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Paying For Attendance: Using Incentives To Combat Chronic Absenteeism, Madeline H. Meth
Paying For Attendance: Using Incentives To Combat Chronic Absenteeism, Madeline H. Meth
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Students with poor attendance miss opportunities to learn social and academic skills.' They perform worse on achievement tests. 2 They are also less likely to graduate.3 A student who misses school in as early as the first grade is significantly more likely to eventually drop out of high school.4 Individuals who drop out see a significant loss in earnings and are more likely to be jobless; women who drop out make about 60% of what female high-school graduates earn, and men who do not graduate lose approximately $9,564 in annual wages. Because high-school dropouts earn less than those …
Learning While They Work: The Use Of Student Assistants In Two Academic Law Libraries, Ronald E. Wheeler, Stephanie Davidson
Learning While They Work: The Use Of Student Assistants In Two Academic Law Libraries, Ronald E. Wheeler, Stephanie Davidson
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At the University of New Mexico School of Law Library (UNM), we are effectively using student assistants to help with the completion of faculty research projects. We find that the volume of faculty research that our library is able to complete is far greater due to the effective use of student assistants. During the calendar year 2005, our library completed over 500 research requests for the law school faculty. With only seven professional librarians, without student help, that volume of faculty research would probably not have been feasible.
Are Mit Students Rational?, Keith N. Hylton
Are Mit Students Rational?, Keith N. Hylton
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This paper reports the results of a survey conducted~ in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus dining hall~ The aim of the survey was to delineate students' perceptions of marginal cost,~ in a very specific, but not uncommon, situation. A majority of the respondents' answers suggest a complete misunderstanding of the relevant marginal costs. This study attempts to find out how individuals perceive ~their opportunity sets in a specific choice situation. The individuals studied are ~students who have meal plans at the M.LT. dining halls. Each term students pay a high price for the meals until a certain number of …
The Care Of Private Patients In Teaching Hospitals: Legal Implications, George J. Annas
The Care Of Private Patients In Teaching Hospitals: Legal Implications, George J. Annas
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In Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick Ishmael searches for knowledge in diverse ways; he views the world not only through his senses but symbolically and metaphorically. At one point, he is tied to the pagan harpooner Queequeg by a "monkey-rope," and it is his duty to use this rope to pull Queequeg free from the sharks surrounding the dead whale that Queequeg is butchering when Queequeg slips from his perch atop the whale. Should he fail, Queequeg's weight will pull them both into the shark-filled waters. Ishmael ponders: "I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged …