School Leadership Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review - Updated and Expanded

This RAND analysis offers guidance to states and districts on how they can choose to use the Every Student Succeeds Act to help achieve their school improvement goals by supporting principals and other school leaders

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

Three factors help to explain why school enrollments in the Northern United States were higher than those in the South and in most of Europe by 1850. One was affordability: the northern states had higher real incomes, cheaper teachers, and greater local tax support. The second was the greater autonomy of local governments. The third was the greater diffusion of voting power among the citizenry in much of the North, especially in rural communities. The distribution of local political voice appears to be a robust predictor of tax support and enrollments, both within and between regions.

Perception of Management Success in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: A Comparative Analysis Between Residents and Visitors

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is a multiple-use marine protected area with a history of tension between management entities and local stakeholders. At the root of the issues are differences in the definition of “successful management” between these two stakeholder groups and recent administrative vacancies within the Sanctuary’s management staff have made it difficult for the Sanctuary to update its management plan. This study surveyed two primary stakeholder groups in the Florida Keys in order to gain understanding of their perceptions of successful management. A comprehensive intercept survey detailing various management objectives was presented to participants in person using tablets and targeted emails over a period of five months. Results found that residency status was not the primary parameter influencing perception of management success, and that rather industry affiliation was strongly linked with views on management success. Significant differences between residents and visitors did exist when perception of threats to the Sanctuary was analyzed, indicating that those groups could benefit from targeted outreach and education ahead of changes to the management plan of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

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thesisThe education of a general surgeon requires 5 to 6 years after the completion of medical school. The training is unique in that it consists of training in both cognitive and technical skills. A Surgery Residency Program must provide an adequate and balance exposure to the full variety of operative procedures that comprise General Surgery. A computer program has been developed to help the Residency program Director accurately and efficiently track the operative experience of residents. This program will facilitate scheduling so that each resident will have an adequate operative experience and so that balance within the program among the residents can be achieved. Programs for Residents' Operative Performance in Surgery (PROPS) is an efficient, accurate, inexpensive and easy-to-use personal computer based software system that ill capture and store resident's operative data by case, automatically tabulate statistical data relative to the operative experiences of residents, provide management reports for use by the Residency Program Director, facilitate the transfer of Chief Resident data electronically to the Residency Review Committee for General Surgery, and prepare a report to the Board of Surgery for each Chief Resident. In addition, The PROPS system provides an intelligent consulting function to fulfill an even case distribution. This consulting function will help the director to quickly and easily obtain the needed information to make decision regarding resident assignment. The PROPS system has proven to satisfy the Department of Surgery's need for resident operative experience record keeping and report making. After completion of these tasks, a comprehensive tabulation of residents' operative experience at each level of their training program will be developed. This experience with the PROPS system using a relational Data Base Management System (DBMS) is being extended to a larger environment where information is gathered from multiple sources. Specifically, the PROOS system has potential to help with operating room decisions such as scheduling, supplies, room utilization, and reporting

Development techniques for android platform mobile device application

This thesis focuses on Android application development techniques needed to implement a mobile application portal that consists of features used at Eastern Michigan University. Since there is not a single source available to developers that explains such techniques, this thesis represents a unique manual for such development. Based on the similarity of features, mainly in terms of data nature and access, five techniques are defined in a step-by-step procedural manner. This is accomplished by outlining the development techniques and presenting them “in action” with coding examples from a fully developed demo application. As a result, the demo application demonstrates functional solutions to research problems that are able to operate on an actual Android device. This thesis provides a unique approach to Android development due to its single focus on the data and IT environment of Eastern Michigan University

Towards Dynamic Vehicular Clouds

Motivated by the success of the conventional cloud computing, Vehicular Clouds were introduced as a group of vehicles whose corporate computing, sensing, communication, and physical resources can be coordinated and dynamically allocated to authorized users. One of the attributes that set Vehicular Clouds apart from conventional clouds is resource volatility. As vehicles enter and leave the cloud, new computing resources become available while others depart, creating a volatile environment where the task of reasoning about fundamental performance metrics becomes very challenging. The goal of this thesis is to design an architecture and model for a dynamic Vehicular Cloud built on top of moving vehicles on highways. We present our envisioned architecture for dynamic Vehicular Cloud, consisting of vehicles moving on the highways and multiple communication stations installed along the highway, and investigate the feasibility of such systems. The dynamic Vehicular Cloud is based on two-way communications between vehicles and the stations. We provide a communication protocol for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications enabling a dynamic Vehicular Cloud. We explain the structure of the proposed protocol in detail and then provide analytical predictions and simulation results to investigate the accuracy of our design and predictions. Just as in conventional clouds, job completion time ranks high among the fundamental quantitative performance figures of merit. In general, predicting job completion time requires full knowledge of the probability distributions of the intervening random variables. More often than not, however, the data center manager does not know these distribution functions. Instead, using accumulated empirical data, she may be able to estimate the first moments of these random variables. Yet, getting a handle on the expected job completion time is a very important problem that must be addressed. With this in mind, another contribution of this thesis is to offer easy-to-compute approximations of job completion time in a dynamic Vehicular Cloud involving vehicles on a highway. We assume estimates of the first moment of the time it takes the job to execute without any overhead attributable to the working of the Vehicular Cloud. A comprehensive set of simulations have shown that our approximations are very accurate. As mentioned, a major difference between the conventional cloud and the Vehicular Cloud is the availability of the computational nodes. The vehicles, which are the Vehicular Cloud\u27s computational resources, arrive and depart at random times, and as a result, this characteristic may cause failure in executing jobs and interruptions in the ongoing services. To handle these interruptions, once a vehicle is ready to leave the Vehicular Cloud, if the vehicle is running a job, the job and all intermediate data stored by the departing vehicle must be migrated to an available vehicle in the Vehicular Cloud

Advanced Transport Operating System (ATOPS) color displays software description: MicroVAX system

This document describes the software created for the Display MicroVAX computer used for the Advanced Transport Operating Systems (ATOPS) project on the Transport Systems Research Vehicle (TSRV). The software delivery of February 27, 1991, known as the 'baseline display system', is the one described in this document. Throughout this publication, module descriptions are presented in a standardized format which contains module purpose, calling sequence, detailed description, and global references. The global references section includes subroutines, functions, and common variables referenced by a particular module. The system described supports the Research Flight Deck (RFD) of the TSRV. The RFD contains eight Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs) which depict a Primary Flight Display, Navigation Display, System Warning Display, Takeoff Performance Monitoring System Display, and Engine Display