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n his 1976 dedication of the Connecticut College library, Kurt Vonnegut compared a library to a noodle factory, noting that in a society where many people do not really enjoy reading,"Noodles are okay. Libraries are okay. They are rather neutral good news." It was an indifference, however, that could be tolerated three decades ago when libraries still maintained primacy as central repositories of information. In contrast, in this era of existential crisis and as libraries scramble for "relevance," in face of a crisis of definition and mission, the urgent question then arises: What new paradigms must be formulated to define the mission of the 21st-century library and delineate how that mission can better support both education and culture?

This article discusses structural transformations in small-scale fisheries in a New Zealand community. Expressions of fishing practice and the people who pursue these practices are subject to three different management regimes—Commercial, Recreational and Customary Regulations—each of which is rooted in a particular model of ownership. The community is simultaneously subject to globalization as represented by the local fish processing plant, a burgeoning tourist market, and the Quota Management Regime. These factors intertwine in complex ways to threaten community cohesion; yet, fishers, irrespective of category, express sentiments indicating an emergent level of solidarity based on a shared productive activity and a common distaste for various elements of globalization.

This study presents the results of qualitative interviews of teachers who completed the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification process. Teachers (N=25) were asked a series of questions about how the NBPTS process impacted their teaching. The findings revealed that the themes of reflection, assessment, and professionalization of the field emerged as areas in which teachers perceived the greatest effects. It is now 18 years since the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was established, and 10 years since the first teachers were certified (See www.nbpts.org). It was anticipated that National Board certification would be a means of assessing accomplished teaching. Research is beginning to shed light on the complex nature of the teaching as illuminated by the National Board certification process with both quantitative studies which analyze differences in student achievement and qualitative studies which examine NBPTS teacher candid...

At the aim of explaining the rights of health care recipients and upgrading ethical observance in the field of treatment-the most important field of health care-, the Patient's Rights Charter was declared by Ministry of Health and Medical Education to all medical universities in September 2009. This paper provides a report of strategic planning for implementation of Patient's Rights Charter and a summary of other projects.

Although students with or at risk for emotional disturbance present significant academic challenges, few researchers have studied the outcomes of interventions designed to improve the reading skills of this population. In this study we assessed the outcomes of a supplemental daily Direct Instruction reading curriculum, Reading Mastery I., and fluency building program, Great Leaps, on the reading skills of students at risk for emotional disturbance and reading deficits. Over a period of 7 months, 6 students received a supplementary reading intervention and 12 students (6 control at-risk and 6 norm-referencing students without disabilities) received their regular classroom instruction. Curriculum-based measures assessing early phonemic awareness and basic reading skills (i.e., letter sounds, blends, and high-frequency sight words) were collected biweekly to assess student performance. The results of this study revealed that at-risk students receiving the Direct Instruction curriculum ...

To review the characteristics of psychiatric screening tools currently available in addiction treatment services for rapid assessment of comorbid pathology and to introduce the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health Concurrent Disorders Screener (CAMH-CDS), a computer-administered questionnaire that screens for the occurrence of 11 Axis I disorders plus all substance use disorders, as well as for a history of conduct disorder. We describe the structure, contents, and application of the CAMH-CDS. We undertook a sensitivity and specificity trial involving 171 subjects, a test-retest reliability study with 301 participants, and an open-label concordance study with 656 respondents. All subjects were regular clients of a major addiction treatment facility. The CAMH-CDS was easily and effectively used by addiction counsellors with limited or no mental health training. It has a low rate of false-negative responses, and it yields excellent test-retest reliability figures. It is highly sens...

This article discusses the absence of the Rights Critique in the modern era, and its impact on the current formulation of rights in America. The three--pronged rights critique--that U.S. constitutional rights politically insulate and valorize subordination, legitimate and thus perpetrate greater injustices than they address, and socially alienate us from community - was nearly ubiquitous in the 1980s. Since that time, it has largely disappeared, which in this author’s view is an unfortunate development. The rights critique continues to be relevant today, because Obama--era rights continue to subordinate, legitimate, and alienate. However, these rights do more than just exaggerate the pathologies of rights about which the rights critiques have complained. For one, Obama--era rights are more lethal than the original rights targeted by the rights critique. But most importantly, several Obama--era rights are best described as defensive rights, which allow the holder to withdraw from the...

Introduction: Dewey's Lifelong Crusade for Participatory Democracy One Michigan Beginnings, 1884-1888 Two Dewey at Chicago, 1894-1904 Three Dewey Leaves Chicago for Columbia Four Elsie Clapp's Contributions To Community Schools Five Penn and the Third Revolution In American Higher Education Six The Center for Community Partnerships Seven The University Civic Responsibility Idea Becomes An International Movement Eight John Dewey, the Coalition for Community Schools, and Developing a Participatory Democratic American Society

What behaviors are considered disrespectful by today's faculty members? What behaviors are considered acceptable? Are college professors' demographic characteristics significantly related to their perceptions and actual encounters with students' disrespectful behavior? This study, based on a survey of members listed in the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International directory, was motivated by these and related questions. Findings suggest that business professors' perceptions of students' disrespectful behavior were not always congruent with the encounters they reported on the survey instrument. Rank and employment status using ANOVA tests and Independent Samples T-Tests were significantly different with p < .05 and p < .001 respectively when compared to derived factors. Professors perceive a prudent student to be the converse of a disrespectful one.

This study reports the findings of a multimodal analysis seeking to find the differences between TV commercials and newspapers advertisements in the application of strategies which make those ads more and more persuasive. Regarding such strategies effort is made to find out which ones are more convincing and appealing to their receivers. The tools used in this study involved 40 tape-recorded TV commercials and 40 ads taken from two Iranian newspapers, Tehran Times and Iran Daily which are published in English as well as the American magazine of Newsweek. The persuasion techniques of each medium were first specified separately and then compared with the techniques used by the others. The main finding of the study was that strategies applied by producers of TV commercials are much more persuasive and impressive than those used by suppliers of advertisements in the press.

Olexiy Haran' is a professor of political science and director of the Center for National Security Studies, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. During spring and summer 2001 he was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.In the Ukrainian political lexicon, the term "Left" usually refers to parties that are to the left of both social democracy in its traditional understanding and to the left of several Ukrainian social democratic parties. In fact, one of the problems for Ukrainian politics is the absence of a real and strong social democratic party; the quite influential Social Democratic Party of Ukraine/United--SPDU(o)--represents the interests of the oligarchs and could discredit the very idea of social democracy; and the three other social democratic groups are not influential.The main parties of the Ukrainian Left are the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), reborn in 1993 (with around 140,000 member...

This article discusses the trend in and legal recognition of homeschooling throughout the United States. I focus on Christian parents who argue that homeschooling is a means of avoiding exposure to issues about which they do not want their children to learn. I offer two proposals in this article: first, that state governments should impose and adjust curricular requirements for homeschoolers so that they must expose their children to mainstream norms about diversity and social inclusion and second, that when parents who share legal custody of their children disagree about where to educate them, courts should apply a rebuttable presumption in favor of sending the child to a public or state-licensed school.