Parental Involvement and Student Success

Research has revealed important information about the importance of parental involvement within the school setting, yet Brimley Area School has not developed nor implemented any components of the MiFamily: Michigan Family Engagement Framework. This project explores the history of parental involvement, and the benefits students inherit such as academically, socially, and emotionally. An effective parent-to-school relationship must acknowledge the differing dynamics of families within the district and develop a plan that is cohesive to the needs of all families. Such a plan needs to stretch beyond traditional parental involvement and intentionally target needs that are affiliated with correct grade levels. To begin fostering this much needed relationship, two events and two activities will be carried out by the school counselor. By collaborating with parents, the intent is to raise academic achievement and attendance, develop positive attitude towards school, and increase graduation rates

Meat and Nicotinamide:A Causal Role in Human Evolution, History, and Demographics

Hunting for meat was a critical step in all animal and human evolution. A key brain-trophic element in meat is vitamin B 3 /nicotinamide. The supply of meat and nicotinamide steadily increased from the Cambrian origin of animal predators ratcheting ever larger brains. This culminated in the 3-million-year evolution of Homo sapiens and our overall demographic success. We view human evolution, recent history, and agricultural and demographic transitions in the light of meat and nicotinamide intake. A biochemical and immunological switch is highlighted that affects fertility in the ‘de novo’ tryptophan-to-kynurenine-nicotinamide ‘immune tolerance’ pathway. Longevity relates to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide consumer pathways. High meat intake correlates with moderate fertility, high intelligence, good health, and longevity with consequent population stability, whereas low meat/high cereal intake (short of starvation) correlates with high fertility, disease, and population booms and busts. Too high a meat intake and fertility falls below replacement levels. Reducing variances in meat consumption might help stabilise population growth and improve human capital

First fruits. The place of Antibarbarorum Liber and De contemptu mundi in the formulation of Erasmus’ Philosophia Christi

I Prominent in the œuvre of Erasmus are the two treatises that were begun when he was a professed religious at the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Steyn and were completed before the end of the fifteenth century. Both the Antibarbari, which is the older of the two works, having been begun before he was twenty, and De Contemptu Mundi, composed just after he turned twenty, inform us of the principal concerns that occupied the mind of Erasmus during the period of his religiou..

Richard Mulcaster: An Elizabethan Savant.

Ph.D.Modern historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/127320/2/7104592.pd