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Lawrence Historian Monica Rico Honored As Fox Cities “Future 15”, Lawrence University

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Lawrence University historian Monica Rico has been selected one of the winners of the 4th Annual Fox Cities Future 15 Young Professionals awards.

Rico and her fellow Future 15 honorees, selected from among 102 nominations, will be recognized at an event Thursday, Jan. 23 at the Communication Arts Center on the UW Fox-Valley campus.

The Future 15 awards is part of the Pulse Young Professionals, a program of the Fox Cities Regional Partnership.They recognize young business and community leaders for their efforts in work, civic and charitable causes. Future 15 recipients are chosen based on their dedication, strong sense of …

Causation And Caution In Financial Aid Reform: A Historical Perspective Through Multiple Shades Of Gray Literature, Keiko Shimizu Broomhead

Keiko S Broomhead

To better understand how a once well-intentioned concept of financial tuition assistance for college students has devolved into its current troubled and broken state, this doctoral thesis explored the evolution of the U.S. system of federal financial aid in higher education from a historical perspective. The study began with a review of the current state of the federal student aid system in U.S. higher education and then looked back at four key junctures in financial aid's history to understand influences that shaped it to be what it is today. Using a historical research approach, this doctoral thesis examined the gray …

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Greek Life Takes Over the Edgerton -- Black Friday Madness -- SHU Honors President Kennedy -- Baby, it’s Cold Outside -- Students Prefer DIY Gifts Over Store-Bought -- Ethics Bowl Competition -- Students head to Rockefeller Center for Tree Lighting

Appendix: Thoughts On John Evans And Sand Creek, Gary L. Roberts

John Evans Study Report

Apart from political rivalry, there was little reason to oppose John Evans as governor of Colorado. He was a success by almost any standard one chose to apply. He was a self-made man, a son of the Middle West. He grew up in a Quaker family in Indiana, and although he converted to Methodism later, Protestant evangelism was a central feature of his character and experience. As a young man, he set his goals high—to build a city, to found a college, to create a fortune, to become a governor, to be elected to the United States Senate, and to …

Matters Of Fact In Jane Austen: History, Location, And Celebrity, By Janine Barchas, Laura E. Thomason

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

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Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: NEC Champions -- ESPN Anchor Speaks to SHU Students -- Moses Webb’s Play Goes Viral -- Killer Speed Bumps -- Habitat for Humanity Thrives on Campus -- Allison O’Keefe Gets Her Feet Wet -- Students Do Business in China -- 16 Handles or Pinkberry?

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: The Gun Control Debate -- Sacred Heart House Party Disrupts Bridgeport Neighborhood -- Class of 2017 Elections -- CISPA is Back -- Students Comment on SHU’s Active Life -- Change the Stations -- Editorials -- Jail N’ Bail Raises Money for Special Olympics

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: The Gun Control Debate -- Sacred Heart House Party Disrupts Bridgeport Neighborhood -- CISPA is Back -- Students Comment on SHU’s Active Life -- Change the Stations -- Editorials -- Jail N’ Bail Raises Money for Special Olympics

Why Do Teachers Hate Ai N'T? Eighteenth-Century Ideologies And Attitudes In Twenty-First-Century Classrooms, Robin Elise Halsey

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the impact of various historical events on the development of the English language and its grammar. Specifically, this project highlights how the ideologies about language held by eighteenth-century grammar-writers have influenced the pedagogical approach of teachers of English, persisting into the twenty-first century. Further, the rationale behind these language ideologies is explored in order to gain important insights into the seemingly prescriptive nature of the majority of grammar texts produced in the eighteenth century and beyond.

The origins of four particular points of grammar and usage that are commonly attacked by teachers, grammarians, and others are examined. …

Re-Interpreting The Significance Of The Cosmic Microwave Background, Jacob Pearce

Dr Jacob Pearce

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Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 7, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Sacred Heart Opens New Graduate Center in Stamford -- The Trick-or-Treat Trot -- The Ban on Bottled Water -- Nursing Trip to Jamaica -- Campus Wide Turkey Drive -- Heartbeats ProLife Club -- Pioneers Play 100 Innings

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 6, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: SHU’S Parking Resolution -- Sacred Heart’s Annual Campus Crime and Fire Safety Reports -- What’s the purpose of College? -- Breaking Bad comes to an end on AMC -- Las Vetas Lounge has students talking -- Sacred Heart Athletes Fight for a Cancer and Disease Free World -- The First Annual Poetry Slam

Teaching In China: Reflections On Higher Education, Student Learning, And Teacher Training, Wing-Kai To, John Marvelle, Ryan Labrozzi, Chien Wen Yu

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

In spring and summer 2013, four faculty members from Bridgewater State University taught courses on history, business, education, American studies, and second language acquisition in several universities in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and a workshop for teachers in an international school in Xiamen. These opportunities offer our faculty new perspectives on the current state of higher education, student learning, and teacher training in China and Hong Kong. Wing-kai To taught history, culture, immigration, and ethnicity to graduate students and undergraduate students in the spring semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong and in a …

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 5, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Family Weekend Filled with Pioneer Pride -- What is the Government Shutdown? -- Students find creative voices through SHUsquare -- Students and Homesickness -- Education Club Putting on a Book Drive -- Chris Burrows Receives Associate of the Year Award -- New Education Course Offered in Dingle, Ireland

“The Diffusion Of Light”: Jefferson’S Philosophy Of Education, M. Andrew Holowchak

Democracy and Education

Jefferson's republicanism—a people-first, mostly bottom-up political vision with a moral underpinning—was critically dependent on general education for the citizenry and higher education for those who would govern. This paper contains an analysis of Jefferson’s general philosophy of pedagogy by enumerating some of its most fundamental principles, applicable to both elementary and higher education.

Though The Earth Give Way

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2013 performance of Though the Earth Give Way by William Gebby, commissioned and presented by the Taylor Theatre Touring Company.

Though the Earth Give Way is a reimagined telling of the story of King Hezikiah and his resistance of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C.. The story is found in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 18-20 and Psalm 46.

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 3, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: Homecoming Is A Hit -- Sandy Remodeling Destroyed by Fire -- SHU Students Learn the Meaning of a Dollar -- 4th Annual Fall Fest -- Fantasy Football -- Students Comment on Fall Internships -- Editorials

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: SHU Honored in The Princeton Review -- The Lacks Family Visits SHU -- New Sorority Sisters at SHU -- Chef Jet Takes Over Linda’s -- President’s Tweets Unify Sacred Heart -- Game Attendance

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

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Highlights include: SHU is Over the Hill -- A Letter for Pat -- Welcome Class of 2017 -- Freshman and Senior Students Comment on Their Bright Futures -- Anticipated Presidential Gala Shines Once Again -- Perspectives -- The New Wellness Center Welcomes Students

The College, Career, And Civic Life (C3) Framework For Social Studies State Standards: Guidance For Enhancing The Rigor Of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, And History, Kathy Swan, Keith C. Barton, Stephen Buckles, Flannery Burke, Jim Charkins, S. G. Grant, Susan W. Hardwick, John Lee, Peter Levine, Meira Levinson, Anand Marri, Chauncey Monte-Sano, Robert Morrill, Karen Thomas-Brown, Cynthia Tyson, Bruce Vansledright, Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Curriculum and Instruction Reports

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Shu Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Sacred Heart University

Anniversary Collections

Sacred Heart University News Story, August 12, 2013.

Pacific Review Fall 2013, Alumni Association Of The University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Comments On The Setting Up And The Growth Of Smu By Mr Heng Swee Keat, Minister For Education At Smu Commencement Ceremony 2013, Swee Keat Heng

Oral History Collection

Transcript of speech by Mr Heng Swee Keat, Minister for Education at SMU Commencement Ceremony on Wednesday, 25 July 2013, 9am at Resorts World Sentosa. He was involved in the setting up of SMU and talked about the growth, the daring, and the sharing by SMU and its students.

Evans Study Committee Update, Dean Saitta

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Letter from Dean J. Saitta, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology to John Evans Study Committee.

Elements And Perspectives Of Educational Accountability In China And Denmark, Yihuan Zou, Palle Rasmussen

Summer Workshop on the Comparative History of School Accountability

Different types of accountability systems may be found in education. For instance Anderson (2005) distinguishes between the following three main types, namely (1) detailed institutional regulation of educational activities and compliance to this; (2) acknowledgement of professional norms and adherence to these and (3) specification of expected results and evaluation of performance. For all three types a range of instruments to evaluate and to improve may be used. Accountability through performance has become more widespread in many contexts during recent years, but that does not mean that institutional regulation or even professional norms have disappeared. The three types coexist in …

The Origins, Evolution, And Effects Of Test Based Accountability: North Carolina And The Nation, 1976-2009, Scott Baker

Summer Workshop on the Comparative History of School Accountability

This paper examines the origins, development, and effects of test based accountability between 1976 and 2009. Using evidence from North Carolina and other southern states to illuminate broader national developments, the paper focuses on three overlapping waves of test based accountability that began in southern states in the 1970s and spread throughout the United States in the decades that followed: 1) the minimum competency movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, 2) the raising of high school graduation requirements and the implementation of more rigorous high school exit exams in the 1980s and 1990s, and 3) the adoption of …

Educating Wards Of The State: Gender-Based Vocational Curriculum In Jamaican Industrial Schools 1890 – 1940, Shani Roper

Summer Workshop on the Comparative History of School Accountability

Throughout the late nineteenth century, the Jamaican colonial government along with several religious institutions established a small network of Industrial Schools as well as a Reformatory to house criminal, destitute, and displaced juveniles. Advocates of the industrial school system argued that the goal of an industrial school education was to create good colonial citizens. A gender- based vocational oriented curriculum was promoted on the grounds that such an education enforced values of self-sufficiency and thrift. This curriculum differentiated industrial schools from its counterparts in the general education system. The main goal of school administrators was to re-socialize children to become …

Danish Primary Education Accountability – A Conceptual And Organizational Jour-Ney Of Accountability Practices In Danish History Of Education, Christian Ydesen, Karen Egedal Andreasen

Summer Workshop on the Comparative History of School Accountability

In this paper we focus on primary education accountability as a concept and as an organisational practice in Danish history of education. Contemporary policy studies of education often address questions of accountability, but the manifestations of school accountability differ significantly between different national settings. Furthermore, accountability measures and practices actually change the ways and means by which societies approach their cultural edifices in general and their educational systems in particular. In other words accountability measures and practices tend to have a disciplining effect on its surroundings. Hence there is a need to clarify the characteristics and traits connected with the …

Smith, Travis Edwin, B. 1898 (Sc 2734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2734. Three documents related to the history of education in Kentucky which were prepared by Travis Edwin Smith for his doctoral dissertation. One document concentrates on teacher education, one on education law in Kentucky, and the last document is an overview titled “Education in Kentucky.” The documents concentrate on sources to be used in the dissertation.

Muslim Vs Islamic, Jan-E-Alam Khaki

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

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