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I\u27ll show you mine, if you show me yours : a brief and preliminary examination of parental report cards
This article examines the recently introduced phenomenon of parental report cards,taking a preliminary look at some of the reasons,both real and perceived, behind the concept. Increased parental involvement in the education of children is as universally applauded as apple pie and motherhood. Educators and parent-teacher organizations have, for years, encouraged greater involvement on the part of parents—encouragement that in the past seldom ventured beyond simple and generic letters from a principal or superintendent or, in some instances, a more personalized letter from a teacher. Parents have long been urged, but have never actually been required, to participate in their children’s education. Although the time has not yet come for compulsory parental education and/or actual report cards assessing the amount of commitment parents show toward their children’s education, symbolic report cards have begun to appear, in which parents are asked to assess their own performance as parents
Global religious changes and civil life in two Chinese societies: a comparison of Jiangsu and Taiwan
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2015.1039305Published versio
Teaching the Basic Ethics Class Through Simulation: The Northwestern Program in Advocacy and Professionalism
The Northwestern University School of Law created and published a set of materials for teaching the basic ethics course principally through the simulation method. Burns provides a very compressed summary of the underlying program, describes the classes themselves and the mix of teaching methods professors employ, and briefly discusses the program materials
The Nature of Cima Dome
In the Mojave Desert of southeasternmost California is a remarkably
smooth, symmetrical rock-alluvial dome which takes its name
from Cima on the Union Pacific Railroad. Lawson (1915, pp. 26, 33)
cited Cima Dome as a prime example of a panfan, but Thompson
(1929, p. 550) later showed that its upper part is bare rock. Davis
(1933, pp. 240-243) considered it a fine example of a convex desert
dome evolved from back-wearing of a fault block, but this concept
is contradicted by the geological relations (Hewett, 1954), which
throw more light on the nature and origin of Cima Dome than do
geomorphological theories
Geomorphological processes on terrestrial planetary surfaces
This review deals with features and processes on planetary surfaces, first by examining the impact of photographic explorations of Moon, Mars, and Mercury on studies of surface processes on our own planet, and second by treating matters related to current deformation of Earth’s surface
Bicultural and Bilingual Americans: A Need for Understanding
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