Urban-Focused and Community-Based Teacher Preparation

Existing challenges in many urban schools have led to an increased emphasis on urban-focused teacher preparation. While this work can be demanding and complex, many Christian teacher education programs desire to engage in this work as part of their efforts to prepare their teacher candidates to teach all students and to promote more equitable educational opportunities in urban communities. In this article, the author reviews the literature on effective urban teacher preparation and then discusses the potential for collaboration with local schools and communities to support this work in Christian teacher education programs. The author argues that authentic engagement with urban schools and communities is necessary to provide teacher candidates with the understandings, frameworks, and experiences needed to flourish in their work and to develop meaningful relationships with students, families, and community members

Defining and Measuring High Technology in Georgia

This report defines and measures the high technology sector in Georgia

The navigation of homing pigeons: Do they use sun Navigation?

Experiments to determine the dependence of homing pigeons on the sun as a navigational cue are discussed. Various methods were employed to interrupt the circadian rhythms of the pigeons prior to release. It was determined that the sun may serve as a compass, but that topographic features are more important for navigation. The effects of a magnetic field produced by electric equipment carried by the bird were also investigated. It was concluded that magnetic fields may have a small effect on the homing ability. The exact nature of the homing pigeon's navigational ability is still unknown after years of elaborate experimentation

Design and implementation of a ground control console prototype for OMV

One of the primary uses of the Flat Floor facility of The Marshall Flight Center is to perform autonomous and teleoperated docking of vehicles similar to NASA's Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV). Using both the air-bearing vehicle and the 8 DOF Dynamic Overhead Target Simulator (DOTS) in tandem, even the most difficult OMV docking problems can be simulated. The OMV was planned to be flown from the ground by a pilot via teleoperation. Specifications were developed for a prototype Ground Control Console (GCC) from where the vehicle will be flown. In order for testing of the OMV to occur at Flat Floor facility, this GCC must be replicated. The project was divided into three primary tasks: (1) the design and development of the video display; (2) the design and development of the switch panel using the micro switch programmable display pushbutton switches; and (3) the design and development of the hand controllers. A final task is to perform system integration on the results of these three primary tasks

Interview

In the autumn of 1980 Oerek Walcott toured Wales as the recipient of the Welsh Arts Council\u27s International Writer\u27s Prize. This interview was conducted during that visit. Interviewer: Ned Thomas

International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics 21st World Congress

Programming focused on aging, age-related disease and disability, and the social and public policies that impact our aging society from a global perspectiv

The individual investor : investment objectives, strategies, and tactics

The individual investor\u27s circumstances and investment behavior have received relatively little attention since it was discovered in the late sixties that he was withdrawing as a direct participant in the American equities market. The first major response to this withdrawal phenomenon was the 1974 Individual Investor Research Project (IIRP). For the first time, the individual investor\u27s circumstances and decision processes were examined directly and not through broad-based trading statistics or portfolio simulations. This current survey identifies the significant changes in investment objectives, strategies, and tactics since the IIRP. These changes were discovered when seven demographic variables were cross-classified with various investment behavioral characteristics from a sample of 130 individual investors. This research effort also identifies the socio-economic characteristics of the individual investor that serve as significant influences on investment behavior

"Who Is She and What Is She to You?" Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the (Im)possibility of Black/Canadian Studies

This paper addresses the relationship between Black Studies, Canadian Studies and Black diasporic discourses and incorporates the figure of Mary Ann Shadd Cary as an intellectual guide to argue for a place within Canadian Studies for a sustained conversation concerning Blackness. The paper is a conceptual exercise in working through the concern of why discourses of Blackness in Canadian Studies operate much like a special effect and why Canadian Blackness is also not sustained in Black Studies discourses.Cet article adresse la relation entre les Etudes des Noirs, les Etudes canadiennes et les discours dispersifs noirs et, incorpore Mary Shadd Cary en tant que guide intellectuel pour defendre une place a l'interieur des Etudes canadiennes et pour avoir une conversation soutenue au sujet de la negritude. L'article est un exercice conceptuel qui se fait avec le souci de savoir pourquoi le discours sur la negritude dans les Etudes des Noirs fonctionne comme un effet special et pourquoi la negritude canadienne n'est pas soutenue dans les discours des Etudes des Noirs non plus