The Problems of Conduct on the Dallas Playgrounds

Playground activities with its many problems is comparatively new in our modern day life; however, it is a needed and essential element in the development of children into wholesome manhood and womanhood. This can be verified by the many equipped playgrounds we see at schools and in parks. Since there has been such an interest aroused in this field of activity, one readily wants to know the contributing factors. Educators have learned that wholesome use of leisure time, one of the seven cardinal principles of education, is no little problem to be solved. But, the playgrounds do seemingly give the best answer to this ever-growing question. Again the playground activities under competent supervision proves its worth by offering much needed qualities the children of today must possess. Some of these qualities which I shall consider are: 1. The individualistic qualities, or those pertaining to personal conduct independent of others. 2. Social qualities, or those which are concerned with the individual as a member of the group. 3. The civic qualities or those involving the attitude of the individual toward organized society. Also, the activities of playgrounds, or the recreation theory is based on a sound principle, which is a certain amount of rest and sleep are necessary, but, beyond that, a change to an active and interesting occupation is more restful and more beneficial than complete idleness. As I list the assets of the playground, I am considering in each instance that the playgrounds are efficiently directed and supervised by playground teachers. Hence, the playground teacher, although she is directing children how to play, has many problems - the most trying one is discipline. The following are some of the qualities in children that cause daily problems of discipline for the playground teacher: 1. Inconsiderateness 2. Selfishness 3. Intolerance 4. Unreliability 5. Unfairness 6. Disobedience 7. Disloyalty 8. Lack of Self-Control 9. Boastfulness in Victory 10. Lack of Perseverance 11. Cowardliness 12. Tardiness 13. Lack of Self-Confidence 14. Profanity Does this not convince you that playground supervisors besides being well informed in their field must also, to a certain degree, be psychologists, students of ethics, and very good disciplinarians? I shall confine my thesis to problems of discipline on the Dallas playgrounds of the following schools: 1. Wheatley School, Myers and Metropolitan Streets 2. Julia C. Frazier, 4600 Spring Avenue 3. N. W. Harllee, Eighth and Denley Drive 4. B. F. Darrell, 3212 Cochran Street 5. Wahoo Park, Spring Avenue 6. J. P. Starks Schoo

Brief of Amici Curiae, Information Society Project at Yale Law School Scholars in Support of the Petition

Brief of Amici Curiae ("friend of the court") submitted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School in support of petitioners, on petition for a Writ of Certiorari (No. 11-725

Small advances and swift retreat: Race-conscious educational policy in the Obama and Trump administrations

The three terms comprising the Obama and Trump presidencies provide an opportunity to understand the evolution of race-conscious education policy in an increasingly multiracial, unequal, and divided society. Through document review and interviews with civil rights lawyers, government officials, congressional staffers, and intermediary organization personnel, we sought to understand how Obama officials envisioned and changed the role of the federal government in fostering K-12 race-conscious educational policies and what mechanisms they used to advance priorities. We also explored changes Trump administration officials made to federal civil rights policies and through which institutional means. Our findings reveal through-lines between past and present political agendas and the methods for enactment. Obama’s interagency efforts to reinvigorate civil rights oversight and enforcement in education harkened back to the mid-1960s era of bipartisan cooperation around school desegregation. Yet the decades-long legal and policy retrenchment against civil rights advances made in the 1960s constrained further progress. Trump’s administration advocated for the privatization of public education through increased choice and opposed race-consciousness in education law and policy. The reshaping of the federal judiciary under Trump presents challenges for race-consciousness in the law for years to come. Recognizing these consistent through-lines and constraints will be essential for advocates and policymakers going forward

A respiratory syncytial virus vaccine based on the small hydrophobic protein ectodomain presented with a novel lipid-based formulation is highly immunogenic and safe in adults : a first-in-humans study

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus infection can cause lower respiratory tract infection in older adults comparable to influenza, but no vaccines are available. Methods: This was a randomized, observer-blinded, first-in-humans study of a novel synthetic RSV antigen based on the ectodomain of the small hydrophobic glycoprotein (SHe) of RSV subgroup A, formulated with either the lipid and oil-based vaccine platform DepoVax (DPX-RSV[A]) or alum (RSV[A]-Alum), in healthy, 50-64-year-old individuals. Two dose levels (10 or 25 mu g) of SHe with each formulation were compared to placebo. A booster dose was administered on day 56. Results: There was no indication that the vaccine was unsafe. Mild pain, drowsiness, and muscles aches were the most common solicited adverse events (AEs), and the frequencies of the AEs did not increase after dose 2. Robust anti-SHe-specific immune responses were demonstrated in the DPX-RSV(A) 10-mu g and 25-mu g groups (geometric mean titer, approximately 10-fold and 100-fold greater than that of placebo at days 56 and 236, respectively), and responses were sustained in the DPX-RSV(A) 25-mu g group at day 421. Responses to the RSV(A)-Alum vaccines were very low. Conclusions: A novel antigen from the SH protein of RSV, formulated in a lipid and oil-based vaccine platform, was highly immunogenic, with sustained antigen-specific antibody responses, and had an acceptable safety profile

The Iowa Homemaker vol.20, no.7

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