What are the Effects of Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Programs on Early Elementary Students’ Academic Achievement?

Sink presents a brief overview and analysis of the article, Raising achievement test scores of early elementary school students through comprehensive school counseling programs, originally published in Professional School Counseling. The author presents a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice, including a discussion of the positive impacts of a comprehensive school counseling program and the benefits of having trained, professional school counselors in the building for elementary-aged student

Improving Academic Achievement in Primary Students Through a Systemic Approach to Guidance and Counseling

Christopher Sink and Heather Stroh have authored Improving Academic Achievement in Primary Students Through a Systematic Approach to Guidance and Counseling. This monograph, which is published by the Washington School Research Center, reports the results of a statewide study of the impact of Comprehensive Developmental School Counseling programs on elementary students’ academic achievement. WSRC is an independent research and data analysis center within Seattle Pacific University. The Center’s mission is to conduct sound and objective research on student learning in the public schools, and to make the research findings available for educators, policy makers, and the general public for use in the improvement of schools

The Role of Refugee Women Narratives in the U.S. Resettlement Process

Within resettlement scholarship, there exists a distinct absence of direct narratives by refugee women about their resettlement experiences within the United States. This study delves into this absence of voice, investigating the ways in which refugee women’s narratives are received and utilized within a refugee resettlement agency. This ethnographic study includes independent interviews with refugee women and resettlement staff. Utilizing Ernest Stringer’s method of action research and Cheryl Glenn’s Rhetoric of Silence, I argue that refugee women’s narratives are not wholly absent or silent, but rather that they are rarely acknowledged, often devalued, or inadvertently made a non-priority within larger resettlement frameworks and leadership. It is my suggestion that, by working with refugee women, prioritizing their experiences, and creating spaces in which these narratives can emerge, resettlement leadership can better serve our refugee communities. Alys earned her Bachelor of Arts at Hollins University and her Master of Science in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University (JMU). While at JMU, Alys conducted research into the impact of refugee women’s experiences within the American resettlement process. Alys continues to volunteer with her local resettlement agency and currently serves as the Director of Communications at Madison House, the student volunteer center at the University of Virginia

Curating the Papers of Best-Selling Authors: A Preliminary Case Study of the John Grisham Papers

In 1989, Mississippi State University (MSU) acquired the papers of alumnus, lawyer and Mississippi State legislator John Grisham, who was at the time selling his first novel A Time to Kill out of the trunk of his car. Though the first accession of papers was small, consisting of the early papers of Grisham\u27s legislative career, the acquisition was an exciting one. Mississippi State University has long exhibited pride in its alumni, and the MSU Library\u27s collection of papers reflected that pride and connection. Although University President Don Zacharias and Library Directory George Lewis certainly had high hopes for Grisham\u27s writing career, neither of them could have foreseen the influence of first novelist John Grisham on the future of the university, the library, and on the Manuscripts Division of Special Collections. For John Grisham\u27s second novel The Firm and the subsequent film made from it launched a career which propelled Grisham and the Mississippi State University Library into an archival relationship which appears to be fairly unique in archival history: an archival relationship in which the manuscripts of a best-selling author are acquired as a complete body during the lifetime of the author, and in this case, during the period of the author\u27s greatest celebrity. This article will document this archivist\u27s experience in curating the John Grisham Papers with special attention given to acquisition, donor agreements, research value, demand, exhibits and processing issues

Meadow Woods Plantation, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, and the Nannie Herndon Rice Papers at Mississippi State University Libraries

Meadow Woods is one of the oldest standing homes in Oktibbeha County. This traditional antebellum home in the Oktoc area is on the National Historic Register, but is privately owned and not open to the public. The house has been owned by members of the same family since 1848, can be definitely dated to 1841, and is known to have been built a few years earlier. While Meadow Woods is certainly remarkable as one of the fewer than ten antebellum homes remaining in Oktibbeha County, the existence of the Nannie Herndon Rice Family Papers, a nearly complete set of documentation of the plantation and the families connected with the house, is even more remarkable

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Evolutionary and Social Manifestations of Misled Fear: How Fear Motivates and Manipulates

This thesis emphasizes the negative outcomes associated with misled fear. It begins by examining the evolutionary basis of human and animal fear, and then applies the fear learning process as well as evolutionarily innate fears to maladaptive cognitive and behavioral outcomes that manifest today. One example of such a maladaptive manifestation is a behavior based in racial prejudice, occurring from an act based in the evolutionary fear of an out-group. Finally, this paper presents how human fear is further misled and manipulated by the media--intentionally and unintentionally. Overall, the present argument is that humans must increase their conscious awareness of how fear processing systems function in order to resist problematic behavioral outcomes of misled fear. Particularly for media consumers, this knowledge combined with critical media literacy education will be useful in combating fear tactics utilized by the media