(2012). A Logistic Regression and Discriminant Function Analysis of Enrollment Characteristics of Student Veterans with and without Disabilities. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Commonwealth University. The postsecondary enrollment of student veterans has increased with the troop draw down in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the generous amendments made to the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Acquired disabilities remain a reality for this population as they transition into the civilian world; consequently, previous literature cites the role of disabilities amongst student veterans. Also, prior research often aggregates these two groups without a thorough understanding of the ways in which they differ. This study compared student veterans with disabilities to student veterans without disabilities in order to understand the enrollment and demographic factors on which they differed, if any. Using a secondary data analysis of the 2007-2008 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey, univariate tests of significance, a logistic regression, and a discriminant function analysis examined the relationship between disability status and seven predictor variables: age, gender, GPA, major, risk index, degree… [Direct]
(2012). Chicago's Peace Warriors. Rethinking Schools, v26 n2 p33-37 Win 2011-2012. In 2009, Chicago witnessed 458 murders–more than the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Many of those killings involved teenagers. Kingian Nonviolence is a training curriculum developed out of the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by two of his close allies, Bernard Lafayette Jr. and David Jehnsen. Used in schools, prisons, and communities around the world, it provides a framework to understand conflict and violence, and teaches communities a way to build peace. King believed that nonviolence is not a passive, but a proactive force that can defeat violence and injustice. It is not about teaching people to turn the other cheek, but about teaching people how to confront the forces of violence and injustice in their lives and create a real, lasting peace. It is, as King put it, "the antidote to violence." Tiffany Childress, science teacher and civic engagement director at Chicago's North Lawndale College Preparatory High, saw right away how this… [Direct]
(2006). Latino Soldiering: The Red, White, and Brown. Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v72 n3 p19-21 Nov. U.S. Latinos–particularly Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans–are known as exemplary soldiers. The record shows they have always answered the call to duty proudly and willingly no matter the cause or the burden. That is why they have won so many Congressional Medals of Honor. There are currently about 85,000 Hispanics on active military duty. Many are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and taking their share of casualties. Latinos take a lot of pride in who they are, and the tradition of the Latino soldier has always been one of their proudest assets. Some in the Latino community might disagree with the merits of the Iraqi War and the military occupation in Afghanistan, but they can never disagree with the commitment of their soldiers…. [Direct]
(2011). Islamic Schools and American Civic Culture. Academic Questions, v24 n1 p24-31 Mar. In the nearly ten years since the attacks by Muslim terrorists on 9/11, people have seen an exponential growth in homegrown radical Islam, or Islamism. Insufficiently recognized and acknowledged, this metastasis has produced its natural, deadly effects: jihad against American citizens on their own soil. Some analysts cite "the narrative" as the driving cause behind rampant radicalization, at home and abroad. The narrative exploits the virulently anti-American propaganda being spread across the world in Muslim communities, from Miami to Mumbai, from Detroit to Dubai. That narrative drives a rapidly escalating fervor of discontent against the West in general and America in particular, which serves to radicalize Muslims who view Americans as their mortal enemies and the cause of all the maladies that afflict Muslims worldwide. With images of Abu Ghraib and other exaggerated embarrassments that twist the reality of America's mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, Islamists garner… [Direct]
(2001). CNN Newsroom Classroom Guides, November 2001. These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of November 2001, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Top stories include: economic stimulus and U.S. steps up the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, (November 1-2); Bush administration faces tough questions about its military campaign, U.S.-led air strikes in Afghanistan intensify, President Bush wants coalition partners to back up their support for the war against terrorism, election roundup-Michael Bloomberg wins New York City's mayoral election, and Presidential address (November 5-9); the USS Stennis departs for the Arabian Sea, the Northern Alliance takes over Kabul, U.S. leaders are pleased with the retreat of Taliban forces, and a Taliban leader issues a new threat against the United States (November 13-16); Afghanistan ponders its political future, U.S. continues to hunt…
(2008). The New GI Bill: It's a Win-Win Proposition. Chronicle of Higher Education, v54 n36 pA34 May. The idea of providing returning veterans with benefits as both a reward for their service and as a means of enabling them to reintegrate into civilian life dates to the early history of the United States. Revolutionary War soldiers received military pensions, land grants, and other forms of care, depending on their service and its location. After the Civil War, Union soldiers (but not, until much later, their Confederate counterparts) received pensions. In anticipation of the large numbers of returning American troops from World War I, the government developed a comprehensive package of veterans benefits that included disability payments, pensions, rehabilitation, and vocational training. Formally known as the Serviceman's Readjustment Act, the GI Bill provided tuition, room, and board, as well incidental expenses for books, to any veteran who attended a four-year college or university, a two-year college, or a trade school. The bill, which applied to both women and men and provided… [Direct]
(2011). Living in the Gutter: Conflict and Contradiction in the Neoliberal Classroom–A Call to Action. Berkeley Review of Education, v2 n1 p95-108 Jan. Beyond a sewer or a ditch, the "gutter" is that narrow blank space between panels in every comic book or graphic novel. Seeming to say nothing at all, that thin white strip is where most of the magic actually happens. The gutter brings the art to life as sequential, and is the central site of tension and conflict, interpretation, imagination, and meaning making. The authors write that they often feel these days that they are living inside a comic book and so they write this opinion paper from the margin, the cut, the gutter. They assert that the evidence of terminal rot at the center is everywhere, and the accompanying collapse is all around us: a scandalous financial emergency and an economic sink hole based on deep structural problems; rampant and disgraceful political corruption; the relentless search for profits turning the earth into a sewer and creating an environmental crisis that cannot and will not be ignored; demographic changes caused by globalization and… [PDF]
(1975). Educational Reforms in the Republic of Afghanistan. Education in Asia, 8, 13-5, Sep 75. The aims, objectives, and structural changes in the Afghanistan educational system are listed. See SO 504 376 for journal availability. (DE)…
(1970). Starting Educational Broadcasting in Afghanistan. Educational Television International, 4, 4, 274-81, Dec 70. …
(2007). Operation Parenting Edge: Promoting Resiliency through Prevention. Zero to Three, v27 n6 p7-12 Jul. With current U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, military families are facing an unprecedented level of stress because of repeated and lengthy separations. The impact on children of these separations from one or both parents depends to a large extent on the remaining caregiver's ability to respond to the needs of the children. By providing supportive programs sensitive to the unique needs of military families with infant and toddlers, community initiatives such as Operation Parenting Edge (OPE) are able to maximize coping skills and promote resiliency in these families…. [Direct]
(1983). Studying Other Cultures: Afghanistan as a Focus. Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, v36 n1 p62-66 Spr. Students should study the culture of a nation like Afghanistan because it is intrinsically significant and will help them understand human nature and experience. Teaching approaches and materials are discussed. (RM)…
(2009). Transitions: Combat Veterans as College Students. New Directions for Student Services, n126 p5-14 Sum. The experience of war makes those who fight a special group within the general population. The purpose of this study was to investigate how combat veterans who become college students make the transition to campus life, in order to identify how administrators can acknowledge and support them. A total of six women and 19 men were interviewed; 24 were enrolled full-time at one of three public research universities and one at a four-year regional university (DiRamio, Ackerman, and Mitchell, 2008). Of those interviewed, only two had experienced more than a single deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Nine participants had attended college prior to serving on active duty. Students still on active duty were not included in the study, although National Guard and reserve force members were. The authors conducted the interviews, and the decision to end the study at 25 cases was guided by researcher agreement that clear themes had emerged (Creswell, 1997). Interviews with participants revealed… [Direct]
(2013). Literacy Programmes with a Focus on Women to Reduce Gender Disparities: Case Studies from UNESCO Effective Literacy and Numeracy Practices Database (LitBase). www.unesco.org/uil/litbase/. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning Literacy is the foundation of lifelong learning and a crucial element in the universally recognised right to education. However, illiteracy continues to exist as a global challenge, and many individuals still lack the basic literacy skills that are needed to engage in further learning opportunities and for the economic and social development of their communities. In order to redress this persistent gender disparity, the need to empower women through the acquisition of literacy skills is gaining increasing recognition. A number of countries are already implementing effective literacy programmes that directly target women, including various E-9 countries (The E-9 is a forum of nine countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan), LIFE (UNESCO launched the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE, 2006-2015) as a collaborative effort to accelerate literacy action in thirty-six of the world's most challenged countries: Afghanistan,… [PDF]
(1993). Strategic Planning for Literacy Education in Afghanistan. International Journal of Educational Reform, v2 n3 p286-91 Jul. After crisis conditions abated, directors of a U.S. Agency for International Development/University of Nebraska at Omaha joint project resolved to implement strategic planning for literacy education (including curriculum development, teacher education, and assessment) in Afghanistan. This article describes the rigors of educational planning in a theocratic Muslim society. The resulting plan included both sexes. (MLH)…
(2010). Student Veterans Returning to a Community College: Understanding Their Transitions. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Iowa State University. Higher education and the military have been linked throughout history in the United States. Now, with the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the higher education community is beginning to realize again the importance of understanding student veterans' transition experiences into college and providing appropriate support programs. However, the experiences of war veterans making the transition from service-member to college student are not clearly understood. Consequently, community colleges and other institutions of higher education may not possess the information necessary to assist these students effectively. The purpose of this phenomenological, qualitative research study was to explore the nature of the transition experiences of student war veterans who had re-enrolled in a community college following military deployments. Using Schlossberg's Theory of Transition (Goodman, Schlossberg, & Anderson, 2006) as the theoretical framework and a three-interview series (Seidman, 2006)… [Direct]