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If you have been wondering where my Brit Quilt Swap went, please check out Sarah's blog post!
I was so happy to get paired with my cyber-friend and fellow Brit Bee member. I am ecstatic that she loves it so much - all my late night stalking really paid off! Sarah has also recently been one of Rhonda's
I, on the other hand am still waiting to receive mine. The posty knocked early today, and although it was for me, a huge bundle of wadding I'd order from Mandy at Simply Solids, plus a cool bonus Patty Young FQ, I will have to try to wait patiently until at least after work on Monday.
Last night I did cut up the fabric for my Mum's birthday quilt. After a so-so practice attempt at a kaleidoscope block...
... I've decided to go simpler; firstly the waste/scrap creation from the LC and charm pack was going to be a little distressing, then my piecing of the centre point kind of left a lot to be desired, and with potentially 49 blocks I couldn't face it, and I need to make a big quilt in a short space of time.
So I took over the lounge floor and it will probably come out a little like this, but then again it might not! I am having second, or is that third thoughts already!
The reason for my current headache I will lay firmly at the door of today's 40 odd mile round trip for Twin2's ballet show. (Twin1 gave up after a few weeks, she is very bolshy, and perhaps wise for a 4 year old!) Anyway, the family took the trip to Haselmere and watched little one point her toes for the first 5 minutes of a 2 hour show, and then sat watching the other girls, mainly aged about 14 doing their thing, and they were all really good.
I also got some smashing 'winning' news earlier which I will save until tomorrow to share :)
Now, I just need to go get rid of this headache, nighty night.


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ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — Hip-hop star Lil' Jon shouts "Yeahhh" and "Okay!" when he gets crunk. Oscar-winning actor and R&B singer Jamie Foxx tells listeners to "blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol" when they are crunk.
But a group of young boys from Ohatchee are shouting "Hallelujah" and clapping, slapping and stomping in their crunkness.
They are Crunk for Christ and they praise the Lord by stepping.
While "getting' crunk" is not something usually associated with Jesus, the term has morphed from meaning "crazy and drunk" to meaning simply having a good time or becoming extremely excited without the connotations of substance use.
"I started this group to give the young boys something to do that would bring them closer to God," said Artesia Jones, 23, who choreographs the dances for the boys.
The boys in the group have been performing with CFC from one year up to three years, when the group began on July 27, 2007.
Jones, who is a machine operator, was throwing away a model of a copper rod that was used for a casino project at work. As he held the rod in his hand, he began stepping with it, and the idea for the Christian step group was born.
He first asked whether any young men at his church, Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church of Ohatchee, would be interested. From there, the word of the group spread and others joined. The current group of boys are from Gadsden, Ohatchee and Anniston.
"I just like stepping," said 12-year-old Jordan Lindsay, who has performed with CFC for the last year.
Stepping, which is mostly affiliated with predominantly African-American college fraternities and sororities, is a type of dance in which one's whole body is used as an instrument, though props like sticks and canes can also be used. The dance is usually a choreographed series of stomps, claps, turns and jumps. It has gained mainstream popularity with movies such as "Stomp the Yard."
The boys perform all over the state at churches and community centers about twice a month, depending on the requests they receive.
"When you give the kids something to do, something constructive to do, then they know there's a way out, that they don't have to do what everyone else is doing," Jones said. "(They learn) there are opportunities and all you've got to do is stay focused on God in whatever you do and you'll be successful."
Every CFC member said that if they were not stepping, they would either be at home bored or playing video games on their Xboxes.
The boys said that for them, the hardest part of being a part of Crunk for Christ is doing push-ups but Jones said the hardest part was "getting them to stay still long enough to teach them."
"I just know that if I keep doing right and keep doing what I am doing for these young people, I see that it will be a very successful group of men," he said.
He hopes that the group can provide the boys with benefits, like help with college funding, even after they are members with the group.
Every single boy said he intends to remain part of the group until high school, when they can join "a real fraternity."
"I'm performing for God. That's my main goal," said Kaylan Banks, 13, who has been a part of CFC from the very beginning.
Any child interested in the group can join. There are no requirements or auditions.

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Navigating your way through commercial property transactions can be challenging, unless you have done a lot of homework. Try reading this article.
Think about using feng shui to enhance your commercial properties and business. This will create larger open spaces with less clutter and will give a more attractive flow for potential buyers.
You should concentrate your efforts on one real estate endeavor at a time. Regardless of whether your real estate investment is a office, apartment complex, or undeveloped commercial land, it is important to concentrate your efforts on only one investment. Each type deserves and requires undivided attention. It is always more advantageous to be great at one thing than sub-par with many.
Try to decrease potential events of defaults before negotiating a lease. The tenant will then be less likely to violate these terms. Once a default happens, you'll be in big trouble!
Pro Forma
You need to do this so that all terms match the pro forma, and also the rent roll. If you don't review the key terms, you may discover terms which were not contemplated for the rent roll. This could quite possibly result in a change to the pro forma.
Interest rates which are on a rollercoaster ride are what terrifies investors in commercial real estate. The current economic conditions will make interest rates go up and down without being predictable; this can be a disaster for a investor. Always keep these rate fluctuations in mind while shopping for properties so you can understand the long-term impact of them on your purchase.
Choose simple, strongly constructed buildings if your plan is to purchase real estate for the sole purpose of renting or leasing it. These types of buildings attract tenants more quickly than other buildings, as prospective tenants know that the building is less likely to have maintenance issues. This sort of building is virtually maintenance-free, so there will be fewer headaches for owners and tenants.
Learn about Net Operating Income, or NOI, a metric in commercial real estate. For the investment to be profitable, it has to produce more income than operating expenses.
You will need to know what you are looking for in a commercial property prior to beginning your search. You should write down the features you are looking for, such as size or settings.
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If you are under a lease for commercial real estate, be wary of standard lease forms. Larger real estate companies can often put in extra requirements in your lease and it can be lengthy! Ensuring that you read this paperwork in it's entirety will ensure that you know exactly what you're signing up for.
When you're on the market to buy commercial real estate, keep an eye out for properties slightly larger than what you originally had in mind. It's not more work managing more units than less units, but each unit can cost less if you buy a property with more.
When you buy a commercial property, have a specific use for the property in mind. Is it your intention to put your own personal business within the property, or is leasing it out in your plans? Know exactly what features you require before you begin searching for commercial real estate. A concise set of criteria can save you time and effort.
With the information you just acquired from this article you should have learned good tips you can apply when it comes to selling or buying commercial property. Utilize this advice to gather as much information and stay as knowledgeable as you possibly can.
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Javadoc is a convenient way to learn and get help from documents which are provided by the programmer. These javadoc can be added to Eclipse IDE to view appropriate javadoc for a particular class or method or interface etc. These javadocs views on eclipse when auto complete (or content assist) appear. You can view the content assist by pressing 'Ctrl+Space'.
You can see the javadoc window on right hand side of this figure.
By default the javadoc for hibernate distribution does not exists. To add the javadoc to eclipse follow these steps.
Step 1
Download javadoc jar file from following link
Any how you should download the hibernate-3.2.2.ga-javadoc.jar file.
Open eclipse and add above jar file to hibernate3.jar as a javadoc for it. To do that follow the steps explained below.
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Right click on 'hibernate3.jar' by expanding user library which contain all your hibernate reference jar files. And select 'Properties'.
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Select 'Javadoc Location' from side pane and click on 'Javadoc in archive' to select it.
Step 5
Browse for downloaded jar file and add that jar file location as javadoc location for 'hibernate3.jar'.
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America's anachronistic education system
By Jason Gaulden
By Jason Gaulden
We have entered the Age of Agility, an exciting, unsettling time in our nation's history. Going forward, workers and businesses will have to adapt continuously to rapidly changing circumstances caused by the accelerating adoption of workplace automation and artificial intelligence.
This new age might offer great benefits to individuals and businesses, or it could displace hundreds of thousands, even millions, of workers over the next couple of decades. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates 38 percent of U.S. jobs will be automated by 2030. To put that in context, kids in sixth grade today will be entering the prime of their working lives then.
And despite popular misconceptions, it's not just jobs on factory floors that are imperiled. Truck drivers, medical technicians, and even lawyers could find their jobs disappearing. White- and blue-collar jobs alike are vulnerable, though lower-paying jobs are likely to vanish first and in greater numbers.
More than at any time in recent history, it's impossible to know what future employment will look like, in terms of the structure of work, the tasks involved, and the specific expertise required. This would seem to offer great opportunity, if we can prepare ourselves to seize it. How do we address upheaval of such astounding proportions? As Alan Gottlieb and I argue in our new report, Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work, it must begin with our education system.
Students exiting the pre-K–12 system will need to be ready for radical societal and workplace changes if they are to have any shot at thriving personally or professionally. This requires an education system that models the virtues of agility—one that is responsive to and prepares students for rapid changes. By and large, however, our schools are failing to prepare them for this emerging reality.
An evolving school of thought promotes scrapping our existing systems and starting over. The basic argument here is that the status quo is so rife with perverse incentives, entrenched special interests, and ideological polarization that even the incremental changes achieved to date have occurred only after protracted political battles. In many other sectors of our high-tech society, change is often transformative and quick. But there is a deeply embedded resistance to agility in American education today, which demonstrates the need for an overhaul, yet simultaneously makes that difficult. This has to change.
To be sure, today's elementary education, with more experiential learning added to the mix, needs to remain in place because young children need to be fluent readers and writers and acquire at least basic computational skills at an early age. None of the exciting opportunities that need to be available to middle- and high-school-aged students will be possible if they lack those foundational skills. But education of young children needs to be far more effective and engaging if we hope to achieve better than the middling results we've settled for over the decades.
One preliminary step school systems could take to prepare students for the future would be to create networks of truly diverse schools. Recent evidence demonstrates that racially and economically integrated, inclusive schools are ideally positioned to help young people develop the capacities they will need to thrive in increasingly diverse workplaces.
Another solution is to create learning opportunities more customized to individual students' strengths, passions, and progress. Indeed, in isolated pockets throughout the country, practitioners are beginning to provide real-life models of highly personalized learning. Many of these places also break down barriers between seat-time and real-life experience, encouraging and enabling students to work in a variety of environments, with ever-shifting sets of people. This helps prepare children for a world characterized by rapid and perpetual change.
But these are just two of many possible strategies. If we're willing to stretch our thinking, to step outside obsolete paradigms, then we can enact policies that create conditions that allow substantive change to occur.
So let's start the serious work required to retool our education system. Every city and state needs to act urgently to convene business leaders, policymakers, and educators who can work together to develop entirely new education and training systems.
To some people, the idea of a highly automated workforce seems like an abstract concept, a time off in the distant future that won't possibly affect them. They're wrong. The race against robots has begun, and the Age of Agility is already upon us. There's no time to waste if we are to provide the real-world preparation our students desire and deserve.
Jason Gaulden is Communications Director at America Succeeds, a national network of business leaders working to improve education policy and practice. He also leads the organization's Agility Agenda, a campaign to improve the nation's education-to-employment system.
The views expressed herein represent the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Editor's note: This essay is a response to Jason Gaulden's Flypaper article, "America's anachronistic education system," as well as Education Week's recent Special Report, "Schools and the Future of Work."
Within the last week, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the founding of "Woz U," a digital institute designed to inspire the next generation of innovators. The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, also proclaimed that the tech giant will invest $1 billion over the next five years to remediate what he sees as an alarming disconnect between how college graduates are prepared and what the job market actually requires. "The nature of work is fundamentally changing," Pichai said, "and that is shifting the link between education, training, and opportunity. One-third of jobs in 2020 will require skills that aren't common today. It's a big problem."
The tech gods have spoken and are aligned: Our country faces a crisis in educating our children to meet an increasingly complex world. Where does this disconnect leave us educators? We need to develop our graduates' skills and talents for an evolving twenty-first-century economy, but the goalposts have shifted away from the aim of our current schools, and it is hard to know where to start. What hope do we educators have to design a curriculum, program, and school culture that will actually matter for our students?
We can best do this by returning to a timeless and always applicable approach: a classical liberal arts education.
Before you dismiss this idea as nostalgic blowback, consider that the best hedge against the vicissitudes of fortune will always be the permanent: clear thinking, wisdom, and character, which a classical education is ideally structured to inculcate as a foundation for life-long learning. Indeed, we can't know what and where jobs will be a few years from now, but history and human nature tell us that thoughtful leadership will be required. In every age of uncertainty, we should double down on the enduring ends of a classical education—the ability to deliberate carefully, see multiple sides of an issue, and exercise sound and decisive judgment. We sometimes call this critical thinking, but the ancients called it wisdom.
At Great Hearts, the classical charter school network I co-founded, we seek to develop wisdom in pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty. The medium of this pursuit is earnest conversation regarding, as Matthew Arnold said, "the best that has been thought and said." All of our high school students have at the center of their day a two-hour Socratic conversation on works of great literature, philosophy, art, and history. Socratic pedagogy is deployed in all subjects, from music to physics.
In these spaces, students use the ideas of great authors, artists, and scientists of the past to understand classmates' perceptions and premises by asking respectful, relevant questions. They learn to acknowledge ambiguity, respect disagreement, accept doubt, and allow for multiple interpretations to coexist. They escape the tyranny of the present, as well as their own emotions and concerns. And they imagine the permanent aspects of the human condition, both good and bad, and ponder what has been, what is, and what might be possible.
Every generation faces essential questions—and they skip them at their own peril. What does it mean to be a human being? How does a specific idea, pursuit, or product relate to human happiness? What is justice? What is my duty to myself and others? How does one balance freedom with responsibility? These are not coffee shop queries, but first order questions that are more important than ever in the twenty-first century. And a mind and soul well trained to pursue and answer them—and use this training practically in the workplace—will be ready to innovate and effect change for the greater good.
Unfortunately, too much of education today is focused on standardized tests, getting kids into college, and careerism before one's career. Some of this is understandable; we want students to think ahead and strive to big goals. But many students are tracked without any consideration of their work's purpose and inherent nobility, and with little concern for the professions in which their unique talents can be useful. A classical liberal arts education, however, instills in young people the joy of learning for learning's sake, and helps them discover what makes them happy: the link between their character and unique talents, their calling. And when we are happy and grounded, we are more useful to ourselves and others, no matter what life brings our way.
It's true, of course, that not every graduate is destined for Silicon Valley or an executive suite. We need craftsmen, tradeswomen, and soldiers. But they too deserve a classical liberal arts education. And they ought to be just as well educated as those in boardrooms and ivory towers. Indeed, American democracy, freedom, and ingenuity depend on poet-warriors and philosopher-technicians. This is why we believe at Great Hearts that all of our public school students should receive a classical liberal arts education before they go on to a profession or pick a major in college.
These, moreover, aren't just my sentiments. There's a growing body of research that a classical liberal arts education is not some ivy-covered relic and detour to a useless past, but an increasingly important part of the present and future. George Anders and Randall Stross, for example, both argued in recent books that the emotional intelligence, interpretive capacity, and problem-solving skills enabled by a liberal arts education set graduates of these programs apart from their non-program peers. And in The Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work, Jason Gaulden and Alan Gottlieb argue that four capacities will emerge as more and more vital in the decades ahead: the ability to abstract deeper meaning; the self-awareness and empathy to have probing conversations with those from different backgrounds; the ability to intuit novel thinking in fluid environments; and the ability to write and codify processes under a desired outcome. While Gaulden and Gottlieb don't expressly make the connection, these capacities sound like the cumulative outcomes of any classical liberal arts education worth its salt.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said in his commencement address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this past spring: "I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers without values or compassion or concern for the consequences…That is what we need you to help us guard against. Because if science is a search in the darkness, then the humanities are a candle that shows us where we have been and the danger that lies ahead."
I hope that in the age of expediency we don't forget the great value of slowing down, of deep reflection and conversation, and of living in community in the shared search for truth and meaning. Abraham Lincoln said "the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." When it comes to schooling, trying to predict the future and rush towards it only diminishes the present. The one thing we do know about the future of work is that a well-stocked mind and well-nurtured soul will be the best provisions for the uncertain journey ahead.
Dan Scoggin is the co-founder and chief advancement officer of Great Hearts, serving 15,000 K–12 scholars in Arizona and Texas and growing nationally.
The views expressed herein represent the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
For decades, education technophiles have envisioned a future wherein gee-whiz devices and engaging digital applications whisk students away from the doldrums of traditional classroom instruction and into a fun world of beeping computers, self-paced lessons, and cloud-based collaboration.
That may yet come to pass—and at some outlier schools, is already here—but don't be surprised if the true transformative power of education technology is most evident when it comes to something old-fashioned: basic education research. The declining cost and easy availability of substantial computing power may enable us finally to unlock the black box of the classroom, giving scholars and teachers much more insight into what is and isn't working. Technology can do more than just keep students engaged; it can equip teachers, school and district leaders, and policymakers with the sort of insights and analytics that can help them make better decisions for students.
A Challenging Research Subject
Studying the actual behavior of teachers and students has always been a difficult and expensive proposition. The most respected approach involves putting lots of trained observers—often graduate students—in the back of classrooms. There, they typically watch closely and code various aspects of teaching and learning, or collect video, take it back to the lab, and spend innumerable hours coding it by hand.
This kind of methodology has helped the field gain significant insights, such as the importance of teachers asking open-ended questions, and how better to evaluate teachers' practice, à la the Gates-funded Measures of Effective Teaching initiative. But it's incredibly labor-intensive, costs gobs of money, and thus may not be practical.
Alternatives to observational studies are much less satisfying. The most common is to survey teachers about their classroom practices or curricula, as is done with the background questionnaires given to teachers as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Though useful, these types of surveys have big limitations, as they rely on teachers to be honest and accurate reporters of their own practice—which is tough even with positive intentions. It's not easy to remember what you taught months ago, and teachers might also try to tell researchers what they think they want to hear or choose responses that cast themselves in a positive light. Another approach, asking teachers to keep logs detailing their work, such as how they spend time, is somewhat more reliable, but still far from perfect. It is also time-consuming, thus stealing precious minutes and hours from teachers' most important work: helping students learn.
Not surprisingly, the research base on the real stuff of education—instructional practices, homework assignments, the curriculum as it is actually taught—is remarkably thin. Scholars have found easier, cheaper, and more fruitful yields from mining administrative data sets, usually stemming from compliance reports at the school or district level, than from collecting detailed information about what's happening in real classrooms in real time. This has left the field, and policymakers, with a huge blind spot about what teachers and kids are doing, and what might or might not be working.
"Machine Learning" to Track Student Learning
Enter the machines. What if we didn't need to have graduate students crouching in the back of classrooms in order to catalog the play-by-play of classroom instruction? What if, instead, we could capture the action with a video camera or, better yet from a privacy perspective, a microphone? And what if we could gather that information not just for an hour or two, but all day, 180 days a year, in a big national sample of schools? And what if we could then use the magic of machine learning to have a computer figure out what the reams of data all mean?
This possibility is much closer than you might imagine, thanks to a group of professors who are teaching computers to capture and code classroom activities. Martin Nystrand (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sidney D'Mello (University of Notre Dame), Sean Kelly (University of Pittsburgh), and Andrew Olney (University of Memphis) are interested in helping teachers learn how to ask better questions, as research has long demonstrated that high-quality questioning can lead to better engagement and higher student achievement. They also want to show teachers examples of good and bad questions. But putting live humans in hundreds of classrooms, watching lessons unfold while coding teachers' questions and students' responses, would be prohibitively costly in both time and money.
So with funding from the Institute of Educational Sciences, this team of researchers decided to teach a computer how to do the coding itself. They start by capturing high-quality audio with a noise-canceling wireless headset microphone worn by the teacher. Another mike is propped on the teacher's desk or blackboard, where it records students' speech, plus ambient noise of the classroom. They take the audio files and run them through several speech-recognition programs, producing a transcript. Then their algorithm goes to work, looking at both the transcript and the audio files (which have markers for intonation, tempo, and more) to match codes provided by human observers.
The computer program has gotten quite good at detecting different types of activities—lectures vs. group discussion vs. seatwork, for example—and is starting to be able to also differentiate between good questions and bad. To be sure, D'Mello told me, humans are still more reliable coders, especially for ambiguous cases. But the computers are getting better and better, and good enough that, with sufficient data, they can already produce some very reliable findings at a fraction of the cost of a people-powered study.
It's even easier, of course, if the underlying instructional data are digital to begin with. That's the specialty of Ryan Baker, associate professor of teaching, learning, and leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. He and his team examine the "digital traces" of students' interactions with digital applications—their key strokes, pauses, and answers when working on online math programs, for example. They then build algorithms to make sense of them. Their research starts by asking humans to watch students at work; their insights are fed into their computer models, which learn to replicate the human coding with enough time and data.
Such research has already borne fruit. Baker's team and its computer have shown that more students become bored, then disengaged, when the material is too hard than when it is too easy. Short periods of confusion and frustration are good; long periods indicate that the student has given up. And some "off task" time—as long as a minute or two—is OK, as students tend to come back refreshed and ready to tackle whatever they are working on. Thus, teachers should allow kids some breathing room rather than cracking the whip the second they see students get distracted.
Putting Data to Work
This is incredibly useful information, the kind that can help teachers improve their practice and boost the efficiency and effectiveness of students' time in class. Imagine if such studies—both of traditional classroom practices and the digital variety—became much more common. Large national studies like NAEP could complement teacher surveys with the collection of audio, every day, all day, in a big sample of schools. Plus, they could capture the digital activity of students, and ask teachers to scan student assignments and tests so those could be analyzed as well.
We would finally have an accurate picture of what's actually being taught in U.S. schools. And if we combine that with state administrative and achievement data, and put it in the hands of competent analysts, we'd have a better way to examine which teacher practices, curricula, use of time, and on and on, are related to improved student learning. We could see whether teachers whose students make the largest gains really do make greater use of the concrete practices that Doug Lemov describes in Teach Like a Champion, for example. for example. And we could determine whether and where there are equity gaps in effective teaching, the level of challenge of student assignments, and much else that might be addressed in order to narrow the achievement gap.
Big hurdles remain, to be sure. The biggest aren't technological, but political: Chronicling classrooms in minute detail will not go over well with all teachers, even if researchers promise that the data will be used for research purposes only. Nor will privacy-minded parents be thrilled; security protocols will need to be established that give everyone involved confidence that the audio recordings won't fall into the wrong hands. And scholars will need to be careful not to make causal claims based on data sets that aren't subject to experimental designs; the sheer quantity of data can't make up for the lack of controls and random assignment. Big data alone can be a boon to "hypothesis generation," but we'll still need traditional studies in which teachers are asked to adopt new practices to learn whether the practices work.
Still, the power duo of big data and machine learning will enable us to build a research enterprise that actually improves classroom instruction, regardless of how traditional or technology-infused the instruction might be. That's enough to make a computer smile.
Editor's note: This essay was first published by Education Next.
On this week's podcast, special guest Sara Mead, a partner at Bellwether Education, joins Alyssa Schwenk and Brandon Wright to discuss the past, present, and future of early childhood education. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the positive effects of education reform in Newark, New Jersey.
Mark J. Chin et al., "School District Reform in Newark: Within- and Between-School Changes in Achievement Growth," The National Bureau of Educational Research (October 2017).
A new study by RAND examines teachers' support of their state standards and tests. It's a nationally representative sample of K–12 teachers, and though educators from all subjects were surveyed, the report focuses only on the responses of math and English language arts (ELA) teachers. It also compares responses from educators who were surveyed in 2015 and 2016 on a subset of repeated questions and looks into how certain teacher and school characteristics are related to teacher support or lack thereof. The survey has a response rate of 45 percent.
There are key five findings. First, nearly 90 percent of both ELA and math teachers support the use of state standards for instruction. Slightly higher percentages believe that math and ELA standards provide a foundation for postsecondary preparation for students and that they support alignment of the curriculum from grade to grade. However, among those same teachers, only about a third say they support the use of current statewide tests to measure mastery of the state standards in their respective subject area.
Second, though standards enjoy wide support from teachers overall, teachers in schools with more lower-income students are even more likely to support the use of state standards in both math and ELA and the use of tests to measure mastery of ELA standards.
Third, a couple subgroup differences are worth mentioning, namely that educators who reported teaching in Common Core states were less likely to support their state tests in math and ELA than those who reported not being in CCSS states. Also, teachers who taught higher numbers of students with special needs were less likely to support the use of tests to measure mastery in math.
Fourth, in looking into the black box, analysts found that those who did not support the standards were less likely than supporters to think that the standards had a manageable number of topics to teach in a year. Non-supporters also felt that the state tests were too difficult for their students and that they would not provide accurate data for students with special needs. Surprisingly, low percentages of supporters and non-supporters (less than a quarter) voiced concerns that the test was not aligned to their standards or that their school lacked the technological capacity to administer the state test.
Fifth and finally, there were no significant changes in teachers' overall concerns about standards and tests from 2015 to 2016, except for a couple, including that teachers in states that administered the PARCC ELA test in both 2015 and 2016 showed a measurable decrease in various concerns about that test (meaning they were less likely to say that the test would be too difficult for their students, take time away from other important classwork, or not provide accurate scores).
So, at the risk of oversimplification: Most teachers like state standards (though there's still aversion to Common Core in some cases) and dislike state tests—but also believe that standards alignment and the technology for administering assessments have both improved. And, despite the initial outcry about Common Core tests like PARCC, once you get used to them, they're not so bad after all. Which seems like something the testing critics (educators and non-educators alike) should keep in mind.
SOURCE: Kaufman, Julia H., Elaine Lin Wang, Laura S. Hamilton, Lindsey E. Thompson and Gerald Hunter, "U.S. Teachers' Support of Their State Standards and Assessments: Findings from the American Teacher Panel," RAND Corporation (2017).
Rates of college completion for Hispanic students have lagged over the past decade even while the number of Hispanic high school graduates has grown. This—combined with issues of disproportionate poverty in Hispanic communities, their growing share of the college-age population, and concerns about racial and economic inequities—has led to an Education Next study examining what might be done to help more Hispanic students enroll in and graduate from college.
The authors examine the effects of the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), an intervention undertaken by the College Board to recognize outstanding Hispanic high-school students and encourage them to enroll in college. The initiative identifies the highest performing 2.5 percent of Hispanic students across six geographic regions in the United States. Student eligibility for the award is determined by their eleventh grade Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores, holding a GPA of at least 3.5, and having an ethnicity that is at least one-quarter Hispanic. The NHRP is an intervention that changes two key features of a Hispanic student's high-school experience: one, the College Board notifies students and school staff about the existence of the NHRP; and, two, with the student's permission, they share a list of NRHP honorees with postsecondary institutions who are looking to enroll academically exceptional Hispanic students.
The authors construct a national sample of all Hispanic PSAT/NMSQT takers in the U.S. from the graduating classes of 2004 through 2010. They then link individual records to College Board and National Student Clearinghouse datasets, including demographic information, information about eventual college enrollment, high school attended, history of SAT attempts, institutions which received their SAT scores, and AP participation. Also included is information from the Common Core of Data, the Private School Universe Survey, and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, which all include further information on certain high school and postsecondary characteristics. The NHRP's potential impact is measured using a regression discontinuity design, comparing students on either side of the cut-off point for eligibility according to their PSAT/NMSQT scores.
Findings indicate that NHRP eligibility has a significant effect on the college attendance patterns of Hispanic students, inducing more to apply to and attend more institutions where Hispanic enrollment has traditionally been behind their peers. Eligible students are 5 percentage points more likely to attend colleges that recruit Hispanic students through NHRP; 5 percentage points more likely to attend out-of-state institutions; 3 percentage point more likely to attend public flagship universities; and 1.5 percentage points more likely to enroll in a four-year college, with about two-thirds of this effect driven by a movement away from two-year institutions, which the program presumably inspires.
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Despite arriving at the Australian season on her way to peak performance for the year's three main goals – the Ardennes Classics, the Giro Rosa and World Championships – Spratt proved her love and motivation for the Australian race by winning the Queen stage three and holding on for a 41-second overall victory at the 2018 Santos Tour Down Under.
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Lou Bernstein was known as The photographers photographer, among the prominent great photographers of his generation. During the 1950s through the 1980s, Bernsteins personal views, articulations on the aesthetics of photography, established him as a much sought after lecturer, critic, and teacher. He conducted numerous private individual and public group photographic workshops, as well as becoming a college educator. Bernstein taught at The Phoenix School of Design, NY, and at the request of W. Eugene Smith, took over Smiths classes at Cooper Union, when Smith went to Japan for Life Magazine.
Bernstein received his first camera in 1936. Photography was Lous hobby early on. But his passion for photography only intensified. He sought out the shakers and movers of photography in New York. Within a few years, Lou and his photography was featured frequently in newspapers, magazines, books, television, galleries and museum exhibitions, in New York City. We all heard the metaphor dont quit your day job. Lou never did, he did not want to be a professional photo journalist, although he could have. Lou wanted to photograph what he felt was honest, sensitive and important photographs. He also wanted to be where the activity of the photographic world was, that was in New York, and Peerless Camera Stores, NY, the largest professional photographers supply store in the world. This job enabled him to be at a center of photography, where his friends and fellow contemporaries met, without notice, legendary photographers like, Sid Grossman, W. Eugene Smith, Wynn Bullock, Lisette Model, Cornell Capa, Edward Steichen, and Jack Deschin, Sunday Photography Editor, for the New York Times, to name a few. It allowed him weekends and nights off, to teach, lecturer, photograph, develop, print and exhibit his photography, and time to be totally committed to his love of photography.
"He was never too interested in promoting his own work, all he wanted to do, was photograph, teach, lecturer and help guide his students and all people who loved photography as an art, that came to him for assistance, to understand his aesthetics and philosophy. He always gave back to the photographic community, He was there for the more than 600 amateur and professionals during his lifetime, who called upon him for direction and explanation of his views on photography as art." Irwin Bernstein
Cornell Capa & Lou Bernstein, ICP,NY, Opening Reception for Lou's
Lou was a charter member of the controversial Photo League, and was active in the organization from 1936-1951, until its demise. Lou was an advocate of its principals on photography, and continued to be a close friend to Sid Grossman, and many of its legendary members.
His many achievements during his career was due to his high profile celebrity and reputation recognized in the early years of career by the, New York Times, Photography Critic, Jack Deschin, who published him frequently. What followed was, Edward Steichen's selection of Lou's work for both, The Family of Man, in 1955, followed by Steichen's acquisition of 10 photographs for the permanent collection of MoMA.
Lou was the originator and author of a highly successful bi-monthly article, titled Critique, for Camera 35 Magazine, that was published from 1968-1972.
In April 1972, Lou was a participating critic along with many other recognized dignitaries & educators of photography, representing The Society for Photographic Education, New York Region, and asked to contribute to Critique 72, at The New School for Social Research, in New York.
Bernsteins photography has been exhibited, and acclaimed at more than sixty museums worldwide. In his six and a half decade career, he had achieved 187 lifetime events exhibiting his work.
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Bernstein Legacy
Hydrant Series #4, 1947
Jazz-Stuyvesant Casino,NY, 1952
Father and Baby, Coney Island: Artnet
Man & Wife, 1941
Articles about Lou Bernstein
In Memoriam - Lou Bernstein by S. Zimbel
D'Orazio.. New York photographer learned from his mentor, Lou Bernstein: Salon
Thomas Kinksey, 1965
Student Resoures
Friends of Aesthetic Realism - Countering the Lies : Hattersley letter
The Society for Photographic Education
Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There by Ralph Hattersley
Aesthetic Realism Looks at New York City
The New York Photo League by Martin Elkort
Westport Photographer Larry Silver
Reading Braille, 1968
1949: Milan Photographic, Milan, Italy,
1955: The Museum of Modern Art The Family of Man (Exhibited on six continents)
1957: USIA - Kongrass Halle, Germany
1967: Expo 67, Canada, Montreal, Canada
1968: Photo-kina, Cologne, Germany
1978: National Gallery of Canada-The Photographic Crossroads-3 Year Travel Show.
1981: The International Center of Photography, NY, A Retrospective Look, .
1986: Gallery Association of NYS, 3 Year Traveling Exhibit The Photo League.
1989: The Queens Museum, Coney Island 1943-1987.
1992: The International Center of Photography, NY, Five Decades of Photography.
200l: The Jewish Museum, NY, New York Capital of New York.
2003: The Columbus Museum of Art, This Was The Photo League.
2003: The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History, The Negro Baptismal, Florida.
2004: The HARID Conservatory, Life is a Dance, Boca Raton, Florida
Major Collections
Museum of Modern Art, NY,
Museum Chateau de Cleavaux, Lux,
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.TX.
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.
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Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH.
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Insult Laws: Insulting to Press Freedom
A Guide to Evolution of Insult Laws in 2010
by Patti McCracken, introduction by Raymond Louw
A publication of the World Press Freedom Committee and Freedom House
funded by Ringier AG and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
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There has been some progress in Africa toward abolition of insult laws and criminal defamation. But there is still far to go. The latest step forward was when Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou became the first head of state to endorse the Declaration of Table Mountain, a text originated by press NGOs calling for repeal of such laws and to put press freedom higher on the agenda in Africa.
President Issoufou signed the Declaration in a ceremony in his capital of Niamey organized by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WANIFRA), the World Editors Forum, the African Editors Forum, and Niger's Maison de la Presse, with more than 1,000 participants, including ambassadors and government officials from more than 25 countries.
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The old adage "location, location, location" doesn't just apply to making real estate decisions — it also applies to site selection. After all, members will be more inclined to attend a meeting if it's being held in a destination that's either easy to reach or affordable — or both. Here are a few options to consider:
The Organization of American Historians (OAH) based in Bloomington, Indiana, the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history, has chosen Providence as the site of its 2016 annual meeting in April. The meeting, which is expected to draw approximately 2,000 attendees, will be held at the Rhode Island Convention Center, which offers 100,000 sf of exhibition space, 20,000 sf of ballroom space, 23 meeting rooms and 30,000 sf of prefunction space. The official meeting hotels will be the 564-room Omni Providence Hotel, which is connected by indoor walkway to the Rhode Island Convention Center, the 294-room Providence Biltmore Hotel and the 219-room Courtyard Providence Downtown.
"I think (Providence) is a great alternative to Boston, which is often very expensive. It is close to major cities in the Northeast corridor, and the venue is relatively affordable."
— Hajini G. Selby
Hajni G. Selby, director of meetings for OAH, cited several factors that made Providence a good choice for her organization's annual meeting. "I think it is a great alternative to Boston, which is often very expensive. It is close to major cities in the Northeast corridor, and the venue is relatively affordable. For small associations, it is a place that is easily accessible, and though not a big city, holds all the amenities needed to keep attendees engaged." Providence is known for its safe, walkable downtown area, world-class restaurants, thriving arts community and historic sites.
Providence will be a convenient location for OAH's annual meeting, as 40 percent of the organization's members are located a quick train ride away. In fact, according to the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau, about 25 percent of the population of the U.S. lives within 500 miles of the city.
The Virginia Recycling Association (VRA), headquartered in Ivy, Virginia, chose the 214-room Sheraton Virginia Beach Oceanfront Hotel in Virginia Beach as the site of its 2015 conference. The hotel contains 11 event spaces, including the oceanfront Ocean Grand Foyer that can host meetings, banquets and receptions.
Erica Trout, who was association manager for the 2015 conference, explains, "An oceanfront location was important to our members who travel from far southwest Virginia and northern Virginia. The meeting space can accommodate three breakout sessions as well as the general session. Renovation of the meeting area is very nice." Trout, who now is manager, global accounts for HelmsBriscoe, also noted that parking was readily available for attendees who drove. "Parking is great (in a parking deck across the street)."
Virginia Beach is centrally located on the East Coast. According to the Virginia Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, the city is within a day's drive for two-thirds of the nation's population.
The Virginia Beach CVB staff is available to help associations that want to include a charitable component in their agendas. Through its "One Beach, One World" program, it can help attendees engage in a variety of meaningful experiences such as restoring and protecting the environment, supporting the Armed Forces, combating homelessness, hunger and domestic violence; assisting youth and the elderly; and participating in international outreach programs.
The Virginia Beach Convention Center (VBCC) recently renewed its LEED Gold certification under a more stringent rating system adopted by the U.S. Green Building Council. The VBCC offers more than 500,000 sf of event space and has put a long list of sustainability initiatives into place that focus on recycling, energy reduction, water efficiency, waste reduction and environmentally friendly practices.
Barbara Parmese heads the annual meeting committee for the Princeton-based New Jersey Health Information Management Association (NJHIMA), representing certified professionals responsible for acquiring, analyzing, coding, and management of digital and paper medical information vital to providing quality patient care. The event attracts approximately 200 attendees and 125 exhibitor representatives, and it has been held in Atlantic City every year since 2002.
"Price and available space at the venue are essential in our decision to return to Atlantic City."
— Barbara J. Parmese
Parmese says there are several reasons Atlantic City is a good fit for NJHIMA's annual meeting and the No. 1 reason is pricing. "We're a nonprofit organization and usually our meeting space is either free or priced extremely attractively. And the hotel rates are more than competitive, usually much less than elsewhere throughout the state of New Jersey.
"The price structure for the association is essential," she continues. "That and the fact we use a lot of space. Even though our meeting isn't considered a large event, we need a lot of space. Convention centers tend to be too big for us, and then we wouldn't always have the hotel linked right there. We like to keep everybody in one place if we can. Many hotels around the state don't have the space that we need to use concurrently. Price and available space at the venue are essential in our decision to return to Atlantic City."
Parmese elaborated on other reasons that make Atlantic City so appealing for her association's members. "Our meeting is in June, and who doesn't like to be 'down the shore' in June? Atlantic City has something for everyone. If you're into gambling, you can do that. If you're into shopping, you can do that. If you just want to walk the Boardwalk, you can do that."
NJHIMA has held its annual meeting at a number of different properties in Atlantic City over the years. The 1,749-room Bally's Atlantic City was the site of NJHIMA's 2015 meeting, and this year, the event will take place at the 2,590-room Harrah's Resort Atlantic City. "We're going to Resorts (Casino Hotel with 942 rooms) in 2017," Parmese explains. "We've been at Bally's before, we've been to (Trump) Taj Mahal, we've been to Tropicana (Casino & Resort). Pricing is important and feedback from attendees is very important," she says, noting that the condition of each hotel must meet the expectations of the NJHIMA members and exhibitors.
NJHIMA is a state association, so attendees drive to the annual meeting, although some speakers and exhibitors do fly in. Parking, either valet or self-parking, is always available.
She describes a common thread she has found at all of the properties she has worked with in Atlantic City. "I have found that pretty much, every person that we have dealt with at every hotel, from banquet/catering to AV, to convention services, they're just a really nice bunch of people. After so many years, I'm on a first name basis with many of them. The longevity of the people who work there is a big benefit. The hotel staff remembers you and your group, which makes running a meeting that much easier. I have found them to be really wonderful to work with.
"Atlantic City does offer so much," she sums up. "It's a great place for people to consider. Depending on the time of year, why wouldn't you want to be at the beach? There's so much to do. It's a fun place to be. It's not just all work."
Larger groups may want to consider booking the Atlantic City Convention Center for their meetings, conferences and expos. Offering more than 500,000 contiguous sf of exhibit space, the facility is set on 31 acres and is one of the largest convention centers on the East Coast. Also of special note to planners is the fact that it is located within a few hours' drive of nearly one-third of the nation's population.
Enhancing the city's meetings capacity is Harrah's Resort, which added the new Atlantic City Waterfront Conference Center last September. The conference center expands the property's total meeting space to 125,000 sf while adding two 50,000-sf ballrooms, each with an additional 26,000 sf of prefunction space.
And, debuting in summer 2015 was the multifaceted convention and event space at Resorts Casino Hotel that added 12,000 sf of meeting space and 12 more conference rooms all on one level. The new conference center brings Resorts' total offerings to 24 meeting rooms and 64,000 sf of usable space. (For more on Atlantic City, see page 20.)
Another option for groups looking to avoid the hustle and bustle of a big city is The Meadowlands area, which is named for the large wetlands ecosystem in the northeastern part of New Jersey. A number of meeting venues are available in the area, including The Meadowlands Expo Center, a facility that offers more than 60,000 sf of meeting space that can accommodate up to 6,000 attendees. More information on meeting and event services in the area is available from the Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau.
While The Meadowlands area is probably best known as being home to the NFL's New York Jets and New York Giants at MetLife Stadium, it also is home to more than 250 species of birds as well as acres of trails, estuaries and protected marshland, which give nature-loving meeting attendees plenty to explore in their free time.
Foxwoods Resort Casino, located in the southern part of the state in the town of Mashantucket, is another meeting destination to consider in the Northeast. The complex includes four hotels with a total of 2,200 rooms, 150,000 sf of conference space, six casinos, multiple restaurants ranging from casual to fine dining, shopping, golf and a spa. Foxwoods offers a Meeting Planner Tool Kit on its website, Foxwoods.com. It includes an interactive space planner, speed RFP and a property map.
Mohegan Sun is located in Uncasville, 45 minutes from Providence, Hartford and New Haven and just 90 minutes from Boston. The property offers 1,200 guest rooms and 100,000 sf of meeting space, including the 38,000-sf, pillar-free Uncas Ballroom, along with the assistance of event service managers that are CMM- and CMP-certified. Recreational amenities include the Earth, Sky and Wind casinos, an 18-hole golf course, the Elemis Spa, a fitness center and pool solarium. The hotel's new Earth Tower is slated to open in the fall and will include 400 deluxe rooms, an indoor pool, fitness center and additional meeting space.
Located at the crossroads of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic States, Baltimore is another conveniently located meeting destination. According to Visit Baltimore, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport handles 650 daily flights from 70 destinations, and for attendees who drive, parking is plentiful with more than 40,000 off-street spaces available in the city's downtown garages.
Baltimore offers numerous convention and meeting facilities, including the Baltimore Convention Center, which offers 300,000 sf of exhibit space, 50 flexible meeting rooms and a 36,000-sf ballroom. Visit Baltimore reports that there are more than 8,500 hotel rooms near the convention center and the city's Inner Harbor area, 5,500 of which are committable. The Visit Baltimore staff also can provide meeting groups with access to local business, non-profit and public sectors through its board of directors and Meet Local network of community leaders.
The first 10 meeting planners to book a meeting through 2017 with more than 3,000 total room nights can receive a free crab feast for up to 200 people. Complete details are available at Baltimore.org. Visit Baltimore also has created a list of "hot meeting dates" for 2016 and 2017 so groups can take advantage of special savings on selected dates.
For groups in search of a Midwest meeting venue that's not in the heart of a downtown area, Meet Chicago Northwest promises that "It's Better on the Edge." The organization, which was originally incorporated as the Greater Woodfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, promotes eight communities northwest of Chicago and is certified by Destination Marketing Association International. The bureau represents 62 hotels and more than 50 alternative venues, including the 474-room Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel, which is connected to the Schaumburg Convention Center offering nearly 150,000 sf of flexible meeting space.
Groups that need a smaller venue may want to consider the American Society of Anesthesiologists Conference Center, which offers more than 6,000 sf of meeting and event space and a 150-seat auditorium. The venue is located in the heart of Schaumburg's business district and promotes the fact that it offers "affordable pricing with discounts for non-profits."
In this election year, the country's focus is on Washington, DC, so it just might be a good time for planners to cast their eyes on the nation's capital, as well, when searching for a meeting site. The largest meeting venue in the area is the 2.3-million-sf Walter E. Washington Convention Center, which offers more than 198,000 sf of meeting space in five exhibit halls, 67 meeting rooms, a 62,000-sf ballroom and 36,000 sf of dedicated registration space. This spring, the convention center will begin offering expanded free Wi-Fi services.
The area's convention hotels are large, as well. The Marriott Wardman Park contains 1,256 guest rooms, 76 suites and 173,000 sf of event space, while the Washington Hilton features 1,118 guest rooms, 82 suites and 110,000 sf of meeting space. The Grand Hyatt Washington, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill and the Renaissance Washington, DC each offer more than 800 guest rooms and meeting space that spans from 40,000 to 60,000 sf.
In this election year, there soon will be other new "faces" in Washington, DC, in terms of hotels. The Trump Hotel Collection is completing a $200 million restoration of the iconic Old Post Office building and is expected to open the Trump International Hotel, Washington, DC, this fall (two years earlier than expected) with 263 guest rooms and suites, 38,000 sf of meeting and event space, a street-level steak house and a 10,000-sf spa and fitness facility designed by Ivanka Trump.
The Watergate Hotel, a Washington, DC, legend, is projected to reopen this April as a luxurious 336-room hotel after a $120 million renovation. It will include Top of the Gate, a rooftop bar that will feature panoramic views of the Potomac River, as well as a fine dining restaurant. The hotel also will contain 27,000 sf of meeting space, including a 7,000-sf grand ballroom. And here's a fun bit of trivia: The hotel staff's uniforms have been designed by Janie Bryant who created the costumes for the "Mad Men" TV series.
Oh, and don't worry — meetings at The Watergate Hotel don't have to be scandalous. As the hotel's new website advises, just make sure the recorder is off. AC&F


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