Impact Of Career And Technical Education On College And Career Readiness In Kentucky

The study examined the college and career readiness (CCR) results of a persistently low achieving (PLA) high school located in rural Kentucky. The study included a quantitative analysis examining the statistical role of career and technical education (CTE) in the Kentucky accountability system for high schools. The study assessed student results on academic and technical assessments required by the state\u27s accountability model for CCR as reported for the 2012 and 2013 school years. Frequencies and independent sample t-tests were utilized. The absence of significant statistical differences between preparatory students, those completing two credits and enrolled in the third credit in a CTE pathway, and non-preparatory students can be viewed as a positive outcome, an educational victory. Preparatory students can be equal contributors to the high school\u27s CCR accountability. A fraction of a point can keep a school from being labeled PLA (now referred to as priority schools). Therefore, it is critical for administrators to ensure every student receives an opportunity to become college and/or career ready. The study also brings to light the increased emphasis and importance of career and technical education and the role it plays in helping high schools reach their college and career readiness goals. Kentucky\u27s new model assigns the same point value to career readiness as it does college readiness making the stakes greater than ever before for CTE as it is solely responsible for the career readiness portion of CCR in the state

History of the 902nd Ordnance Heavy Automotive Maintenance Company, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945

This is the story, the history, of a group of men; organized out of all walks of life; from the hills and the mountains; the valleys and the plains; from the farms and the cities; from the rich and the poor organized for war. This is a tale that lives deep in in the hearts of these men; their wives, their mothers, sisters and brothers; their children. Written out of toil and sweat; oils and grease; nuts and bolts -- engines, wheels and axles; the things that made modern war possible and hastened its end.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1001/thumbnail.jp

An Economic Analysis of Contributions under the Income Tax Laws

In this note classical tools are used to examine the treatment of gifts in kind under the federal income-tax laws as they were but a few years ago, as they are today, and as they should be, given the objective that the law appears to be trying to achieve. It will be demonstrated that, under certain conditions, firms today can maximize profit after taxes by producing some output to be given to acceptable charities

Panel: The Challenges of Cybersecurity Curriculum

Cybersecurity is defined as: 1) measures to protect information technology; the information it contains, processes, and transmits and associated physical and virtual elements (which together comprise cyberspace) ; 2) the degree of protection resulting from application of those measures; and 3) the associated field of professional endeavor Fischer (2005). A Frost & Sullivan Market Survey in 2011 sponsored by (ISC)2 revealed a thorough insight into the critical trends and opportunities rising in the information security profession worldwide. The key findings were: 1. Application vulnerabilities represent the number one threat to organizations. 2. Mobile devices were the second highest security concern for the organization 3. Professionals aren’t ready for social media threats 4. Cloud computing illustrates a serious gap between technology implementation and the skills necessary to provide security 5. Information security professionals weathered the economic recession very well 6. Developing countries illustrated opportunities for growth with an experienced and more educated workforce 7. The information security workforce continues to show signs of strong growth 8. A clear skills gap exists that jeopardizes professionals’ ability to protect organizations in the near future The underlining trend affecting all these key issues is the lack of appropriate skills being demonstrated by information security professionals for protecting cybesecurity treats against organizations and that ... the information security profession could be on a dangerous course, where information security professionals are engulfed in their current job duties and responsibilities, leaving them ill-prepared for the major changes ahead, and potentially endangering the organizations they secure. (Ayoub, 2011) Smith, Koohang & Behling (2010) stated that higher education has a responsibility in designing and re-designing cybersecurity curriculum that prepare graduates with necessary knowledge and skills to become competent cybersecurity professionals. These knowledge and skills must also set the foundation for these graduates to become certified cybersecurity professionals. The purpose of this panel is to discuss two themes. They are as follows: Theme 1 - Cybersecurity curriculum: What is a sound cybersecurity curriculum that can prepare graduates with necessary knowledge and skills to protect organization\u27s cybersecurity treats? What should the curriculum entail regarding continuous improvement given the ever-changing nature of cybersecurity? How does a cybersecurity curriculum aligned with curriculum models (e.g., IS 2010, IT 2008) and special accreditation bodies (e.g., ABET). Theme 2 - Cybersecurity certification: Do graduates need to pass cybersecurity certification? What role does the university curriculum play in preparing graduates for taking and passing these certificates

The Role of Leaders in Managing Envy and its Consequences for Competition in Organizations

Leaders in organizations face numerous challenges. Among these is helping employees cope with the fact that, over time, some in the organization will succeed and some will fail, leading to potentially disruptive emotions. One of the leader’s roles is to understand and manage these emotions to ensure they do not result in negative interpersonal or organizational outcomes. Further, through their words and deeds, leaders can foster a culture in which more positive emotional reactions to others’ fortunes are more likely to occur, ultimately benefitting the individuals involved and the organization as a whole. Although there are numerous possible reactions to the positive and negative fortunes of others, this chapter will focus mainly on benign or malicious envy in response to another’s success and the implications of these two types of envy for destructive or constructive responses to a successful other. We will give particular attention to one example of the consequences of malicious envy, schadenfreude, pleasure when the more fortunate other suffers a setback. We will examine why malicious envy creates the conditions for schadenfreude and suggest how leaders can prevent it from harming their organizations. We will suggest that leaders, through their influence on employee’s perceptions of justice, feelings of control, and organizational culture, can shape their envy so that it is benign rather than malicious in nature -- thus minimizing negative responses and promoting positive responses instead

COTS MEMS Flow-Measurement Probes

As an alternative to conventional tubing instrumentation for measuring airflow, designers and technicians at Glenn Research Center have been fabricating packaging components and assembling a set of unique probes that contain commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor chips. MEMS sensor chips offer some compelling advantages over standard macroscopic measurement devices. MEMS sensor technology has matured through mass production and use in the automotive and aircraft industries. At present, MEMS are the devices of choice for sensors in such applications as tire-pressure monitors, altimeters, pneumatic controls, cable leak detectors, and consumer appliances. Compactness, minimality of power demand, rugged construction, and moderate cost all contribute to making MEMS sensors attractive for instrumentation for future research. Conventional macroscopic flow-measurement instrumentation includes tubes buried beneath the aerodynamic surfaces of wind-tunnel models or in wind-tunnel walls. Pressure is introduced at the opening of each such tube. The pressure must then travel along the tube before reaching a transducer that generates an electronic signal. The lengths of such tubes typically range from 20 ft (approx.= 6 m) to hundreds of feet (of the order of 100 m). The propagation of pressure signals in the tubes damps the signals considerably and makes it necessary to delay measurements until after test rigs have reached steady-state operation. In contrast, a MEMS pressure sensor that generates electronic output can take readings continuously under dynamic conditions in nearly real time. In order to use stainless-steel tubing for pressure measurements, it is necessary to clean many tubes, cut them to length, carefully install them, delicately deburr them, and splice them. A cluster of a few hundred 1/16-in.- (approx.=1.6-mm-) diameter tubes (such clusters are common in research testing facilities) can be several inches (of the order of 10 cm) in diameter and could weigh enough that two technicians are needed to handle it. Replacing hard tubing with electronic chips can eliminate much of the bulk. Each sensor would fit on the tip of a 1/16-in. tube with room to spare. The Lucas NovaSensor P592 piezoresistive silicon pressure sensor was chosen for this project because of its cost, availability, and tolerance to extreme ambient conditions. The sensor chip is 1 mm square by 0.6 mm thick (about 0.039 by 0.039 by 0.024 in.) and includes 0.12-mm (approx.=0.005-in.) wire connection tabs. The figure shows a flow-angularity probe that was built by use of three such MEMS chips. It is planned to demonstrate this MEMS probe as an alternative to a standard tube-type "Cobra" probe now used routinely in wind tunnels and aeronautical hardware. This MEMS probe could be translated across a flow field by use of a suitable actuator, so that its accuracy and the shortness of its response time could be exploited to obtain precise dynamic measurements of a sort that cannot be made by use of conventional tubing-based instrumentation

Design of a Direct-Detection Wind and Aerosol Lidar for Mars Orbit

The present knowledge of the Mars atmosphere is greatly limited by a lack of global measurements of winds and aerosols. Hence, measurements of height-resolved wind and aerosol profiles are a priority for new Mars orbiting missions. We have designed a direct-detection lidar (MARLI) to provide global measurements of dust, winds and water ice profiles from Mars orbit. From a 400-km polar orbit, the instrument is designed to provide wind and backscatter measurements with a vertical resolution of 2 km and with resolution of 2 in latitude along track. The instrument uses a single-frequency, seeded Nd:YAG laser that emits 4 mJ pulses at 1064 nm at a 250 Hz pulse rate. The receiver utilizes a 50-cm diameter telescope and a double edge Fabry-Prot etalon as a frequency discriminator to measure the Doppler shift of the aerosol-backscatter profiles. The receiver also includes a polarization-sensitive channel to detect the cross-polarized backscatter profiles from water ice. The receiver uses a sensitive 4 4 pixel HgCdTe avalanche photodiode array as a detector for all signals. Here we describe the measurement concept, instrument design, and calculate its performance for several cases of Mars atmospheric conditions. The calculations show that under a range of atmospheric conditions MARLI is capable of measuring wind speed profiles with random error of 24 m/s within the first three scale heights, enabling vertically resolved mapping of transport processes in this important region of the atmosphere

Reactive Attachment Disorder: Challenges for Early Identification and Intervention within the Schools

Attachment is of key importance in childhood development. The quality of attachment relationship between the child and parent/primary caregiver may have an effect on the child and future relationships and social success (Rubin, Bukowski, & Parker, 1998). When a child fails to bond with a caring adult, attachment becomes disordered and children may not be able to bond appropriately or at all with other people. This inability to relate and connect with others may disrupt or arrest not only children\u27s social development, but also their overall development. The purpose of this review is to synthesize information and research on characteristics, diagnosis, and interventions currently in practice in working with young children with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). A discussion will highlight the themes found during this review and conclude with implications for intervention and practice