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Global Legal Education And Human Rights, Claudio M. Grossman Dec 2003

Global Legal Education And Human Rights, Claudio M. Grossman

Claudio M. Grossman

American University Washington College of Law's Human Rights Brief is an important educational tool for all of us and is a tremendous source for those involved in human rights work around the world. The Brief promotes the development of human rights by providing both analysis and information about cutting edge cases involving human rights violations today. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Brief, I will reflect on what I perceive to be the changes necessary for legal education and discuss the role of human rights in that process. 

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The Ethical Dilemmas Of Communicating A University's Job Placement Rate: Legal Obligation Or Moral Responsibility, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh, Karen Hagans Dec 2003

The Ethical Dilemmas Of Communicating A University's Job Placement Rate: Legal Obligation Or Moral Responsibility, Oscar T. Mcknight, Ronald Paugh, Karen Hagans

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

The purpose of this research is to investigate one area of ethical concern in higher education, specifically the reporting of job placement rates. The research discovered such dramatic variations in the way job placement rates were calculated and reported that job placement data become suspect. The ethical concerns of reporting job placement data are discussed in relationship to institutional policies and practices and student expectations

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Wheelchair Access In Star Lrt Stations In Kuala Lumpur, Zuraini Md Dali, Hazreena Hussein, Imaduddin Abdul Halim Dec 2003

Wheelchair Access In Star Lrt Stations In Kuala Lumpur, Zuraini Md Dali, Hazreena Hussein, Imaduddin Abdul Halim

Hazreena Hussein

Kuala Lumpur was honored to host the 1998 Commonwealth Games, the second largest game after the Olympics. Inline with this event, the Malaysian Government decided to upgrade the public transportation in the city to be accessible to all, mentioned by the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee. The rate and level of new investment will ensure that improvements in the accessibility of public transport are brought forward more rapidly. Building in accessibility for disabled persons in all new investment is a condition of public money being well spent. Local authorities and transport operators should ensure that the transport needs of disabled …

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Resource Sharing In Online Self-Organizing Social Systems, Erin K. Brewer Dec 2003

Resource Sharing In Online Self-Organizing Social Systems, Erin K. Brewer

Erin K Brewer

Learning in structured instructional settings has been researched a great deal. As learner needs change educators have developed a number of alternatives to traditional education, such as correspondence courses, online courses, satellite broadcasts, intensive seminars, and other methods of instructor-facilitated distance education. Despite different delivery methods, distance education classes are often based upon an instructor-as-facilitator model, like that which prevails in face-to-face instruction and suffer from the same limitations of “instructor bandwidth” (i.e., serious restrictions on scalability). The literature shows that the size of a class is limited by instructor-student ratios. Automated systems have been proposed as a way to …

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Halls Houses And Eating Clubs Of The Middletown Chapter Alpha Delta Phi Society.Pdf, Michaelle L. Biddle Dec 2003

Halls Houses And Eating Clubs Of The Middletown Chapter Alpha Delta Phi Society.Pdf, Michaelle L. Biddle

Michaelle Biddle

A short history of the Middletown Chapter of the Alpha Delta Phil Fraternity (now the co-educational Alpha Delta Phi Society) at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. It traces the development of the Middletown Chapter from its beginnings in 1847, its various meeting locations, eating clubs and its two houses through their various renovations and expansions up to 2004.

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Boys And Girls "Doing Science" And "Doing Gender", Cleti Cervoni Dec 2003

Boys And Girls "Doing Science" And "Doing Gender", Cleti Cervoni

Cleti Cervoni

The gender gap in achievement in science continues to plague science educators in the United States  (AAAS, 2001). Strategies to close this gap have defined the problem in terms of girls’ lack of interest or their inability to survive in science classrooms.
Recent feminist scholarship has re-centered this problem of gender inequity not on girls, but on the nature of science and how it is taught in schools (Birke, 1986; Parker, 1997). Lesley Parker (1997) argues that it is schools that need to change and recommends a gender-inclusive science curriculum for schools.
My dissertation argues for a new framework and …

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Thinking Outside The Box: Placing Park And Recreation Professionals In K-12 Schools, Dan K. Hibbler Ph.D. Dec 2003

Thinking Outside The Box: Placing Park And Recreation Professionals In K-12 Schools, Dan K. Hibbler Ph.D.

Dan K Hibbler Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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Contradictory Literacy Practices Of Mexican-Background Students: An Ethnography From The Rural Midwest, Heriberto Godina Phd Dec 2003

Contradictory Literacy Practices Of Mexican-Background Students: An Ethnography From The Rural Midwest, Heriberto Godina Phd

Heriberto Godina PhD

This ethnographic study explores the contradictory literacy practices of 10 high school students of Mexican background from the rural Midwest. The author uses the term Mexican background to encompass both settled Mexican Americans and recent-immigrant Mexicanos. Literacy is investigated through English and Spanish in a sociocultural context. Findings reveal how Mexican-background students demonstrate different literacy practices in their homes and communities than those acknowledged at school. Educators in the school setting did not recognize Mexican-background students’ linguistic proficiency. In school, Mexican-background students were viewed in terms of their limited-English status and were mostly enrolled in low academic tracks. At home, …

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