EOP Documents 1969-1970

These documents include application requirements to be admitted to USF\u27s Educational Opportunities Program (EOP), Financial Aid Guidelines, a letter from Augustine P. Donoghue, the Director of Admissions, informing students that a test is required for EOP applicants in order to be admitted, and a report detailing the costs of EOP from 1970

Converting Serious Safety Events into Educational Opportunities

Over the past year, the Associate Director of the Simulation Center worked with the EM Quality and Safety Director to identify serious safety events (SSE) and critical incidents. As part of the case review, an informal root cause analysis (RCA) was conducted and root causes related to safety risks or breakdowns were identified. These system vulnerabilities were woven into simulation cases for hospital code team training. The cases focused on skills and attitudes that would help prevent, capture, or mitigate similar vulnerabilities while providing clinical care. The objective of this educational innovation was to intentionally translate lessons learned from SSE into changes in clinical practice through the use of RCA followed by simulation

Maximizing educational opportunities

Plan discussing primarily the virtual and online methods to meet educational need of the students and school staff of Manchester, N.H

Test Scores, Educational Opportunities, and Individual Choice

A model combining student preferences for college with university admissions decisions is estimated to provide information on the role of test scores in the determination of post-secondary educational opportunities. In contrast to implications of much of the recent criticism of tests and their use, we find that scholastic aptitude test scores are more strongly related to student application and choice of college "quality" than to college admissions decisions. In addition, although there is a substantial correlation between test scores and high school performance, we find that both post-secondary school preferences and ultimate opportunities are related as much to performance in high school as to test scores themselves. Although SAT scores certainly exclude some persons from schools, our findings indicate that they do not represent a dominating constraint on the college opportunities of high school graduates.

Expanding Educational Opportunities

Resolved, that the Faculty Senate appoint a committee composed of faculty and students to be known as the Committee on Expanding Educational Opportunity for the following purposes: 1) To develop and coordinate a volunteer program of tutorial service by faculty members for students in the Summer Start Program; 2) To examine the current and projected programs to determine whether alterations in academic procedures might provide added flexibility and accommodation to a variety of learning styles, particularly including wider development of experimental courses, for example, independent study programs and interdisciplinary activities; and 3) to examine budget allocations and to make recommendations to the [unclear] Advisory Committee of the Faculty Senate on ways to assures adequate financing of such programs, particularly through committee participation in an advisory capacity in the recruitment of faculty especially qualified to serve in Expanding Educational Opportunity Programs

Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions

Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a student?s life as well as to explain cross-country differences in educational opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country-specific effects. The results imply that educational opportunities decrease with student age in most countries. However, the attitude of parents seems to become more important while the impact of social origin decreases. A greater differentiation of the schooling system as indicated by streaming and private schools is associated with a greater effect of social background while more instruction time limits the impact of social origin on student performance. Higher school autonomy increases the impact of parental influence. --Equality of educational opportunity,student performance,institutions,PISA,PIRLS

Online network use in schools: Social and educational opportunities

Most state governments in Australia have banned popular online networking sites from public schools after these sites were accused of supporting a broad host of threats to young people. This paper questions the effectiveness of these bans in light of recent empirical research that highlights the social and educational benefits that can accrue from young people's online network use. In doing so, this paper argues for a more informed policy debate that considers not only the risks involved in using online networks, but also the opportunities online networks afford and the capabilities young people require to use them effectively

Educational Opportunities for Taxpayers

Part II is a definitional section for the phrases and terms that are repeatedly used throughout this article. Unless otherwise stated, each phrase and term is defined as listed in this part. Part III contains a detailed examination of the law for each opportunity. Examples are employed to determine the tax utility of each opportunity, and also provide suggestions for improvement. These results are listed in Appendices One through Five and Ten. Part IV first determines which taxpayers qualify for the various opportunities by looking solely to the income limitations set forth in each opportunity. Next, it employs a control test example to determine which of the opportunities reduces the tax liability of a ten percent tax bracket taxpayer by the greatest percentage. It also considers two surveys to see how many taxpayers claimed these opportunities last year and why. These results are listed in Appendices Six through Nine

A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities

Examines the state of the foundation's efforts to improve educational opportunities worldwide through universal access to and use of high-quality academic content

Educational Opportunities Seen As Key To NH Future 4/28/2006

New Hampshire residents believe that improving access to educational opportunities is the key to New Hampshire’s economic future. And the institutions most important to insure New Hampshire’s future are state government and schools and colleges. Residents of New Hampshire are far more optimistic about job opportunities in their own line of work than they are about the overall job market in New Hampshire