What's Blocking the Sun?: Solar Photovoltaics for the U.S. Commercial Market

Provides an overview of installation trends and investment climate for solar photovoltaics in the U.S. commercial sector, including policy and economic obstacles. Recommends strategies for the solar industry, the commercial sector, and policy makers

Reading Comprehension Strategies in the ELA classroom

This research project analyzes reading comprehension strategies in the English/Language Arts classroom. The comprehension strategies implemented were as follows: “Read Write Pair Share,” “Exit Slips,” “Dialectical Journals,” and “Student Questioning for Purposeful Learning.” The goal of this study was to determine which of these strategies are most effective in improving reading comprehension in the ELA classroom. Research participants were comprised of eighteen students in an English 12, track 3 classroom at Valparaiso High School, in Valparaiso, IN. All participants read at a level that is at least one grade level lower than their own. The strategies were incorporated as a component of the English 12 curriculum unit around the novel Persepolis. As students read, they completed the designated reading comprehension strategy for the particular lesson. Each strategy was practiced for one week. Student work was collected and performance was measured based on completion and accuracy. At the end of the unit, after all of the student work was collected, strategies were compared based on student assessment results. Students also took a survey, which asked them to rank the strategies in terms of how well they helped improve comprehension of the novel. Both assessment score and student survey results showed that “Exit Slips” were the most effective

Arrival in Dakar

Postcard from Jenna Johnson, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program in Dakar, Senega

Migrant Rights are Human Rights

Although it is the case that a rights discourse has become part of everyday language, the discourse remains relatively weak when it comes to migrant workers in Canada and around the world. Most certainly, the rights discourse has not been translated into everyday practices that protect the rights of migrant workers and their families worldwide. In fact, although we have the language of rights clearly articulated in the 1990 UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICMW) which offers significant protections for migrant workers, Canada and most other receiving countries have yet to ratify this agreement. Similarly, Canada has not ratified the two International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions that pertain to the rights of migrant workers, C97 Migration for Employment Convention (Revised) (1949) and C143 Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Conventions (1975). By ratifying these agreements, receiving countries would send a signal that the rights discourse applies to migrants as well as citizens, and it would also indicate a commitment to taking concrete steps towards protecting migrant rights. striking feature of contemporary patterns in international migration is the rising number of migrant workers leaving their homes in the global South for jobs in high‐income countries. Many high income states have turned to immigration policy to meet employer labour needs through temporary migration, creating new programs or increasing the volume of older versions. The United States, for example, now has over 80 types of temporary visas. In the UK, the liberalization of labour mobility has led to an estimated one million migrant workers arriving from EU accession countries in three short years. While some of these managed migration schemes provide a stepping stone for permanent residence, which is particularly the case with skilled workers, those in so‐called low‐skilled or unskilled occupations are generally designed to prevent settlement and restrict mobility. However, as evidenced by the history of temporary migration schemes in Europe and the U.S., temporary migration schemes are never temporary and tend to lead to long term settlement and a growth in undocumented migration. Since the significant demand for workers often exceeds the capacities of legal programs, and there are limited permanent migration channels for many migrants from developing countries (particularly those living in poverty), means that there is significant growth in undocumented migration as well

The Art (and Science) of Breeding Fish in Captivity

To reduce the impact of harvesting fish from natural habitats, RWU experts to teach aquarists to breed fish for exhibit tanks

Newport's mooring regulations: legal and policy analysis

The legal and policy issues facing Newport as it revises and implements its ordinances are numerous. Most of the issues have not been squarely resolved for Rhode Island. While Newport may take guidance from other states, it will be Rhode Island's task going forward to define the reach of its PTD as applied to some novel issues raised by mooring administration. The benefit of the flexibility of the PTD is allowing smaller units of government like Newport to define their regulatory goals based on a locally-tailored balancing test of competing interests facing scarce ocean resources. This report was designed to facilitate decision-maker discussion of how to strike that delicate balance

Mission: Haiti

Veronica Alicea ’16 leads charitable effort to provide latrines to an impoverished village in Haiti, reducing preventable illnesses and deaths

Undergraduate Research Panel Kicks Off Conference on Religion and State

The biannual Roger Williams University Conference on Religion and kicked off today, hosting scholars from across the globe to investigate “Narratives and Negotiation: Agency, Religion and the State

Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief by Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman

Review of Ashlee Cunsolo and Karen Landman\u27s Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief