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The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 4, Nova Southeastern University Oct 2012

The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 4, Nova Southeastern University

Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletters

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The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 3, Nova Southeastern University May 2012

The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 3, Nova Southeastern University

Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletters

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11th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College Apr 2012

11th Annual Undergraduate Student Symposium, Farquhar Honors College

Undergraduate Student Symposium

The Undergraduate Student Symposium, sponsored by the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, presents student projects through presentations, papers, and poster displays. The event serves as a “showcase” demonstrating the outstanding scholarship of undergraduate students at NSU. The Symposium is open to undergraduate students from all disciplines. Projects cover areas of student scholarship ranging from the experimental and the applied to the computational, theoretical, artistic, and literary. They are taken from class assignments as well as from independent projects. The projects do not have to be complete; presentations can represent any stage in the concept’s evolution, from proposal and literature …


The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 2, Nova Southeastern University Apr 2012

The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 2, Nova Southeastern University

Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletters

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The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 1, Nova Southeastern University Mar 2012

The Lli Chronicle Volume 3 Number 1, Nova Southeastern University

Lifelong Learning Institute Newsletters

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Alternative Interventions Used To Help Mexican-American Students Improve Academic Achievement In Grades 9 - 12, Alberta M. Reyes Jan 2012

Alternative Interventions Used To Help Mexican-American Students Improve Academic Achievement In Grades 9 - 12, Alberta M. Reyes

Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative research study employing a cross-case analysis on previous case studies is to better understand the engagement of Latino students in a small number of cultural sensitivity programs and the teaching practices that are factors in the development of their academic achievement. In the traditional infrastructure of public schools, assimilation is built on fundamental values aligned with the U.S. political establishment rather than on the value of adaptation to the demands and conflicts of other cultures. Thus, less-empowered groups are at a disadvantage resulting in subgroups abandoning their ideas and reducing their contributions to human capital. …