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The Use of Arrest Records In Pre-Employment Screening In Franklin County, Ohio
Researchers reviewed the legality of employers using arrest records without convictions in pre-employment screenings; conducted surveys and focus groups to learn about pre-employment screening practices in Franklin County, OH; and studied arrest record data to determine whether black males in the region were more likely than others to be arrested and not subsequently convicted
Response to Professor Rosenbloom: \u3ci\u3eFifty Shades of Gray Infrastructure: Land Use and the Failure to Create Reslient Cities\u3c/i\u3e, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 317 (2018)
This piece is a response to Jonathan Rosenbloom, Fifty Shades of Gray Infrastructure: Land Use and The Failure to Create Resilient Cities, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 317 (2018)
A Correlational Study of Teacher Efficacy and Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques in a Southeastern Urban School District
This study investigated the level of personal and general teacher efficacy of teachers from three high schools within a southeastern urban school district. Additional research questions focused on correlational relationships between teacher efficacy and culturally responsive teaching, instructional strategies, student engagement, and classroom management as measured by the Teacher Efficacy Scale (TES), Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques (CRTT) Scale, and Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES).
This study was conducted in a large urban school district located in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States; three of the five high schools in the district participated. The CRTT Scale and TSES were combined to create a 29-item instrument to examine culturally responsive teaching, instructional strategies, student engagement, and classroom management. Personal and general teacher efficacy were explored using the TES.
This study found that cultural teaching is a dimension of teacher efficacy. Survey data were analyzed to determine the impact of teaching efficacy on culturally responsive teaching. Significant relationships were found between teacher efficacy and culturally responsive teaching, instructional strategies, student engagement, and classroom management. Teacher efficacy and culturally responsive teaching are positively related; the finding supports studies that indicate teachers who possess high levels of efficacy are more likely to use higher levels of culturally responsive pedagogy which has a positive impact on student engagement and achievement
Iowa Stubborn: Meredith Willson's Musical Characterization of his Fellow Iowans
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt.3.1.31_1 .The song “Iowa Stubborn” from The Music Man provides a key to understanding the development and musical content of the work. Willson’s “Iowa Stubborn” insistence on the organic development of songs from the narrative led him to use experimental techniques like “speak-song” and “words-without-songs,” some of which were by-products of his long career in radio. By creating a dialogic style of song based on stubborn pitch repetition and a small number of motives, the composer, who by the early 1950s was Iowa’s most famous son, was able to characterize the stubborn natives of the Hawkeye both musically and lyrically, in numerous numbers in the score
Regional study of the Archean to Proterozoic crust at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO+), Ontario: Predicting the geoneutrino flux
The SNO+ detector, a new kiloton scale liquid scintillator detector capable
of recording geoneutrino events, will define the strength of the Earth
radiogenic heat. A detailed 3-D model of the regional crust, centered at SNO+
and based on compiled geological, geophysical and geochemical information, was
used to characterize the physical and chemical attributes of crust and assign
uncertainties to its structure. Monte Carlo simulations were used to predict
the U and Th abundances and uncertainties in crustal lithologies and to model
the regional crustal geoneutrino signal originating from the at SNO+
The Asymmetric Thick Disk: A Star Count and Kinematic Analysis. II The Kinematics
We report a kinematic signature associated with the observed asymmetry in the
distribution of thick disk/inner halo stars interior to the Solar circle
described in Paper I. In that paper we found a statistically significant excess
(20% to 25 %) of stars in quadrant I (l ~ 20 deg to 55 deg) both above and
below the plane (b ~ +/- 25 deg to +/- 45 deg) compared to the complementary
region in quadrant IV. We have measured Doppler velocities for 741 stars,
selected according to the same magnitude and color criteria, in the direction
of the asymmetry and in the corresponding fields in quadrant IV. We have also
determined spectral types and metallicities measured from the same spectra. We
not only find an asymmetric distribution in the V_LSR velocities for the stars
in the two regions, but the angular rate of rotation, w, for the stars in
quadrant I reveals a slower effective rotation rate compared to the
corresponding quadrant IV stars. We use our [Fe/H] measurements to separate the
stars into the three primary population groups, halo, thick disk, and disk, and
conclude that it is primarily the thick disk stars that show the slower
rotation in quadrant I. A solution for the radial, tangential and vertical
components of the V_LSR velocities, reveals a significant lag of ~ 80 to 90
km/s in the direction of Galactic rotation for the thick disk stars in quadrant
I, while in quadrant IV, the same population has only a ~ 20 km/s lag. The
results reported here support a rotational lag among the thick disk stars due
to a gravitational interaction with the bar as the most likely explanation for
the asymmetry in both the star counts and the kinematics. The affected thick
disk stars, however, may be associated with the recently discovered Canis Major
debris stream or a similar merger event (abridged).Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journa
Borrowing from Millennials to Pay Boomers: Can Tax Policy Create Sustainable Intergenerational Equity?
At the outset, Part I of the Article provides an overview of sustainable intergenerational justice and tax policy. Part II then provides an overview of the U.S. tax system, deficits, and public debt. Part III then considers how taxes can influence the level of resources that are available to future generations, and Part IV considers how taxes can influence the mix of resources that are available to future generations
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