An Investment Prospectus: Strengthening Education and Democracy through Service-Learning

Service-learning has deep roots in many American reforms, traditions, and disciplines. The cooperative extension movement in higher education, the settlement house work of Jane Addams, the pedagogies of John Dewey, the freedom schools of the African-American community: all these types of experiential education have connected young people to their communities as does service-learning. Service-learning is a teaching method that engages young people in community problem-solving as part of their education, both in school and out-of-school settings

Analysis and Recommendations Regarding the Mixed Waste Landfill Corrective Measure Study Final Report Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories

This research was completed money allocated during Round 4 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at [email protected]://commons.clarku.edu/citizenaction/1004/thumbnail.jp

Is ‘Trust Us, We’re the Government’ Really A Guarantee? A Review of Financial Assurance Options for Long-Term Stewardship at the Mixed Waste Landfill, Sandia National Laboratories

3 Executive Summary Citizen Action commissioned this study to identify and evaluate options for financial assurance that may apply to the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) at Albuquerque, New Mexico. The report reviews legal aspects of this subject and evolving Department of Energy (DOE) policy on long-term management of waste sites, as well as specific examples of trust funds, DOE-contractor agreements and other state-based approaches to financial assurance at sites with similarities to Sandia’s Mixed Waste Landfill. This research has been supported by a grant from the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund administered by RESOLVE, Inc. Washington, DC. This review identifies four options for financial assurance to guarantee of the performance of long-term care at waste disposal sites as required by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), (42 USC 6901 et seq.) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations (40 CFR 260 et seq.) pursuant to that Act. RCRA is a federal law that regulates solid and hazardous waste from generation through disposal referred to as a “cradle-to-grave” control program. This review focuses on the “grave” portion of the RCRA process, the requirements for closure and post-closure plans at waste disposal sites. This research was completed money allocated during Round 2 of the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (MTA Fund). Clark University was named conservator of these works. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at [email protected]://commons.clarku.edu/citizenaction/1001/thumbnail.jp

Aligning Values for Rural Tourism: Tourism on the Solway Coast

Cumbria's Solway coast is 'on the edge' of a number of phenomena: the sea, Cumbria, England, the Lake District and commercial viability as a tourist area. The presentation describes how many of its stakeholders have common goals which can be served by tourism, but so far it has not proved possible to unite these and improve the tourism offer and the popularity of the area

Quantifying extreme behaviour in geomagnetic activity

Understanding the extremes in geomagnetic activity is an important component in understanding just how severe conditions can become in the terrestrial space environment. Extreme activity also has consequences for technological systems. On the ground, extreme geomagnetic behavior has an impact on navigation and position accuracy and the operation of power grids and pipeline networks. We therefore use a number of decades of one-minute mean magnetic data from magnetic observatories in Europe, together with the technique of extreme value statistics, to provide a preliminary exploration of the extremes in magnetic field variations and their one-minute rates of change. These extremes are expressed in terms of the variations that might be observed every 100 and 200 years in the horizontal strength and in the declination of the field. We find that both measured and extrapolated extreme values generally increase with geomagnetic latitude (as might be expected), though there is a marked maximum in estimated extreme levels between about 53 and 62 degrees north. At typical midlatitude European observatories (55–60 degrees geomagnetic latitude), compass variations may reach approximately 3–8 degrees/minute, and horizontal field changes may reach 1000–4000 nT/minute, in one magnetic storm once every 100 years. For storm return periods of 200 years the equivalent figures are 4–11 degrees/minute and 1000–6000 nT/minute

Health Orientation, Beliefs, and Use of Health Services Among Minority, High-risk Expectant Mothers

This article reports on initial findings of a continuing longitudinal study investigating the relationships of health beliefs as conceptualized by the health belief model and the use of well-baby services among first-time black mothers. The health beliefs of mothers about their babies were measured before the babies were born and during their use of the services at the baby's first and sixth-month visits. Mothers in the sample who became nonusers of the well-baby services were also interviewed. This report describes the results of the first interview of the 662 females who composed the sample for the study, including the following characteristics of a minority, high-risk population: health orientation, health beliefs about their unborn babies, and use of health services. These findings are discussed with implications for community health nursing practice with maternal clients.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73774/1/j.1525-1446.1988.tb00553.x.pd

Putting theory oriented evaluation into practice

Evaluations of gaming simulations and business games as teaching devices are typically end-state driven. This emphasis fails to detect how the simulation being evaluated does or does not bring about its desired consequences. This paper advances the use of a logic model approach which possesses a holistic perspective that aims at including all elements associated with the situation created by a game. The use of the logic model approach is illustrated as applied to Simgame, a board game created for secondary school level business education in six European Union countries

Organisational participation and women - an attitude problem?

Employee participation is a dynamic and contested area of organisational behaviour, attracting continuing academic, practitioner and policy interest and debate. This chapter focuses on organisational participation and women

Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Often Uninformative : Should We Be Concerned?

There are a growing number of large-scale educational Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs). Considering their expense, it is important to reflect on the effectiveness of this approach. We assessed the magnitude and precision of effects found in those large-scale RCTs commissioned by the EEF (UK) and the NCEE (US) which evaluated interventions aimed at improving academic achievement in K-12 (141 RCTs; 1,222,024 students). The mean effect size was 0.06 standard deviations (SDs). These sat within relatively large confidence intervals (mean width 0.30 SDs) which meant that the results were often uninformative (the median Bayes factor was 0.56). We argue that our field needs, as a priority, to understand why educational RCTs often find small and uninformative effects