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Literacy Development Of Rural Appalachian Five Year Olds, Connie Green

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

As a teacher and researcher in a kindergarten classroom, I was interested in documenting the literacy development of several of the children in my class to determine the impact of the social and cultural environment. In the early 1980's, Heath (1983) researched the language and literacy development of three cultural groups in the Piedmont Carolinas. Her work revealed distinct differences in approaches to language and literacy among working class Anglo-Americans, working class African-Americans, and middle class Anglo-Americans. The observations discussed in this paper seek to ascertain whether there are unique approaches to early literacy among children reared in a rural …

Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri

Michigan Law Review

So much depends upon a rope in Mobile, Alabama. To hang Michael Donald, Henry Hays and James "Tiger" Knowles tied up "a piece of nylon rope about twenty feet long, yellow nylon." They borrowed the rope from Frank Cox, Hays's brother-in-law. Cox "went out in the back" of his mother's "boatshed, or something like that, maybe it was in the lodge." He "got a rope," climbed into the front seat of Hays's Buick Wildcat, and handed it to Knowles sitting in the back seat. So much depends upon a noose. Knowles "made a hangman's noose out of the rope," thirteen …

University Reporter - Vol. 01, No. 06 - February 1997, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

When Portfolios Become Part Of The Grading Process: A Case Study In A Junior High Setting, Loukia K. Sarroub, P. David Pearson, Carmen Dykema, Randy Lloyd

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Formal assessments have long served as our society's most privileged indices of student learning and school accountability. Hence, both learning and school effectiveness have often been equated with standardized test scores and/or grades. The privilege accorded to external assessment has tended to minimize the role of teachers and, even more dramatically, students in the assessment process. Assessments are external tools that are administered to teachers and students. For teachers, this often leads to a tension between their curricular goals and the assessment measures they must use in the classroom (Mitchell, 1992; Pearson, DeStefano, & Garcia, in press). Students are rarely …

Is This Appropriate?, Thomas L. Shaffer, Julia B. Meister

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Comparative Power Of Three Author-Attribution Techniques For Differentiating Authors, John B. Archer, John L. Hilton, G. Bruce Schaalje

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Over the last twenty years, various objective author-attribution techniques have been applied to the English Book of Mormon in order to shed light on the question of multiple authorship of Book of Mormon texts. Two methods, one based on rates of use of noncontextual words and one based on word-pattern ratios, measure patterns consistent with multiple authorship in the Book of Mormon. Another method, based on vocabulary-richness measures, suggests that only one author is involved. These apparently contradictory results are reconciled by showing that for texts of known authorship, the method based on vocabulary-richness measures is not as powerful in …

A Short Addition To Length: Some Relative Frequencies Of Circumstantial Structures, Brian D. Stubbs

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

In previous articles I have discussed the nature and prominence of certain linguistic structures in the Book of Mormon that are typical of hal-clauses translated from Hebrew or Egyptian. This article compares the frequencies of those structures in three works produced through the instrumentality of Joseph Smith: the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, only the first of which is a translation from an ancient Near Eastern language. The results of this preliminary investigation into styles and these linguistic structures as found in these three works …

Editor's Introduction, Stephen D. Ricks

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Introduction to current issue.

About The Contributors, Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

No abstract provided.

Subject Index To The Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies, 1992-96, Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Five-year subject index.

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 6 Issue 1, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Illinois State University Report, January 30, 1997, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

The Pan American (1997-01-30), David Waltz

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

45th Year, No. 17

Montana Kaimin, January 30, 1997, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

The Vine (1997-01-29)

The Vine, 1994-2008

The Vine was a successor to Reflections in Ink, published from 1994 to 2008. It transitioned from a mostly African American student perspective to a multi-cultural one.

Spartan Daily, January 29, 1997, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 108, Issue 4

The Daily Egyptian, January 28, 1997, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 1997

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 01/28/1997, P 451-532, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

No abstract provided.

The Bg News January 28, 1997, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. January 28, 1997. Volume 79-Issue 85.

Current, January 27, 1997, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (1990s)

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 40, I. 30, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 40, i. 30

Non-Literate Students In Adult Beginning English As A Second Language Classrooms - A Case Study, Sandra Lynn Banke

Dissertations and Theses

The development of literacy in English is facilitated by second language students' ability to read in their first language, particularly if that language employs a Roman alphabet. These students' literacy abilities may also influence their development of oral proficiency when their primary instructional environment is the classroom. Yet there have been few successful studies of non-literate students' progress, behaviors and learning preferences in classrooms with literate students. This is primarily because the transient nature of non-literate students' attendance in formal learning environments results in sample sizes too small for experimental research with reliable generalizations.

The purpose of the present study …

The Weekly Challenger, January 25, 1997, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 25, 1997, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Spartan Daily, January 24, 1997, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 108, Issue 2

The Hilltop 1-24-1997, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 1990-2000

No abstract provided.

January 24, 1997, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Learning From Others: Service-Learning In Costa Rica And Indonesia, David D. Williams, William D. Eiserman

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Calls are increasingly sounded for universities to better address their communities' and students' needs through service, as well as research and teaching. This article invites policy makers to re-examine university service, research, and teaching responsibilities by reflecting on roles service-learning plays in universities in Indonesia and Costa Rica. We conclude that service-learning plays a critical role and a key to expanding service-learning for students and understanding the utility of such a policy change is increased faculty involvement. Until more faculty explore the "why" and "how" of service-learning, research and teaching will dominate the university agenda.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 05/04 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Learning from others : service-learning in Costa Rica and Indonesia / David D. Williams [and] William D. Eiserman.

Learning From Others: Service-Learning In Costa Rica And Indonesia, David D. Williams, William D. Eiserman

International Service Learning & Community Engagement

Calls are increasingly sounded for universities to better address their communities' and students' needs through service, as well as research and teaching. This article invites policy makers to re-examine university service, research, and teaching responsibilities by reflecting on roles service-learning plays in universities in Indonesia and Costa Rica. We conclude that service-learning plays a critical role and a key to expanding service-learning for students and understanding the utility of such a policy change is increased faculty involvement. Until more faculty explore the "why" and "how" of service-learning, research and teaching will dominate the university agenda.

Mustang Daily, January 22, 1997

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.