Separation of Church and School: Guidance for Public Charter Schools Using Religious Facilities

Public charter school leaders and advocates are dedicated to growing the number of high-quality public charter schools available to all families, especially those in communities where there are very few opportunities to attend a high-quality public school. To realize the promise that public charter school expansion can bring, public charter schools need reasonable access to facilities in every community.This is a guidebook to help public charter school leaders -- and the advocates, attorneys, and others who support them -- navigate the increasingly complicated legal landscape surrounding public charter school use of a facility owned or operated by a religious organization. By presenting an analysis of the legal standards that govern application of the Establishment Clause and offering practical advice on how to ensure compliance with the it when a public charter school decides to locate in a religious-owned facility, this guidebook will help charter school leaders protect their access to an important facilities option and foster continued public charter school growth

Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery"

This essay suggests memory studies, ecocriticism, and trauma studies as new avenues for the study of rusticated youth narratives. Towards reaching this goal, I first introduce a meditation on memory by Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), especially his sketch of memory and imagination with classical Greek philosophy. His ideas on affective and practical memories are then telescoped into individual and communal memories. Onze Fleurs (Wo shiyi, 2011), directed by Wang Xiaoshuai (1966- ), and The River without Buoys (Meiyou hangbiao de heliu, 1984), directed by Wu Tianming (1939-2014) provide illustrative examples of each. Building upon these notions of personal memory I turn to the popular memory of rustication, especially that of the natural environment in Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery" ("Zhe shi yipian shenqi de tudi," 1985). More specifically I examine the evocation of the ghost marsh, narratives of departure, the family left in the city, and the menace of nature in Liang's short story to force not only a reconsideration of rustication, but also of nature in contemporary China. Moreover, in addition to noting the questioning of the sanitization of rusticated memories as a means of conforming to dominant state ideological discourses, I introduce a comparison of the story of doomed rusticated youth to the doomed youth in Sean Penn's Into the Wild, in order to force a comparison of youth and the environment often overlooked in rusticated youth studies. Finally, this essay concludes by suggesting that by more carefully considering the interplay between memory and place more nuanced and perhaps more ecologically and critically engaged assessments of rusticated youth fiction become possible

Voice control of complex workstations

The use of a speaker-dependent connected word recognition system to control an Air Traffic Control (ATC) demonstration workstation is described, also the work that went into developing that speech system. The workstation with speech recognition was demonstrated live at an Air Traffic Controller's Association convention in 1987. The purpose of the demonstration workstation is discussed, with the development of the speech interface highlighted. Included are: a brief description of the speech hardware and software, and overview of the speech driven workstation functions, a description of the speech vocabulary/grammer, and details that the enrollment and training procedures used in preparing the controllers for the demonstrations. Although no quantitative results are available, the potential benefits of using voice as an interface to this type of workstation are discussed and limitations of current speech technology and areas where more work is required are highlighted

Oxidation and agglomeration resistance of thin gage dispersion strengthened alloys Final report

Measuring oxidation resistance of thin dispersion strengthened nickel-chromium alloys for aircraft application

Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit levels and asset tests when eligible, which make intertemporal or international comparisons difficult. To make things worse, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. In this paper, we develop a methodology to measure the generosity of unemployment insurance programs with a single metric. We build a first model with such complex characteristics. Our model features heterogeneous agents that are liquidity constrained but can self-insure. We then build a second model that is similar, except that the unemployment insurance is simpler: it is deprived of waiting periods and agents are eligible forever with constant benefits. We then determine which level of benefits in this second model makes agents indifferent between both unemployment insurance policies. We apply this strategy to the unemployment insurance program of the United Kingdom and study how its generosity evolved over time.Social policy, generosity, unemployment insurance, measurement

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Guy and Bess Scruggs

Transcript of an oral history interview of Guy and Bess Scruggs conducted by Owen Glen Cosgrove on 21 August 1975. This interview was digitized from cassette format. The Scruggs family was working with Abilene Christian College during its expansion during the 1920s and through the time of the college\u27s dire financial struggles in the 1930s. Mr. Scruggs\u27 thesis on the history of Abilene Christian College is an extensive study of the college during those years. Scruggs and Morris also worked together for many years. Mrs. Scruggs\u27 father was S. N. Allen, for many years a member of the Board of Trustees at Abilene Christian College. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Allen donated a one-hundred-and-twelve-acre farm to Abilene Christian College in 1944 to help establish the college\u27s agriculture department

Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison

The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the methodology of Pallage, Scruggs and Zimmermann (2008) to find a unique parameter value for each region that fully characterizes the generosity of the system. These two values can then be used in structural models that compare the regions, for example to explain the differences in unemployment rates.unemployment insurance, labor market policy evaluation

BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT KANGAROO CARE IN PRETERM INFANTS IN THE NICU

This thesis investigates credible medical and nursing journals on the topics of kangaroo care in preterm infants in a neonatal intensive care unit setting. These research articles focused on interventions and recommendations that maximize the benefits of kangaroo care in this targeted population. Research and education on this topic is much less utilized compared to kangaroo care in full-term infants. Implementation of kangaroo care in the clinical setting is slow-moving, during its transition state from the literature to execution (Ludington-Hoe, 2011). Many variations of kangaroo care are explored in these research articles, thus there is great room for interpretation into best practice recommendations. The purpose of this thesis is to create best practice recommendation to support kangaroo care in the NICU, and promote utilization of such recommendations. Along with various interventions, many outcomes and benefits were analyzed in these articles as well. The proven benefits and positive outcomes for the use of kangaroo care have been momentous and have a potential to play a crucial role in the clinical setting. The culmination of this paper will establish best practice recommendations, an implementation plan for an educational bulletin board in a kangaroo-a-thon, and an evaluation of the participation in the kangaroo-a-thon

UA3/3/1 General Area Map - Jonesville Project Area - Scheme 1

General Area Map, Jonesville Project Area, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Scheme I, scale 1 = 800 by Scruggs & Hammond of Lexington, Kentucky, nd, 1 sheet, 11 1/2 x 12 . The map is oriented looking northward. The boundaries are the L&N railroad on the northeast, 14th Street on the North, US31W By-pass on the west and Maryland & Woodland Streets on the south. The map was filed with documents dating from 1961-1965. The agreement allowing WKU\u27s acquisition of the Jonesville property is dated 1963