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Search For Old St. Augustine, Chester B. Depratter Dec 2019

Search For Old St. Augustine, Chester B. Depratter

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Legacy- December 2019, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina Dec 2019

Legacy- December 2019, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

New Evidence that an Extraterrestrial Collision 12,800 Years Ago Triggered an Abrupt Climate Change for Earth…p. 1

Director’s Notes…p. 2

A Tribute to Roland C. Young…p. 5

Award to Explore for Shipwrecks Offshore Port Royal Sound…p. 8

CSS Pee Dee Cannons Installed in Florence, South Carolina…p. 10

Three-Dimensional Photogrammetric Modeling Program…p. 14

Reconstructing Lowcountry Plantation Waterfronts…p. 16

Underwater Archaeology Film Track Debuts at 7th Annual Arkhaios Cultural Hertiage and Archaeology Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina…p. 18

The Mysterious Island Fort in Charleston Harbor: Breaking Ground at Castle Pinckney…p. 20

Archaeology on the Widdicom Tract at Hobcaw Barony…p. …


Legacy- July 2019, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina Jul 2019

Legacy- July 2019, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Search of Old St. Augustine, Florida…p. 1

Director’s Notes…p. 2

Shipwrecks of America’s Lost Century Symposium…p. 4

Search Resumes for Le Prince…p. 7

Follow Up on the SUBMERGED Educational Programming…p. 8

Students Dive in for Maritime Archaeology Internships at MRD Charleston Field Office…p. 10

Cobble Cluster Features and the Occupation of 38AK155…p. 11

New Investigations at the Mulberry Site (38KE12) …p. 14

De Soto in Mississippi- Chicasa Project Update…p. 18

Investigations of an Old Bridge and Road on Property of Judy Bramlett in Travelers Rest, South Carolina…p. 22

SCAPOD: Looking to the 10th Anniversary and Beyond…p. 24 …


Public Education Reform In South Carolina: An Analysis Of Legislative Efforts In 2019, Francis Halloran Apr 2019

Public Education Reform In South Carolina: An Analysis Of Legislative Efforts In 2019, Francis Halloran

Senior Theses

This thesis is a legislative research project on the South Carolina Education, Career Opportunity, and Access for All Act, proposed by the South Carolina General Assembly on January 24, 2019. I begin by exploring the history of the modern public education reform movement in South Carolina, reviewing related legislation over the last half-century, and focusing on the cornerstone South Carolina Supreme Court case Abbeville County School District v. The State of South Carolina. Next, the South Carolina Education, Career Opportunity, and Access for All Act provides the basis for a comprehensive summary of all statutory reforms attempted by this …


Essays In The Economics Of Education, Breyon J. Williams Apr 2019

Essays In The Economics Of Education, Breyon J. Williams

Theses and Dissertations

I examine, separately, the impact of three education programs on student achievement, using difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences designs. First, I examine whether spillover benefits on achievement exist from preschool. I estimate the effect of exposure to a South Carolina preschool program that targets disadvantaged four-year-olds on students’ test scores in grades 3 through 5, where exposure means residing in a school district once the program was made available and disadvantaged students are those eligible for free or reduced-price lunch or Medicaid. I find that exposure to the preschool program not only increases the math and reading scores of targeted students, but …