of the University with approximately 13,000 students and a distinctive identity as an important city in a frontier state. The larger cities of Colorado's Front Range such as Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder are within 1-2 hours driving distnace. Tenure-Track Position The Special Education program is a NCATE Nationally-Recognized program that is responsible for preparing quialified personnel to serve students with divers learning needs. The program allows…
Assistive technology is great to have in the classroom because it helps a special needs student with communication problems to communicate. Voucher An education voucher is a voucher that is given to parents so their child may go to a different school(National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, June). The purpose of the education voucher is so a child may get a better education at another school than what they are attending. ELL ELL is anyone who is learning the…
There are three levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal, and ratio. Nominal level data is the lowest level of data and is qualitative (word oriented). Ordinal data are assigned numbers reflecting on the order of the relationship between the characters studied. Interval level data is a move from the qualitative scale to the quantitative scale – numbers (Walker, 2009). It also builds on ordinal data and shows an equal value between categories. There are also three measures of central tendency:…
For the measure of central tendency of a home, I believe this would fall under the nominal variable and be a mode tendency. Walker (2009) states that the mode is the most frequently occurring value in a distribution. By showing on the table that a house is that most frequent that is lived in, there is no median or mean that can be determined as the numbers are skewed. On the next table for arrest, I believe that a true zero can be identified as many people may have never been arrested as…
As one of the eight companies that constituted the so-called major studios that created the Hollywood studio system during the golden age, Harry Cohn has led Columbia Pictures gained the greatest creative turnover of any major studio, yet, Columbia Pictures nearly bankrupt after Harry Cohn’s death and was eventually sold to Coca-Cola. On the contrary, Disney did not focus on the revenue and Walt Disney did not became the first person in Hollywood to assume the title of president and producer,…
A discussion to the question asked by Congressman Richard Shelby of the House of Representative about the independence of auditors establishing long-term personal and professional relationship with companies by auditing those companies. Respectively companies that retain the same auditors for long period of time may perhaps question their independence and objectivity. The failure of financial reporting at Enron, WorldCom, Lemon Bother and others, led to financial reporting reforms. Audit firm…
Over the course of her memoir An Unquiet Mind, Dr. Kay Jamison recounts her experience with bipolar disorder both as a clinician and a client of psychotherapy. To better understand this experience, her journey can be analyzed through a series of lenses including theories of genetics and life stress. Both the way the theories let us see Dr. Jamison’s experience, as well as how her experience informs our understanding of the theories are examined. How these theoretical approaches are consistent…
Louis Paolino, Jr., is an accomplished entrepreneur who has served tenures as owner chief executive officer of Girard Point Transfer and owner/president of Soil Remediation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After selling Soil Remediation to USA Waste Services for a total of $20 million, he remained with USA Waste Services as…
beginning of a season. According to SkyBet.com, the next most likely manager to be fired is Remi Garde of Aston Villa with 2-1 odds, and Louis Van Gaal of Manchester United is right behind him with 100/30 odds. Another incredible statistic is the average tenure of Premier League managers. According to the BBC, a manager stays at one club for an average 2.13 years. This is an incredibly short period of time for a manager to be expected to elevate the playing level of a club from its predecessor.…
education to the students and parents instead of paying out of state coffers. Faculty salaries have fallen compared to private universities and the private sector. The result has been to substitute the part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty for full time tenure track…