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The Effectiveness Of A Multicultural Awareness Day Program, Anne-Sophie I. Kruse-Guth

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Multicultural Awareness Day program on improving student understanding, awareness, and appreciation of world languages and cultures. The study was based on a quantitative analysis research design. The sample used for this study included 7^th and 8^th grade students at Glassboro Intermediate School in the Glassboro Public Schools District of New Jersey. A randomly selected sample of seventh and eighth grade social studies students participated in the study. One technique, surveying, was used as a means for data collection. The data were analyzed both before and after …

Teachers' And Students' Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of A Middle School Bully Patrol, Arnold Jeffrey White

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness, as perceived by teachers and students, of the Glassboro Intermediate School's Bully Patrol in reducing bullying for seventh and eighth grade students. The data gathering procedures were teacher and student surveys using the convenience sampling technique. The results of this study were based upon the analysis of the feedback that the teachers and students provided.

The major conclusions of this study provided important insights into the Glassboro Intermediate School's Bully Patrol. The data revealed that almost all of the teachers perceived the bully patrol to be effective in eliminating bullying …

What Is Georgia Southern University’S Policy Of Monitoring Facebook.Com, Myspace.Com, And Related World Wide Web Sites, Patrick J. Novotny Dr.

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

2005 April 4 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

2004-05 Annual Report, Igniting Talent And Leadership For Our State, Nation And World, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Annual Reports

In the mid 1980s, the state of Illinois, recognizing that the nation was on the verge of unprecedented technological advances and a sharply increased need for highly skilled leaders, founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy®. Twenty years later, the national demand for science and technology leaders has never been greater. The National Academies new report - Rising Above the Gathering Storm and the President's American Competitiveness Initiative address the growing concern that the U.S. is losing its competitive advantage as countries abroad invest heavily in the education and training of scientists and engineers. The report and the initiative call …

Koinonia, Jennifer Lindholm, Todd C. Ream, Dana Alexander, Skip Trudeau

Koinonia

Conference Spotlight
Spirituality, Religion, and the Undergraduate College Student, Jennifer Lindholm

ACSD 2005 Artist Spotlight: Shaun Groves

Ideas for Our Work
Thinking Theologically: The Moral of a Good Story, Todd C. Ream

Changing Our Name and Identity: Rebranding or Renewal, Dana Alexander

Features
The President's Corner

Editor's Disk

Education Chronicle Issue 2 Number 2, Touro College School Of Education And Psychology - Graduate Division

Yearbooks and Newsletters

Spring/Summer 2005 Issue

Assessing Students With Disabilities: The Individuals With Disabilities Act Meets No Child Left Behind, Sarah C. Mckenzie, Gary W. Ritter

Policy Briefs

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (P.L. 94-142 [20 U.S.C., §1400 et seq.), authorized by Congress in 1975 and reauthorized in 1997 and 2004, guarantees all children with disabilities the right to a free appropriate public education and guarantees procedural safeguards to assure protection of the rights of these children and their parents. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) (PL-107-110 [20 U.S.C. §6301, et seq.], 2001) requires, among other things, that schools be accountable for education results through annual standardized testing and through additional standards that determine a school’s adequate yearly progress (AYP). The 2004 reauthorization of IDEA …

Ua11/1 Echo, April, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A born digital magazine once delivered over the internet was a continuation of the Echo publication.

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2005-2007, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2000-2009

Marshall University Undergraduate Graduate Course Catalog for the 2005-2007 academic year.

Prism #07, April 2005, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Ua61/5 Social Work Newsletter, Wku Social Work

WKU Administration Documents

Social Work newsletter includes articles:

• Seeing Red – Student Social Workers
• Note from the Department Head
• Focus on Field: Field Supervisor, Joanne Engelland, MSW
• MSW Program News
• Social Work Humor
• Departmental Faculty: Scholarly Activities – Dean May, Jan Peeler, Dale Smith, Susan Wesley

The Relationship Between School Performance Scores And Job Satisfaction Of Principals In Louisiana, Vickie Lynn Wheelis

Doctoral Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between School Performance Scores (SPS) and job satisfaction of principals in Louisiana. The sample consisted of 1328 elementary, middle, high, and PK–12 public school principals in the State of Louisiana. Participants were asked to complete the Short-Form Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) via the Internet, with responses being submitted to a secure server. In addition to the MSQ, three demographic questions and three open-ended response questions were asked. The data were analyzed using a one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Statistical analysis revealed no significant differences in intrinsic, extrinsic, and general satisfaction levels with regard to the …

School Choice: Structured Through Markets And Morality, Thomas J. Lasley, Carolyn Ridenour

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

School choice is increasingly promulgated as a promising education reform policy for failing urban schools, but no solid evidence has yet shown the promise fulfilled. The authors argue that choice based on market theory without a moral center is insufficient. Without a moral foundation, such market-driven choice programs may actually disadvantage some children further. A market approach, absent a moral perspective, fails to encompass all the necessary dimensions for an educational system that can fulfill the traditional commitment to the common good and effectively serve all urban children, their families, and society. Six moral principles are offered along with examples …

Brief 18: Creating A Culture Of Inquiry, New England Resource Center For Higher Education, University Of Massachusetts Boston

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

The Community College Student Success Think Tank, part of the Community College Student Success Project, funded by Lumina Foundation for Education, brings student and academic affairs officers together with institutional researchers to reflect on trends and issues surrounding data-driven decision making in community colleges. Participants consider various forms of accountability data, processes and analyses to bring about institutional transformation. At a recent meeting, Think Tank members discussed ways to create a culture of inquiry at community colleges.

Intimations Of Imitation: Honors Students And Their Alps, Jeffrey Portnoy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Joan Digby’s “The Age of Imitation” reads like Joan herself: shrewd, provocative, and astute in her observations. I found her remarks compelling on both the personal and professional level as I think about the current generation of students and the society in which we move.

The Age Of Imitation, Joan Digby

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In recent years I’ve been somewhat perplexed to discover that my honors freshman literature classes are far more receptive to Pope’s “Essay on Man” than Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” Through most of my teaching career, the reverse was the norm, but a number of changes in popular taste have led students away from Romantic originality and led me to these reflections on contemporary culture which may, I hope, have some wider implications with respect to current issues in teaching and learning.

Seeing Nature: Ansel Adams In The Human And Natural Environments Of Yosemite, Megan Mcwenie

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Wallace Stegner once hailed the legacy of Ansel Adams as bringing photography to the world of art as a unique “way of seeing.” What Adams saw through the lens of his camera, and what audiences see when looking at one of his photographs, does indeed constitute a particular way of seeing the world, a vision that is almost always connected to the natural environment. An Ansel Adams photograph evokes more than an aesthetic response to his work—it also stirs reflections about his involvement in the natural world that was so often his subject. Audiences experiencing his work participate in a …

The Ages Of Imitation, Authenticity And Originality, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Joan Digby has offered us a wonderful opportunity to think about our students and ourselves in constructing an education for them. Her essay took me back to my own freshman year when I read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark.” I think it might have been the first formal paper that I wrote in college, and it left an indelible imprint on my mind: The only truth is paradox. It seems to fit this case. Our students are and are not different than those in the past, and we, their instructors, are neither more nor less than our predecessors. If the …

Athena, Telemachus, And The Honors Student Odyssey: The Academic Librarian As An Agent In Mentored Learning, Emily Walshe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This study considers how librarians can develop mentoring schemes that enhance intellectual discourse among honors students. The author defines mentored learning; identifies the need for integrated information support in honors curricula; outlines a project that has employed a mentored learning model; and examines how a mentored learning program may assist in promoting high achievement and low attrition in honors programs. This paper was presented at the 39th annual NCHC conference in November 2004.

Imitation, Economic Insecurity, And Risk Aversion, Jay Mandt

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

There is an ingrained notion in American culture that individuals are responsible for their circumstances. In the Great Depression, people blamed themselves for unemployment, as if somehow their personal character flaws, rather than a breakdown of the national economy, had caused them to be laid off. At a visceral level, Americans reject the idea that they are in the grip of vast forces beyond their control.

What Is An Honors Student?, Cheryl Achterberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Honors programs and colleges are commonplace in U.S. higher education today with programs in 60% of all four-year institutions and over 40% of all two-year institutions (Baker, Reardon, and Riordan, 2000). The research literature about honors education and/or honors students, however, is sparse (Achterberg, 2004; Long and Lange, 2002; Reihman, Varhus and Whipple, 1995; Roemer, 1984). Hypothetically, experience of nearly a century should generate recognizable patterns (Cohen, 1966a). The purpose of this paper is to review what literature exists to describe honors students, and it ends with a normative definition of an honors student. It necessarily focuses on traditionally-aged students …

The Hopes And Fears Of Post-9/11 Years, Mel Piehl

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In 1998 Arthur Levine and Jeannette Cureton wrote in When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today’s College Student that the current college generation they had studied was “wearied by the enormous pressure they face economically, politically, socially, and psychologically. At the same time, they are energized by a desire to enjoy the good life and make their corner of the world a better place. This is a generation in which hope and fear are colliding” (17).

Allocation Of Resources: Should Honors Programs Take Priority?, K. Celeste Campbell

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Two of the major challenges facing higher education in the 21st century are the determination of priorities and the allocation of shrinking resources to reflect these priorities. Many colleges and universities, when blessed with sufficient funds during the last half of the 20th century, dedicated resources to develop honors programs (or similar honors colleges) to attract and nurture academically talented undergraduate students.1 Substantial funds are required for honors programs to offer benefits such as small classes, special honors advising, and honors housing. In addition to annual funding, other resources are needed to operate a successful honors program, such as faculty …

Editorial Matter For Volume 6, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Faith Gabelnick
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

What Honors Students Are Like Now, Rosalie Otero

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I recently received a letter from one of our Honors alumnae. Zoë wrote: “I’m doing it again! I’ve decided to run another marathon in support of the Leukemia Society of America in Anchorage, Alaska. Five years ago, I undertook a great challenge when I successfully completed the marathon in San Diego, running 26.2 miles in just over 4 1/2 hours. Although training in Alaska has proved challenging–getting up in the dark to confront freezing temperatures, snow and ice, while trying to avoid running into moose (which, believe it or not, happens often), the challenges that I’m encountering are nothing compared …

Responsibility And Imitation, Michael K. Cundall Jr.

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In my discipline there are typically two kinds of reviews. The first is sharply critical of the author’s conclusions, argumentative techniques, and overall style. The second usually involves a brief summary of the author’s points and then goes on to engage the project in a variety of ways: some critical, some conciliatory. I choose to adopt the latter form as it seems that Digby brings to the fore issues that should concern educators in Honors.

The Age Of False Positives, Bernice Braid

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Years ago, when I was beginning to develop field-based learning methods and experimenting with City as Text© as an integrative seminar, I learned a lot from the insights of Parker Palmer. His presentation at AAHE, a talk he called “Community, Conflict and Ways of Knowing” (published later, in l988, in CHANGE Magazine) was a catalyst for those of us in NCHC who were refining the structure of “explorations,” linking them to extended seminar discussions and applying them to research projects, especially in Honors Semesters. Two passages in particular resonate with Joan Digby’s article on students today and remind me just …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Faith Gabelnick David Mowry
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON HONORS STUDENTS
The Age of Imitation -- Joan Digby
The Age of False Positives -- Bernice Braid
Originality is a Risk -- Annmarie Guzy
Intimations of Imitation: Honors Students and Their Alps -- Jeffrey A. Portnoy
The Art of the Mash-Up: Students in the Age of Digital Reproduction -- Amy Bass
Responsibility and Imitation -- Michael K. Cundall, Jr.
The Ages of Imitation, Authenticity, and Originality -- Cheryl Achterberg
Imitation, Economic Insecurity, and Risk Aversion -- Jay Mandt
The Hopes and …

Originality Is A Risk, Annmarie Guzy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I am a teacher of composition and technical communication by vocation, but one avocation of mine is horror, and I occasionally teach a class on horror literature and film. If one is taking films to task for endless, derivative sequels and remakes, as Joan does, then horror is certainly no exception. Many people view the genre with another kind of distaste, decrying its graphic representations of violence and sexuality. Horror is messy and dangerous, and it sends the message that risky behavior is punished with death or worse.