The current controversy surrounding this issue certainly is not a new one. ... This solution not only answers the educational needs of each student, but eliminates the in-fighting in the world of academia, and hopefully, increases the time spent on researching new and more effective methods of instruction. ... The idea is to teach children the written version of what they hear through the use of, 1) rhymes and alliteration, 2) comparing and contrasting the sounds of words, 3) blending and splitting syllables, 4) performing phonemic segmentation (counting the number of phonemes in a word...

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The SAT designers therefore tried to create a test that was relatively sensitive to whether a student had attend a strong or weak secondary school. ... The content on the SAT is bias. ... If test like Stanford Binet and the SAT emphasized domains in which blacks were usually disadvantaged, one would have reason to think there tests ere biased against blacks, no matter what their creators or distributors called them. ... On the hand, Test scores continue to climb in urban school districts, some of which are making greater gains on math and reading assessments than their state averages, a rep...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ... Despite the fact the since 1968 Americans have elected the every presidential candidate that pledged to support a smaller government, the "federal budget has risen from $178 billion to 1.6 trillion." (6:191) Much of the government we see today began nearly seventy years as blac...

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There are a multitude of reasons that caused that resonance and include factors such as prior ignorance; recognition of importance to The company; acceptance that the mining industry still has a long way to go and new ideas for discussion and implementation. ... This results in little time required for the transition process between incumbents - new managers hit the ground running. Compare this to a new employee entering the organization at a managerial level. Depending on the complexity of the organization, the new employee may not add value for anywhere between six and twelve months. ...

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As he sat next to me, all dressed up to go to court he anxiously played with his fingers. ... Over the past decade, the availability of new federal funds and research findings has prompted states to improve programs and services for youth transitioning out of foster care. ... These various programs have helped some but new policies have been implemented to continue to alleviate some of the hardships of these youth. ...

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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to artists have pondered the mysterious relationship between number and form. This relationship is captured in many ancient works of art such as the Parthenon of Greece, the Pyramids, and also in more recent works like Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Mathematical proportions have been conveyed in many forms of art, architecture, music, and nature that bring beauty, order and mystery to people and cultures everywhere. Looking into the past, through the millennia, we can see the use of these proportions and ratios emerge. The use of mathemat...

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Finally, I will examine the strategies and solutions being employed by the theatre community in an effort to expand theatre's visibility to, and engagement with, a new generation of potential audience members. ... These were fairies that looked like they belonged in a New York City nightclub. ... He sat at the board, madly improvising, within a basic scheme we had laid out together during tech, with an extraordinary collection of robotic lights and effects as the performance took place. ...

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