Justice for All? Costs and Consequences of Standardized Testing Requirements in Teacher Education Reform Policy

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Wendy Zagray Warren on March 5, 2015

CUTS IN A PRISM: A MULTI-GENRE EXPLORATION OF GROWTH AS WRITER, TEACHER AND HUMAN

ABSTRACT Warren, Wendy Zagray, M.A., Summer 2012 Integrated Arts and Education Cuts in a Prism: A Multi-Genre Exploration of Growth as Writer, Teacher and Human Chairperson: Dr. Jillian Campana A meditation about how writing can be used as markers of personal and professional growth, this project brings together poems, articles, essays and reflections written over the past four years, woven together with threads of commentary. Taken together, they form a narrative of maturation, as the author’s world opens to more consciously include the perspectives of others. Based on a metaphor of a prism, where each cut represents a given perspective based on social position, the author explores the importance of story as means of viewing the world through a different lens. From positions of social advantage, such as the author’s own identity as a white, middle class, heterosexual woman of European heritage, people are sometimes unable to see that other cuts in the glass even exist. Through these pieces of writing, newly combined into story, the author, a teacher of twenty-five years, looks back at the learning trajectory leading to where she now stands. From an entry point spurred by Montana’s educational mandate known as Indian Education for All, through experiences including intense exploration into Holocaust Education, she emerges to find herself in a new position. As a result of this new learning, in the coming years, her work will come to include teaching at a college level, supporting pre-service teachers in thinking deeply about how issues of race and class might impact the lives and learning of their students. She will also join a research group studying resiliency strategies of young people who have come through difficult circumstances. Through living, learning, writing and reflecting, issues of social justice, both cultural and economic, have risen to the forefront of her work, and this work has now embedded itself into the fabric of her life

Information and analytical technologies in trading enterprise management

The article considers economic and mathematical methods and information technologies for managing the processes of trade enterprise. Economic and mathematical models for solving warehousing logistics problems, stochastic and statistical models of inventory management, models of optimal management and queuing systems are analyzed. Flexible tools are used to increase the efficiency of trade enterprise management and timely decision-making. The tools combine the use of mathematical models, a simulation model and information-analytical technologies. The study was carried out in three stages. The simulation model is designed in the software iThink. The simulation model was used to forecast sales, incomes, expenses and profit, processes of goods purchases, which take into account the factors of seasonality and the rest of production both in a warehouse and in the enterprise as a whole. The efficiency indicators of the enterprise are calculated and the possibility of payroll depending on income and dividends to owners is analyzed. An investment project has been designed in the software «Alt-Invest». This project analyzes the possibility of opening a new store with regard for financial activities, the development of a business plan for an investment project, the preparation of financial feasibility study, and the assessment of the impact of external factors and internal parameters on the overall effectiveness of the project. A comparative assessment is carried out in order to select the most promising project option. ABC-XYZ scenario was designed in the software platform Loginom. Using this analysis, the product range was divided into groups depending on the revenue and financial capabilities of the enterprise

Thermal radiation of heterogeneous combustion products at peat burning

Chemical composition, dispersivity and optical properties of peat ash particles are investigated in this paper. Calculation of gas phase components is based on thermal characteristics of the original fuel. Methodology and results of the calculation of the thermal radiation of heterogeneous combustion products at peat burning are given