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Gerrymandering - A Threat to the Republic
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-05-14)This thesis explores the relationship between the concept of gerrymandering and the destruction of social trust. The first chapter discusses the history of gerrymandering in the United States. The second chapter examines ... -
A Guide for Clinical Research Coordinator Management and Support
(2020-08)Research faculty who procure extramural funding need departmental support to satisfy the demands of conducting clinical research trials. The growing complexities, regulations, and ethical requirements of clinical research ... -
Effectiveness of Prescribed Burn Treatment on Forested Land as a Method to Reduce Lyme Disease Human-Contractions in the State of Virginia
(2020-07)Virginia, and the greater United States, are currently experiencing an expansion in the range and increase in cases reported of Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. A parasitic tick, Ixodes sp., is ... -
Healthy Beverage Choice Act of 2020: Exploring Washington D.C.'s Proposed Soda Tax
(2020-05)Prior research has shown that the obesity rate in Washington D.C. has grown substantially over the past forty years. Furthermore, strong correlations have been shown to exist between obesity and diseases such as hypertension ... -
A Policy Proposal of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Projection Center
(2020-05)With a series of important administrative plans and instructions, such as such as the Outline Development Plan of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Guangdong Province Three-year Action Plan on The Development ... -
A Right to Government Funded Counsel: A Proposal to Address Unrepresented Immigrants in Deportation Proceedings
(2020-05)Earlier this year in January, in another blow to immigrant rights, the Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Homeland Security could implement their new “public charge” ground of inadmissibility rule. This decision ... -
Dealing with Increasing Deficits and Debt to Avoid a Fiscal Crisis
(2020-05)The budget and the economic outlook for 2020–2030 reported by the Congressional Budget Office sheds light on the prospects of a fiscal deficit and debt that are already high and still increasing and which could pose ... -
Reducing the Suicide Rate in the United States Air Force with an "Extreme Risk" Military Protection Order Law
(2020-05)Over the past 20 years, the Air Force has fought suicide in its ranks through leadership, coordination, communication, camaraderie, education, training, mental health treatment, community engagement, and suicide data ... -
Long-Term Care in the United States
(2020-05)In the United States, long-term care services are widely used by several individuals in diverse age groups. The cost of long-term care continues to increase, creating an unsuitable issue of paying high out of pocket costs ... -
Addressing Russia's Energy Dominance in Europe
(2020-05)Russia is one of the largest producers of energy in the world, especially when it comes to the production of natural gas. Because of its close proximity to Europe, it has always been a reliable supplier of natural gas and ... -
CRESPAR Report #71: Toward a Policy Framework for Analyzing Educational System Effects
(2004-11)School reform efforts over the last two decades have become increasingly more complex and systemic. Yet, studies that have as their primary purpose identifying and understanding the function of linkages in school reform ... -
CRESPAR Report #70: Locating the Dropout Crisis: Which High Schools Produce the Nation's Dropouts? Where are They Located? Who Attends Them?
(2004-09)Fifty years after Brown vs. the Board of Education, the image of public high schools providing all youth with equal opportunity to receive a high-quality education remains inspiring and compelling. Current reality, however, ... -
CRESPAR Report #69: Catching Up: Impact of the Talent Development Ninth Grade Instructional Interventions in Reading and Mathematics in High-Poverty High Schools
(2004-04)Every child has the capacity to succeed in school and in life. Yet far too many children fail to meet their potential. Many students, especially those from poor and minority families, are placed at risk by school practices ... -
CRESPAR Report #68: Building on Children's Cultural Assets in Simulated Classroom Performance Environments: Research Vistas in the Communal Learning Paradigm
(2004-02)The achievement gap between low-income African American students and their White counterparts remains substantial. To address this, researchers have begun to examine the impact of culture on cognitive performance among ... -
CRESPAR Report #67: Software Enabling School Improvement Through Analysis of Student Data
(2004-01)The No Child Left Behind legislation has drawn increased attention to student data. Data are most useful in educational decision-making when the purpose extends beyond vertical accountability and toward school- and ... -
CRESPAR Report #66: Effective Reading Programs for English Language Learners: A Best-Evidence Synthesis
(2003-12)This report reviews experimental studies of reading programs for English language learners, focusing both on comparisons of bilingual and English-only programs and on specific, replicable models that have been evaluated ... -
CRESPAR Report #65: Bringing the District Back In: The Role of the Central Office in Improving Instruction and Student Achievement
(2003-08)Criticizing school district bureaucracies has become a growth industry over the past couple of decades. In the face of all this anti-district and anti–central office rhetoric, it is important to recognize the growing number ... -
CRESPAR Report #64: From National Movement to Local Action: The Status of Standards-Based Science Instruction in Middle School Classrooms
(2003-08)This study contributes to the growing body of research on classroom instruction by exploring the possibility of measuring a specific instructional strategy using statistical methods based on item response theory (IRT). We ... -
CRESPAR Report #63: Trends in Two-Way Immersion Education: A Review of the Research
(2003-08)Two-way immersion (TWI) is an instructional approach that integrates native English speakers and native speakers of another language (usually Spanish) and provides instruction to both groups of students in both languages. ... -
CRESPAR Report #62: The Baltimore Curriculum Project: Final Report of the Four-Year Evaluation Study
(2003-02)This study reports the results of a four-year multimethod evaluation of the implementation of the Baltimore Curriculum Project (BCP) in six Baltimore City schools. BCP used a combination of the Direct Instruction (DI) ...