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Commentary On "Child Welfare Workers’ Perceptions Of The Influence Of The Organizational Environment On Permanency Decisions For Families", Eileen R. Giardino

Journal of Family Strengths

Invited commentary on "Child Welfare Workers’ Perceptions of the Influence of the Organizational Environment on Permanency Decisions for Families".

Donan, John Gillaspy, 1826-1905 (Sc 740), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 740. Mexican War letter of John Gillaspy Donan, Barren County, Kentucky, to his brother, Fountain, 29 December 1847 from Jalapa regarding conditions in Mexico, morale, yellow fever, etc. Also Mustering-Out List of Co. K, 4th Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers, and Mason’s Diploma, 13 October 1847.

The External And Internal Educational Factors That Contribute To Student Achievement And Self-Perceptions Of Urban Middle School Title I Students, Ja'shanna Jones

Theses and Dissertations

This study was conducted in order to explore the depths of internal and external factors within the urban school community that effect student self-perceptions and academic achievement, so that programs/interventions are developed to meet the needs of urban students. The internal and external factors identified for the purpose of this study were parental achievement, parental and community involvement, school morale, teacher quality, students peer groups, and resources among internal and external educational factors. The researcher examined test scores and survey data of the entire middle school in the first phase of the study. During the second phase of the study, …

Division Proposals Summary 09/21/2012, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

How Plato Silenced The Cosmopolitans

Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series

time: 2.30-4.30pm
room: Osgoode Hall – IKB 2010
speaker: Detlef von Daniels (Witten)
respondent: Michael Giudice (York)

Individualism In Education Reform, Collin Scott Bertram

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Current education reform in the U.S. is based upon a business model with capitalist market principles. High stakes standardized testing is a tool that the business model reformers use to dismantle democracy while creating an environment where a democratic society will not thrive. One of the reasons that business-minded reformers are so successful in promoting their agenda is that our society is highly individualistic. The individualistic nature of society in the U.S. provides fertile ground for reform that not only harms our present vestiges of democracy but also endangers the possibility of a democratic society for future generations. A critical …

Too Big To Manage: A Case For Stricter Bank Merger Regulation, Peter Lim Felton

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Bg News September 21, 2012, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 21, 2012. Volume 103-Issue 16.

Developing Leadership, Deborah L. Rhode

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Expanding The Lawyer's Toolkit Of Skills And Competencies: Synthesizing Leadership, Professionalism, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Resolution, And Comprehensive Law, Susan Swaim Daicoff

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Embracing The Opposition: Normative Culture And Candid Communication At The Buffalo Mountain School, Christian Mccrory

MA TESOL Collection

This paper examines the relationship between two approaches to disruptive behavior used at the Buffalo Mountain School, where the author works as a Special Education Provider for behaviorally and developmentally challenged students. These are the Normative Approach, established by the Northeastern Family Institute, and the Candid Approach, which is defined by the author based on his observations of practitioners at Buffalo Mountain. Each of these are used in an alternative school setting to redirect anti-social or disruptive behavior. The purpose of this paper is to determine the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches along with the parameters of their efficacy. …

Linfield College: Study Abroad In France, Kari Pierce

Letters from Returnees: Sharing the Value of Study Abroad

This letter from returnee Kari Pierce explains the value of studying abroad in France.

Kenyon Collegian - September 20, 2012

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, September 20, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

September

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 9/20/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Chanticleer | Vol 61, Issue 4, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

No abstract provided.

Carsey Institute: More Than 16 Million Children In Poverty In 2011, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Minutes 09/20/2012, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Cowl - V.77 - N.3 - Sep 20, 2012

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 77 - No. 3 - September 20, 2012. 29 pages.

Over Sixteen Million Children In Poverty In 2011, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Jessica A. Bean, Andrew P. Schaefer

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Marybeth Mattingly, Jessica Bean, and Andrew Schaefer use American Community Survey data released on September 20, 2012 to address patterns of child poverty. To evaluate the changes in child poverty, they focused on two time periods -- change since 2007, as the nation entered the recession, and change since 2010. According to the American Community Survey, the overall child poverty rate for the United States rose slightly from 21.6 in 2010 to 22.5 percent in 2011, resulting in an estimated 16.4 million children living in poverty. Of these children, 6.1 million are young (under age 6). …

Spartan Daily September 20, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 139, Issue 12

2012.09.20 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2012

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

2012-09-20, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Drama As Method : Recontextualizing Project Learning For Hk Secondary Schools, Yuen Fun, Muriel Law

Lingnan Theses

This doctoral study is grounded in the work of cultural studies and its concern for pedagogy and education. The study investigated a local pedagogical issue— Independent Enquiry Study (IES)—a specific form of social inquiry in the core subject Liberal Studies (LS) in Hong Kong senior secondary schools. It took a designated IES classroom as the point of intervention and as the basis for exploring transformed pedagogical practices in Hong Kong secondary school education. My vantage point of the intervention rested on participant-observation through action research and critical contextual analysis of the action-research site and its relations to the wider social …

From Trademarks To Brands, Devin R. Desai

Florida Law Review

The business world has moved from using trademarks—simple symbols identifying products—to brands—rich symbols that feed business strategy. At the same time, networked and empowered consumers are using brands, brand language, and branding strategies to make decisions about what they purchase, express preferences about how corporations conduct their business, and call for changes in corporate practices. These changes are the future of commerce. But trademark law has not kept pace with either.

This Article argues that because brands are governed by trademark law, the full realization of brands as information resources is hindered. Current trademark law is blinkered and confused, and …

Counterparts In Modern Policing: The Influence Of Corporate Investigators On The Public Police And A Call For The Broadening Of The State Action Doctrine, Sean James Beaton

Touro Law Review

This Comment first provides an overview of the constitutional concerns that arise when the private police interact with criminal defendants, and the even graver issues that are present when this interaction also involves governmental law enforcement. Part III presents an in depth look at private police, with some detail focused specifically on corporate investigators who work in conjunction with public law enforcement. After assessing this ubiquitous group, Part IV harmonizes the private police and the state action doctrine. Because the state action doctrine has been classified as not being a "model of consistency" and a "conceptual disaster area," the analysis …

The Cord (September 19, 2012)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Weekly News Digest 09/19/2012, Jenna Ray

Weekly Bulletin Archive

In this issue:

● 2012 Homecoming Festivities Begin

● Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Works in Progress the Focus of New Discussion Series

● Morris Named one of U.S. News 's Top 10 Public Liberal Arts Colleges for the Fourteenth Consecutive Year

● Chris Butler Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

● Bradley Deane Honored by the North American Victorian Studies Association

Rotunda - Vol 91, No 4 - Sep 19, 2012, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

Multi-Level Opinion Dynamics Under Bounded Confidence, Gang Kou, Yiyi Zhao, Yi Peng, Yong Shi

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

Opinion dynamics focuses on the opinion evolution in a social community. Recently, some models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence were proposed by Deffuant and Krause, et al. In the literature, agents were generally assumed to have a homogeneous confidence level. This paper proposes an extended model for a group of agents with heterogeneous confidence levels. First, a social differentiation theory is introduced and a social group is divided into opinion subgroups with distinct confidence levels. Second, a multi-level heterogeneous opinion formation model is formulated under the framework of bounded confidence. Finally, computer simulations are conducted to study the …