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422422 (pronounced "four two two"), is a prototype of a coffee shop which is named after Earth Day, April 22nd_ It is not just a coffee shop. 422 is a coffee shop with a theme: global warming. The concept of the coffee shop is to create a place for people to drink and discuss issues of global warming by providing inviting yet thought provoking ambience with graphics, videos, and eco-friendly furniture.
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A child's history of early Terre Haute and Vigo CountyNot Available.
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A collaborative approach to school leadership in improvementThe primary purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether collaborative leadership and teacher collaboration predict student achievement. Specifically, the study sought to discover if there is a significant relationship between collaborative leadership and student achievement and if there is a significant relationship between teacher collaboration and student achievement. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were used to interpret and analyze the data for the study. There were 342 respondents who participated in the study. Respondents included 245 elementary and 97 middle school participants. Respondents were invited to complete the cultural survey developed at the Middle Level Leadership Center, University of Missouri (Gruenert & Valentine, 1998). The survey provided information pertaining to shared values/beliefs in the school. Growth model data were collected from each participating school in the areas of English/language arts and math. An average growth model average for two years (2010 and 2011 school years) was used for both English/language arts and math. Data were analyzed through linear regression. Based on the significant findings of the data analysis of the research, the following conclusions were made. There was an extremely small relationship between collaborative leadership and English/language arts. Based on the results, collaborative leadership cannot serve as a predictor of students’ English/language arts achievement. There was an extremely small relationship between collaborative leadership and math growth model average scores which means that based on the results of this study, collaborative leadership cannot serve as a predictor of students’ math achievement. It was determined there was a small relationship between teacher collaboration and English/language arts scores. This linear regression revealed that the predictor (teacher collaboration) may have the ability to predict English/language arts growth model scores. There was an extremely small relationship between teacher collaboration and math growth model average scores. Based on this study this linear regression revealed that the predictor (teacher collaboration) does not have the ability to predict math growth model scores.
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A collection of Serbian folk talesNot Available.
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A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Administrators Perceptions on the Adaptation of Quality and Continuous Improvement Tools To Community Colleges in the State Of MichiganThe purpose of this study was to determine whether community college administrators in the state of Michigan believe that commonly known quality and continuous improvement tools, prevalent in a manufacturing environment, can be adapted to a community college model. The tools, specifically Six Sigma, benchmarking and process mapping have played a critical role in improving performance in the manufacturing sector. In 2008, the Obama administration made restoration of America’s educational prominence a campaign promise and committed to the development of the American Graduation Initiative, a $12 billion plan to reform U.S. community colleges to be executed over the next decade. The outcome of this research study will help to prove whether administrators believe that continuous improvement and quality tools commonly found in manufacturing can be adapted to Michigan community colleges. The proposed tool for the study of the research problem was a mixed model Delphi study and a Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The stakes for this research are high for community colleges. The promise of President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative put continuous improvement and measures of academic quality in the national spotlight. The results of the study indicate that, in the opinions of administrators, quality and continuous improvement tools that have been proven successful in other industries such as benchmarking, process mapping and Six Sigma can be assimilated into community colleges in the state of Michigan.
