Academic Research in General & Special Education

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I. General & Special Education: Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management

Evaluation of Instructional Strategies Book: Teaching with Your Mouth Shut

Reciprocal Teaching: Explanation of the Instructional Strategy, Analysis with Classroom Management and Behavior Modification

Article Critique: Constructivist Cautions: Promises and Problems with the Theory and Practice

Article Critique: Motivating Mainstreamed Students with Severe Disabilities & Teaching Classroom Survival Skills to Students with Learning Disabilities.


II. Learning Disabilities: Assessment of, Modifying Interaction Approaches & Operationalizing a Definition

Changing Personal Approaches to Interacting- Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD

Article Critique: Operationalizing a Definition of Learning Disabilities

Critique of KeyMath Assessment Test

III. Modified Lesson Plans & Outline of Teaching Strategies for Students with Various Disabilities

Outline of Teaching Strategies: Students with Various Disabilities, Disorders, and Impairments

2nd Grade Subtraction Lesson- Students with Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities

Student Teaching - Two-Digit Multiplication for Self-Contained Summer School Students

IV. Controversial Issues in Education: Assessments, Inclusion Models, Special Education Case-Law

Article Critiques: Academic Standards and Assessment Driven Reform & Inclusion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Models for Mainstreaming vs. Inclusion vs. Full Inclusion, and the Least Restrictive Environment

Four Legal Precidents Major Impact on Special Education Services in the United States


V. Reading in the Content Areas: Civil War Three Lesson Plans & CLOZE, Critiques of Textbooks & Concept Mapping

Summary of Semantic Mapping Learning article & RCA Critique

Three RCA Lesson Plans on the American Civil War

RCA CLOSE on Emancipation Proclamation



VI. Six Lesson Plans: 12th Grade Economics

Inflation: Why Students Should Be Concerned

The United States and International Trade

Opportunity Cost and Evaluating Economic Decisions:

Scarcity

Laws of Supply & Demand:

Unemployment



VII. 7th Grade American Revolution Lesson Plans & Curriculum:

Twelve Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans with New York State Standards

Six Lesson Plains: Crisis in the Colonies Contributing to the American Revolution

Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan: Poster Project Exhibit

Vocabulary Terms, People, and CLOZE

Trial of Captain Preston Assignment Sheet with Testimonies

Testimonies and Stories Vocabulary Terms with Meanings


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Academic Research in Information & Library Sciences

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Academic Research in Journalism & Social Sciences

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I. FEATURING: Interrelationships between media, culture, and society

Socialization Function & Profound Effects of Mass Media on American Society, Culture, and Individuals

The Advertising Industry: Masking Women's Beauty & Identity, Appealing to Personal Insecurities?

MTV's Gender-Based Alienation & Feminine Narcissism and the Fashion Beauty Complex


II. Journalism / Mass Media

History, Differing Levels of Protection by Medium & Sources, State Laws & Case-Law of Reporter's Privilege

British Newspapers: Is Reporting the Private Lives of & Outing Labour Cabinet Officials in the Public Interest?

Mass Media Undermining Societal Values: Opposition to the Clinton Health Care Reform Initiative


III. Introduction to Political Research

Surveys on Political Talk Radio Shows: Influencing & Misleading Americans Understanding of Politics

SPSS Analysis & Explanation of 1996 National Election (Congressional) Survey

Analysis of a New York Times 1997 Mayoral Election Poll: Rudy Giuliani v. Ruth Messenger


IV. Philosophy

Naipauls Universal Civilization: Different Cultures Critiquing Other Civilizations

Interests of the Individual are in Conflict Society: Marx v. Neitzsche

Tension Between Individual Freedom & A Just State: A Platonic Review


V. British Politics and the European Union

Political Parties Accommodation of Voters Wants and Parties Agendas

Reasons Behind The Decline of Class Voting & the Emergence of Catch-All Parties

Do Neofunctionalist Theories Explain Clear Lines of Functional Spillover from the Common Market & Common Agricultural Policy to the Economic and Monetary Union?

Expectations of the Common Foreign Security Policy Exceed Its Capabilities

Note: papers written in Britain were composed under British spelling rules.

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Academic Research in Library & Information Sciences

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