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Are 21st Century After School Programs An Effective Academic Intervention For Elementary School Students Attending High Poverty Schools?, Jennifer Scarpati

Doctoral Dissertations

In America, millions of children are living in poverty and/or attending high poverty schools. These students, on average, score lower on assessments of math and reading achievement than their more affluent peers. The federal government budgets money each year towards interventions targeted to raise the achievement of students living in poverty. 21st Century after school programs have received billions of dollars over the past 20 years towards this goal.

This is a secondary analysis of students attending five diverse, high poverty elementary schools in New Hampshire between 2008 and 2013. Ordinary Least Squares multiple regression analyses were used to estimate …

Edward Channing’S Writing Revolution: Composition Prehistory At Harvard, 1819-1851, Bradfield Edward Dittrich

Doctoral Dissertations

My dissertation, building on the work of John Brereton, Robert Connors, and others returns to the Harvard University Archives to reconstruct the Harvard rhetoric program under the leadership of Edward Tyrrel Channing from 1819 to 1851. During that time, coincident with the industrial revolution, U.S. publishers experienced a period of rapid growth as the cost of production for books, newspapers, and magazines dropped, and demand for print grew among a nascent middle class. Against that backdrop, and in spite of considerable resistance, Channing engineered a substantial shift at Harvard from an oratory-based curriculum to a writing-based one, just as the …

Designing A Curriculum For Difficult History: Teachers, Museum Workers, And War Photojournalism, Sara Clarke-Vivier

Doctoral Dissertations

Educational theorists and researchers have emphasized the importance of museum spaces as sites of learning and engagement for their ability to supplement and enhance the school curriculum. These individuals often describing the importance of museums in relation to a set of progressive educational ideals such as the provision of experiences that enhance a learner’s capacity to live and learn in a diverse democratic society. As interdisciplinary community teaching spaces, museums can serve as a natural nexus for socially engaged cross-disciplinary teaching and learning, fostering and supporting the investigation of questions about how to best understand, curate, and educate around difficult …

Trading Data For Discounts: An Exploration Of Unstructured Data Through Machine Learning In Wearable Technology, Kaleigh Alexis Zukowski

Honors Theses and Capstones

The development of computing sensor devices with the capability of tracking an individual’s activity changed the way we live and move. The data collected and generated from wearable technology provides implications to the user for leading a healthy, more active lifestyle; however, the potential data uses extend beyond the user. Significant opportunity exists in the insurance industry as it relates to discounting premiums. The purpose of this research was to provide insight as to whether insurance companies should consider offering discount on premiums for policyholders who use wearable technology to track their personal fitness by identifying and suggesting potential groups …

Exploring The Socio-Ecological Dimensions Of Agricultural Expansion In New Hampshire, Jennifer Wilhelm

Doctoral Dissertations

Forest ecosystems and agriculture represent coupled socio-ecological systems that are shaped by human activity. The extensification of agriculture (expansion of food production on the landscape) can cause significant changes in land use, and can contribute to the degradation of biodiverse ecosystems and the services these systems provide. Yet the need to increase food production capacity, either through agricultural intensification or extensification, continues to rise. In this dissertation, I address the critical issue of agricultural extensification from several angles.

The first chapter assesses agricultural expansion through the lens of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) through systematic review of the literature. I …

Role Stress, Coping Style, And Mental Health In Late Adolescence And Early Adulthood: An Empirical Analysis Of The Age-Linked Effects Of Coping Style On Depressed Mood And Anxiety, Jordan C. Burke

Master's Theses and Capstones

To what extent does age—that is, late adolescence and young adulthood—influence depressed mood or anxiety? To what extent are age differences between late adolescents and emerging adults explained by differences in coping style? To what extent does coping style moderate the effects of age on depressed mood and anxiety while controlling for chronic stress? I examine data from the Coös Youth Study, a longitudinal research project examining the life-course trajectories of two youth cohorts living in rural New England. Significant differences exist between late adolescents and emerging adults in coping style, stress exposure, and mental health. Relative to late adolescents, …

Srs Feature: Two Stars From The Other Side Of The Globe Explore Globe To Chart Their Futures, C. Ralph Adler, Globe U.S. Coordination Office

Publications and Media

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Teacher Prep: Ngss Correlation Matrix, Nh Globe Carbon Cycle Protocol Team

Carbon

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Srs Feature: Full Ste(A)M Ahead In La, C. Ralph Adler, Globe U.S. Coordination Office

Publications and Media

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Pircnews, Winter 2017, Prevention Innovations Research Center

PIRC Newsletter

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Blood Pressure Control: What Matters? - Health Literacy, Us Dhhs, Office Of Disease Prevention And Health Promotion

All Materials

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Masking Femininity: Women And Power In Shakespeare's Macbeth, As You Like It, And Titus Andronicus, Kelly Sorge

Honors Theses and Capstones

This paper analyzes the power that Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, Rosalind from As You Like It, and Tamora from Titus Andronicus assert and answers the questions of how women assert power in Shakespeare and the role gender plays in power.

Strafford County 2016 Annual Report Of The Commissioners, Treasurer, Other County Officers And The Strafford County Delegation Strafford County, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2016., Stafford County Representatives

Strafford County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Baseball And The U.S.-Cuban Diplomatic Relationship: Why Did Baseball Serve As An Ineffective Diplomatic Tool For The United States And Cuba?, Abbygale Sarah Martinen

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Journalism Students Create Blog Of Local Climate Change Stories, Tom Haines

UNH Today Archive

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Creating Communities Of Culturally Relevant Critical Teacher Care, Elyse Hambacher, Elizabeth Bondy

Education

This article draws on the literature on effective African American teachers of African American students to investigate the enactments of culturally relevant critical teacher care (CRCTC) in two fifth-grade teachers’ (one White and one Black) classrooms in a large, urban school district. Using interview and observation data, the findings illustrate the teachers’ knowledge of potential constraints upon their students’ futures. This knowledge catalyzed their enactment of a particular kind of care designed to prepare their students with the dispositions, knowledge, and skills to construct what Carl Grant has called “flourishing lives.” The teachers’ practices illustrate classroom spaces ripe for high …

New Faculty Poetry: You Were That White Bird, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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“Standoff,” “Finding Wonders” And Other Books Of Note, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Building Bridges, Debbie Kane

UNH Today Archive

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Helping Laconia Bloom, Larry Clow

UNH Today Archive

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In The News: Gbcc's Analytics Program Could Tie To Unh Manchester's, Kimberly Haas

UNH Today Archive

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 24 (Dec. 1, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

2016 In Books And Recordings, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Mário De Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Writers-In-Schools Founder Brings Poetry Expertise To Maine Schools, Janine Wilks

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 23 (Nov. 21, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

Rochelle Lieber’S Tenth Volume, Susan Dumais

UNH Today Archive

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The Pros And Cons Of Being An English Major, Callie Ierardi

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 22 (Nov. 17, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

Seizing The Opportunities, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.