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FERPA

The issue of how to handle student records and information is something every school must address, and cannot neglect their duties. The federal government places strict laws on the handling of student information and schools need to have certain policies and procedures in place. All educational record handling must be in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which is a federal law. Currently, it has been noted that record keeping is very lax in the school, and it has been pointed out that teachers may be discussing confidential information covered under FERPA. As a result, Continue reading...

Abstract

In the age of today, every institution is becoming digitalized. It is not only the universities, but even early years settings are now introducing technological aspects in their literacy curriculum. Studies have analyzed this realm in wide depth and have often highlighted the difference on attitude towards technology in term of gender. This study, therefore, analyzes the relationship between computer proficiency and employment status in terms of gender. Results reveal that relationship between technology use at computer and proficiency level does not greatly differ for males and females. Instead, the type of the educational institute is related to the Continue reading...

Psychology

Summary
Background. Children with autism have severe and persistent impairments in social interaction and communication skills, affecting their participation in daily occupations at play, leisure and school and in personal care activities, thus requiring intervention. Intervention in the form of applied behavior analysis involves teaching skills in discrete steps. The unique capacities of the child require focus to foster new learning, and is done using the concept of closed circles of reciprocal communication, called Circles of Communication (CoC). Floor Time Play (FTP) is an intervention technique representing this approach, and involves moving the child through six developmental milestones (self-regulation, Continue reading...

Industry Analysis

Nike operates in the global sports apparel industry. It is one of the market leaders in the sports apparel market and its market share has increased from 3.9% in 2007 to 4.9% in 2012 and it is expected to grow to a 6.5% which shows that the pace of the growth of the company exceeds the industry average, especially in the period mentioned above. The world sports apparel market has an expected value of $126 billion in the current year i.e. 2015. The market trends in this industry are driven by health and more active lifestyles with the older Continue reading...

Introduction

The women in different generations have been consciously or unconsciously pushed to the periphery due to a number of reasons. Women have had to struggle to gain similar recognition that the men get into the society. In the recent past, women have come up to form unions and groups with a sole purpose of fighting for their place in the different spheres of the society. Through different initiatives by women, it has become possible for the ladies in different areas to climb through to leadership positions. Essentially, the upward mobility has been relatively achieved for the women. However, in Continue reading...

The successful functioning of a firm depends on how well it frames its strategies. In the short-run ts strategies include setting up the right price of its product, taking up effective advertisement projects and coming up with other marketing strategies. Decisions regarding all these issues require extensive market research. In this analysis we are going to consider the pricing and other decision of a firm that produces low calorie frozen microwavable widgets. We have the regression results of the survey from 26 supermarkets.
The first thing that we need to decide is which regression equation we are going to Continue reading...

Is the Multiculturalism good or bad for women?

Abstract:
Multicultural world is what we have today. Nowadays, there is a huge wave of immigrants all over the world every year. Many women are integrating into the absolutely another culture, because of many reasons, in most cases, because of better work placements, higher education, high social worth of women's labor in law-full enfranchisement and activity for the wife, annulment of special criminal regulations affecting women, franchise for women. Big percent of those immigrants are political refugees. Countries that easily accept immigrants and have special immigration policies are becoming or already are multicultural. Still, the main question is open: Continue reading...

Guerette, R. T. (2007). Immigration Policy, Border Security and Migrant Deaths: An Impact Evaluation of Life Saving Efforts under the Border Safety Initiative. Criminology & Public Policy, 6(2), pp. 201-222.
As a response to the increasing number of illegal immigrant death in the US, the government developed and implemented the Border Safety Initiative (BSI) to improve safety and security in the southwest border. The main cause of illegal immigrant death relate to poor safety and security in the way that they attempt to enter US borders illegally following the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). The USBP made it difficult for Continue reading...

Background

Cellular immunity is an immune response in which the protection function of immunization is attributed to cells. It occurs when phagocytes and cytotoxic T-lymphocytes are activated to respond to an antigen in the body. The centrality of CD4 cells and T cells in the prevention of pathogens cannot be gainsaid. In cellular immunity, cytotoxic T cells use cytokines to kill apoptosis (Cooper & Khader, 2008). Humoral immunity is the immune response in which the protection function of immunization is attributed to the humor. Macromolecules in extracellular fluids mediate humoral immunity. These fluids include antibodies, peptides and complement proteins. The processes Continue reading...

A study by Tella (2007) examined the effect of motivation on student’s academic achievement as well as Learning Outcomes in Mathematics. The study utilized a type of non-experimental research design known as ex post facto design since the predictor variable (motivation) had already occurred. For the study, a sample of 450 senior secondary school students were randomly selected from a total of ten secondary schools in Ibadan. To collect the data on motivational level of the participants, the researcher employed an instrument named Motivation for Academic Performance Questionnaire (MAPQ) which consisted of thirty Likert scale items. Based on Continue reading...

Entrepreneurship is characterized as "an independent, proactive, systematic economic activities, carried out by entrepreneurs running at their own risks to achieve economic and social benefits and profit. Entrepreneurship is inseparably linked with risks that are inherent to all areas of activity: production, marketing, finance etc.
Recently, the risk in business became even more dangerous due to sharpening the competition among enterprises. Under these conditions, small as well as big business needs involvement of risk management tools. It is well known, that successful management always applies risk management as a separate functional areas of business together with production, finance, human Continue reading...

The main problem in this case is the eradication of childhood obesity that has proved to be one of the major factors that affected the society badly. The number of mortality rates that have arisen due to heart related issues that are a major cause of deaths among the younger generations. In this case, the major problem to be addressed is the increased levels of obesity among the younger generations.
The purpose of the childhood obesity program is to create a series of events that will help cut down the levels of obesity among the society. In this case, Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association Guidelines

Hypothesis: If a child’s psychological and attention issues can be understood and addressed, they can be assessed long enough in order to teach them reading in a way they can understand, as stated in, “Reading Instruction That Works: The Case for Balanced Teaching .”
Independent Variable: The independent variable in the experiment would be presumed cause of the difficulty reading, i.e. the assumed cognitive/behavioral/social/etc. developmental delay, according to, “Teaching Reading to Every Child .”
Dependent Variable: The dependent variable would be the presumed outcome. In this case, it would be assuming the cause of the delay, examining it, overcoming it, Continue reading...

Niccolo Machiavelli belonged to an impoverished family who came from among the urban nobility and played at one time a role in the political life of the Florentine republic.
His father was a lawyer, family income was modest and did not allow the young Niccolo university education. But growing up in the circle of the Florentine humanist intellectuals, he learned Latin well enough to freely read ancient authors. From a young age the predominant interest in politics, in modern political life defined the range of his reading - primarily works of historians of classical antiquity.
In the political arena Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

In the corpus of fictional literature penned by female writers in the past few centuries, women have been represented and discursively framed in a variety of fashions. Such a diverse array of literature pieces have enabled scholars and students alike to recognize changing attitudes to women and the corresponding development of new techniques of literary presentation. Unfortunately, many female writers have been forgotten or elided from the grand narrative due to the entrenched sexism and structural prejudices that have pervaded the American intelligentsia since the inception of the nation. Feminist Janet Wolff opined that "women's writing and women's art, Continue reading...

Introduction

PEST analysis is one of the analytical tools that are used in strategic management. The business environment that any business entity or an organization is influenced by a number of factors that determine whether the organization will achieve its maximum performance while utilizing limited resources. Some factors can be controlled by the management (internal) while others are beyond management control (external). Under PEST analysis, the external factors that are beyond organization management control are critically analyzed (Oxford University Press 31). Similarly, the same analysis can be conducted to analyze the market viability of a country, region or an emerging Continue reading...

Leadership Development

Leadership development means such type of activity, which increases the overall quality of leadership within an organization or an individual. These actions include all level of activities at educational level and action learning. Leadership development mainly focuses on development of all types of qualities. Attitudes and behaviors that is necessary to become a good leader. Leadership development is related to mainly three variables that includes the followings. Individual characteristic of leader

Nature and quality type of leadership programs

Proper support from supervisor of leader for change in behavior of leader
Actually, the personality trait, willingness to learn and attitude of learner have much importance for leadership Continue reading...

Studying the Interlinks of Manager’s Leadership Behavior, Teamwork and Employee Creativity

Introduction
The flatter organizational setups are prevailing in the current corporate world, and the companies are applying participative management in order to jolt the highest degree of creativity in the employees (Lurie, Schultz, & Lamanna, 2011). The sponsoring and application of teamwork warrants higher degree of delegation on the behalf of the managers (Limsila & Ogunlana, 2008). The managers have to empower the employee in order to exploit their intellectual powers and abilities to a fuller extent so that they can serve the goals of the organizations effectively. Following is the research questions that the intended paper will explore in detail: Continue reading...

ISIS and the War in Iraq

INTRODUCTION
In their attempt implement a radical Islamic state, Sunni militants continue to terrorize Syria and Iraq amidst various civil wars in the region over growing tensions between sectional factions. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS in the media and political discourses, have indeed terrorized these regions in order to establish and implement an Islamic State guided by stringent sharia law. This militant Islamic group is estimated to have approximately 30,000 fighters in all of its branches and ranks, composed of fundamentalists along with mercenary jihadists. Intelligence officials estimate that ten percent of Continue reading...

American Government

Section 1: US Government
Discuss the concept of Checks & Balances and explain how it makes government more democratic. Provide a description of each branch that includes its duties and how it checks the power of other branches. Describe the impact of the media on the political process focusing on its role as a check on power. 
Historically, the founders of the U.S. Constitution intended to prevent tyranny by ensuring that the powers divested through the government are equal and balance (Kilman & Costello, p. 22). Hence, no individual or group or office can abuse their powers. It set up a Continue reading...