Internalized Racism: Biases Children and Adults Hold

Due to one’s surroundings, many African American children have internalized these racial biases without them without consciously being aware of it. Hence, this paper highlights various studies that have done previous research on the racial biases children hold like the pioneering study, the Clark doll experiment of 1947. Furthermore, this paper elaborates on measurements of how children have internalized these biases along with the influence adults play on the lives of these children. Therefore, I expand on the many implications these biases have on the lives of African American children and suggest possible approaches to aid in the reduction of these racial biases

Wasted Talent and Broken Dreams: The Lost Potential of Undocumented Students

The current political debate over undocumented immigrants in the United States has largely ignored the plight of undocumented children. Yet children account for 1.8 million, or 15 percent, of the undocumented immigrants now living in this country. These children have, for the most part, grown up in the United States and received much of their primary and secondary educations here. But without a means to legalize their status, they are seldom able to go on to college and cannot work legally in this country. Moreover, at any time, they can be deported to countries they barely know. This wasted talent imposes economic and emotional costs on undocumented students themselves and on U.S. society as a whole. Denying undocumented students, most of whom are Hispanic, the opportunity to go to college and join the skilled workforce sends the wrong message to Hispanics about the value of a college education-and the value that U.S. society places on their education-at a time when raising the educational attainment of the Hispanic population is increasingly important to the nation's economic health

Characterization of New TPS Resins

Ablative thermal protection systems are commonly used as protection from the intense heat during re-entry of a space vehicle and have been used successfully on many missions including Stardust and Mars Science Laboratory both of which used PICA a phenolic based ablator. Historically, phenolic resin has served as the ablative polymer for many TPS systems. However, it has limitations in both processing and properties such as char yield, glass transition temperature and char stability. Therefore alternative high performance polymers are being considered such as: cyanate ester resin, polyimide, polybenzoxazine (PBZ), and polyimidazole (PBI).Thermal and mechanical properties of these four resin systems were characterized and compared with phenolic resin

How Can Government Increase R&D Activities in the Philippines?

How significant is research and development (R&D) in the Philippines` overall economic development? What drives firms to locate (or not locate) their R&D activities in the country? What barriers, if any, hinder the conduct of innovative activities in the Philippines? How can the Philippines attract more R&D investments and minimize the obstacles to innovation?Philippines, research and development (R&D), R&D activities

Professional Learning Community And Institutional Organizational Performance Of A Public Higher Education Institution In Region 02 Philippines

This study examined the levels of professional learning community (PLC) among faculty members and their relationship to the organizational performance (OP) of s public higher education institution (HEI). Specifically, it examined the profile of the respondents, their levels of professional learning community as well as the overall and per campus organizational performance of the HEI.This study employed mixed research design and the study was conducted in the different campuses of a public higher education institution in region 02, Philippines. Respondents of this study composed of 210 faculty members who were given regular plantilla positions in the institutions and have served five or more years in the university. The study used random-proportional sampling. The CEOs and the college deans of the different campuses are the study participants of this study. In determining the frequency count, rank, percentage, and mean, descriptive statistics was used to analyze the respondents’ profile and their level of PLC. Analysis of variance was utilized in assessing the differences of PLC and OP. All analyses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using IBM SPSS. Sequential explanatory design was utilized to analyze the factors explaining the quantitative result of the study through interview with the CEOs and select deans of different colleges in the campuses