Schools, lawmakers cut sabbaticals to trim costs

Under pressure to cut costs, state universities and lawmakers across Rosetta Stone Store the nation are going after one of the oldest traditions in the academic world: the professor's cherished sabbatical.Professors often use the paid breaks from teaching to write books, develop new courses or collaborate with colleagues around the world. But the practice is increasingly being questioned by critics who say it offers little more than a paid vacation at a time when other public employees are being furloughed or laid off."Why should the taxpayers of Iowa be paying to basically give these folks a year off from teaching?" asked incoming House Speaker Kraig Paulsen, a Republican whose party won control of the chamber in November. "It's as simple as that."Some schools are reducing the number of sabbaticals awarded, angering faculty members who say their research and teaching will suffer.The University of Iowa has already cut its sabbaticals in half over the last two years. Paulsen and other GOP leaders have proposed canceling them completely for a year.At other schools, sabbaticals have been postponed or eliminated. Truman State University in Missouri abolished sabbaticals for the budget year that begins July 1 because of expected shortfalls, Provost Richard Coughlin said.In Louisiana, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal slashed higher education budgets last month. He said the cuts might prompt universities to reduce sabbaticals and "force professors to actually spend more time in the classrooms teaching and interacting with students."And in Wisconsin, the incoming Republican leader of a legislative committee overseeing higher education wants to know how much sabbaticals cost and whether they are being used for worthwhile projects or as vacations, aide Mike Mikalsen said.Julie Bell, who tracks higher education issues at the National Conference of State Legislatures, said it's not surprising cash-strapped states would review sabbaticals, faculty salaries Rosetta Stone V3 and benefits, and the amount of time professors spend teaching."In this environment, everything is on the table," she said.Defenders of sabbaticals, which are typically awarded every five to seven years, say some of the criticism stems from a misunderstanding of professors' jobs.Professors, they say, are not just teachers but also scholars and public servants. Sabbaticals, they contend, are critical to advancing research, winning grants, publishing books and keeping up with the latest developments in their fields. Then professors can bring that knowledge back to the classroom."There's one word that explains why we're a city of literature, and that's 'sabbatical'," said University of Iowa history professor Jeff Cox, referring to an award Iowa City received in 2008 from UNESCO, the educational and cultural arm of the United Nations.Cox, who has used sabbaticals to write books on the history of religion, said humanities professors have been demoralized by the decision to cut the number of sabbaticals, a move he called political. He said he worried that younger professors would not be able to make a career out of both teaching and research like he has.Interim Provost P. Barry Butler said the school responded to Rosetta Stone Portuguese V3 outside expectations to cut sabbaticals but defends them as critical to the institution's mission. The university plans to ask the Board of Regents on Thursday to approve 58 faculty leaves for the coming year, a slight increase after two years of sharp declines.Defenders of sabbaticals object to Paulsen and others framing them as wasteful entitlements.Professors at Iowa are eligible after 10 semesters of teaching, but they must come up with competitive proposals, which are then vetted by their colleagues. They also have to report on the results of their research.Canceling sabbaticals saves money because schools do not have to hire temporary instructors to take over some classes. But it also risks losing grant money and productivity.In 2009, Iowa professors wrote 26 books while on sabbatical, published 147 research articles, created and updated nearly 100 classes, and submitted 50 grant applications.Karla McGregor, a University of Iowa professor of communication sciences and disorders, Rosetta Stone Languages plans to take a sabbatical in the spring to travel to Australia to conduct research with colleagues, finish papers on autism and start a book about how children learn language."I do think it's essential for the productivity of the faculty and the good of the university to keep the sabbatical program going and strong," she said. "If you don't have a chance to study and stretch yourself in new ways, you are not bringing those new ideas back to the students, back to the university, back to the state of Iowa."At Kent State University in Ohio, the university canceled all sabbaticals last year but has reinstated them with tighter monitoring after "kind of an uproar" among the faculty, said professor Donald Hassler, a member of the faculty senate."It hurts the whole enterprise of the university," he said. "You might save a little cash, but the values of the university would be damaged beyond the cost savings."An official with the American Association of University Professors urged lawmakers to stay out of the debate over sabbaticals."I'm sure they feel it has great symbolic value," said John Curtis, the group's director of research and public policy. But "the whole purpose of sabbatical is to allow faculty members to do research, to engage in understanding new developments in their discipline and then to bring all of that back to their teaching."

Greenock college warns of almost 100 job losses

Almost 100 jobs are under threat at one of Scotland’s largest colleges as a result of funding cuts. Rosetta Stone Staff at James Watt College, in Greenock, have been told up to 75 full-time teaching posts could be lost, as well as 24 support workers. The areas likely to be hit include departments of creative industries, business development, aeronautical and engineering, business and computing and social sciences. The cuts are likely to impact on all the college's campuses in Greenock, Kilwinning and Largs which employ a total of 360 teaching staff. Officials said the job losses were a direct result of funding cuts, rising VAT and reduced commercial income, which has combined to create a shortfall of nearly 6 million. Campus unions argued the proposed job losses would decimateeducation at the college. They also warned against compulsory redundancies. It comes just Rosetta Stone Cheap days after officials from the board of a local regeneration company wrote to the Scottish Government to protest over a 70% cut in funding. Riverside Inverclyde, a public-private sector initiative that aims to create employment in Greenock and Port Glasgow, has had its public funding cut from 9.5m to 2.9m. Sue Pinder, principal of the college, told staff: I wish we were not facing such severe cuts and would rather they could be avoided, but they can't. Ms Pinder said in cash terms the college would receive 3.7m less, with an additional reduction in funding for buildings of 685,000. She added: Our aim is to protect and invest in high-quality learning, eliminate over-staffing by removing those programmes for which there is low demand and those that do not meet our exacting Rosetta Stone French V3 quality indicators. Craig Muncie, of the EIS union, said: The college says the cuts are designed to create headroom for growth and new skills, as well as to protect and invest in a high quality curriculum. Last year, lecturers passed a motion of no confidence in Ms Pinder after claiming they were not being given rights Rosetta Stone Languages to participate in contract talks.

Dirt Pros Selects Learn To Standardize and Automate Training and Performance Evaluations For Employees

Learn , the leader in on-demand workforce development Rosetta Stone V3 and productivity, announced today that Dirt Pros a leading provider in the facilities management services industry, has selected the LearnCenter platform to automate and standardize continuing education, goal management, and performance evaluation. The all-in-one learning and talent management functionality of the LearnCenter platform is robust; and will provide a way for us to objectively evaluate all of our employees from the executive management layers downward while deploying the career planning and development in support of those evaluations within the same platform. The platform will deliver both performance and goal management as well as standardize the way our organization interacts, operates, and trains. said Marcell D. Haywood, M.S., President COO of Dirt Pros EVS. We are growing very quickly and we believe that Learn will support and nurture our growth. Learn provides us with a way to standardize our support infrastructure, remove geographic boundaries, and provide centralized career development, concluded Haywood.About Dirt Pros Dirt Pros EVS (DPEVS) is a single source, full service, integrated facilities maintenance firm whose service portfolio spans several Rosetta Stone Spain Spanish specialty divisions throughout the state of Florida. Dirt Pros EVS both designs and provides Maintenance Repair Operation (MRO) Programs, Housekeeping, Custodial, Grounds Maintenance, Corporate Services Programs for clients of all sizes in the Healthcare, Commercial Real Estate, Education, Hospitality, Retail, Public Venue industries. To learn more about Dirt Pros go to dirtpros .About the LearnCenter PlatformThe Learn LearnCenter platform has been voted as Americas favorite Learning Management System. Organizations of all sizes can now manage the entire pre-hire to retire employee lifecycle by creating a cost effective, high quality training, development and measurement environment designed to empower users with visibility into and control of their career planning while providing management with real-time business intelligence. Learning Management, Performance Management, Content Management, Online Authoring, Succession Planning, Collaboration, e-Commerce, Portal Authoring and more are included within one solution, with one interface and one partner - Learn .About Learn Learn is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity Rosetta Stone Software with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Our broad suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications can fully automate the employee development lifecycle from pre-hire to retire within organizations of all sizes, from the growing business with fewer than one hundred employees; to the global enterprise managing internal and external initiatives with millions of users in multiple languages. Learn s unwavering commitment to understanding client needs, goals and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to help them realize low TCO and high ROI.

Mortimer-English Club expands to Arabian Pensinsula and Egypt

The management and employees of Rosetta Stone Store Mortimer-English Club at the Herscheid Headquarters proudly sit in their office amazed staring at the World Map and thinking how the international expansion courses could be very successful. In eight more countries it will soon be possible to take courses under the concept of the Mortimer-Club: Saudi-Arabia, Arabian Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jemen and Egypt.Mahmoud Galal, businessman from Egypt, found out about Mortimer whilst surfing in the internet for innovative education programs. He was very impressed with the concept, and also found the lesson plan for the children and adults exiting, being done in a playful way. Some time later Mahmoud and Beverly Galal visited the headquarters in Herscheid. They were both very impressed with the lesson material and saw their expectations highly fulfilled. Galal consulted his ideas with his business partner Abou Alkhair Faisal and came to the conclusion that Mortimer should capture the Arabian country.Alkhair Faisal Rosetta Stone Cheap has taken over the Master-Franchise for the Saudi-Arabia and the Gulf States, Mahmoud Galal will be building-up the company with his Master licence in Egypt. This new concept fills a very large hole in our land. says Mr Galal, There isn t much innovative offer in the segment of language education, but to learn the English language is world wide and greatly in demand. Therefore I am very happy to bring Mortimer into the Arabian world. The training of the Master Partners was held in the beginning of December at the headquarters in Germany. Galal and his wife together with his two daughters visited the training centre, received intensive training and developed a strategic approach to roll out Mortimer in the Middle East. The Mortimer team enjoyed the time with the exotic guests and learned a lot about the Arabian culture. It is amazing to see how to speak a common language brings together people from different cultures.The building of Mortimer headquarters in Riyadh - the Rosetta Stone Italian V3 capital of Saudi-Arabia - is full power under way with alterations. The delight and motivation of the Saudis is incredible: already now children and adults are showing interest. The complete Mortimer -Team would like to wish them much luck and success in their new assignment.Altogether at this time Mortimer-English Club has 13 Master-Licences which include 15 countries. The international interest in the Mortimer concept is amazing. The owners Karola Scheer and Juergen Nauditt hope more countries soon to follow.Mortimer is still looking for Rosetta Stone Languages more motivated Franchise- and Master Franchise partners all around the globe who would be interested in teaching children and adults in this innovative concept or managing a language school.

Dodd, Deering get valuable snaps in Tulane loss

Four members of the Rutgers football team lined up under center Saturday during the Rosetta Stone Languages Scarlet Knights' 17-14 Homecoming loss to Tulane and perhaps the most unexpected signal caller saw the majority of snaps.Freshman quarterback Chas Dodd entered the game for an injured Tom Savage more than halfway into the second quarter and still managed to throw 29 passes on the afternoon."I thought he did a good job," said head coach Greg Schiano. "Certainly there's balls I'm sure he'd like to have back, but he threw a lot of nice balls, as well. I thought he showed good composure. He stayed in the pocket, gave routes a chance to develop. As I've said all along, I have confidence in Chas and I think he went out there and he played with confidence."The Lyman, S.C., native saw mop-up duty in the Knights' season-opener against Norfolk State and even threw two passes in the loss to North Carolina. But nothing prepared Dodd for a third-and-11 in the second quarter, when Rutgers trailed the Green Wave, 10-7."It was great," Dodd said. "I had been out there for a few plays earlier in the season, but just to get out there and throw it around a little bit, it was a good opportunity."Dodd completed the throw on third and long to sophomore Mark Harrison for 16 yards and ended the first half with 45 yards on a 3-for-7 throwing clip.The Byrnes High School product regrouped and came out of the locker room in the second half, only to be stymied by another third and long situation on the Knights' opening drive.As was the case with an ailing Savage, Dodd competed for snaps with fellow freshman Jeremy Deering and wideout Mohamed Sanu in the Wild Knight formation."Whatever is working for the team at the time, that's what you have to do," Dodd said. "The Wildcat worked, so we just have to keep doing that."The team's ninth drive of the game for the Rutgers offense almost ended as inconspicuously as it began with yet another three-and-out. A pass interference penalty, Rosetta Stone Cheap however, kept the drive alive and eventually allowed Dodd to find Sanu for Dodd's first career touchdown pass in a Rutgers uniform.The completion to Sanu gave Dodd as many touchdowns through the air as Savage through the team's first four games."It was great. I wish it could have finished with a [win]," Dodd said of the throw to Sanu. "It's good getting that first touchdown out of the way, and hopefully there's plenty more to come."Sanu was the beneficiary of his second touchdown reception of the season, but another Knights wideout may have profited the most from Dodd's midgame entrance.Dodd completed four passes to Deering for 66 yards, but also targeted the Leto High School (Fla.) product on at least four other occasions. Combined with his appearances in the Wild Knight, Deering had noticeably his most productive game for the Knights in his young career."With both quarterbacks, we have connections," Deering said. "They just throw the ball to whoever's open. Rosetta Stone Spain Spanish V3 [Dodd] performed pretty good. He looked comfortable in there and didn't really think about making mistakes. He just played."As is the case in a 17-14 loss to a Conference USA opponent, Dodd looked at times every bit like a true freshman, completing less than half of his 29 pass attempts.Dodd opted to go 30 yards deep to Sanu on a crucial fourth-and-6 in the fourth quarter, resulting in a batted ball that just eluded an outstretched attempt from sophomore Keith Stroud.The Knights turned the ball over on downs, and Tulane forced Schiano to drain all three of the team's timeouts to regain possession for one more drive."[Sanu] wasn't [the first option]," Dodd said. "I was actually looking for the cross there, but I just overthrew him on that one."Like the loss to North Carolina, the Knights had the ball with two minutes remaining in the contest but were unable to come away with points on the team's 13th drive of the afternoon.Dodd threw downfield on another third-and-long but found the waiting arms of a Tulane defender for his first career interception to seal the game for the Green Wave.With Savage's status uncertain for Friday's Big East opener against Connecticut, Dodd may get another chance to build on his Rosetta Stone Languages growing list of firsts.Learning experiences are nothing new to Schiano, whose young team continues to struggle with consistency."I will get to the bottom of it. I'm going to find out," Schiano said. "I thought we learned our lesson in previous experiences, but we didn't. And I didn't, because again, I didn't get it done. So we'll go on and grow from it, but we'll be back."

Painting the blues

As we enter through David Martin’s navy blue door in Eaglesham, the silky chords of Bill Rosetta Stone Evans are wafting into the hall from a CD player in the living room. The album is Interplay, a reassuring omen for our interview. Moving with an easy agility that confounds his 89 years, Martin shows photographer Colin Mearns and myself into the room crammed with paintings stacked sometimes 12 deep against the walls, which are waiting to be uplifted for forthcoming exhibitions. We are not talking retrospectives here but shows of present work and others for paintings soon to be completed. Ninety next year, he says. I can't believe it, but I suppose the secret is to keep doing things. People who retire and just sit and watch television, well, they seem to fade away. Martin belongs to that impressive vintage of painters attached to Glasgow School of Art in the 1940s. It included the exuberant David Donaldson who had been teaching there since 1938, and Joan Eardley, a fellow student already developing the poignantly atmospheric and figurative work which would bring her distinction. I seem to remember that she was a year above me. She was a very reticent girl but powerfully observant and her paintings and drawings of Glasgow street children are marvellous examples of sentiment without sentimentality. But for his part Martin, always a free spirit, found inspiration in the work emerging from Edinburgh at this time. Although I enjoyed and benefited greatly from my time at GSA, I wanted to break away from the academic Rosetta Stone Cheap approach to painting that was at the core of my training there. My interests were with the likes of William Gillies and Robin Philipson whose work, to me, was very exciting. Anne Redpath, whom Martin also knew, belonged in that Edinburgh circle; a much more outgoing character than Eardley who was so very quiet you would hardly know she was there. Eclectic in its influences, Martin's work has focused mainly on landscape and still life. I've always liked the structure in paintings by Cezanne, and, pretty much from the start, I was into Bonnard, then Braque and Picasso. And also I was very keen on Graham Sutherland when he was on the go. Some of Martin's new paintings currently on show at the Roger Billcliffe Gallery in Glasgow, and others destined for the Richmond Hill Gallery in London from August 30 still evoke such masters. Something from all of these sources has rubbed off on me but I hope my art has been moving all the time. I know some artists, whom I won't name, who've been doing Rosetta Stone Portuguese the same thing for 40 years. Landscapes have always been a notable part of Martin's creativity. In the early days I went out laden like a pack mule with canvas, easel, paints and brushes. But that didn't last very long because I much preferred working in the studio from drawings done on site, and going beyond the visual to interpret the subjects that interest me. Martin was born in Glasgow and it was at GSA that he met his late wife, the painter Isobel Smith. But before that his student days were interrupted by four years in the RAF, from 1942, when he Rosetta Stone Languages became an instrument mechanic servicing aircraft mostly in southern India. By that time Martin was regarded at GSA as a mean hand at jazz piano, his band, the David Martin Quintet were a hot ticket for student dances. From my teens I'd been listening to people on the radio like George Shearing. Then when I was in the RAF and stationed at Bath, a band called the Harry Parry Rhythm Sextet came to play at the town hall. I asked if I could have a weekend pass to see them but the answer was no. So, I went awol and you've no idea the thrill of fear and adventure you get when you do that sort of thing.

Advanced Concepts Center To Extend Object Oriented Curriculum with Two New Unified Modeling Language 2.0 (UML 2.0) Courses

Advanced Concepts Center (ACC), LLC, a learning solutions company Cheap Rosetta Stone Software focused on the education and knowledge transfer of information technology professionals today announced the addition of two new courses to the ACC?s upgraded OO curriculum:?Object Oriented Analysis Design Using the Unified Modeling Language (UML ) 2.0, and,?Upgrading to Unified Modeling Language 2.0OOAD Using UML 2.0 is intended for any student interested in OO and UML. During this 5-day course students will gain knowledge of how to communicate the results of the analysis process and how to structure the design architecture to ensure customer acceptance. They will develop graphical models to record and display systems data, time-dependent events, and functional requirements. We will also cover how to determine and overcome potential pitfalls. The course includes new UML 2.0 notation and techniques such as using the more powerful sequence and activity diagrams; and, understanding when to use the new interaction overview, protocol state machine, and component diagrams. To reinforce the learning objectives students will participate in over 20 exercises led by one of the ACC?s expert instructors. Additionally, the OOAD Using UML 2.0 course will include ?UML 2.0 for Dummies? as a reference manual. ?UML 2.0 for Dummies? published by Wiley Publishing, is co-authored by ACC Senior Consultant, Mr. James A. Schardt.Upgrading for UML 2.0 is intended for IT professionals with previous OO and UML experience. This 3-day course is workshop-based and includes topics specific to UML 2.0, such as:?What is new with UML 2.0 and how it compares with UML 1.?Using activity diagrams for business workflows, use case specification, and operation realization.?Refinement of diagrams from requirements gathering through detailed design.?New ways to utilize component, subsystem, and deployment diagrams. The new Rosetta Stone American English ACC curriculum also supports the OMG Certified UML Professional Exam Program, said Bill Hoffman, OMG President and COO. The OOAD Using UML 2.0 course prepares students for the Fundamental certification, while the Upgrading to UML 2.0 course prepares students for the Intermediate certification. ?Since the introduction of the ACC?s Object Oriented curriculum in 1990, the ACC has been recognized as the education leader in OO technology,? said David Bieg, ACC Managing Partner. ?Today we are excited to announce this new curriculum which will allow our clients to take strategic advantage of the strength inherent in Object Oriented Analysis and Design techniques.?The ACC offers a complete OO curriculum including courses on Requirements Management with Use Cases, Object Oriented Design Patterns, and OO programming languages such as Java, .NET, C #and C++, as well as OO derived tools such as IBM?s Rational Tool Suite.For additional information or to schedule a course at your location, contact the ACC at 1-800-438-7246 or visit acclearning For additional information about OMG?s UML Certification Program, visit omg.org/uml-certification/index.htm or contact them at +1-781-444-0404. Advanced Concepts Center, LLC ( acclearning ) The Advanced Concepts Center, LLC is a learning solutions company focused on educating information technology professionals in IT concepts, software development Rosetta Stone Software methodologies, processes, project management, databases, operating systems and programming languages. These services are delivered via a blend of classroom training, e-learning, hands-on application and mentoring. Advanced Concepts Center is headquartered in Roswell, Georgia.

Over the course of my 20 plus years of experience

That’s the job of parents, and all too often, schools are placed in difficult situations where they Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 are expected to regularly discipline problem kids or deal with serious parenting problems that intrude into educational settings. This is a complicated political and social problem, but the more a school can clearly define what its good at, what it should and effectively can do, and what it shouldnt do, the better for all. 6) What about students that are truly hyperactive, or who have attention-deficit disorder- is this a male female issue or one requiring medication? Certainly, there are real cases of ADHD. But the statistics on how we diagnose and treat ADHD are very troubling. A careful analysis of trends beginning around 1990 paint a very disturbing picture that has lead many in the field of child health to question the veracity of the diagnosis and treatment methods. The rate of diagnosing ADHD in American children nearly quadrupled in a ten-year period beginning in 1987, with boys being diagnosed at least three times more often than girls (some studies show as high as 5 or 6 times more often). Currently, ADHD has become the most common pediatric problem in the US, again mostly among boys. Psycho-stimulant use is common. Pediatric visits lasting 15 minutes have also become common, and diagnoses and prescriptions can be written without much more than a checklist or list of complaints from a childs parent or teacher. This isn’t smart medicine. We know that misdiagnosis is a concern in regular medicine, where we have objective tests such as blood work, x-rays, MRIs, etc. In psychiatric child problems, like ADHD, were likely misdiagnosing at a 25-30% rate. That’s unacceptable. And the bulk of these misdiagnoses are on boys. Over the course of my 20 plus years of experience, I have seen several cases where an ADHD diagnosis is appropriate, but I am reticent to diagnose very young boys who have many natural developmental ups and downs, and who as a group have language and social-emotional struggles early on. Most will outgrow these challenges and wont need medications. Finding the small number of children who will have long-term problems with attention, impulsivity, and motor Rosetta Stone Italian V3 activity is guess work to some degree (no objective criteria is available to measure these and as Ive said before, its based on reports of behavior from others who know the child). Due to such diagnostic inaccuracy, I always encourage parents and professionals to reassess an existing ADHD diagnosis as children develop and change. Further, I am very conservative in diagnosing this problem. I slow the diagnostic process down to collect more data and history. I wont diagnose the condition unless I speak to more than one observer (parent, teacher, camp counselor, coach, etc.), and often I am surprised how many times there are differences. A boy may behave appropriately, focused, non-impulsively, and not hyperactive in one situation but not another. I wont diagnose ADHD in such cases. It should be a problem that shows up, to some degree, across situations and settings. There are many other probable childhood issues and situational factors that can mask themselves as ADHD. The Rosetta Stone Software diagnosis is poorly constructed. Unless a practitioner takes his or her time, evaluates, and collects reasonable observations across contexts and settings, making a diagnostic error (and medicating unnecessarily) is more likely.

Haitian Students Entering Florida Schools Have Help with Brainchild

Florida schools are seeing significant numbers of Haitian students Rosetta Stone Languages file through their doors and some of the schools, like Miami-Killian High School in Miami are better equipped to help those students than others.Haitian Students Entering Florida Schools Have Help with BrainchildMIAMI, Florida March 23, 2010 Florida schools are seeing significant numbers of Haitian students file through their doors and some of the schools, like Miami-Killian High School in Miami are better equipped to help those students than others.Miami-Killian High School has resources on hand to help Haitian students feel some sense of control despite the upheaval in their lives and the language barrier that exists in a new country. The school has dozens of Study Buddy hand-held learning devices on hand which are manufactured by a Florida-based company called Brainchild (brainchild). Study Buddies look like small game devices but they are used by students to reinforce instruction in mathematics, language arts, math and science. And, for the Haitian students, Study Buddies already come with content in their native language, Haitian Creole.It is so wonderful to hand one of our new students a learning device that already has content in their native language, said Sheryl Place, ESOL director at Miami-Killian High School. These students have been through so much that it is just a comfort for them to see some lessons and resources in a familiar language. Technology is a great equalizer. They know about cell phones and they Rosetta Stone Cheap know about gaming devices. The Study Buddy is familiar and it speaks their language.Every student's performance on the state's assessment, the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test), is critical. For new students, landing in a new school and right into a testing environment can be overwhelming especially after the earthquake and trauma of recent events in Haiti.There may be nothing else that these students can control in their lives at the moment but when you hand them a Study Buddy, you can almost see their shoulders relax. At least they can control this one thing and spend a little time learning without having to adapt to English, adds Ms. Place.Study Buddies are complemented by a web-based assessment and instructional resource also by Brainchild called Achiever!. With Achiever!, students can practice for the FCAT without pressure while seeing how well they can handle English in a testing situation. They can refer to the Study Buddy in English, Spanish or Creole to explain concepts or Rosetta Stone Hindi V3 continue working on problems until they understand the concept and are more comfortable with the English version of the questions.We find that our Haitian students have very good academic skills but they need help bridging the language barrier, adds Ms. Place. Study Buddies allow them to go into their own world for a while and practice and build their confidence.About BrainchildBrainchild, Corp. is a Florida-based company that provides standards-based online assessment, instruction and reporting tools that help students reach and exceed learning objectives. In addition to its Achiever! series built individually for each state, Brainchild manufactures the Study Buddy, the first handheld tutor that was created exclusively for K-12 public schools and is being used by Rosetta Stone over 1 million students per day. Call or click for more information: 800-811-2724 or brainchild.

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The Shamrocks of Literacy in America

Tom Sticht - On St. Patrick's day it is customary to decorate with green shamrocks, like Rosetta Stone Languages three leaf clovers. Some think the tradition of using a three leaf shamrock to celebrate St. Patrick's day symbolizes the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Christian faith.But others think it refers to the Celtic Goddess Brigit (pronounced Breet), of whom it is said that wherever she walked small flowers and shamrocks appeared.Brigit was thought of as a tripartite Sun goddess: Brigit the Fire of the Hearth, goddess of family, Brigit the Fire of the Forge, goddess of the crafts and a goddess who was concerned with law and justice, and Brigit the Fire of Inspiration, the goddess of poetry and cultural learning. In this latter image she was even esteemed as the patron deity of language, and was believed to have inspired the alphabet.On this St. Patricks day, occurring in the midst of Womens History month, in place of the three-part Goddess Brigit, a shamrock of three literacy teachers comes to mind. These are three women of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries who have served to bring the Fire of Inspiration, through the mastery of the alphabet to tens of thousands of AmericansThe 19th Century: Suzie (Baker) King Taylor (1848-unknown)When St. Patrick was first brought to Ireland, he came as a slave. Only Rosetta Stone Cheap later did he become a free man. In the mid-19th century, Susie (Baker) King Taylor was born a slave in Savannah, Georgia in 1848. She was raised by her grandmother who sent her and one of her brothers to the home of a free women to learn to read and write, even though it was against the law for slaves to learn to read and write. As she explained in her 1902 book, We went every day with our books wrapped in paper to prevent the police or white persons from seeing them. (Taylor in Lerner, 1972)During the Civil War the Union Army initiated the practice of enlisting freed African-Americans, many of whom were illiterate. In response to these needs, many officers initiated programs of education for the former slaves. One of the people engaged in teaching soldiers to read and write was Susie King Taylor. Describing something of the conditions under which she worked, Taylor said,Outside of the Fort were many skulls lying about; I have often moved them one side out of the path.The comrades and I would have wondered a bit as to which side of the war the men fought on, some said they were the skulls of our boys; some said they were the enemies; but as there was no definite way to know, it was never decided which could lay claim to them. They were a gruesome sight, those fleshless heads and grinning jaws, but by this time I had become used to worse things and did not feel as I would have earlier in my camp life. -(Taylor in Lerner, 1972)According to Taylor, I taught a great many of the comrades in Company E to read and write when they were off duty, nearly all were anxious to learn. My husband taught some also when it was convenient for him. I was very happy to know my efforts were successful in camp also very grateful for the appreciation of my services. I gave my services willingly for four years and three months without receiving a dollar. (Taylor in Lerner,1972)The 20th Century: Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987)Septima Poinsette Clark has been called the Queen Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. She was an innovator in teaching adult reading and Rosetta Stone German writing in the civil rights movement of the United States. On January 7, 1957, Clark and her teachers started the first Citizenship School serving adult African-Americans on Johns Island in South Carolina. Clark (1962) recalled that when the teachers asked the students what they wanted to learn, the answer was that, First, they wanted to learn how to write their names. That was a matter of pride as well as practical need. (p. 147).In teaching students to write their names Clark instructed teachers to carve students names into cardboard. Then, according to Clark (1962), What the student does is trace with his pencil over and over his signature until he gets the feel of writing his name. I suppose his fingers memorize it by doing it over and over; he gets into the habit by repeating the tracing time after time. (p.148). She went on to say, And perhaps the single greatest thing it accomplishes is the enabling of a man to raise his head a little higher; knowing how to sign their names, many of those men and women told me after they had learned, made them FEEL different. Suddenly they had become a part of the community; they were on their way toward first-class citizenship. (p. 149).Working with Dr. Martin Luther Steelers Jerseys King at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Clark took the simple adult literacy educators method for teaching adults to write their names and eventually trained 10,000 teachers to teach literacy so that African-Americans could gain the vote. Altogether, the Citizenship Schools got nearly 700,000 African-American adults registered to vote in the South, providing political muscle to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s!The 21st Century: Ruth J. Colvin (1916-present)Ruth J. Colvin, started her work near the middle of the 20th century in1962 when she started a project which eventually became Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA). She has continued her work into the 21st century and continues into her ninth decade of life. In 2006 she became the first adult literacy educator ever to receive the Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States.Literacy Volunteers of America became a national organization with over 400 affiliates and thousands of tutors offering one-on-one tutoring and small group instruction in literacy for both native born and immigrant adults. At the beginning of the 21st century, LVA merged with Laubach Literacy to form the worlds largest adult literacy education organization, ProLiteracy Worldwide.In her book, A Way With Words, Colvin provides a modern-day version of the Goddess Brigit as the Fire of Inspiration and reminds adult literacy educators everywhere that:We are responsible for own lives. We are stewards of our time, our talents, our resources. Each of us has the same 24 hours each day. We are responsible for how we use those 24 hours. Each of us has talents-different to be sure.We msut use and develop our talents, or, like unused muscles, thell wither away. Each of us has resources. Some have more, some less but each of us is responsible for what is done with these resources. Live life to the fullest physically, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. Know that you grow as you share your time, talents, and treasures.Here, then, is a shamrock for St. Patricks day: three outstanding ladies of literacy whos work spans three centuries in the history of America. But today the struggle goes on. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) of 2003 showed that million of adults are in need of basic literacy.Fortunately, the purple mountains and fruited plains across the Nation are full of shamrocks who continue the work of the Goddess Brigit and continue to inspire adult learners and lead them into the world of literacy and cultural learning.

511% Growth in Student Loans from 1999 to 2011

New York Federal Reserve data shows student loan debt has grown by 511% since 1999.The Rosetta Stone V3 growth in student loansover the past decade has been truly staggering, writes Daniel Individlio at the Atlantic.In the first quarter of 1999, just $90 billion in student loans were outstanding. As of the second quarter of 2011, that balance had ballooned to $550 billion.As explained in an article by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus American colleges are facing an unprecedented student debt crisis.Over the same period, housing-related debt had increased threefold. Meanwhile, the balance of student loans grew by more than six times.The reason for this vast increase could be availability. The governments backing let’s credit to students flow very freely. Universities are also raising tuition aggressively since students are willing to pay more through those loans, writes Individlio.“All this college debt could put the U.S. on a slower growth path in the years to come. As Americans grapple with high student loan payments for the first few decades of their adult lives, they’ll have less money to spend and invest. All that money Rosetta Stone Italian flowing into colleges and universities is being funneled away from other industries where it would have been spent in future years. Of course, this would be a rather unfortunate irony: higher education is supposed to enhance a nations growth, but with such an enormous debt burden, graduates might not be able to spend and invest enough to allow that growth to occur.”Despite the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011 this summer, thousands of debt-ridden graduates may face even higher interest rates triggered by the uncertainty surrounding the country’s credit, writes Amanda Seitz at The College Fix.Lenders in the private industry could decide to up interest rates soon, Moody’s Director of Consumer Credit Analytics Chris deRitis estimated. Earlier in August, he’d heard private student loans rates could increase anywhere from a quarter of a percent to a whole percent.“It could be instantaneously,” deRitis said. “Private lenders are now reacting to all sorts of market conditions and events.”The looming credit uncertainty may create costly issues for students seeking loans, FinAid.org and Fastweb publisher Mark Kantrowitz said.“The investors are much more acutely aware of the possibility of a future default, especially given the last minute nature of the legislation,” Kantrowitz said of the debt ceiling deal reached in August.Federal student loans aren’t immune to possible increases either; costs for future generations could be impacted, writes Seitz.“The expectation (with credit downgrades) is that borrowing costs would go up,” deRitis said. “Congress, at that point, would say ‘our borrowing costs are higher and we’re going to charge students.’”“Students Steelers Jerseys are going to be squeezed,” Kantrowitz said. “It’s part of a long-term trend towards decreasing college affordability.”It’s a trend that even long after graduating from college, Goehring is unsure of how he’ll afford.“The most stressful thing is when you add it all up, it’s really overwhelming to look at all you have to chip away at,” Goehring said. “You ask: ‘how am I going to pay this off? If they add interest rates, it will take even longer.”

Pure Energy Services Accelerates Certified Safety Training With IntraLearn Software s LearningServer for SharePoint IntraLearn Software Corporatio

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New Release from Bradford Publishing Co.—A Unique Book on Colorado Community Association Law

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Friendship School Receives Grant to Improve Technology

The Marion L. and Henry J. Knott Foundation Rosetta Stone Spanish has awarded Friendship School ( friendshipschool.org) in Eldersburg, MD, a $40,000 grant to support the school’s Technology Improvement Program. According to school officials the funds will allow Friendship School to acquire a SMART Interactive Whiteboard, a dozen iPads, 50 new computers, and additional software.This grant will enable the school to offer assistive technology in the classroom, critical for Friendship School students who are normal functioning, highly intelligent, and generally very creative but have dyslexia or other language-based learning differences. The Friendship School’s staff specializes in bridging the neural pathways within the minds of students; helping them process information as it is presented in mainstream education.Key Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 features of the new technology include enhancing students’ independent work through iPad applications that allow audible text reading capabilities. These, combined with the SMART Interactive Whiteboard, offer multi-sensory instruction that allows the school’s students to learn through multiple modalities.According to Teresa Ankney, Head of School, “This allows us to maximize the Orton-Gillingham methodology we use, a multi-sensory approach widely recognized for its effectiveness, blending visual, auditory and kinesthetic modalities in the learning process.” About the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott FoundationFounded in 1977, the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation is a Catholic family foundation committed to honoring its founders’ legacy of generosity to strengthen the community within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. For more information, visit knottfoundation.orgAbout Friendship SchoolFriendship School serves students in grades one through eight with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences who attend from throughout central Maryland. Friendship offers a full curriculum covering all core academic subjects as well as art, music, drama, Rosetta Stone Greek V3 physical education and computer literacy. The school’s program includes daily one-to-one reading and language-based tutoring, as well as multi-sensory teaching strategies. Friendship School also provides training for teachers to help identify and remediate students with dyslexia. The school serves as a lab school where these research-based best practices are put into action with the student population.

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Warm-up fare proves to be a bit of a curate’s egg

CELTIC’S smorgasbord of warm-up games, spread over Australia, Rosetta Stone Wales, Glasgow and Dublin, will end in Swansea on Wednesday. What is clear is that manager Neil Lennon has plenty of food for thought. He is still digesting the latest offerings, distinctly different games against Internazionale and an Airtricity XI in the Dublin Super Cup, which, in truth, was super in name only, despite the presence of the Serie A side and super-rich Manchester City. Even reduced to 10 men for most of their 2-0 win against Celtic on Saturday, after Thiago Motta was shown two yellow cards, Inter reminded Lennon how far his side must progress to again harbour real aspirations of taking a place at Europe's top table. That spicy appetiser preceded much poorer fare when what was, for the most part, Celtic's back-up side, a few not even in that second-string category, and a smattering of first-choice men, picked apart 5-0 a local league select to give the thinly spread fans something to cheer. More importantly, the weekend left Lennon to consider not so much what he has, but what he still lacks in terms of the personnel required to ensure last season's shortcomings are not repeated. A goalkeeper remains the priority, Lukasz Zaluska having fluffed his latest chance against Inter, and Dominic Cervi making a couple of decent saves against Airtricity but nothing to convince anyone he is ready to throw his oversized hat into the ring. Lennon also remains committed to increasing the firepower at his disposal, and confirmed the attempt to bring back Craig Bellamy to the club is ongoing. Rosetta Stone Cheap We have been working on that in the background, and will hopefully know more later in the week,he said. There have been conversations between the clubs [Celtic and Manchester City]. While this deal simmers, the combination which served up 42 goals between them last season, Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes, is coming to the boil at just the right time. They were kept in reserve until well into the second half against Inter, Lennon having opted to start with Georgios Samaras in the lone striker role, and certainly added an edge to Celtic's attack, though without finding a way past the excellent Luca Castellazzi. Not surprisingly, they had better luck against Airtricity, and Stokes delighted his home-city crowd with a double, matched by Hooper, while forgotten man Daryl Murphy reminded everyone he is still around by scoring from the penalty spot. Darren O'Dea, meanwhile, received a late summons but revealed afterwards that he expects it to be his last game for the club, with an agreement to end his contract thought to be close. Hooper was relieved to return to the scoresheet, but conceded the four pre-season games before their opening Clydesdale Bank Premier League match against Hibernian, followed by encounters with Wolverhampton, the trip to Dublin and finally Swansea City before they resume league duty at Aberdeen on Sunday, is difficult to get his head around. However, it is a means to an end. Hooper said: We had a really good session against Inter Milan and played well. We missed a lot of chances but it was a good workout. After suffering an early exit in Europe last season, the team are now looking ahead to Friday's draw for the Europa League qualifiers. Hooper said: Rosetta Stone French V3 We've come on leaps and bounds compared to when we played Braga. We're keeping the ball better and creating chances. We're defending well and we're learning every day. Of Bellamy perhaps joining the club, Hooper added: It would be another quality player so, if it came off, I think we would all be happy.

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There was no trench warfare

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This was the first effective reserve system, and it proved its value in the eventual defeat of Napoleon.By the time of the American Civil War firepower had so increased because of improved firearms that the stand-up fight of lines of infantry was permanently abandoned. By 1864 soldiers, even without orders, dug trenches to protect themselves, and the last year of the war was fought largely in field fortifications. In this war railroads were first used to move and supply troops, and the telegraph was first used to transmit orders.The value of efficient staff planning was demonstrated in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–71, in which the German armies quickly defeated the French. In this war were made the last charges by large masses of cavalry. Development of rapid-fire, breech-loading arms spelled the doom of the horse on the battlefield.Machine guns and barbed-wire entanglements were innovations in the Spanish-American War, 1898. In the Boer War, 1899–1902, British forces found that modern arms could not easily overcome guerrilla forces.World War I and AfterIn World War I, 1914–18, machine guns and greatly increased use of rapid-fire artillery drove the armies underground, and most of the fighting for four years on the Western Front was from elaborate trench systems. Railways were used to carry millions of soldiers to the fighting fronts and by motor trucks to haul supplies from railroads to the front lines.The Germans introduced Language Learning Software poison gas in an effort to break through, but gas proved a peril to the user as well as to the opponent. It was rarely tried after World War I. In 1916 Britain introduced the tank. It was slow-moving and lightly armed, but it proved moderately effective. 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The first successful paratroop invasion in May 1941 was launched by the Germans, when they seized the island of Crete. When Allied armies landed in Normandy, in northern France, the largest combined land, sea, and air attack in history occurred on June 6, 1944.In the Pacific, the war was amphibious. First the Japanese seized Allied territory by seaborne invasions and then the Allies took key islands with a series of brief but costly amphibious assaults. These campaigns demonstrated the importance of close cooperation between land, sea, and air forces.The atomic bomb was used in the last stages of the war against Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but was not used in the numerous "limited" wars that followed. Although these wars were fought largely with weapons like those used in World War II, there were such new developments as guided missiles, helicopters, and jet aircraft. These weapons changed the thinking of many experts about the tactical use of nuclear weapons. Such cannons and missiles could launch nuclear warheads at a large body of troops, a supply dump, or any other target within the weapons' range. Except in the Korean War (1950–53) the "limited" wars rarely involved full-scale combat between large masses of troops; the trend, rather, was toward guerrilla warfare, in which small units of fast-moving troops strike quickly and then withdraw. Rosetta Stone French During its involvement in the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 1973, the United States Army relied heavily on conventional warfare tactics. To fight Communist guerrillas in the jungles of Vietnam, these tactics were considered the most effective way by the American army. The Vietnamese guerrillas relied on surprise and mobility and avoided major battles in the open, where heavy U.S. firepower could be decisive. In 1956, 1967, and 1973, the Arab and Israeli forces fought wars using conventional weapons. 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