Taking Middle School kids back to the adventurous world of literature by Dara K. Cepeda Project Three: Literature Synthesis EDCI 6300.62 Foundations of Research in Education The University of Texas at Brownsville‚ College of Education Department of Teaching Learning and Innovation Dr. A. J. Herrera May 6‚ 2012 TAKING KIDS BACK TO THE WORLD OF LITERATURE 1 The problem is that middle school students in Texas do not practice leisure reading creating a deficit in their reading
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Technology Assessment (TA) has taken on two meanings. One centers on evaluation of the properties of existing technology options – e.g.‚ as you might choose between two printers. The other‚ and the one of interest here‚ has been classically defined by Joe Coates (1976) as: A class of policy studies which systematically examine the effects on society that may occur when a technology is introduced‚ extended‚ or modified. It emphasizes those consequences that are unintended‚ indirect‚ or delayed. [italics added]
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Bobi Bates Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a letter to his 15-year-old son Samori telling him his personal experience on how to live in America being black. Coates talks about his upbringing in the rough neighbors in Baltimore‚ MD which you usually grow up being poor‚ must be raise by your single mother and growing up fast to take care of yourself. He decided to turn his life by attending to Howard University‚ which he calls it “The Mecca” he is woken from the diversity of black
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Cited: Malak‚ Amin. "Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the Dystopian Tradition." Canadian Literature 112.916 (1987): 139-48. Stillman‚ Peter G.‚ and Anne S. Johnson. "Identity‚ Complicity‚ and Resistance in The Handmaid ’s Tale." Utopian Studies 5.2 (1994): 70-86. JSTOR. Web. 16 Feb. 2013. Feuer‚ Lois. "The calculus of love and nightmare: ’The Handmaid ’s Tale ’ and the dystopian
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Leadership in schools: In a school context‚ Dame Sally Coates (2015) tweets that‚ “leaders must always have one eye on the long term and one eye on the present; they must grapple with the minutiae of school life.” She sees schools at intensely human organisations who are engaged in the fundamental exchange of knowledge and skills from adults to children‚ creating a positive learning environment. Dame Coates stated that one thing that we learn in teaching‚ is that people want to be lead. People want
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Week 7 1. According to Duff and Garland‚ what are the central differences between ‘consequentialist’ and ‘non-consequentialist’ (often referred to as ‘retributivist’) theories of punishment? Consequentialists believe that whether an act is right or wrong depends only on the overall consequence of that act‚ where punishment should serve to promote good‚ contributing to crime prevention or societal welfare. On the other hand‚ a non-consequentialist believes that an act is either intrinsically good
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Research using Tinto’s framework has contributed a great deal to the understanding of what affects student dropout or departure and student persistence. Research studies focusing on persistence of first-generation and low-income students have been consistent in reporting the success of these students in higher education These studies have shown that low-income and first-generation students experience higher education differently than students from more affluent backgrounds. Research has suggested
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CT: Cengage Learning Demir‚ T. (2009). Politics and Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis (M.E. Sharpe)‚ 31(4)‚ 503-532. doi:10.2753/ATP1084-1806310403 Riccucci‚ N. (2010). Public administration. Washington‚ DC: Georgetown University Press Stillman‚ R. (2009). Public Administration: Concepts and Cases. Stamford‚ CT: Cengage Learning
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that leaders were born with the traits and natural abilities that are needed to be a good leader. Also typically there was only one “Great Man” that put everything together and influenced others by his natural abilities and traits. (Yamazaki & Stillman) There have been many discussions regarding this theory and many say that great men are products of their societies‚ and their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetime. (Cherry) I consider the Great Man
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media will be continuous until it is understood that racism will continue to live in the heart until change is made (Coates‚ 2014). From the days of bygone‚ the media has spread many wrong ideas about African-Americans being poor‚ wrong for society and below standards. This was a wrong portrayal that has raised many questions and made poor allegations about African-Americans (Coates‚ 2015) The 13th Amendment was originated in 1865 to end and free the
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