An Analysis of an English Curriculum Modification in a Senior High School

The purpose of this study is to assess the innovated elective English program at Auburn Senior High during the school year of 1967-1968 to ascertain if it did successfully: (1) enlist greater student interest in the areas of English, (2) motivate students to become more involved with their education, (3) do the above mentioned things, but not at the expense of other curriculum

A preferred vision of educational leadership in schools : a reflective essay

The state of Iowa has laid the framework for leadership in education through the development of the six Iowa Standards for School Leaders (ISSL). Each one of the six standards details a different aspect of the role needed for successful leadership within the school and the school community. Through these six standards and outside resources, I have found that there are core beliefs and characteristics required to have and maintain success in leadership in education. This paper will cover the essential beliefs and characteristics in educational leadership needed, and their importance for success within the school

"Convergence or Divergence? The Empirical Evidence"

[From the Introduction]. The Single European Act has affirmed the reduction of regional economic disparities as a necessary step to achieve the social and political cohesion of the community as a whole. To better understand the problem of regional disparities, the Commission has been actively studying the situation for the past decade in the publication 'The periodic reports of the social and economic situations of the regions of the Community'....My goal is to identify those regions that have experienced a steady trend of improvement or decline relative to the other European regions. A comparison between strong and weak, especially if the regions in these groups remain fairly constant over time, lends itself only to a tautological explanation of the differences between the two groups. Conversely, recognizing the regions experiencing real change in living standards and relative ranks, allow us to ask what are they doing that supports these changes. I will hypothesize that these movements can only be explained by examining the social and political situations in the regions

Building Educational Partnerships through Virtual IT

This paper reviews the authors’ experience in creating and implementing four educational videoconferences (VCs) for a three-week English language education program in 2004, and our proposal for VCs in 2006. The focus of this paper concerns the building of partnerships to enable the delivery of educational VCs. The VCs were established with four presenters: a professor specializing in Telecommunications at Ball State Univ.; the Dean of the Undergraduate College at Harvard University; a specialist at NASA on "International Business Etiquette"; and a playwright at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The required partnerships were each developed on unique paths: building on previous contacts at a Global Media Network (GMN) Symposium at HKBU, facilitated through alumni and organizational / fundraising networks to reach high-level educational administrators, the use of online VC discussion forums to contact free US-based government resources, and the exploration of online catalogs offered by non-profit organizations devoted to the coordination and delivery of VC presentations. The three week English language program was organized by a non-profit charitable organization, and co-hosted by HKU. It invited volunteer Harvard students to lead small groups of disadvantaged secondary students from schools in HK and mainland China in a range of language-oriented leadership activities. In 2006, we plan to simultaneously operate two such three-week programs, one hosted by HKU, and the other by Fudan University in Shanghai. VC technology will be utilized to virtually import real-time educational presentations from Harvard and other top universities, and also to enable cultural exchange between the students in all three locations. In addition, we are implementing an "Observer" status, where staff and students at other remote locations can get the VC feed one-way, and watch the language program presentations and cultural exchange interactions. The development of symbiotic partnerships is key to the implementation of educational VC-based distance learning and cultural exchange programs. This paper presents the methodology of a successful recent implementation, and our plans for future development of increased technology-based interaction.published_or_final_versionCentre of Information Technology in Education, University of Hong Kong and Education and Manpower Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong SA

The Effect of Time of Day on Approach-Avoidance Conflict Behavior

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology in the Graduate School of Morehead State University by Orris Eugene Frazier on May 22, 1970