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A Comprehensive Approach To Dropout Prevention Programs, Nancy A. Reising-Prohaska

Graduate Research Papers

Educators have begun to focus on the "third wave" of reform, the prevention of dropouts (Hill, 1987). The first two waves of reform which took place during the 1970 1s and 1980's focused heavily on how to improve teaching--which ultimately led to higher standards in academic performance. These standards, along with a variety of other factors, have increased the population of "potential dropouts." Beck and Muia (1985) agree that the first two reforms had the unintended result of leaving further behind the students most in need of help in meeting higher standards. Therefore, the third reform taking place in the …

Executive Summary, Dave Else

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

John Dewey said, ''The purpose of education is to allow each individual to come into full possession of his or her personal power." A rapidly growing number of youth in Iowa and across the nation have little hope of capturing their personal power for a variety of reasons. They are students at risk. At risk of ridicule by peers; at risk of failure in school; at risk of being unable to bond with society; at risk of social deprivation; and at risk of never realizing their sense of personal value, worth, and dignity.

Focus Area Four: Providing Continuity Of Service For Highly Mobile Children And Families: Facilitator's Summary, Linda A. Fernandez

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

High mobility-frequent change of residence and/or school-is an indicator of a child at risk, or potentially at risk. Frequent mobility may be a symptom of conditions that contribute to at-risk behaviors, but the effects of high mobility compound the problems confronting at-risk children. The causes and effects of high mobility of families and children need to be examined to determine what social services need continuity, the most efficient and effective methods of increasing continuity of services, and what deterrents must be removed to provide the continuity.

Focus Area One: Coordinating Services Between Schools And Agencies: Facilitator's Summary, James L. Doud

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

The topic of this conference, "Strengthening the Partnership Between Schools, Service Agencies and Families in Meeting the Needs of Students At Risk," highlights one of the most frustrating issues facing service providers today. How can we devise ways which will guarantee essential services to students and families so that they are enabled to become more productive members of society? This focus area addressed the issues associated with coordinating services between schools and agencies for the benefit of students and families at risk.

The five papers in this section address the coordination of services from the perspectives of both service agencies …

Induction Of Beginning Teachers Through Mentoring, Leanne M. Junko

Graduate Research Papers

Statistics indicate that approximately fifteen percent of all new teachers will leave the profession after their first year of teaching, thirty percent during the first two years, and forty to fifty percent will abandon teaching altogether during the first seven years. Those high in academic skills are bailing out and choosing other careers at alarming rates (Emrick, 1989; Henry, 1988; Schlechty & Vance, 1983). The accomplishments and commitments of many of the teachers who remain in the profession tend to deteriorate after the initial years of survival (Rosenholtz, 1989). To prevent this trend from continuing, programs must be designed to …

Iowa Academy Of Science Directory, 1991-92: Officers, Committees, And Membership Roster, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Board of Directors ... 5
Program Directors ... 6
Editors ... 6
Committees ... 8
Sections ... 21
Awards of Merit ... 26
Excellence in Science Teaching Awards ... 28
Past Presidents ... 30
Membership Roster ... 31

Focus Area One: Coordinating Services Between Schools And Agencies [Rebouche], Richard Rebouche

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

The need to coordinate services across federally mandated and funded service categories is not new. Often national service priorities may already be addressed by state or local legislation or practice. The federal practice of targeting a specific area for funds to accomplish a specific objective or to fill a specific service void has increased the need for interagency cooperation by creating multiple program and funding streams. Thus similar services for children and families may be available through federal, state or local sources with resultant variation in eligibility criteria.

Focus Area Five: Improving The School Performance Of All Children [Raschke - 1], Donna B. Raschke

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Our nation, overshadowed by large scale transportation problems, an over-crowded environment, and a "gloom-and-doom" economic forecast, is consumed by a myriad of issues which compete with education for attention, time, and financial support. Yet, today's youth are clearly the adults of tomorrow and unless basic skills are mastered, these individuals will be a burden to tomorrow's society. While it is easy to cast attention to the masses of failures-at-risk students on the pedagogical merry-go-round- educators must readjust their vision so a myopic orientation is not undertaken. It is absolutely essential we do not lose sight of one of the most …

Issue Five: Expectations And Standards Of Performance For People Of Color In Education [Schmits], Donald Schmits

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

As one explores the number of variables that can possibly affect how or how much any person learns at any one time, the task of finding clarity to make recommendations on standards of performance seems overwhelming. It does not bode well for clarity when Travers (1973), Second Handbook of Research on Teaching concludes there is no empirical relationship between the type of pedagogy and student achievement test scores. Hovighurst, Moorefield, Passow, and Elliott (1967) in The Sixty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education suggest that to describe the "disadvantaged" we need the following groups: (a) Urban …

Voice And Language In Cather's "Obscure Destinies", Evelyn E. Fracasso

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Sweet Science, Stephen O'Brien

Short Story

No abstract provided.

A Community Roundtable, Stephanie Clohesy, Elsie Duncan, Mary Franken, Phil Jachowicz, Bernal Koehrsen, Carolyn Martin, Patricia Mendez-Long

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

"What are the major problems facing youth and what can be done to better prepare youth organizations to address these challenges?" are the topics of a discussion roundtable of a diverse group of community leaders. They addressed specific points of concern to the youth development professionals, including the major problems facing youth, the professional development training needs, and the training needs that might be addressed because of limited financial resources. The roundtable group set the stage for the Symposium discussions that took place the following day. The many and variety perspectives the group brought to the issues in question provided …

Issue One: Curriculum That Adequately Addresses The Concerns And Needs Of People Of Color In Education [L. Brown], Leander A. Brown

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

If the trend in multicultural education literature were examined, we would find that it received major attention for about 10 years from the late 1960s until the late 1970s. Disappointingly, the attention then declined until the late 1980s. Towards the latter part of the active period just cited, Stanley D. Ivie of Shaw University questioned in the Journal of Teacher Education whether multicultural education was a "boon or boondoggle."

Issue Two: The Importance Of Sensitivity In Dealing With Cultural Diversity In Education [Johannsen], Sue Johannsen

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Over the past three years the Muscatine Community School District has provided inservice for the professional development of teachers and administrators. During this time, I have facilitated these inservice sessions in Gender/Ethnic Expectations and Student Achievement (GESA).

GESA addresses the interactions of teachers with their students. This program was created by Dolores A. Grayson and Mary Dahlberg Martin. Participants in GESA attend five three hour inservice sessions and work in teams to observe each other in classroom situations. Each unit includes three strands. The first strand identifies major areas of classroom disparity; the second is an interaction strand; and the …

Prefatory Note, Elaine Kalmar

Draftings In

It is a pleasure to introduce these essays on John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. The essays had their genesis as projects in the Milton course in the fall of 1989 and were refined through the following spring in the process mandated by this series, group reading and rereading one another's papers and revising their own. Bev Byford's essay underwent further reworking under the guidance of Professor Grace Ann Hovet, for the purpose of submitting the required research paper for the M.A. degree in English Language and Literature.

Pulling It Together: The Importance Of Synthesizing And Summarizing In A Theory Based Capstone Course, Alan Lerstrom

Iowa Journal of Communication

During the Essential Undergraduate Curriculum Conference held at Hope College in 1985, the participants agreed that there are five core courses which should be required of all undergraduate communication majors: public speaking, interpersonal communication, small group communication, understanding mass media, and communication\rhetorical theory. The 1985 participants also endorsed the position that all communication majors should have an integrative senior seminar in the discipline, and decided that other questions regarding the content of each course and the level at which they should be offered would be addressed at a 1986 conference. The participants at the 1986 conference suggested both an introductory …

Working With Students With Disabilities: The Role Of The School Counselor, Teresa L. O'Meara

Graduate Research Papers

On October 28, 1990, the One Hundred and First Congress signed into effect the Americans with Disabilities Act (Public Law 101-336), promising to end and remediate the discrimination against people with disabilities in the following areas: employment, housing, public accommodations, travel, communications, and activities of state and local government (Rogovin, 1990) .

Focus Area Six: Creating Partnerships With The Private Sector To Support Children: Facilitator's Summary, Judy Fossell

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

With dwindling resources, more responsibilities, and higher expectations being given to schools, it is not only prudent but imperative that the total community become partners in the educational process. To accomplish this end, our panel deemed it necessary to open the doors to the schools, shed the mysticism of the pedagogic process, and encourage reciprocity as teachers go to the homes, parents to the schools, students to the community, and community partners to the schools.

To establish successful partnerships, it is vital to look beyond the "volunteers in the classroom" stereotype of community involvement and look toward working collaboratively with …

Hormonal Regulation Of Gene Expression M The Aleurone Layers Of Cereal Grains, Tuan-Hua David Ho

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

The aleurone layers of cereal grains offer a convenient system for studies of the molecular action of two plant hormones, gibberellins (GA) and abscisic acid (ABA). Gibberellins induce the synthesis of ix-amylase and several other hydrolytice enzymes. The action of GA is essentially at the transcriptional level, it enhances the level of steady-state levels of ix-amylase mRNAs, the rate of transcription of ᴕ-amylase genes and the activity of a trans-acting factor which interacts with specific regions of ix-amylase genes. Abscisic acid antagonizes the effect of GA by inhibiting the induction of hydrolytic enzymes, yet the effect of ABA itself is …

Lxodes Dammini (Acari, Ixodidae) And Borrelia Burgdorferi In Iowa, Mark G. Novak, Wayne A. Rowley, Kenneth B. Platt, David M. Bartholomew, Michelle D. Senne

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

A statewide study to evaluate the presence, distribution and abundance of the deer tick, Ixodes dammini, and the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorfen, in Iowa was initiated in 1989. Six hundred and seventy-one tick collections were received from health professionals, conservation employees and concerned citizens. Additional ticks were obtained by flagging, small mammal trapping and deer checks in selected areas of Iowa. Nine I. dammini were collected in 1989 from seven counties in the eastern half of the state. Six of these were tested for B. burgdorferi and all were negative. Flagging, small mammal trapping and deer checks in eastern Iowa failed …

What Shaped My Life And Career (Lecture Response), Susan Hanzelka

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

"What shaped my life to make it my desire to work with kids? I'd have to say, my parents and my family inspired me. My childhood was a time of fun, imagination, friends, responsibility, and respect. I see a lack of these components in the lives of children, today, which drives me. Christine Kwak said we need to shift our thinking of youth as problems to youth as resources, or partners. But before we can say that youth are truly our partners, we must include one detrimentally important facet - COMMUNICATION with our youth!

Middle Woodland Field Camps In The Cedar Valley, Michael J. Perry

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Archaeological survey and testing of two proposed road projects within the Cedar River valley resulted in the location of several prehistoric occupational sites. Ceramics recovered at three of the sites, 13LN226, 13LN236, and 13LN243, are identified as late Middle Woodland period specimens, dating to ca. A.D. 200. The three sites border Cedar River tributaries, occupying high terrace formations within the broad bottomlands of the Cedar valley. The type and distribution of artifacts suggest that 13LN236 and 13LN243 functioned as repeatedly utilized, short-term extractive and processing camps. Previous research at sites of similar age focused on small, protected rockshelters and large, …

Executive Summary, David Else

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Octavio Paz (1985) reminds us that "life is plurality, death is uniformity. Every view that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life." While there has been a great deal of rhetoric and certainly some action that has resulted in progress, the American society continues to be haunted by inequality of its people and widespread failure to value diversity. Until educators begin to value differences and prize them as resources for learning, American youth will not experience the type of learning environment that prepares them to live productively in a world characterized by diversity (Pine & Hilliard, …

Issue One: Curriculum That Adequately Addresses The Concerns And Needs Of People Of Color In Education [Pearson-Stevens], Terry Pearson-Stevens

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Note: It is my belief that each racial group can speak better for itself than anyone else. Therefore, in this paper I will refer primarily to African-American students even though I am certain that information contained within has the same implications for all Third-World people.

Sooner or later educators must collectively acknowledge that neither traditional nor contemporary educational methods have succeeded in providing equitable learning experiences for African-American students.

The very educational system that stimulates the growth and development of Caucasian children by reinforcing what is familiar to them acts as a depressant to African-American children who are made to …

Issue Three: Support And Mentoring For People Of Color In Education [Duea], Joan Duea

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Our nation is facing a crucial educational problem. Significant numbers of citizens are not reaching their educational potential. Look around you. How many people of color are walking beside you in the mall? pushing a cart in the grocery store? participating in a discussion in a university class? teaching a graduate course at the university? Did your numbers diminish greatly? What happens to members of under-represented groups?

1991 Old Gold, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Yearbooks

The student yearbook of the University of Northern Iowa.

Ethical Implications Of Policy Reversal: An Analysis Of Kennedy's Speeches At American University And In West Berlin, Douglas Thomas

Iowa Journal of Communication

On June 10, 1963, John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University. This speech marked a turning point in U.S.-Soviet relations, leading to an easing of East-West tensions and eventually a nuclear test ban treaty. Sixteen days later, on June 26th, Kennedy delivered another speech at the Rudolph Wilde Platz in West Berlin. The topic of the speech was similar, to the commencement address but its focus was a pointed attack on the Eastern bloc. Both speeches, while contradictory in content, were hailed as major rhetorical successes. Within each speech are imbedded values that make these contradictions more …

Iowa Journal Of Speech Communication, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 1991 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

Response To "The Case For A Right To Reply," By Susan Shapiro, Susan Shapiro

Iowa Journal of Communication

The project of this paper moves beyond the classic view of free speech in recognizing that there is still a wrong suffered by the victims of hate-speech and in suggesting the right of reply as a remedy for this injustice. I do not think that this solution is adequate, however, not simply because another solution would be better, but because the problem, the systematic character of the injustice suffered (what Jean Francois Lyotard has termed "le differend") has not adequately been accounted for and addressed.

The Implementation Of Naturalistic Evaluation Of Reading Comprehension: A Descriptive Study Of First Graders In A Chapter 1 Reading Program, Beth Ann Hardy Nordmeyer

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to document the implementation of naturalistic evaluations of reading comprehension, specifically, the comprehension abilities of first-grade students in a Chapter 1 reading program. There were five major questions which guided the study: (a) How will naturalistic evaluations assess students' reading comprehension abilities in a Chapter 1 classroom? (b) What problems does a Chapter 1 teacher encounter when implementing naturalistic forms of evaluation? (c) Given special consideration to time and management, how can naturalistic devices be used in a Chapter 1 reading program? ( d) How will a Chapter 1 teacher be able to use …