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Visual Programming: Concepts and Implementations
(1994-08-01)The computing environment has changed dramatically since the advent of the computer. Enhanced computer graphics and sheer processing power have ushered in a new age of computing. User interfaces have advanced from simple ... -
The War on Public Education: Agonist Democracy and the Fight for Schools as Public Things
Agonistic critiques of democratic theory conceptualize democracy as a site of conflict and struggle; as the fight against privatization escalates, these critiques become more relevant for educational governance. Public ... -
Weintraub et al. 2018 - JSP - Data and Procedures
This study seeks to disentangle the effect of polychronicity on work-home conflict, home-work conflict, and life satisfaction, by evaluating mindfulness as a moderator. We propose that mindfulness moderates the relationship ... -
What Do Students Want? Small Group Instructional Diagnoses of STEM Faculty
Small Group Instructional Diagnoses (SGIDs) are informal, mid-semester evaluations of courses, which the instructors request voluntarily. The facilitator of the SGID comes into a class, the instructor leaves, and the ... -
What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context
Keywords: prejudice, negativity, stereotypes, social roles, socioeconomic change This chapter contains section titled: Allport's Views on “The Nature of Prejudice”, Developments since Allport: Evidence of Prejudice in ... -
What makes a Public School Public? A Framework for Evaluating the Civic Substance of Schooling
Between the banality of the phrase in some contexts and its sacredness in others, it is hard even to ask the most basic question: what makes a public school public? In realms of governance, curriculum, and pedagogy, ... -
What we regret most . . . and why
(2011-02-07)Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret, and what features of those life domains explain why? Using archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater perceived opportunity within ... -
What’s pragmatic about community organizing?
In this paper I explore whether and how philosophical pragmatism might be a useful tool for achieving educational reform through social action work such as community organizing. I explore Aaron Schutz’s arguments relevant ... -
Winter biology & freeze tolerance in the goldenrod gall fly
Birds migrate. Bears hibernate. Turtles and frogs retreat to the bottom of lakes. Most animals must avoid harsh winter conditions; few can survive freezing. Larvae of the goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis), can ... -
Women's literacy in Old Russia: hypotheses and facts
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"Wouldn't it be cool if we could...?"
This is a formative evaluation report, completed for Butler Tech (a public-school district in Southwest Ohio) in relation to their Fifth Day Experience (FDE) pilot during the 2019-20 school year. -
Writing and Artificial Intelligence in College Education: A Brief Case Study
This case study details recommendations for building instructors' and students' artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, offers recommendations for designing writing assignments in the age of AI, and includes an example of ... -
Writing the Urals: Permanence and Ephemerality in Ol'ga Slavnikova’s 2017
(2011-05-04)Ol'ga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 (Vagrius, 2006) made her the second woman to win Russia’s coveted Booker Prize, garnering conflicting critical responses in the process. Many hurried to label the narrative a dystopia: 2017’s ... -
Writing The Woman’s Documentary Voice in Perestroika Gulag Narratives
(2011-05-10)A substantial body of fictional and factual literature discusses labor camps, imprisonment, and exile as aspects of Russian culture both before and after 1917. However, while the Thaw opened public discussion of the Gulag, ...