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Narrative inquiry into (re)imagining alternative schools: a case study of Kevin Gonzales.
Although there are many alternative schools that strive for the successful education for their students, negative images of alternative schools persist. While some alternative schools are viewed as âidealistic havens,â many are viewed as âdumping grounds,â or âjuvenile detention centers.â Employing narrative inquiry, this article interrogates how a student, Kevin Gonzales, experiences his alternative education and raises questions about the role of alternative schools. Kevin Gonzalesâs story is presented in a literary form of biographical journal to provide a âmetaphoric loftâ that helps us imagine other students like Kevin. This, in turn, provokes us to examine our current educational practice, and to (re)imagine ways in which alternative education can provide the best possible educational experiences for disenfranchised students who are increasingly underserved by the public education system
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System for control of electroslag casting in a collar mold
This report describes the initial development of an electroslag casting control system. The main emphasis of our work and the results reported herein deal with the attempts to develop techniques for locating and controlling the liquid slag-metal interface. Thermocouples embedded in the mold wall provide a simple but accurate means for locating the interface
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