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Milwaukee Longitudinal School Choice Evaluation: Annual School Testing Summary Report, Nathan L. Gray, Patrick J. Wolf, Laura I. Jensen

School Choice Demonstration Project

With the passage of 2005 Wisconsin Act 125, private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are now required to administer a nationally normed standardized test annually in reading, mathematics, and science to their MPCP (a.k.a. “Choice”) students enrolled in the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades. The law further directs Choice schools to submit copies of the scores from those tests to the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) for processing and reporting to the Legislative Audit Bureau. During the 2006-07 school year, MPCP schools administered either nationally normed tests, such as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, or …

The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Baseline Descriptive Report On Participating Schools, Brian Kisida, Laura I. Jensen, James C. Rahn, Patrick J. Wolf

School Choice Demonstration Project

The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) began as the nation’s first urban school voucher initiative in the fall of 1990. Initially, seven secular schools were authorized to enroll the 341 students who first participated in the program. By the 2006-07 academic year, a total of 17,749 voucher students were attending one of the 122 private secular and religious schools that participated in the MPCP or “Choice” program for the entire year.

The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation Of The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary Of Baseline Reports, Patrick J. Wolf

School Choice Demonstration Project

The MPCP was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense. In its first year of operation, the MPCP enrolled 341 students in the seven secular private schools participating in the program. The MPCP remained a small pilot program throughout the period of Witte’s government-authorized evaluation of 1990-95 (figure 1). Although Wisconsin lawmakers created the conditions for program expansion in 1995 – raising the enrollment cap from 1.5 to 15 percent of K-12 students in the …

Save The Date: Digital Discovery Conference, March 27, 2008 Vol.6 (1) January - February 2008, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

The Insider (2003-2008)

No abstract provided.

Torch (February/March 2008), Amy Homans, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Common Sense Volume 1 Issue 1, Lander College For Men

Yearbooks and Newsletters

Newsletter of the Lander College Republicans club.

Information Outlook, February 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 2

What's Up Newsletter, February 2008

What's Up Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

What's Up Newsletter Finding Aid

Javelin Grip Dynamics (Get A Grip), Andreas Maheras

Track and Field Faculty Publications

The javelin grip is often considered a trivial matter, and little consideration is generally given to its effect on the throw. In this article, I will discuss the three most commonly used grips- the American grip, the Finnish grip, and the fork grip- and the dynamics associated with each one.

Using Student Response Systems In Economics And Finance Classes, Jean Snavely, Michelle Trawick

Finance Faculty Publications

Student response systems (clickers) offer the potential for student engagement and active learning in the classroom. Use of the technology can also help instructors identify areas of uncertainty and use student feedback to customize lectures. Earlier identification of problem areas for both student and instructor should lead to more efficient and effective use of class time and better learning outcomes. This presentation covers best practices in the use of clickers in introductory statistics and principles of managerial finance classes. Topics include how to use clickers, sample exercises, what has worked and what hasn’t worked from personal experience, how to produce …

Evaluation Of The Mine Action Programme In Sudan, Ted Paterson, Vera Bohle

Global CWD Repository

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has hired three independent consultants to conduct an evaluation of the UN Mine Action Programme in Sudan (“the Programme”). The aims of this evaluation are to assess the efficacy of the Programme and the United Nations Mine Action Office (UNMAO) with a focus on the period following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to the present day; to identify strengths and weaknesses in the relationships, structures and processes that have been established; and to make recommendations for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the programme. The main four areas reviewed during …

February 2008: Maps, Dacus Library

Dacus Docs News

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Leading Landlords To The Law Library: How To Use Ala's @ Your Library* Campaign As An Outreach Tool To Local Communities, Marcia L. Dority Baker

Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library: Faculty Publications

In Lincoln, Nebraska, tenants of rental-housing units often visit the University of Nebraska (UNL) College of Law's Schmid Law Library for information and help in dealing with landlord and/or rental issues. Landlords, on the other hand, rarely use the law library, which lends material to all Nebraska residents over the age of 18. Even non-residents or minors may access and use the law library's collection within the building.

Lincoln landlords are missing out on the law library's resources for assistance with tenant issues, renting concerns, housing discrimination questions, deadbeat tenants, small business needs, and other landlord concerns. According to the …

A Study Of Idaho Citizen’S Attitudes About Early Childhood Care & Education Issues, Social Science Research Center, Boise State University

Research and Reports

Annually, the SSRC conducts a large-scale survey of Idahoans to identify public policy concerns. The study is provided to public officials and interested citizens to facilitate policy discussion and education. This study was undertaken in conjunction with the annual policy survey. The findings in this report reflect eleven questions sponsored by Mountain State’s Group, supported by a grant from the Anne Casey Foundation.

Service Learning E-News - February 2008, Parkland College

Service Learning Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Why Is The Oecd Involved In The Heiligendamm Process?, Richard Woodward

Books/Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

The Qualitative Assessment Of Responsiveness To Environmental Challenge In Horses And Ponies, Fabio Napolitano, Giuseppe De Rosa, Ada Braghieri, Fernando Grasso, Aldo Bordi, Françoise Wemelsfelder

Sentience Collection

The responsiveness of 10 horses and 10 ponies to environmental challenge (represented by an open field test) was assessed using a qualitative approach based on free choice profiling methodology (FCP), which gives observers complete freedom to choose their own descriptive terms. Data were analysed with generalised Procrustes analysis (GPA), a multivariate statistical technique associated with FCP. A cross-validation of the outcomes of this approach to data recorded through quantitative behaviour analysis, and through a questionnaire given to the animals’ owner/riding instructor, was also performed using principal component analysis (PCA). Twelve undergraduate students generated their own descriptive vocabularies, by watching 20 …

Medical Progress Depends On Animal Models - Doesn't It?, Robert A. J. Matthews

Validation of Animal Experimentation Collection

Animal models are widely recognized as being essential to the progress of medical science. In countering the critics’ arguments of the use of animals in medicine, one statement has acquired almost talismanic importance:

‘Virtually every medical achievement of the last century has depended directly or indirectly on research with animals.’

In this essay, the origins and justification of this oft-repeated statement are examined. Despite its endorsement by leading academic bodies, it is far from clear that the statement has been, or even could be, formally validated.

Sociologists And The Field In The News: Reflected Appraisals - We Perceive Ourselves As We Believe Others Perceive Us, Amy Johnson Conner, Ryan Alaniz

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Signs Of Our Times, February 2008

Signs of Our Times

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Providence, RI

Signs of our Times Finding Aid

Newsletter Catholic Deaf Of Detroit, February 2008

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Detroit, MI

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit Finding Aid

Reynolds School District Population And Enrollment Forecasts, 2007-08 To 2017-18, Portland State University. Population Research Center, Joseph Smith-Buani, George C. Hough Jr., Charles Rynerson, Vivian Siu

School District Enrollment Forecast Reports

Since 1997-98, Reynolds School District (RSD) overall K-12 enrollment has increased by 28 percent, from 8,452 students in 1997-98 to 10,815 in 2007-08, with most of the growth occurring between 1998-99 and 2003-04. After one year with little enrollment change (2004-05), the district has added 452 students in the most recent three years. This report presents the results of a study conducted by the Portland State University Population Research Center (PRC) concluding that the most likely scenario for future RSD enrollment is for slow growth in K-12 enrollment during the next five years until 2012-13, and slightly faster growth in …

Post Winter Term Student Survey, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Survey of student opinions regarding the four week winter term offered in January 2008.

Signs Of Faith, February 2008

Signs of Faith

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Paterson, NJ

Signs of Faith Finding Aid

Underneath Kyoto: Emerging Subnational Government Initiatives And Incipient Issue-Bundling Opportunities In China And The United States, Peter Koehn

Political Science Faculty Publications

At present, progress in mitigating global GHG emissions is impeded by political stalemate at the national level in the United States and the People's Republic of China. Through the conceptual lenses of multilevel governance and framing politics, the article analyzes emerging policy initiatives among subnational governments in both countries. Effective subnational emission-mitigating action requires framing climatic-stabilization policies in terms of local co-benefits associated with environmental protection, health promotion, and economic advantage. In an impressive group of US states and cities, and increasingly at the local level in China, public concerns about air pollution, consumption and waste management, traffic congestion, health …

Neuroimaging Studies Of Psychological Interventions For Mood And Anxiety Disorders: Empirical And Methodological Review., Paul A Frewen, David J A Dozois, Ruth A Lanius

Psychology Publications

This article reviews the methods and results of published neuroimaging studies of the effects of structured psychological interventions for mood and anxiety disorders. The results are consistent with neural models of improved affective- and self-regulation, as evidenced by psychotherapeutic modulation of brain metabolic activity within the dorsolateral, ventrolateral, and medial prefrontal cortices, the anterior cingulate, the posterior cingulate/precuneus, and the insular cortices. Specific recommendations for future studies are outlined, and the clinical and theoretical significance of this research is discussed.

Selective Attention To Threat Versus Reward: Meta-Analysis And Neural-Network Modeling Of The Dot-Probe Task., Paul A Frewen, David J A Dozois, Marc F Joanisse, Richard W J Neufeld

Psychology Publications

Two decades of research conducted to date has examined selective visual attention to threat and reward stimuli as a function of individual differences in anxiety using the dot-probe task. The present study tests a connectionist neural-network model of meta-analytic and key individual-study results derived from this literature. Attentional bias for threatening and reward-related stimuli is accounted for by connectionist model implementation of the following clinical psychology and affective neuroscience principles: 1) affective learning and temperament, 2) state and trait anxiety, 3) intensity appraisal, 4) affective chronometry, 5) attentional control, and 6) selective attention training. Theoretical implications for the study of …

Clinical And Neural Correlates Of Alexithymia In Posttraumatic Stress Disorder., Paul A Frewen, Ruth A Lanius, David J A Dozois, Richard W J Neufeld, Clare Pain, James W Hopper, Maria Densmore, Todd K Stevens

Psychology Publications

Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often exhibit deficits in emotional experience and expression, which suggests that certain individuals with PTSD may be alexithymic. In this study, in a sample of 105 individuals with PTSD, clinical correlates of alexithymia included reexperiencing, hyperarousal, numbing, dissociative symptoms, and retrospectively reported experiences of childhood emotional neglect. In a subsample of 26 individuals with PTSD related to a motor vehicle accident, functional neural responses to trauma-script imagery were associated with severity of alexithymia, including increased right posterior-insula and ventral posterior-cingulate activation and decreased bilateral ventral anterior-cingulate, ventromedial prefrontal, anterior-insula, and right inferior frontal cortex …

Most Popular Downloads -- January 2008

Institutional Repository Information

This report shows the 145 most-often-downloaded documents from the UNL Digital Commons for January 2008; which is all those downloaded 40 times or more. In all, 7,878 documents (out of 10,964) were downloaded a total of 60,480 times; an average of 5.52 downloads per available document. For the month, 72% (7,878 of 10,964) documents were downloaded at least once.

Documents downloaded more than 100 times were:
1. The Probe, Issue 213 – November/December 2000
2. Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work
3. The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (1734). An Online Electronic Edition.
4. A Description of New England (1616): …

Pocketful Of Poultry (Review), Sue Polanka

University Libraries' Staff Publications

This article is a book review of "Pocketful of Poultry" by Carol Ekarius.