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Reducing Discipline Referrals At State Bridge Crossing Elementary School In Alpharetta, Georgia, Renay R. Dixon

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The major purpose of this study was to reduce the number of student discipline referrals in a suburban elementary school with a student population of approximately 830 in 2003. An analysis of the annual School Administrative Student Information System Discipline Report indicated that over the past two years (2000-2002), discipline referrals had increased by 44%.

The design most conducive for this applied research was a descriptive design. Pre- and postdata were compared to determine if there was a decrease in student discipline referrals. Data were gathered from students, parents of the 133 representative fifth-grade students, and teachers regarding the school …

Development Of A Training Program For Postsecondary Allied Health Career School Practitioners, Evelyn Elliott Presley

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation was developed to provide a training program for practitioners in postsecondary, for-profit allied health schools. The project was created to provide solutions to challenges that schools face when they hire individuals with technical work experience to teach adults. Too often, new hires are put in class without experience in teaching, an understanding of adult learners, and knowledge of the policies and procedures of the school.

The research questions that guided the developmental process were as follows:

1. What areas of concern currently exist in post-secondary, for-profit schools regarding the need for a training program for practitioners?

2. …

Why Do I Feel This Way : A Case Study Of Eating Disorder, Anne Baier

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Music To My Ears : The Definition And Creation Of A Modern Musical, Seth Tanner Christman

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Individual And Overt Religious Community Attitudes : A Cross-Cultural And Inter-Denominational Study Using A Noam Chomsky Theory, Crystal Bostow

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Social Anxiety, Sexual Behavior, And Partner Selection, Tracy Emerson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Beyond Bakke: Grutter-Gratz And The Promise Of Brown, Joel K. Goldstein

All Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions this past summer in the Michigan affirmative action cases provided yet another landmark in the continuing controversy regarding race and education. A quarter century, almost to the day, after the Court handed down its badly splintered decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke,[1] the Court again concluded that universities may sometimes, but not always, give some preference to racial and ethnic minorities in deciding whom to admit. The Court, in a 5-4 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, upheld the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School’s admission policy that considered race …

A Tyrannosaurus-Rex Aptly Named 'Sue': Using A Disputed Dinosaur To Teach Contract Defenses, Miriam A. Cherry

All Faculty Scholarship

This piece focuses on the discovery of a T-Rex skeleton, and the contract formed between the private fossil collectors and the Native American rancher who ostensibly owned the land where the fossil was situated. Although the fossil was eventually sold at auction for over eight million dollars, the fossil collectors paid the rancher only $5,000 for its excavation. In addition to the rancher, the Sioux tribe and the Department of Justice also became involved in the case.

As described in my work, the law school Socratic method has come under attack in recent years. In response to such criticisms, the …

Revelation [Review] / Grant R. Osborne., Ranko Stefanovic

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.