Progressive Revenue Sharing in MLB: The Effect on Player Transfers

The 1997 collective bargaining agreement between the Major League Baseball owners and players’ union altered MLB’s system of sharing revenue sharing between clubs. The new system, a convoluted cross-subsidization scheme, by design progressively redistributed income from the highest revenue generating clubs toward the lowest revenue-producing clubs. The 2003 agreement extended this method of revenue redistribution, but with an increased the tax rate and modified process. The purpose of the revenue sharing system was to alleviate a growing disparity in revenue generation, which MLB claimed caused competitive imbalance. We examine progressive revenue sharing theoretically, within the principal-agent framework, and shows that the incentive to divest in talent is increased for lower revenue producing clubs. Empirical results are supportive. Payroll disparity and competitive imbalance increased modestly from the period immediately preceding implementation. Most striking however is the alteration in transfer rates of players, in particular the increased flow of productive talent away from the lowest revenue clubs. We show conclusively that low revenue producing clubs acted on the increased incentives to divest in talent.Sport, revenue redistribution, collective bargaining

The Effects of Technology Based Self-Monitoring Across General Education Settings for Students with Behavior Disorders

This dissertation consists of three articles investigating the effects of technology-based self-monitoring to decrease off-task behaviors and increase academic engagement in students who have behavior disorders. Previous literature has examined the effects of technology-based self-monitoring in special education and alternative placements. Unfortunately, there is a lack of investigation with technology-based self-monitoring in general education settings. Together these three articles will clearly determine the effects of technology-based self-monitoring in general education settings specifically for students with behavior disorders

Emerging democracy in an urban elementary school: a Habermasian framework for examining school governance reculturing in response to systemic reform

textThe purpose of this study was to examine the micropolitical dynamics manifested in the re-culturing of campus governance in response to systemic reform imperatives? The study examined: 1) the recent intensification of standards and stakes associated with the Texas performance accountability system, 2) managerial responses to these pressures by the central administration of a large urban school district, and 3) the renegotiation of work and leadership in response performance pressures and the district policies by the faculty at a highpoverty, majority Hispanic elementary school. The study combined document analysis and various ethnographic methods to understand the interplay between reform pressures, district policies, and campus micropolitics. The analysis of the state performance accountability system used state reports, press releases, and print media related to the development and intensification of the system. The district level analysis combined press releases, print media, public comments by administrators and participant observation to study the administrative response to accountability pressures. The campus-level analysis employed formal and informal interviews of teachers with observations of faculty and committee planning meetings to understand decision-making dynamics and planning processes as carried out by the faculty of one campus. The major findings of the study are three-fold. First, the state-level analysis suggests that the Texas performance monitoring system, a response to a state legitimacy crisis, appears to be informed by a narrow technical logic and therefore seems likely to intensify an existing administrative emphasis on efficiency at the expense of other valued outcomes, most notably equity. Second, responses to accountability pressures in the district studied reflect an intensification of a traditional management discourse evidenced in a series of reforms that dramatically extend administrative control over staffing decisions, campus planning, curriculum development, and instructional delivery. Third, the current district policies contrast with recent reforms at the campus studied that engaged teachers and administrators in more deliberative governance activities focused on collective and strategic planning. Conflict between the communicative rationality of the campus-level reforms and the technical rationality informing the district’s management discourse are resulting in ongoing renegotiation of work and leadership norms at the campus.Educational Administratio

Letter from Virgil Macy to George Sibley, June 13, 1832

Transcript of Letter from Virgil Macy to George Sibley, June 13, 1832. Maxcy says that Sibley\u27s debt can be taken care of based on his proposal

TRAPPING SMALL HIVE BEETLES, AETHINA TUMIDA MURRAY, INSIDE HONEY BEE COLONIES

The small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray, (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) is an economically important honey bee pest, particularly in the southeastern United States. One method of controlling this pest is the use of an in-hive trap. Many different attractants have been developed and are used in such traps. Part one of my thesis involved testing a new attractant, a pollen substitute inoculated with the yeast Kodamaea ohmeri (NRRL Y-30722). Thirty-two test colonies were established with 0.9-kg (2-lb) packages of bees with queens. Eight colonies were placed in each apiary, and colonies received one of three treatments: 1) yeast-based attractant 2) apple cider vinegar, a known small hive beetle attractant, and 3) control, an empty trap. The delivery system used for the test was the \u27Hood small hive beetle trap.\u27 Data was collected over a six-month period from May to November 2006. Both the yeast-based and the cider vinegar attractants increased small hive beetle trapping as compared to control traps. Additionally, the yeast-based attractant showed an increase in small hive beetle trapping efficiency during the warmer months of July and August. More capped brood and fewer beetles were present in colonies with attractant-loaded traps as compared to control traps. The second year of my research involved determining the most effective location for trapping the small hive beetle within a honey bee colony. Five apiaries were established between 31 March and 2 April 2007 at approximately 2.4 km apart; each contained five honey bee colonies. Two Hood beetle traps were placed within each colony; one trap was placed in the top honey super, the other in the brood chamber. Data were collected for a seven-month period, from May to November 2007. There was no significant difference in number of beetles captured between the two trap locations for any of the ten sampling dates. Currently, most traps developed for small hive beetle focus on trapping near the hive floor. However, my data suggest that trapping can be just as effective in honey supers above the brood chamber. Additionally, seasonal differences in trapping effectiveness were observed

Letter from Virgil Maxcy to George Sibley, November 2, 1830

Transcript of Letter from Virgil Maxcy to George Sibley, November 2, 1830. Maxcy discusses Sibley\u27s debt from the trade goods purchase