neonatal Brain Injury, Aditi Jani, Melinda Clarke, Brian Sims

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 32-36


An Interview With Dr. Alan Eberhardt, Department Of Biomedical Engineering, Jake Fletcher Jan 2010

An Interview With Dr. Alan Eberhardt, Department Of Biomedical Engineering, Jake Fletcher

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 77-78


Stability Studies Of Novel Oligodeoxynucleotides In Tlr-9 Mediated Cellular Invasion, Elise M. Ottenfeld, Jason S. Hudson, David E. Graves Jan 2010

Stability Studies Of Novel Oligodeoxynucleotides In Tlr-9 Mediated Cellular Invasion, Elise M. Ottenfeld, Jason S. Hudson, David E. Graves

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 84-86


2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Recipients, Timothy Fernandez Jan 2010

2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Recipients, Timothy Fernandez

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 100


The Perils Of Natural Gas, Helen Lin Jan 2010

The Perils Of Natural Gas, Helen Lin

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 6-7


It's Just Not Science, It's Art, Uma Srivastava Jan 2010

It's Just Not Science, It's Art, Uma Srivastava

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 18-19


Lab Bench To Bedside, Toral Patel Jan 2010

Lab Bench To Bedside, Toral Patel

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

p. 16


Orthodenticle Homeobox 2 (Otx2) And Its Influence On Mammalian Development: A Scientific Review, Ashruta Patel Jan 2010

Orthodenticle Homeobox 2 (Otx2) And Its Influence On Mammalian Development: A Scientific Review, Ashruta Patel

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 27-31


Sex-Ratio Predictions Of Eretmochelys Imbricata Nesting Beaches In Nicaragua And The Republic Of Seychelles, G. Gourmelon, J. E. Layton, T. Wibbels, J. A. Mortimer, C. Campbell, C. Lagueux Jan 2010

Sex-Ratio Predictions Of Eretmochelys Imbricata Nesting Beaches In Nicaragua And The Republic Of Seychelles, G. Gourmelon, J. E. Layton, T. Wibbels, J. A. Mortimer, C. Campbell, C. Lagueux

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 43-48


The Development Of Nanotechnology: An Interview With Dr. Andrei Stanishevsky, Kavita Nadendla Jan 2010

The Development Of Nanotechnology: An Interview With Dr. Andrei Stanishevsky, Kavita Nadendla

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 93-94


From Insects’ Behavior To Extremophiles’ Gene Regulation: An Interview With Dr. Asim Bej, Timmy Wang Jan 2010

From Insects’ Behavior To Extremophiles’ Gene Regulation: An Interview With Dr. Asim Bej, Timmy Wang

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 36-37


An Interview With Dr. Aaron Lucius, Andrew Buie Jan 2010

An Interview With Dr. Aaron Lucius, Andrew Buie

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 83-84


Anthony And Rob's Excellent Iacuc Adventure, Rob Wians, Anthony Todd Jan 2010

Anthony And Rob's Excellent Iacuc Adventure, Rob Wians, Anthony Todd

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 17-18


A Pioneering Look At Current Trends In Nuclear Medicine Clinical Equipment In The State Of Alabama: Findings From A 2010 Clinical Survey, Yvonne Flaherty, Norman Bolus Jan 2010

A Pioneering Look At Current Trends In Nuclear Medicine Clinical Equipment In The State Of Alabama: Findings From A 2010 Clinical Survey, Yvonne Flaherty, Norman Bolus

Inquiro, the UAB undergraduate science research journal

pp. 64-70