Education articles from March 2002

Education archives from March 2002

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 22, 2002... This issue of Education is dedicated to great contributions that Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich, President and founder of The United States Sports Academy, has made to the area of Sports Education, along with his wife Sally G. Rosandich, and more...

The statesman Ted Turner (Academy commencement speaker 2002).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The graduates at the 2001 Commencement Celebration of the United States Sports Academy were treated to brave and gallant stories of tenacity and perseverance by Ted Turner. He recalled how he began his career in sports; winning virtually no...

The University of Americas (UOA).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Established early in 2001 by the Academy as a wholly owned subsidiary, the University of Americas (UOA) is a degree completion program delivered throughout the world using distant learning. Its mission is to provide a quality academic...

Sports education throughout the world.(United States Sports Academy president Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 22, 2002... The United States Sports Academy has made major contributions internationally over the past several decades with programs being conducted in more than 60 countries, and that number continues to increase annually. Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich,...

Beijing University Physical Education Sport Education program.(United States Sports Academy)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The Academy has established a new Sport Education program with Beijing University of Physical Education (B.U.P.E.) along with several Physical Education Schools throughout the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong. The Academy is in...

The United States Sports Academy: thirty years of service to sport education.
March 22, 2002... As the world prepared for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the United States Sports Academy began celebrating its 30th anniversary of service to the world through sport education, and reflected on the performance of the U.S. team in the...

The United States Sports Academy: serving the world.
March 22, 2002... At a time when the pool of traditional American students has been showing a demographic change and when state governments have been putting their subsidies to higher education under increasing scrutiny, more and more American educational...

Distance learning: a matter of history at the United States Sports Academy.
March 22, 2002... A founding concept of the United States Sports Academy in 1972 was that it would be a "university without walls" that could meet the needs of its students by teaching sport in any location in the globe. The Academy has met this challenge,...

The United States Sports Academy and the American Sports Art Museum and Archives.
March 22, 2002... The American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) is a division of the United States Sports Academy. Dedicated to the preservation of sports history, art and literature, the ASAMA collection captures the performance and movement of man by...

The United States Sports Academy develops new Master of Sport Science degree program.
March 22, 2002... The United States Sports Academy serves the nation and the world as a sport education resource, whose mission is upgrading sport through programs of instruction, research and service. Consistent with a rich thirty-year tradition of...

The United States Sports Academy's Awards of Sport Program.
March 22, 2002... As a special mission graduate school of sport, the United States Sports Academy does not field powerhouse football or basketball teams. What it does have is "The Awards of Sport Program," which has become a dynasty of its own in the field of...

University of Americas: filling a need.(helping athletes complete degrees in Sport Science)
March 22, 2002... For three decades, the United States Sports Academy has served the nation and the world in the area of sport education at the graduate level. Its programs in continuing education, certification, the Master of Sport Science degree, and the...

The United States Sports Academy Alumni Association.
March 22, 2002... On August 27, 1986, fourteen years after the first courses were offered by the Academy, the United States Sports Academy Alumni Association was formed by a group of 10 alumni. The goal was to connect alumni to the Academy and to each other, to...

Collegiate sports programs: a comparative analysis.
March 22, 2002... The United States Sports Academy has a unique perspective on this issue, having delivered sport education and training programs in some 60 countries around the world. These programs have ranged from short-term seminars and symposia of a few...

Educating the whole athlete in a technological environment.
March 22, 2002... As with other elements of its society, American education today finds itself in the throes of contradictory and conflicting social values, which confuse every segment of our social constituency. Those conflicting social values compound the...

Shades of gray in prison administration.
March 22, 2002... Organizations are largely the shadows of their executives... it does not matter whether one is talking about Harvard University, the Chrysler Corporation or the Texas Department of Corrections. The executives skills and abilities, his sense of...

A scientific evaluation of five different strategies teachers use to maintain order.
March 22, 2002... Introduction Classroom order is a pervasive problem and a particular issue for the school community. Parents expect schools to create appropriate nurturing learning environments for their children. They expect teachers to use pedagogically...

The role of good educational management in a changing South Africa.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION Change is part of human existence. We live in an era of paradox, opportunities and above all, change. There are so many changes in our world that it seems as though traditional education just is not relevant anymore. Change is...

Why can't we all get along? Towards a framework for unifying research paradigms.
March 22, 2002... Since the latter part of the 19th century, a fervent debate has ensued about quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. From these disputes, purists have emerged on both sides. Quantitative purists express assumptions that are consistent...

Showing the work ethics of South African black adolescents is determined by parent involvement, their time concept, and efficacy.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... Introduction: Research problem and aim This research project was aimed at advancing an understanding of the complex interaction of factors which determine black South African adolescents' work ethics within the context of a productive...

Awaiting renaissance in the south's invisible research triangle.
March 22, 2002... During the late 1950s and early 1960s I grew up in a small red house on the corner of 17th and Herman Streets in North Nashville, blocks away from premier Fisk, Meharry and Tennessee State Universites. The architecture of that red house was...

Comparison of character traits for JROTC student versus non-JROTC students.(Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. )
March 22, 2002... The issue of what to teach in schools is largely dependent on the predominant educational philosophy of the decision makers in school district. Sergiovanni and Starratt (1998) described six different philosophies that can shape the curriculum...

Student teaching in the context of a school-university partnership: a case study of a student teacher.
March 22, 2002... Student teaching is perceived by teacher education students, teachers, and teacher educators as the most influential component of the teacher education program (Conant, 1963; Cruickshank & Armaline, 1986; Goodlad, 1990; Su, 1990). There is...

Assessment of a field-based teacher education program: implications for practice.
March 22, 2002... In response to national reports, such as The Nation at Risk, which were critical of American public education, teacher education programs have been under pressure to reform how they educate prospective teachers (The National Commission on...

General education, interdisciplinary pedagogy and the process of content transformation.
March 22, 2002... Interdisciplinary pedagogy for students is nothing new to academia, since the inception of universities in the United States much debate has focused on the merits of core curriculum integrating disciplines (Rury, 1996). Educators state that...

Communicating with parents: parental perceptions of state school accountability reporting.(Polling Data)
March 22, 2002... Two colleagues stood in the hallway of Nevada's Department of Education discussing an upcoming meeting to streamline the guidelines for school accountability reports to parents. "You know, they're not interested in all that stuff anyway",...

Miscommunication in the classroom: what teachers say and what student really hear.
March 22, 2002... Even though today's students live in a world that offers them instant access to almost unlimited information, teachers still remain the primary source of knowledge. This knowledge cannot be effectively transmitted if teachers and students are...

The supervisor of the school.(job description)
March 22, 2002... The supervisor in the school faces numerous responsibilities in improving the curriculum. Societal changes continually occur. These changes are reflected within the school. Thus, the curriculum for students is not stable, but subject to change....

Optimal levels of writing management: a re-analysis of Boice (1983).
March 22, 2002... Boice (1983) concluded that regularly scheduled writing sessions encouraged more writing and the emergence of more creative ideas than did "spontaneous" writing (writing when the writer "felt like it"). Boice's data also appears to show,...

Stochastic models of quality control on test misgrading.
March 22, 2002... In the last decade, essay items have been incorporated in major educational assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (Allen, Carlson, &...

An analysis of school board members.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... Introduction Historically, women dominated the pedagogical processes. Women were the educators in the one-room school house. Contracts were drawn for these women in which they agreed to several stipulations for a monthly salary of $75. In...

Prediction of GPA with educational psychology grades and critical thinking scores.
March 22, 2002... Research studies have shown significant relationships between different measures and academic achievement (GPA). For instance, Steward and Al-abdula (1989) reported relationships between critical thinking and academic performances for 237...

Equifinality: parents' and students' attitudes towards a student-centered approach to integration (1).(the inclusion movement )
March 22, 2002... The inclusion of all special needs students into the regular classroom setting is rapidly becoming the dominant educational ideology. Whether or not it is actually the best ideology remains the topic of much heated debate (e.g., Chow, Blais, &...

Sally G. Rosandich, wife of President Rosandich: (plays critical roles in relation to academy success).(Illustration)
March 22, 2002... Academy trustees gather to watch Sally Rosandich, Academy Secretary Treasurer, burn the mortgage on the Academy's campus in Daphne, Alabama. USSA is one of the few independent institutions of higher learning in the United States which is...