(1987). Legislative Research Studies in State Education Policy. Selected Case Studies, 1983-1986. Since 1976 the U.S. Department of Education has helped fund 60 education policies by state legislatures. These competitive matching grants, or cost-sharing awards, have laid the groundwork for significant education reforms. This report seeks to advance information-sharing among state legislatures and between policy makers and researchers. The report contains a list of 27 cost-sharing awards funded between 1983-86 and presents 4 case studies highlighting important issues confronting state legislatures today and illustrating the different methods that legislatures use to define issues and employ research in making changes in state education policies. In 1983, Tennessee's General Assembly was stalemated over the controversial issue of rewarding teachers with higher salaries. Finally, a Select Committee on Education used a cost-sharing award to commission papers from education researchers and provide expert testimony. The committee then drafted a bill underlying the state's landmark… [PDF]
(2010). Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University. Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, and client-server type storage and computation outsourcing constitute some of the major applications that the next generation cloud schemes will address. Since these applications are just emerging, it is the perfect time to design them with security and privacy in mind. Furthermore, considering the high-churn characteristics of such systems, the cryptographic protocols employed must be efficient and scalable. This thesis shows that cryptography can be used to efficiently and scalably provide security and privacy for the next generation cloud systems. We start by describing an efficient and scalable fair exchange protocol that can be used for exchanging files between participants of a P2P file sharing system. In this system, there are two central authorities that we introduce: the \arbiter\ and the \bank.\ We then try distributing these entities to reduce trust assumptions and to improve performance. Our work on distributing the arbiter leads to… [Direct]
(2010). State Higher Education Budgeting Mechanisms in the United States. Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Denver, CO, Apr 30-May 4, 2010). (Purpose) The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between certain characteristics of US states and their budgeting systems for higher education (HE), and to derive implications for Japanese HE budgeting policy from the results. (Methodology) The US's State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) conducted a 30-item questionnaire survey on state higher education budgeting for all 50 states from January to March in 2008 (response rate: 78%). Following general and simple analyses, the following four hypotheses were formed and examined with empirical analyses: (H1) there is a significant correlation between the importance of HE budget in the overall state budget and the adoption of funding formulae; (H2) inflation and fluctuation in enrolment affect whether the funding formula approach or the baseline-incremental approach is selected; (H3) justifications of public financing to the state HE sector are influenced by the cost-sharing status between households and the… [PDF]
(1974). General Revenue Sharing Data Study: Executive Summary. Volume I. The results of the General Revenue Sharing Data Study carried out by Stanford Research Institute for the Office of Revenue Sharing are reported in four volumes. This volume, Executive Summary, presents highlights excerpted from Volumes II, III, and IV. Emphasis is placed on those findings, conclusions, and recommendations that deserve special consideration by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Office of Revenue Sharing, the U.S. Congress, and other individuals and organizations having responsibilities for or interests in the general revenue sharing (GRS) program. Major findings of the GRS study indicate that although the GRS program appears to be satisfying many of the goals envisioned by Congress, a higher level of equity of allocations can be achieved through the use of more accurate and more current data in the computation of allocation amounts for the over 39,000 units of State and local government involved. Lack of currency in population and per capita income data is the major… [PDF]
(1979). The Group Room: An Aid to Student Development. Journal of College and University Student Housing, v9 n1 p20-24 Sum. Study shows an example of one attempt to meet student territorial needs by turning over a room to a small group of individuals for their own use. Sharing of common territory brings members of the floor unit into a small community that supports and enhances the positive growth of those involved. (Author/BEF)…
(1996). The Impact on Reference Services of Networking CD-ROM Databases: A Preliminary Look at One Case. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, v1 n2 p49-72. Describes an ongoing project by the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland's library which seeks to facilitate the sharing of CD-ROM databases between four area SUNY college libraries over a wide area network. The resulting impact on reference services is discussed, and user surveys are appended. (Author/LRW)…
(1997). Brief Report: A Longitudinal Examination of the Communicative Gestures Deficit in Young Children with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v27 n6 p715-25 Dec. Examined the use of protoimperative and protodeclarative pointing gestures in three children with autism (ages 26 to 53 months) at 5-month intervals over two years. Imperative or instrumental functions emerged early in all three; declarative or experience sharing functions emerged later in two subjects and not at all in the third. (DB)…
(1978). Proceedings of a Workshop on Area Patterns for Resource Sharing. On March 31, 1978, over 70 administrators of libraries, library staff members, and network representatives from all types and sizes of libraries in all areas of Wisconsin participated in a workshop to investigate alternative structures for providing interlibrary loan and reference referral services at the state and area levels. These proceedings from the workshop present the texts of the four speakers' addresses on the definition of resource sharing, resource sharing and new technology, state-level library resource development, and alternative patterns for resource sharing (unstructured, clearinghouse, multiple resource center). Also included is a description of the small group discussions session that considered the ideal patterns for each of nine geographical areas of the state. Summaries of those discussions are presented in tables that list the disadvantages and advantages of each pattern by the number of groups citing them. Appendices provide the workshop agenda, workshop goal…
(1988). Editorial. English Education, v20 n3 p127-33 Oct. Sees an overriding tendency in teaching and in academic writing to emphasize analysis over celebration, and thus to rush to judgment. Sees celebration as foundational to English education, the embodiment of the lived experience of teaching. Suggests that what moves teachers is not sermons disguised as analysis, but the sharing and testing of stories. (SR)…
(2009). Day of Dialogue: Research Priorities from the Researching Academies Conference. Management in Education, v23 n3 p96-99. The Researching Academies (RA) Conference, hosted by the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham on 12 November 2008 and organised by the authors, was a unique one-day event, funded as part of a research project (a case study of an Academy) supported by a British Academy (BA) grant, with additional support and funding from BELMAS. The RA conference, opened by the University of Gloucestershire's VC, Patricia Broadfoot, and additionally supported by two of the authors' student ambassadors (Nicola Favish and Donna Pugsley), involved a variety of researchers and educationalists from all over the country. Over 50 attended, two-thirds researchers and academics, the remainder representing a range of organisations including Academies, local authorities, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the National College for School Leadership, the NAHT, NUT and NASUWT, the United Learning Trust (ULT), the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship, Ofsted, the Campaign for State Education,… [Direct]
(2009). The European Prader-Willi Syndrome Clinical Research Database: An Aid in the Investigation of a Rare Genetically Determined Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, v53 n6 p538-547 Jun. Background: Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetically determined neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex phenotype that changes with age. The rarity of the syndrome and the need to control for different variables such as genetic sub-type, age and gender limits clinical studies of sufficient size in any one country. A clinical research database has been established to structure data collection and to enable multinational investigations into the development of children and adults with PWS. Methods: As part of a joint basic science and clinical study of PWS funded through Framework 6 of the European Union (EU), an expert multidisciplinary group was established that included clinicians involved in PWS research and clinical practice, expert database software developers, and representatives from two national PWS Associations. This group identified the key issues that required resolution and the data fields necessary for a comprehensive database to support PWS research. Results:… [Direct]
(2013). International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013: Book of Proceedings (June 1-3, Lisbon, Portugal). Online Submission We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. Our International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. Our goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields, interested in exploring and giving their contribution in educational issues We take pride in having been able to connect and bring together academics, scholars, practitioners and others interested… [PDF]
(2008). Building Communities of Support around a Child with Special Education Needs: The Effects of Participatory Action Research. Kairaranga, v9 spec iss p32-37. Over a period of a year, formal and informal interactions among members of the community around a four-year-old girl with special education needs were focused through participatory action research (PAR). The team included parents, kindergarten teachers, an education support worker, speech-language therapist, early intervention teacher and psychologist. Closer relationships between team members have resulted in more immediate sharing of relevant information, collaborative analysis and responses using appropriate intervention strategies. Strategies used have included intensive blocks of intervention to introduce the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) in the child's home and kindergarten settings. The relevance of this system was established when the child made a spontaneous card exchange at the kindergarten to claim something she wanted from an adult with whom she did not have close contact. A variety of methods were used to record and share personal refections, observations… [PDF]
(2007). Equity Matters: Doing Fairness in the Context of Family Caregiving. Canadian Journal on Aging, v26 suppl_1 p91-102 Jan. Although family scholars conceptualize caregiving in terms of networks of carers, little attention has been given to equity within these groups. Siblings comprise a prevalent caregiving network of members who feel responsible for parent care, expect to share these responsibilities with each other, and look to each other to evaluate the fairness of their sharing. In this paper, a multidisciplinary approach is used to examine sibling views of equity in relation to disputes over giving parent care and receiving parent assets. A literary perspective is offered through analysis of stepsibling tensions depicted in the novel \Family Matters.\ Real life disputes among biological siblings that have been pursued through the courts are also examined. Issues arising from these examples are then analysed through the lens of legal doctrines of equity. Siblings evaluating fairness undertake careful comparisons of their respective relationships with parents in terms of biological links to parents… [Direct]
(2007). We Can't Ignore the Influence of Digital Technologies. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v73 n1 p15-18 Sep. Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia. It is a knowledge community, uniting anonymous readers all over the world who edit and correct grammar, style, interpretations, and facts. It is a community devoted to a common good–the life of the intellect. In this article, the author shares her views in the banning of Wikipedia. She discusses the Middlebury College's decision on not citing Wikipedia as a source in papers or examinations and urges readers to take this issue as an opportunity to engage students–and the country–in a substantive discussion of how one learns today, of how one makes arguments from evidence, of how one extrapolates from discrete facts to theories and interpretations, and on what basis. The continuing evolution of new ways of sharing ideas and information requires that the academy continue to evolve as well in its understanding of how these technologies fit into the conception of scholarly discourse…. [Direct]