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Common Core State Standards in Arkansas
In July 2010, the Arkansas Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC Assessment program. The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) then created a strategic plan and a timeline for the implementation of the standards. The new standards were implemented in Arkansas K-2 classrooms this past school year, 2011-12. During this current school year, 2012-13, the standards are being implemented in grades 3-8
Synthesis and characterization of a novel Y-Fe phase via kinetic neutron diffraction
Kinetic in situ neutron diffraction has been used to study the crystallization of
amorphous Y67Fe33. The results show that partial crystallization first occurs
close to 300 â—¦C where the Y phase is formed. The entire sample crystallizes
at 390 â—¦C and new Bragg peaks appear, signifying the formation of a novel
Y–Fe phase. This new phase coexists with Y to 450 ◦C when the Bragg peaks
associated with this phase rapidly decrease in intensity and YFe2 also coexisting
with Y, emerges as the final crystallization product. Rietveld refinement
shows that the new phase crystallizes into a hexagonal structure, space group
P63/mmc, with a = 12.8893(7) Å, c = 11.7006(9) Å and γ = 120◦
Arkansas’ ESEA Waiver Approval Update
On June 29th, 2012, the US Department of Education announced that it had approved Arkansas’s ESEA waiver request. On July 4th, the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) announced it had identified 48 Priority and 110 Focus schools. Priority and Focus schools are the new names for the two lowest-rated school performance categories; schools and districts in these categories are subject to ADE intervention. This policy brief explains the major differences between the accountability system under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the new revised system
Common Core State Standards in Arkansas
In July 2010, the Arkansas Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards and the PARCC Assessment program. The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) then created a strategic plan and a timeline for the implementation of the standards. The new standards were implemented in Arkansas K-2 classrooms this past school year, 2011-12. During this current school year, 2012-13, the standards are being implemented in grades 3-8
Cygnus X-2, super-Eddington mass transfer, and pulsar binaries
We consider the unusual evolutionary state of the secondary star in Cygnus
X-2. Spectroscopic data give a low mass (M_2 \simeq 0.5 - 0.7\msun) and yet a
large radius (R_2 \simeq 7\rsun) and high luminosity (L_2 \simeq 150\lsun).
We show that this star closely resembles a remnant of early massive Case B
evolution, during which the neutron star ejected most of the \sim 3\msun
transferred from the donor (initial mass M_{\rm 2i}\sim 3.6\msun) on its
thermal time-scale yr. As the system is far too wide to result from
common-envelope evolution, this strongly supports the idea that a neutron star
efficiently ejects the excess inflow during super--Eddington mass transfer.
Cygnus X-2 is unusual in having had an initial mass ratio in a narrow critical range near . Smaller lead to long-period systems with the former donor near the Hayashi line,
and larger to pulsar binaries with shorter periods and relatively
massive white dwarf companions. The latter naturally explain the surprisingly
large companion masses in several millisecond pulsar binaries. Systems like
Cygnus X-2 may thus be an important channel for forming pulsar binaries.Comment: 9 pages, 4 encapsulated figures, LaTeX, revised version with a few
typos corrected and an appendix added, accepted by MNRA
Indirect (source-free) integration method. II. Self-force consistent radial fall
We apply our method of indirect integration, described in Part I, at fourth
order, to the radial fall affected by the self-force. The Mode-Sum
regularisation is performed in the Regge-Wheeler gauge using the equivalence
with the harmonic gauge for this orbit. We consider also the motion subjected
to a self-consistent and iterative correction determined by the self-force
through osculating stretches of geodesics. The convergence of the results
confirms the validity of the integration method. This work complements and
justifies the analysis and the results appeared in Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod.
Phys., 11, 1450090 (2014).Comment: To appear in Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phy
Outstanding Educational Performance Awards: Highlighting High-Achieving Arkansas Schools, 2012
Conservation Laws and the Multiplicity Evolution of Spectra at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Transverse momentum distributions in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
carry considerable information about the dynamics of the hot system produced.
Direct comparison with the same spectra from collisions has proven
invaluable to identify novel features associated with the larger system, in
particular, the "jet quenching" at high momentum and apparently much stronger
collective flow dominating the spectral shape at low momentum. We point out
possible hazards of ignoring conservation laws in the comparison of high- and
low-multiplicity final states. We argue that the effects of energy and momentum
conservation actually dominate many of the observed systematics, and that
collisions may be much more similar to heavy ion collisions than generally
thought.Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures, submitted to PRC; Figures 2,4,5,6,12 updated,
Tables 1 and 3 added, typo in Tab.V fixed, appendix B partially rephrased,
minor typo in Eq.B1 fixed, minor wording; references adde
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