Outside Evaluation of Conecticut\u27s Family Resource Centers : Final report

In 193, the Connecticut State Department of Education received federal support for the activities of nine existing Family Resource Centers (FRC) and for funding new FRCs. The FRCs were based on the premise that many childhood and adolescent problems can be prevented by strengthening effective family management practices and establishing a continuum of child care and support services linked to public schools or located in public school buildings. This report details the evaluation of the 18 school-based/linked FRCs, describing their structure and contexts, examining evidence of service use, and presenting information on the effects of the FRCs on families and schools. Chapter 1 presents the service delivery model, describes the core services, and describes the evaluation plan. Chapters 2 through 5 summarize findings related to the following areas: (1) structure of core services, service delivery, financial supports, and staffing characteristics; (2) processes used to deliver services in a school-based/linked setting, including collaborative arrangements; (3) use of FRC services; (4) impacts of FRCs on families and children; and (5) impact of FRCs on schools. Chapter 6 discuses the patterns observed that reflect the implementation of the FRC service delivery model and implications for delivering comprehensive integrated services to families. This chapter also presents recommendations for sustaining the school-based/linked delivery model of the FRCs at meaningful levels. Chapter 7 presents profiles of the 18 FRCs, including their setting, service delivery arrangements, primary collaborative arrangements, and the school relationship. Nine appendices include a description of the Evaluation Support System and data collection instruments. (KB

Admen and the shaping of American commercial broadcasting, 1926-50

textThe 
advertising
industry
 made 
significant 
contributions 
to
the development 
of
 American 
commercial 
broadcasting
during 
the 
“Golden
 Age”
 of radio,
roughly 
the 
late
 1920s
through 
the
 1940s.

“Admen” 
not 
only 
helped develop 
broadcasting 
as 
an 
advertisin g
medium, 
they 
also 
produced 
the 
majority of 
prime‑time 
network
 programs, 
such 
as 
Show 
Boat,
Town
 Hall 
Tonight,
 and
 The Jack
 Benny 
Program ,
and 
day time 
serials,
 such 
as 
Stella
 Dallas,
 Ma
Perkins,
 and 
Just Plain 
Bill. 

This
 dissertation,
 based
 on 
an 
extensive
 review 
of
 surviving 
network and 
agency
 materials,
 describes 
the 
complicated,
 often
conflicted, 
activities 
of admen 
as 
they 
sought 
to 
develop
 radio 
as 
an 
entertainment 
and 
advertising medium
 while 
balancing 
the
 competing 
demands 
of
 advertisers, 
networks, performers, 
and 
audiences.

 The
 Depression 
forced 
broadcasters 
to 
seek 
program financing 
from 
advertisers, 
who 
turned 
to 
advertising
 agencies 
to 
over see 
the complexities 
of 
integrating 
their
 advertising 
into
 entertainment. 

Relationships between
 networks
 and
 agencies 
evolved 
to
 manage 
the
 ongoing 
conflicts 
over program 
control
 and
 advertising
 standards.

 Meanwhile,
 admen
 struggled 
to develop 
new 
techniques 
fo r
radio ,
focusing
 on
 “showmanship” 
as
 a 
set 
of strategies 
to
 be 
applied 
to 
both 
entertainment 
and 
advertising.

 Some 
advertising agencies, 
such 
as
 Blackett‑Sample‑Hummert, 
employed
the 
“hard
sell,” emphasizing
 product
 claims
 and 
“reasons
 why” 
to
 buy,
 while
 other 
agencies, such
 as
 Young
&
Rubicam,
 relied
 on 
humorous 
and 
indirect 
appeals, 
or 
the
“soft sell.”

These 
advertising 
strategies 
carried 
over 
into
the
 agencies ’
programming. At 
the
 height
 of 
the 
radio 
 era,
advertising 
agencies 
expanded 
into
 Hollywood 
to oversee 
star‑studded
 radio 
entertainment
 programs,
 including 
Lux
 Radio
 Theatre, Kraft 
Music 
Hall, 
and
 Hollywood
 Playhouse.


 Radio 
revenues 
and 
audiences peaked 
in
 1948, 
the 
same
 year 
of 
the 
first
 network
television
 broadcasts.

 By 
the end 
of 
the
 1950s, 
because
 of 
increased 
production 
costs, 
the
 networks 
had 
taken over
 most 
of 
the 
programming 
functions 
handled
 by
advertising 
agencies
 during the
 radio
 era.

 However, 
this
dissertation 
argues 
that 
the 
influence 
of
 admen 
and the 
advertising 
industry 
in 
shaping
 broadcasting
institutions 
such 
as 
networks and
 cultural 
forms 
such 
as
program 
genres
 has 
left 
a
 deep 
and
 significant 
legacy.Radio-Television-Fil

Space Human Factors Engineering Gap Analysis Project Final Report

Humans perform critical functions throughout each phase of every space mission, beginning with the mission concept and continuing to post-mission analysis (Life Sciences Division, 1996). Space missions present humans with many challenges - the microgravity environment, relative isolation, and inherent dangers of the mission all present unique issues. As mission duration and distance from Earth increases, in-flight crew autonomy will increase along with increased complexity. As efforts for exploring the moon and Mars advance, there is a need for space human factors research and technology development to play a significant role in both on-orbit human-system interaction, as well as the development of mission requirements and needs before and after the mission. As part of the Space Human Factors Engineering (SHFE) Project within the Human Research Program (HRP), a six-month Gap Analysis Project (GAP) was funded to identify any human factors research gaps or knowledge needs. The overall aim of the project was to review the current state of human factors topic areas and requirements to determine what data, processes, or tools are needed to aid in the planning and development of future exploration missions, and also to prioritize proposals for future research and technology development

Creating an Online Journal and Other Strategies to Showcase Scholarly Works

Attend this session to learn about creating a new online journal to showcase student and/or faculty research from your program. You will also learn about other tools to increase the impact and discoverability of your research

Gender differences in the schooling experiences of adolescents in low-income countries: The case of Kenya

Little research on education in developing countries has focused on adolescent issues at the same time, despite the fact that a growing proportion of young people are spending some time in school during the phase of their lives between puberty and marriage, there is little research on schooling as a key dimension of the adolescent experience. This paper examines the school environment in Kenya and the potential ways it can help or hinder adolescents. We focus on gender differences with a view toward illuminating some of the factors that may present particular obstacles or opportunities for girls. The paper begins with a review of what is known about schooling and adolescence focusing on what the literature can tell us about the relationship between adolescent schooling experiences and “successful” transitions to adulthood, including not only the development of cognitive competencies, but the fulfillment of personal educational goals, the avoidance of pregnancy and the development of self-esteem and empowerment of young women. While the demographic literature views education as uniformly positive leading women to delay marriage and childbearing, the education literature views schools as conservative institutions that act to reinforce gender inequality in the society. Using both qualitative and quantitative data, the paper then continues with an analysis of 36 primary schools in three districts of Kenya chosen to reflect the spectrum of school quality in the country. The focus is on primary schools because the majority of adolescents in school attend primary school. In schools that encompass the range in terms of performance and parental status, disorganization coexists with strict punishment, minimal comforts are lacking, learning materials are scarce, learning is by rote, and sex is practiced but not taught. We find that girls do worse than boys in the primary school leaving exam and that better performing schools are not necessarily more gender equitable. Teachers’ attitudes and behavior reveal lower expectations for adolescent girls, traditional assumptions about gender roles and a double standard about sex

Values-Based Network Leadership in an Interconnected World

This paper describes values-based network leadership conceptually aligned to systems science, principles of networks, moral and ethical development, and connectivism. Values-based network leadership places importance on a leader\u27s repertoire of skills for stewarding a culture of purpose and calling among distributed teams in a globally interconnected world. Values-based network leadership is applicable for any leader needing to align interdependent effort by networks of teams operating across virtual and physical environments to achieve a collective purpose. An open-learning ecosystem is also described to help leaders address the development of strengths associated with building trust and relationships across networks of teams, aligned under a higher purpose and calling, possessing moral fiber, resilient in the face of complexity, reflectively competent to adapt as interconnected efforts evolve and change within multicultural environments, and able to figure out new ways to do something never done before

Individual differences in script reports: implications for language assessment

Journal ArticleWhen individuals are asked to describe routine events, their descriptions often exhibit characteristics of script reports (Schank & Abelson, 1977). A script has been defined as a set of expectations individuals have about routine events that is organized in a temporal-causal sequence of acts or single actions (Fivush, 1984; Nelson, Fivush, Hudson, & Lucariello, 1983). Individuals use the organization of scripts to describe routine events and to aid in their memory of specific instances of events (Bower, Black & Turner, 1979). The organization of scripts has also been found to enhance children's use and comprehension of language (Constable, 1986; Furman & Walden, 1989; Lucariello, Kyratzis, & Engel, 1986)

Hands off Tobacco: A School-Based Tobacco Control Programming for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth

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Securing a Better Future: A Potrait of Female Students in Mississippi's Community Colleges

This report presents findings from a survey of female community college students in Mississippi conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and commissioned by the Women's Foundation of Mississippi. The survey is designed to identify supports and practices that can help women succeed in community college and attain economic security. It explores women's motivations for pursuing college, their personal and career goals, their support needs, and the economic, health, and time challenges that they experience. The survey was designed as a part of the Institute for Women's Policy Research's Student Parent Success Initiative, which provides information and tools to promote the success of student parents in postsecondary education