Case Study #1: Bennington College Mark Edmundson’s New York Times piece, Bennington Means Business, provides an alumnus’ narration of the overhaul of Bennington College in 1994. The piece also provides an ideal model of an organization in change, which elucidates the undercurrents of educational leadership theory that commonly materialize in more nuanced and less pronounced ways. First, attention will be paid to the symbolism of Bennington College, particularly as chronicled by Edmundson. Then, the
Roethke married Beatrice O’Connell, a former student at Bennington College, in 1953. Roethke published many volumes of poetry throughout his career. His first volume, Open House, published in 1941, was filled with images of growth and decay and had short unrhymed verses (Encarta). According to Allan Seager, “most
unmistakable charm of this village, with its folks gathering in the square, between two of the most village like the buildings anyone could image, a post office and a bank. After marrying Stanley Hyman, she moved into a similar community, North Bennington, Vermont, which for all intents and purposes, was as quaint a town as the village described in “The Lottery,” with all its blossoming flowers and rich green grass. According to www.northbennington.org, the idea for writing “The Lottery” came to
The Battle Of Bennington In the summer of 1777 British forces wanted to invade the newly formed colonies to isolate them from the New England colonies. The British had a campaign named the Saratoga campaign. The British used this campaign to stop the American rebellion. The Battle of Bennington was apart of this campaign. This battle was fought down the Hudson river and into Lake Champlain and took place in between August 14 and August 16. The men commanding the Americans were General John Stark
Homeschool Home schooling really hit the national radar screen in 1997, when 13-year old Rebecca Sealfon won the National Spelling Bee. Showing everyone that her unorthodox education must be doing something right. Today, though home schooling accounts for only 3 or 4 percent of America’s schoolchildren, the movement’s annual growth rate has become a powerful, hard to ignore indictment of the nation’s school system (Bielick, Chandler, & Broughman, 2001). Side by side with public education’s terrible
Caroline Bird’s essay “College is a Waste of Time and Money” explains her beliefs on why, for some people, going to college is an ineffective and inefficient use of their time. She states that many students do not belong in college because they are there for the wrong reasons and they are not happy learning. She also gives evidence to suggest that going to college and getting a degree does not actually allows a person to make more money in their life time. Her final claim is that college does not prepare
burdensome. However it is looked upon, the college curriculum still requires a diverse selection of courses to develop well rounded, responsible individuals, but in turn creates added pressure upon students. Is it the job of secondary education to start developing all inclusive students who have
ABSTRACT This study employs ex-post factor research design to investigate the level of Availability and Utilization of ICT-Based Technology among biology teachers in Ekiti state secondary schools. In this survey, 36 biology teachers were randomly selected from boarding and day public secondary schools in Ekiti state. Two instruments were developed, validated and reliability scores obtained using Cronbach alpha method. Simple percentages, weighted average and chi-square were used in data analyses
CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background to the study As a teacher in the secondary school system in Nigeria for many years, experience has shown that, there are two categories of teachers – the good or effective teachers, and the bad or ineffective teachers’ observable from among teachers in the school system. The effective teachers are perceived to be fully equipped naturally and professionally to lead their students to success in competitive standardized tests, as well as inculcate in them, values that would
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0: Statement of the Problem 2 2.0: Motives and Goals 6 3.0: Research Question and Objectives 6 4.0: Literature Review 7 5.0: Research Strategies 10 6.0: Concepts 11 7.0: Data Sources, Types, and Forms 13 8.0: Selection of Data Sources 13 9.0: Data Collection and Timing 14 10.0: Data Reduction and Analysis 14 11.0: Problems and Limitation 19 12.0: Conclusion 20 13.0: References 25 14.0: Interview Question 27 UNDERSTANDING TRUANCY PROBLEM FROM VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES. A CASE