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Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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The Conditions Upon Norbert's Planetesimal, Stefanie Freele

Westview

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Waiting For It, Deborah Atherton

Westview

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Sage And Cowdogs, Walt Mcdonald

Westview

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High In The San Juan, Walt Mcdonald

Westview

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My Boy At Shiloh, J. Chester Johnson

Westview

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Pentimento, Julia Wendell

Westview

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Caliban, His Letter To Prospero, George Young

Westview

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Archaeology, Mary Akers

Westview

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Rainy Spring, William Joliff

Westview

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Omi The Amazing, Deborah Gillespie

Westview

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Watermelon, Daniel Mintie

Westview

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William Eagle Feather Fails To Divulge How Reverend Burden Died, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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Sheriff Dennehy Speculates On The Death Of Reverend Burden, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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The Diva Lucrezia Falcone Arrives In Gold Creek After The Death Of Reverend Burden, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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Researchers Explore Swamp Plants' Potential In Battling Breast Cancer, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Many people might imagine the search for new cancer drugs goes on in sterile laboratories, where scientists wearing white coats use shiny equipment to synthesize medicines for zapping tumors. But University of Mississippi researchers - wearing hip waders to search through wetlands in rural Benton and Desoto counties - may have discovered in the marshes a powerful new weapon for fighting breast cancer.

Reflections Of Native American Teacher Education On Bear Ridge, Steven Locke

The Rural Educator

This study examines an elementary teacher education certification program delivered by a state university to Native American teacher aides on the reservation. Data were collected over two semesters using a Freirean critical theory framework to analyze the data and to explicate the problematic nature of Native American education. Analysis of the data indicated that the program reproduced Euro-American cultural values, was insensitive to Native American history or values, and did little to support individual teachers. Suggestions include the need for the program to acknowledge and address the historical cultural genocide that occurred in the education of Native Americans and the …

Recruiting And Interviewing Teachers In Rural School Districts: Protocol Or Potluck, Joe Nichols

The Rural Educator

Through administrator and teacher surveys and interviews, this study examined recruiting and interviewing practices of eighty-three rural school districts located in, and between, the rural Ozark Plateau and Mississippi River Delta. Survey results indicated that districts with smaller student populations were far less likely to have an identified protocol in place to recruit and interview teachers. In addition, the study found that critical issues such as student achievement and qualifications of teachers were not addressed during the recruiting or interviewing phases of the employment process. Finally, this research brought to light questionable interviewing practices leading the author to make recommendations …

The Appalachian Model Teaching Consortium: Preparing Teachers For Rural Appalachia, Alvin C. Proffit, R. Paul Sale, Ann E. Alexander, Ruth S. Andrews

The Rural Educator

The Appalachian Model Teacher Consortium is a partnership involving Radford University, Wytheville Community College, and the Grayson County (Virginia) School System. Its purpose is to prepare highly qualified teachers for rural southwest Virginia. The model was developed in response to the growing teacher shortage facing school districts in rural southwest Virginia. Poorer, more rural districts often have weaker tax bases that provide limited, and at times inadequate, financial support for their school districts. This lack of local resources often results in lower salaries and benefits when compared to many districts that compete for the shrinking pool of potential teachers. Additionally, …

Rural Research Brief: Rural Schools Under Scrutiny, Teresa S. Jordan, K. Forbis Jordan

The Rural Educator

Historically, rural schools have been geographically and politically isolated to the extent that some might say that they have been the victims of, or beneficiaries from, an unstated government policy of benign neglect. Recently, conditions and relationships have changed with the enactment of state and federal accountability legislation and legal challenges to the constitutionality of state funding systems for schools. Federal concerns about the quality of teachers and the progress of students are accompanied by state standards, proficiency tests for high school graduation, and school report cards. Most of these requirements are unfunded or under-funded mandates. However, rural schools likely …

Media Advisory: Andrew Young On Campus

News Releases

Media advisory announces a schedule of events Andrew Young will participate in at the University of Dayton.

The Knight Volume 15: Issue 9, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Parking Rumors Dismissed
• Campus
• National
• Opinions
• Classifieds, Etc.
• Sports

Approaches And Methods In Language Teaching: An Investigative Look At A Total Physical Response In Chattanooga Area Classrooms, Alicia R. Hannah

Honors Theses

I was sitting on a leather couch at a local hangout trying to cram for a test in my Advanced Spanish Grammar class. In front of me, I had my textbook open to a picture of a crowded South American intersection and I was frantically trying to memorize a list of more than 100 Spanish vocabulary words related to automobiles. I had been studying Spanish since the eighth grade and was just amazed that 10 years later I was still having trouble internalizing certain words. I was talking aloud to myself, trying to remember the verb "to start the car." …

November 15, 2004

The Gavel Gazette

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Rural Elementary Administrators’ Views Of High-Stakes Testing, Robert J. Egley, Brett D. Jones

The Rural Educator

This study examines how rural elementary school administrators perceive the effects of high-stakes testing in comparison to suburban and urban elementary administrators. High-stakes testing had a greater impact, both positively and negatively, on rural administrators than on their counterparts in suburban and urban schools. Specifically, the positive effects were that rural administrators were more motivated by the testing program to do a better job, found the test results more useful in assessing teachers, and found the test results more useful in meeting the academic needs of students. The negative effects were that rural administrators felt more pressure than urban administrators …

Hollins Columns (2004 Nov 15), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Horizon program celebrates 30th anniversary
• Hollins Christian Fellowship looks for new pastor
• Hollins Outdoor Program looks for new adventures
• Students participate in Appalachia service project
• M.F.A. students published in literary magazines
• Down but not out: Clinton/Obama in 2008
• Dear Editors: This is an angry letter
• Sophomore year: stuck in the middle
• Reverend Hale '75 visits campus
• Swim team dives into another good season

2004 - Graduate Recital, Neiu Music Department

Music Department Performance Programs

Graduate Recital, Taka Matsunaga, Violin, Kay Kim, Piano

The Bg News November 15, 2004, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 15, 2004. Volume 95-Issue 58.

Accessibility Of Arl Academic Libraries' Digital Library Projects, Chad M. Kahl, Sarah Williams

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Discover results of a study focusing on accessibility of over 1,000 digital library projects from 100-plus academic members of the Association of Research Libraries. Study noted number, titles, types and URLs of projects; type of access; terminology; level of access from the library’s homepage; whether content was restricted, and if so, was it explained; whether metadata was included, and if so, was it searchable; was the project developed through a partnership; and was the project affiliated with a library unit. Learn more about surprising findings that digital library resources, despite considerable funding and resources, are not easily accessible.