Use your Facebook login and see what your friends are reading and sharing.
Candace's Documents
Do charter schools close the achievement gap?
It seems like charter schools will only be beneficial to African-American students if they have access to schools with racially balanced profiles. Any school that has a concentration of poverty-issues (malnutrition, parents that are not well-educated, social development issues, etc) is going to have too many problems to address with the limited resources that schools have. Balancing the racial profile of schools may create better outcomes for marginalized groups because the quality of the education environment increases. Data to support this idea comes from school outcomes for African-Americans while the courts were legislating racial quotas (from the mid 1960s until the late 1980s) and outcomes after courts began to relax race regulations (the early 1990s). The achievement gap narrowed considerably between the late 1960s and late 1980s and began to widen in the late 1980s. Analysis of private partial voucher programs in New York City, Datyon, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., found that African-American students had large gains (an average of 6.6 percentile ranking points over 3 years (with a standard deviation of .3) on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills) when they switched from public schools to private schools (Peterson, Wolf, Howell, and Campbell 2002). Since the scope of these programs were small and did not change the socioeconomic or racial make-up of the private schools involved, at-risk students were able to reap the benefits of the stable education environment. Maybe courts should increase school choice but establish racial quotas for schools.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:2,161Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionBrazil and Thailand’s Response to TRIPS and TRIPS-Plus: How can the international community balance needs of access and innovation?
In my analysis of Brazil and Thailand's response to TRIPS and TRIPS PLUS, I argue some IPRs are necessary for a robust world economy that encourages innovation, but there comes a time when patent laws put too many restrictions on the international flow of ideas and products.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:1,343Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionAre Foreign-Owned Enterprises Disproportionately Harming the Environment in China?
In this presentation, I assert that foreign enterprises are better than state-owned enterprises, privately-owned enterprises, or collectively-owned enterprises, at reducing pollution levels, and that the financial sector and citizens can provide an informal regulation system if there is a high level of transparency. (presentation goes with one of my papers on Scribd)
Category:(not categorized)Reads:942Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionDoes microfinance lead to economic growth?
I argue that the microfinance model is not a poverty-reducing measure.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:4,396Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionLiteracy Autobiography
In this literacy autobiography I wrote for one of my education MA classes, I compare the literacy development of Stephen in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to my own development.
Category:Creative WritingReads:4,090Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionManila’s Privitization, Manila's Water Woes, and the WaterAID Model
Can the WaterAID model help Manila's water woes?
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:771Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionCIVIL CONFLICT SEVERITY AND COMMODITY PRICES: A NEXUS BETWEEN THE TWO?
Abstract: A single ethnic conflict can cause millions of direct and indirect deaths, displace hundreds of thousands of people, spread malaria and HIV/AIDS to neighboring countries, and depress GDP growth rate for years after the conflict has ended. Although the probability a country will experience armed conflict has gone down to its lowest since the 1950s, over two-thirds of active conflicts are civil conflicts. Most of the civil conflict literature is focused on civil war onset. I come up with a theory of conflict severity measured in battle deaths. I hypothesize world price shocks and price levels of certain commodities have a positive correlation with conflict severity. Using a dataset of civil conflicts from 1961-1999 and data about world commodity prices, regime type, and economic indicators, I test this relationship with OLS and Tobit models globally, in Asia and Africa, and during the Cold War. I find that grievance variables are significant and that commodity variables are insignificant and hold little explanatory power.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:637Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionAre Foreign-Owned Enterprises Disproportionately Harming the Environment in China?
In this paper, I assert that foreign enterprises are better than state-owned enterprises, privately-owned enterprises, or collectively-owned enterprises, at reducing pollution levels, and that the financial sector and citizens can provide an informal regulation system if there is a high level of transparency.
Category:Business & EconomicsReads:984Uploaded:04 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionElementary Classroom Management Plan
My classroom management plan. Sections include information about pedagogical outlook, logical consequence structures, community building, relationships with parents and the community, and other topics. Information is presented in tables and other graphic organizers.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:21,740Uploaded:04 / 25 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
1
