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Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/33 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Politics of school-based management : understanding the process of devolving authority in urban school districts / Elaine M. Walker.

Forensics And Case Studies In Civil Engineering Education: State Of The Art, Norbert J. Delatte, Kevin L. Rens

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper reviews the state of the art in the use of forensic engineering and failure case studies in civil engineering education. The study of engineering failures can offer students valuable insights into associated technical, ethical, and professional issues. Lessons learned from failures have substantially affected civil engineering practice. For the student, study of these cases can help place design and analysis procedures into historical context and reinforce the necessity of lifelong learning. Three approaches for bringing forensics and failure case studies into the civil engineering curriculum are discussed in this paper. These are stand-alone forensic engineering or failure case …

Tools For Inclusion: Making Dreams A Reality: Using Personal Networks To Achieve Goals As You Prepare To Leave High School, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Mairead Moloney, Danielle Dreilinger, Jennifer Schuster

Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Leaving high school can be both exciting and stressful. This brief tells the stories of students who used their personal networks to exercise self-determination and follow their goals, and includes worksheets for students to build and use their own networks.

Fear Of Victimization In Rural Middle School Students, Benjamin H. Studley

Student Work

School safety has gained national attention in recent years due to school shootings in Jonesboro, Arkansas; Conyers, Georgia; West Paducah, Kentucky; Pearl, Mississippi; Springfield, Oregon; Edinboro, Pennsylvania; and Littleton, Colorado. According to the Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup Poll (1998), school safety is the public's top concern in education.

The Effect Of Using Conceptual Sign Language On Third Grade Elementary Students' Learning Of Spanish Vocabulary., Julie Jahde

Student Work

This study examined the use of Conceptual Sign Language together with Spanish instruction for third grade students. With the growing number of Hispanics in the United States, Spanish is becoming an important subject. According to the National Network for Early Language Learning, (NNELL) Spanish as a Second Language can be very beneficial for elementary students. Using movement, gestures and Total Physical Response (TPR) techniques have been demonstrated as effective instructional strategies. They have also been shown to be effective for any foreign language classrooms, especially with elementary students. Conceptual sign language has also been an effective tool to reinforce vocabulary …

Staff, Student, And Parent Perceptions About The Effectiveness Of Block Scheduling At Millard West High School, Dave A. Collins

Student Work

The rigid American high school schedule did not always exist in its current state. Prior to 1892 and the work of the National Education Association's Committee of Ten, early high schools and their predecessors, Latin Grammar Schools and Academies, showed some flexibility in their school schedules (Gorman, 1971).

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/32 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Geographical distribution of teacher absenteeism in large urban school district settings : implications for school reform efforts aimed at promoting equity and excellence in education / James E. Bruno.

An Assessment Of Education And The Worst Forms Of Child Labour: How Do Education Policies And Programmes Work (Or Not Work) For Children?, Emma E. Porio, Maria Luisa Fernan, Christine Crisol

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

The report is divided into several parts. Part I outlines the research objectives, design and methodology of the study. Part II describes the structure, policies and programmes of the Philippine educational system. Part III describes the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of working children/child labourers. Part IV describes the school policies and practices that undermine and/or support the schooling of working children/child labourers while Part V links the macro education policies and micro education practices, highlighting the barriers to implementation of education policies.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/31 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Question of the student in educational reform / David P. Ericson [and] Frederick S. Ellett, Jr.

The Alumni Network, Summer 2002 (Vol. Xvi No. 1), Nova Southeastern University

Alumni Network Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Practitioners' News - Summer 2002, Volume 29, Number 4, Nova Southeastern University

Practitioners' News

No abstract provided.

Abstracts Of Papers, 80th Annual Meeting Of The Virginia Academy Of Science, May 22-24, 2002, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia

Virginia Journal of Science

Abstracts of papers that were presented at the 80th annual meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science.

Speaking Truth To Power: Challenging The Power Of Parents To Control The Education Of Their Own, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Courts, Educational Policy, And Unintended Consequences, Michael Heise

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Pages News, Volume 10, No. 2, July 2002, Tom Edwards, Christoph Kull, Keith Alverson

PAGES

Contents: Editorial -- Stable Isotopes/Swiss Sojourn -- The PAGES Synthesis Project -- New on the PAGES Bookshelf -- Tales from the Field -- Inside PAGES -- Program News -- NOClim: Norwegian Ocean Climate Project -- National Page -- Switzerland -- Science Highlights -- Extending Isotope in Precipitation Data Beyond Direct Measurements -- Holocene Variability in the Indian Ocean Monsoon -- Isotopic Records of Past Hydroclimatic Change -- A New Conceptual Model for Predicting Isotopic Enrichment of Lakes -- Modelling the Water Isotope Signal in the Quaternary -- Towards a Regional Synthesis of Mediterranean Climatic Change -- Past and Present Ecohydrology …

The Anticanonical Lesson Of Huckleberry Finn, Sharon E. Rush

UF Law Faculty Publications

Some books included in the canon of American literature no longer belong there, because they presently lack normative approval. Adapting concepts found in constitutional law, an anticanon of American literature functions the way the anticanon of constitutional law would operate and explicitly removes books from the canon. In law, the anticanon identifies outdated interpretations of the constitution. In education, it is time to consider removing from the canon and placing in an anticanon books that are inconsistent with multicultural education. One such book is Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which is part of the canon of American literature and viewed as …

G-Portal : A Map-Based Digital Library For Distributed Geospatial And Georeferenced Resources, Ee Peng Lim, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As the World Wide Web evolves into an immense information network, it is tempting to build new digital library services and expand existing digital library services to make use of web content. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of G-Portal, a web portal that aims to provide digital library services over geospatial and georeferenced content found on the World Wide Web. G-Portal adopts a map-based user interface to visualize and manipulate the distributed geospatial and georeferenced content. Annotation capabilities are supported, allowing users to contribute geospatial and georeferenced objects as well as their associated metadata. The other …

Teachers' Attitudes Towards The Statewide Writing Assessment And The District Assessments Used In Nebraska Stars, Kristi A. Preisman

Student Work

A new tool has recently been introduced to the Nebraska classroom entitled STARS, which is the Student-based Teacher-led Assessment and Reporting System and it is used to measure student competencies of Nebraska's standards. The purpose of this research project was to discover teachers' attitudes towards the Statewide Writing Assessment and the district assessments used as part of STARS. The information gathered through this study is intended to help curriculum leaders, policy makers, administrators and the Nebraska Department of Education to make informed decisions regarding STARS and its influence on students, teachers and the classroom. A survey was distributed to graduate …

Kindergarten Students' Reading And Writing Engagement At Literacy Centers, Kimberly Ziemann

Student Work

This qualitative descriptive study explored and described kindergarten students' reading and writing engagement as they participated in literacy centers.

Friends, Family, And Neighborhood: Understanding Academic Outcomes Of African American Youth, Trina Williams, Larry Davis, Julie Miller-Cribbs, Jeanne Saunders, James Herbert Williams

Center for Social Development Research

Friends, Family, and Neighborhood: Understanding Academic Outcomes of African American Youth

Gender Differences In Self-Perceptions And Academic Outcomes: A Study Of African American High School Students, Jeanne Saunders, Larry Davis, Trina Williams, Julie Miller Cribbs

Center for Social Development Research

There is increasing divergence in the academic outcomes of African American males and females. By most accounts, males are falling behind their female peers educationally as African American females are graduating from high schools at higher rates and are going on to college and graduate school in greater numbers. Some have suggested that school completion and performance is associated with how students feel about themselves. The purpose of this study was to explore gender differences in the relationship between self-perceptions and two academic outcomes among a sample of 243 African American high school sophomores. The results suggest that, overall; females …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/30 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Teacher inequality : new evidence on disparities in teachers' academic skills / Andrew J. Wayne.

Legal Aspects Of Sustainable Water Resources Management [Abstract], Raphael J. Moses

Allocating and Managing Water for a Sustainable Future: Lessons from Around the World (Summer Conference, June 11-14)

2 pages.

Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages In The Law School Classroom, Tom Baker

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Teachers Resource Centre - Making A Difference - 16th Annual Report, Teachers Resource Centre

Institute for Educational Development Pakistan (IED-PK) Archives

TRC at a Glance, An Overview, Our Workshop Programme, The Early Childhood Education Programme (ECEP), The Primary Education Programme (PEP), Our Publications, Our Library, Visitors to TRC, Membership, Our Special Events, Institutional Strengthening, Finance, Challenges Ahead, Annex 1: Overall Workshop Participation, Annex 2: Workshop Data, Annex 2: Workshop Data, Annex 3: Visitors, Annex 4: Institutional Members, Annex 5: Associate Members, Annex 6: Statement of Sources and Applications (Consolidation), Annex 7: Statement of Sources and Applications (TRC), Annex 8: Statement of Sources and Application (SIDP)

A Study Of Code-Switching Among Educated Lebanese As Reflected In Television Talk Shows, Mona El Sayed El Samaty

Archived Theses and Dissertations

In sociolinguistics, code-switching (CS), refers to the alternative use by bilinguals of two or more languages in the san1e conversation. This exploratory study aims to investigate the CS phenomenon in Lebanon. It aims to find out the reasons/functions of CS, as well as to know the extent to which the code-switches observe or violate six universal syntactic constraints: the size of the constituent constraint, the conjunction constraint, the adjectival phrase constraint, the free morpheme constraint, the equivalence constraint, and the dual structure principle. The literature on research pe1taining to both aims of the study is reviewed. Moreover, in order to …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/29 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Case study of professional development expenditures at a restructured high school / Sarah Archibald [and] H. Alix Gallagher.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/28 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Elm Street School : a case study of professional development expenditures / H. Alix Gallagher.

An Evolving Approach To Learning In Problem Solving And Program Development : The Distributed Learning Model, Idania Espinosa

Theses

Technological advances are paving the way for improvements in many sectors of society. The US education system needs to undergo a transformation of existing pedagogical methods to maximize utilization of new technologies. Traditional education has primarily been teacher driven, lectured-based in one location. Advances in technology are challenging existing paradigms by developing tools and educational environments that reach diverse learning styles and surpass the boundaries of current teaching methods.

Distributed learning is an emerging paradigm today that has promise to contribute significantly to learning and improve overall academic success. This research first explores various systems that provide different modes of …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/27 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Mentoring narratives on-line : teaching the principalship / Alison I. Griffith [and] Svitlana Taraban.