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A Critical Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Administrative Rules For Gang-Related Activities In Middle And High Schools, David Thomas Chiprany

Dissertations

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reported that 35 percent of middle school students and 45 percent of high school students say that there are students who are affiliated with gangs or who consider themselves to be affiliated with gangs in their schools (Arciaga, Sakamoto, & Jones, 2010). Gangs are increasingly violent and criminally involved and their impact on the school environment negatively influences student performance (National Gang Center, 2010a). As juveniles engage in criminal activity, the justice system has developed a set of laws and consequences in an effort to suppress the behavior. Schools followed the lead …

The Relationship Between Attitude And Anxiety Toward Teaching Science In Pre-Service Elementary Teachers And The Use Of Science Olympiad Events, Allison Armstrong Downing

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the anxiety and attitudes of pre-service elementary teachers toward teaching science and the use of Science Olympiad events in an elementary science methods course. The participants were 34 pre-service elementary teachers enrolled in the Winter 2010 and Spring 2011 trimesters in the course Science in the Elementary School at a private university in south Mississippi. Attitude toward teaching science was measured using the Revised Science Attitude Scale. Anxiety was measured using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Form Y). Data collection involved participants taking pretests for attitude and state anxiety on …

Compendium Of Library/Informatics Competencies For The Health Sciences Professions, Jonathan D. Eldredge, Sarah K. Morley, Ingrid C. Hendrix, Richard D. Carr, Jason Bengtson

Publications

No abstract provided.

Robert Milton Zollinger, M.D., Teacher, Surgeon, Soldier, And Farmer., Fiona M. Chory, B.S., Charles J. Yeo, Md, Pinckney J. Maxwell, Iv, Md

Department of Surgery Gibbon Society Historical Profiles

From Humble roots, Dr. Robert Milton Zollinger worked his way to a position in history among the giants of American surgery. He was born on September 4, 1903, in the central Ohio town of Millersport, the son of Elmira and William Zollinger. Neither of his parents had a high school education, but they supported education and always expressed a confidence that young Robert would be successful at anything he attempted.1 He had aspirations of attending West Point, a dream that was never fulfilled when he decided to be a surgeon. On being informed of his son’s intentions, Zollinger’s father bestowed …

Basic Education Program Review Committee Annual Report 2011, Tennessee. State Board Of Education.

Tennessee State Board of Education

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Evolving Roles Of Improvement–Oriented High School Teachers In Gilgit-Baltistan, Takbir Ali

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

In this paper the author presents a framework for understanding how improvement-oriented high school teachers’ accounts of change experiences portray their evolving roles as change agents in school reform. The data on which this paper is based come from a one-year long in-depth study (doctoral thesis research project) in which the author set out to investigate how improvement-oriented teachers pursue important changes in the realm of classroom, school and community; how the teachers-initiated changes can be characterized; and how the teachers’ roles evolve with their change practices. The researcher employed qualitative case study methodology, using in-depth interviews, classroom observations, post-observation …

Perspectives Of Suburban Public School Teachers On The Characteristics Of Students At-Risk For Dropping Out Of School, Michael Sollitto, Robert Gable

NERA Conference Proceedings 2011

This study focuses on a major problem facing today’s educators: high school dropouts. Numerous studies have been conducted to identify the reasons that students drop out of school and programs that may address the needs of students at-risk for dropping out of school. Literature in this area was reviewed to identify what can be learned from these studies.

Research questions addressed differences in teacher perspectives of the characteristics of elementary, middle, and high school struggling students. Differences in teachers’ perspectives based on tenure and type of teaching assignment were examined. A sequential, mixed methods approach was taken. The researchers began …

Cultural Competence In Transnational Settings & Quality Education For American Indians: Anatomy Of Challenges, Kay Traille, Brittani K. Roy

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

This article juxtaposes the lived experiences of two educators newly immersed in very different work environments. One of the educators, one coming from a British education background, looks at the anomalies of communication, work practice, and student expectations at a university located in the southern United States. The second educator, working in a K-12 school system on an American-Indian reservation in Arizona, looks at the challenges of NCLB, ELL, curricula, assessment methods, dropout rates, and funding. Upon examination of the issues of a quality and fair education for American Indians, it becomes clear that teachers have to bring an existential-phenomenological …

Race To The Top: An Example Of Belief-Dependent Reality. A Response To "Race To The Top Leaves Children And Future Citizens Behind", William J. Mathis

Democracy & Education

Although the federal government claims otherwise, Race to the Top is not research based. Rather, its foundation is in ideology and belief-based realism. The overall effort is fundamentally antiscientific and distracts valuable and needed attention, resources, and focus from the nation's real problems of social, economic, and educational deprivation.

Creating Communities: Working With Refugee Students In Classrooms, Kevin C. Roxas

Democracy & Education

This article critically examines the reality of building community in public schools and specifically identifies the obstacles faced by teachers who try to create community with refugee students. The research in the article focuses on Ms. Patricia Engler, a teacher in a newcomer center for refugee students located in an urban setting. Engler created and fostered a sense of community for middle-school students in her classroom who often felt disconnected to their fellow students, their school, and the neighborhoods in which they lived, and was able to focus on work that she intuitively felt was right for her students based …

The Potential For Deliberative Democratic Civic Education, Jarrod S. Hanson, Ken Howe

Democracy & Education

The values of aggregative democracy have dominated much of civic education as its values reflect the realities of the American political system. We argue that deliberative democratic theory better addresses the moral and epistemological demands of democracy when compared to aggregative democracy. It better attends to protecting citizens’ autonomy to participate in civic life and is able to accommodate the diverse experiences and viewpoints of the American public. We conclude by examining how deliberative democracy provides a new lens on civic education practices. It calls for attention to be given to the process of the exchange of reasons among students …

Imagining No Child Left Behind Freed From Neoliberal Hijackers, Eugene Matusov

Democracy & Education

As a sociocultural educator and scholar, I have always been ambivalent about No Child Left Behind's slogan. I like its democratic ideal of “education without failure,” but I do not like the current educational policies guided by a neoliberal ideology. This article begins a discussion about what a No Student Left Behind educational practice might look like from a sociocultural democratic education perspective.

Fall 2011, Csusb

Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) newsletter

In This Issue

• Student resources at your fingertips pg.3
• EOP Alumni spotlight pg.6
• Important dates pg.8

2011 Fall Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences

The Farquhar Forum College Magazine

No abstract provided.

General Education Forum Summary 2011, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

News Capsule, Academy Of Student Pharmacists - University Of The Pacific

News Capsule

No abstract provided.

Catalog, 2011-2012, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2011-2012 graduate & undergraduate academic catalog and introduction to the university.

Asc Newsletter, Academic Success Center, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Academic Success Center Newsletter

This issue includes a message from the dean, articles about faculty, student achievement and student activities.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 9, Issue 10, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

Debating For Success: Academic Achievement, Self-Efficacy, Civic Empowerment And The Milwaukee Debate League, Thomas Noonan

Dissertations (1934 -)

Over the course of the past three decades Urban Debate Leagues have been established on the premise that they improve schooling for underserved students. Founded in predominantly urban areas, these leagues have been positioned as a recent educational reform effort intended to empower students and foster educational and personal growth. This dissertation focuses specifically on the ways in which students involved in a Milwaukee Urban Debate League participating school have been affected by the experience with respect to academic achievement, self-efficacy, and civic empowerment. Through focusing on student voice, this research project examines the ways in which students manifest change …

Unraveled Fall 2011, Southern Adventist University

Unraveled - School of Education and Psychology Newsletter

The Fall 2011 issue of Unraveled contains articles on first-year teachers, the Psychology Honor Society, the transition from Summerour to Herin Hall, spotlights on new faculty, and a profile on outdoor emergency services.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Statesboro Councilman Lewis: Representing GSU 'Not Fair'
• Students go to Alabama for Game and Civil Rights
• Views
• Letters to the Editor
• SGA Announces Upcoming Events
• Arts
• 'Bent' Brings Holocaust History to Students
• UnityFest Brings Campus Together for Sixth Year
• Classifieds
• Puzzles/ Comics
• Sports

Financial Development And The Mdgs For Education, Gender Equality, And Health, Benjamin N. Rosner

Undergraduate Economic Review

Recent research has found that financial development reduces poverty in developing countries. This paper shows that it also improves education, gender equality, and health. Specifically it has 3 key findings. First, financial development helps achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for education, gender equality, and health by increasing the amount of private credit, money, and deposits in the economy. Second, increasing opportunities to deposit savings is the most significant way that financial development affects the MDGs. Third, the least financially developed countries benefit the most from financial development. These results are robust to omitted variable and reverse causation biases.

John H. Gibbon, Jr., M.D.: Surgical Innovator, Pioneer, And Inspiration., Jordan P. Bloom, B.S., Charles J. Yeo, Md, Herbert E. Cohn, Md, Pinckney J. Maxwell, Iv, Md

Department of Surgery Gibbon Society Historical Profiles

Throughout history there have been many discoveries that have changed the world, including Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, and Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce’s microchip. There are a few analogous contributions that have been made in medicine: Sir Alexander’s discovery of penicillin, Lister’s principles of antiseptic technique, Salk and Sabin’s vaccines for polio, as well as numerous others. These innovative thinkers all had two factors in common. First, they were pioneers who faced problems that had no solutions at the time and who refused to accept the status quo in the face of great scrutiny and …

The Eagleville Times,Volume 9, Issue 9, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

Legislative Brief, Coordinated School Health, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Tennessee's High School Uniform Grading Policy, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

High School Principals' Attitudes Toward And Perceptions Of Gifted Students And Gifted Programs, Carla Dell Bryant

Theses and Dissertations

The study explored the attitudes and perceptions of high school principals (N = 2000), employed at a public school located in one of twenty-four states across the nation, toward gifted students and gifted programs. The survey instrument titled, Perceptions and Attitudes of High School Principals Toward Gifted Students and Gifted Education, included 29 questions to measure three specific attitudes and perceptions: (a) support for gifted students and gifted programs, (b) the view of gifted education as an elitist program, and (c) self-perceptions of giftedness. The study revealed several distinct attitudes and perceptions of high school principals. A majority of the …

International Students' Transition And Adjustment To American Higher Education: Issues And Challenges For Nigerian Students, Linus Chikaodili Ukomadu

Theses and Dissertations

One of the major challenges that confront Nigerian undergraduate students in American higher education is reconciling the demands of a low-context culture (American culture) and a high-context culture (Nigerian culture). The reason is the absence of Nigerian students' familiar culture. This qualitative case study describes the issues and challenges that enhance or impede Nigerian students' transition and adjustment and academic success. The conceptual dimensions explain the nature of psychological factors, person environment-fit conditions, socio-cultural factors, student support services, organizational culture, and process of transition and adjustment. The data were collected from fifteen Nigerian students and six international programs administrators from …

2011 Fall Faculty Conference: Defining Academic Achievement At Otterbein: The Degree Profile Opportunity, Academic Affairs

Fall Faculty Conference

The 2011 Fall Faculty Conference features a talk by Dr. Paul Gaston, and table discussions of "As scholars and educators at Otterbein, what do you think of the degree profile?" and "In light of Otterbein's current and emerging identities, how might we us, adapt, and provide feedback on the profile?"