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Transitioning To A Standards-Based Grading Model At The Middle Level: A Case Study, Jeffrey Scott Szymczak

Theses and Dissertations

Report card grades have long been a part of the system of communication used in our schools to signify student achievement. Letter grades have been with us for centuries, but it was not until recently that educators began recognizing there may be a better way to communicate what a student knows and can do for parents and other schools. While standards-based grades have been common at the elementary level, middle and high schools have been slow to put them to use.

This phenomenological case study was of a seventh and eighth grade school in northeast Illinois in 2013 in the …

Teaching Out Of Field, Jo Earp

Teacher infographics

Teachers are at times being allocated to subjects for which they have received no formal education or training. What is the extent of the problem in Australia? Find out in this Teacher infographic.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 21, February 17, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Homebuilders Association Of West Michigan, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

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Increasing Effective Service And Support For Students On The Autism Spectrum, Jacquelyn Urbani, Billye Brown, Colleen Arnold

Collected Faculty Scholarship

From a campus workshop focusing on how faculty can more effectively work with students with autism.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 33, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Crumbie, Trey. Snowed Out – Winter, Weather
• Wright, Samantha. Professors Produce New Books
• Rogers, Shelby. Dance Professor Steps Down as Coordinator – Clifton Brown, Theatre & Dance
• Henderson, Andrew. WKU Group Advocates Education, Protection for Renters – WKU Student Coalition for Renters’ Rights
• Love for the Mountains Photo Spread – Protest Movements, Demonstrations
• French, Jackson. Fifty Shades of Grey An Unpleasant Color Palette – Movie Review
• A New Way of Life: Protecting Your Digital Self – Anthem, Computer Hacking, Identity Theft
• Coalition for Social Justice. Rape Defense Program Only …

Auxiliary News Online, Georgia Southern University

Auxiliary Services News Online

• Eagles Have Heart: Health Services to Celebrate American Heart Month

Personal Reflections / 2.17.15, José M. Torres

Personal Reflections

I was reminded recently that as one gets older, time seems to go faster. Another thing that happens is forgetfulness! Well, welcome to my aging world—where I pause from our fast- paced work to provide an update on some of my activities and reflections as your president, two months into 2015.

We recently launched IN2 Steve and Jamie Chen Center for Innovation and Inquiry; hosted meetings of the Illinois P-20 Council and the Board of Directors of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC); and I represented IMSA at three public speaking events.

February 17, 2015 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Artfest 2015 Begins This Week: High School Students Invited To Explore Art & Design, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Andrews University’s Department of Visual Art & Design hosts their first-annual, weekend-long ArtFest. Details of the ArtFest are provided in the article.

Griffin Named Sun Belt Player Of The Week By Csm, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Griffin Named Sun Belt Player of the Week by CSM

Fusco '94 Wins Top Investigative Journalism Award, University Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Johnson’S Grand Slam Lifts Yellow Jackets Over Eagles, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Johnson’s Grand Slam Lifts Yellow Jackets Over Eagles

Weekend Baseball Game Times Changed, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Weekend Baseball Game Times Changed

Auxiliary News Online, Georgia Southern University

Auxiliary Services (2013-2021)

• Eagles Have Heart: Health Services to Celebrate American Heart Month

Theatre Students Explore The Fabric Of Time, Staff

Browse All News

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Alabama Students Meet British Consul General, Learn About Marshall Scholarship, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Northwestern University And College Athletes Players Association, Amy L. Rosenberger

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

While many public universities have been bargaining with student-employee unions for decades, the National Labor Relations Board has struggled with the notion of allowing bargaining on behalf of student-employees at private institutions. In recent years, the Board has twice changed course on the question, granting bargaining rights to graduate assistants at New York University in 2000, and four years later reversing itself in a case involving Brown University. The Board is now poised to rule on another case – this one involving student athletes at Northwestern University – which may present an opportunity to once again revisit the broader student-employee …

Academic Collective Bargaining: Patterns And Trends, Curtis R. Sproul, Neil Bucklew, Jeffery D. Houghton

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Educational services, particularly higher education, has slowly and methodically become one of the most heavily unionized segments, with much greater representation than traditional labor segments. Despite these changes, the increase in academic collective bargaining has not been well documented. Consequently, the purpose of the current paper is to examine recent trends in academic collective bargaining and to compare these trends with the current unionization and collective bargaining situation in other major industries in the United States. We begin with a comparative analysis of unionization in the United States by industry. The summary data we present indicate that the educational services …

Post-Recession Cbas: A Study Of Wage Increases In The Agreements Of Four State-Wide Faculty Unions, Steve Hicks

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The article looks at the post-Recession (2011) agreements of four state-wide faculties: California State system, SUNY, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Focusing on wages, the study starts with the context of state appropriations after the Recession and after ARRA. It finds that the agreements took longer, yet without job action, and each had a year with no salary increase, and some agreements include both no salary increase AND no seniority-based increase.

The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance, Mark Cassell, Odeh Halaseh

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This study examines faculty unions’ impact on the organizational efficiency and effectiveness of public four-year institutions of higher learning. The article theorizes the causal connections between faculty unions to higher education performance. The study also presents results of a cross-sectional time series analysis and a cross-sectional analysis of higher education performance using data from the Department of Education’s Integrated Post Secondary Data System (IPEDS) spanning more than two decades and over 430 public universities and colleges. We find support for the view that unionization improves organizational efficiency and effectiveness. At the same time the research raises important methodological and substantive …

Collective Bargaining In Higher Education: Observations From An Ace Fellow, José Antonio Rosa Phd

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The author, a member of the 2013-2014 American Council on Education Fellows Class, offers observations and synthesis on factors affecting the viability and execution of collective bargaining in higher education. Building on the history of the academy, and taking into account environmental factors such as technology and social trends, the author proposes that greater senior leadership involvement, transparency, and flexibility may be needed for collective bargaining units in colleges and universities to be successful, as change continues to assail higher education.

From Ivory To Babel To A New Foundation, Richard Boris

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

During my 12 years at the NationalCenter for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, I observed with increasing frustration the inability of administration and faculty leaders—union and governance—to fully grasp, analyze, and find pathways out of public higher education’s current existential crisis.

My many years of observing leaders of public higher education lead me to the inescapable conclusion that together the leaders share a culture that shorts strategic planning, thinking, and boldness and instead favors ad-hoc, incremental acceptance of the ever-changing, slimmed-down state of affairs. The rarified bubbles of presidential cabinets and union boards symbiotically promote policies that, …

18th Annual Research Fair, College Of Education And Professional Studies

Research Fairs

This pamphlet documents notable student research in the College of Education and Professional Studies at Eastern Illinois University.

Thiel’S Kids: A Follow-Up, Michael Hemesath

Administration Publications

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 44, February 16, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Auxiliary News Online, Georgia Southern University

Auxiliary Services News Online

• Health Services to Host Lunch & Learn: There’s No Excuse for Abuse

• Let the Good Times Roll: Dining Commons to Host Special Meal for Mardi Gras

Iota Nu Oratorical Competition To Offer $1,000 Scholarship For Video Winner Feb. 21, Staff

Browse All News

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Mathematics' Vaughan Leads Honorees For Service Awards Recognition, Natalie Wade

Browse All News

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February 16, 2015: First Panetta Intern, Magazine Wins Awards, Seba's New Partnership, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Bulletin 2013-2020

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