Conflict and Consonance: Implementing an Evidence-Based Middle School Science Curriculum

This study is to investigate the middle school teachers’ concerns and perspectives during the implementation of an evidence-based curriculum that supports the development of both content knowledge and scientific practices. Two themes emerge from data analysis: consonance and conflict.

Issues for Managing Tourism Information

The need for a high quality tourism database is well known. For example, planners and managers need high quality data for budgeting, forecasting, planning marketing and advertising strategies, and staffing. Thus the concepts of quality and need are intertwined to pose a problem to the tourism professional, be they private sector or public sector employees. One could argue that collaboration by public and private sector tourism professionals could provide the best sources and uses of high quality tourism data. This discussion proposes just such a collaboration and a detailed methodology for operationalizing this arrangement.

The Beacon, October 25, 2007

Vol. 20, Issue 24, 8 pages

Membership and Immigration- Today's Civil Rights Agenda part 1

Ediberto Roman, J.D., Professor Law at Florida International University's College of Law presents a lecture on Martin Luther King Jr in relation to today's current immigration issues.

Laura downloading data on the autosampler platform at TS/Ph-2, Taylor Slough

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