Vol 2008 no 2

Curriculum

Unintended Consequences of No Child Left Behind Mandates on Gifted Students

Sally R. Beisser

Building and Moral Self-Cultivation in Higher Education: What Does it Mean and How Can it be Achieved?

Henrik Bohlin

Commodification of Knowledge in Developing Economy: The Case of the University of Botswana

I.S. Botshelo

Is the No Child Left Behind Act Adversely Impacting the Academic Performance of Latino Students in the U.S.? Yes, Indeed!

Martha Casas

Enhancing The Learning Proficiency of Students in Higher Education

Erik De Corte and Chris Masui

Complexity and the Universe of Education

Alejandro J. Gallard Martínez

Beyond Insanity: Creating All Male Classrooms and Schools as a Policy Option in the Portfolio of Local School Districts

Wilhelmina D. Goff and Norman J. Johnson

“Who’s Got The Chalk?”: Beginning Mathematics Teachers and Educational Policies in New York City

Hanna Haydar

Creating Change in the Large Urban Public Schools of the United States

Ernest L. Heyman and Peter Vigil

A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of High Stakes Testing Mandates in the Elementary School

Albert Inserra and Kenneth R. Bossert

Increasing Male Academic Achievement

Barbara Talbert Jackson

Apply Deming’s Methods to K–12 Curriculum and Improve Student Achievement

Thomas F. Kelly

Blending Assessment with Standards-Based Instruction as an Approach To Adding Equity To No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Edward L. Meyen, Diana L. Greer, and John C. Poggio

Alignment in teacher education and distribution of leadership: An example concerning learning study

Ingrid Nilsson

New Problems and Solutions in Basic University Teaching
Mogens Noergaard Olesen

Biliteracy and the Attainment of Sustainable Development in Multilingual Nigeria

Chukwuemeka Onukaogu

Trends and Choices—Taiwanese and Chinese Identities: An Examination of Language and Culture Textbooks in Taiwan

Sheue-jen Ou

What Does Quality Programming Mean For High Achieving Students?

Cleo Samudzi

Why Band-Aids Don’t Work: Analyzing and Evaluating No Child Left Behind (NCLB) In Light Of Constructivist Philosophy, Theory, And Practice

Arthur Shapiro and Alana S. Thompson

Can universities survive the 21st century?

Alastair J. S. Summerlee and Jacqueline Murray

Are State and National Standards Leaving the Advanced Learners Behind? The Crisis Ahead

Sandra Watkins and Zhaohui Sheng

Environment

Sustainable mining through innovation in waste disposal

Shahid Azam

Climate Change and Sustainability: Connecting Atmospheric, Ocean and Climate Science with Public Literacy

Mary Louise Batteen, Timothy Peter Stanton, and Wieslaw Maslowski

Institutionalizing Environmental Space at the Global Level
Ton Bührs

Sustainability: A Challenge For Domestic Households In Daily Life

Elisabeth Leicht-Eckardt

Improving Campus Sustainability: The Authentic Results from Higher Education on Environmental Sustainability, Student Engagement, and Financial Effectiveness

Steven S. Kreidler, Lane G Perry III, and Bob J. Ault

Sustainability of Gaia: A Question of Balance

M. Y. Leclerc, E. Holland, T. Foken and N. Pingintha

Plant biotechnology helps quest for sustainability: With emphasis on climate change and endangered plants

David W.M. Leung

Evaluation of post-Kyoto frameworks focusing on sector-based approaches and national numerical targets

Ryuji Matsuhashi, Hiromasa Mori, Kohei Misumi, and Yoshikuni Yoshida

A Policy for Sustainability of Low Volume Traffic Roads in an Australian Context

Kerry John McManus

Use of the Historic Range of Variability to Evaluate Ecosystem Sustainability

Carolyn B. Meyer, Dennis H. Knight and Greg K. Dillon

Rethinking Groundwater Supplies in Light of Climate Change: How Can Groundwater be Sustainablly Managed While Preparing for Water Shortages, Increased Demand, and Resource Depletion?

Sarah J. Meyland

Wind Power and Seawater, Save Corn from Ethanol Production

Masataka Murahara

The Public Management of Water Resources in South Africa

G.J. Pienaar and E. van der Schyff

Developing Social Resilience Amidst Climate Change and Global Insecurity: Finding Peaceful Pathways to the Future

Ruth A. Reck

Towards Energy Sustainability: A Quest of Global Proportions

Marc A. Rosen

The Link between Human Health and Sustainability

May Linda Samuel

Habitat Restoration: An Aspect of Sustainable Management

H. R. Thorpe

Correlation of Affect, Verbal Commitment, Knowledge, Locus of Control and Attitude to Environmentally Responsible Behavior in Designers of the Built Environment: Is Knowledge Enough?

Kathy Weidenboerner

History

Double Interpretation of History and “The War of the Monuments”: Estonia’s Case I and The War of the Monuments: Estonian Case II

Aurika Meimre and Irina Belobrovtseva

Remaking the World: Personal Diplomacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt with the Allies during the Second World War

Keith Huxen

State Building in the Government of Tang Taizong

Lily Hwa

Genocide and Reconciliation in Rwanda: From Complicity to Credibility

Stephen D. Lowe

Fear, Flight, Frustration and Dedicated Service: A Brief History of International Disease Control Activities, 1918-2008

Heather MacDougall

John Dewey’s Philosophy of History as a Guide to the International Order

George C. Stone

The Moral of Virginia: On Her Majesties’ Solemn Obligations to the Virginia Indian Nations

Jay Hansford C. Vest

Dead Men Walking: Soviet Elite Cemeteries and Social Control

Katya Vladimirov

The Attitude of Liberal Clergymen in Hungary to Politics in 1848/49

Péter Zakar

The Activity of the Islamic Order al-Sanūsīyah at the Turn of the 19th Century

Zygmunt Stefan Zalewski

Human Rights Law

The Bail Jurisprudence of Ghana, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia

Samuel Kwesi Amoo

The Intersection of School Desegregation and Economic Globalization in America

Frank Brown

Building an International Conscience: Great Britain and the Atlantic Slave Trade

Marvin L. Ellis

Child Poverty and Education Attainment Disparity in the State Of Alabama, (1990-2006)

Chukudi V. Izeogu

Human Rights—The Road Ahead

C.N. Krishna Naik, G.V. Prabhakar and G. Swapna Bhargavi

Managing Human Rights and Human Resources: The Dual Responsibility of Global Corporations

Jennifer Palthe

The International Law Commission and State Responsibility: Application of a Comparative Paradigm on Oil and Watercourses

Connie S. Singh

Literature

The Procession of Allusions to God In British Poetry From The Beginning: God’s Acts And The Response Of Poets

Rob Blain

“What in me is dark/ Illumine”(PL 1:22-23): The “Other” body of Samson Agonistes

Jane Lilly Fernandez

George Eliot’s enthusiastic bachelors: topical fictional accounts of nineteenth-century homoerotic Christian masculinities and the manhood question

Dennis S. Gouws

A Tragic Optimism: The Existential Vacuum and God in the Poetic Vision

Barbara A. Heavilin and Charles W. Heavilin

The Agnostic Musings of African American Popular Novelist Frank Garvin Yerby
James L. Hill

Cosmopoetics and Politics: Were Those “Unacknowledged Legislators of the World” Actually Women?
Julie L. Smith-Hubbard

The Private Servant, the Public Servant, and the “Good and Faithful Servant” in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend

Linda M. Lewis

The Silence of God in the Modern Catholic Novel: Graham Greene and French Catholic Novelists Adopting a Pascalian Deus Absconditus Perspective
on Faith, Truth and Reason
Anne Loddegaard

God of Our Yankees: The Evolution of God in Robert Frost

Nancy Nahra

Creator and Fallen Angel: The Christian Atheism of Mark Twain

Diane M. Plotkin

Introducing Charlotte Mason’s Use of Narration

J. Carroll Smith

Flannery O’Connor’s Quest

Mattie Daniels Thomas

“Ancient Wisdom” to “Supreme Fiction”: Ideas of God in the Poetry of H.D. and Wallace Stevens

Heather Harrison Thomas

The Cleric and the Lady: The Affair of Lady Byron and F.W. Robertson

Marilyn Thomas

Heaven in a grain of sand—Patrick White’s Contemporary Vision

Cynthia vanden Driesen

Migration and Diversity

Affirmative Action, The Academy and Compromised Standards: Does Affirmative Action Lower Standards in University Hiring, Tenure and Promotion?Lawrence J. Hanks, Jas Sullivan, Sara B. Spencer and Elgin Rogers

Race, Class and Legal Risk in the United States: Youth of Color and Colluding Systems of Social Control

Nancy A. Heitzeg

Expedited Citizenship for Immigrant Soldiers: Tribute or Bounty?

Gabrielle Malfatti-Rachell

Embracing The Stranger: Hispanics, American Christianity, And Immigration

Lourdes E. Morales-Gudmundsson

Strategic Human Resources and Human Capital Development: Strategies for Managing the 21st Century Workforce

Kristie Roberts, Shamiah Woods, Allyson Earvin Richardson, Sheena Murray, Michael Moss, Mano Smith

Yankee Migration: Causes and Reverse Trends in Urbanization

Onoyom Godfrey Ukpong

The Virgin of Guadalupe: Linking the past and present by exploring the role of religion in the cultural heritage of Mexican Consciousness

Annmarie Valdes

Discounting the Value Of Federal Fencing and Minutemen watching Illegal Immigrants Crossing The U. S.–Mexican Border

A.B. Villanueva

Gentrification: The New Colonialism in the Modern Era

Jonathan L. Wharton

September 11th Aftermath Changes Traditional Sioux Movement Patterns

Daniel P. Zielske

Religion

Social Science and Religion: Epistemology, Metaphysics and Considerations of the Public Good

L.A. Duhs

Teenage Suicide Missions: The Role of Religion in the Recruitment of Young Suicide Bombers

William W. Emilsen

World Religions in War and Peace in Conflict and Concord

George F. Fry

Evolution, Religion, and Race: Critical Thinking and the Public Good

Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Gary Bailey

Science and religion as concepts: a history
Roger H. Green

A Worldly View for Preventing Tragedies in Periods of Paradigm Shift: Reviewing the Thoughts of Shan-tao and Kitarō Nishida

Masanori Matsuda and Hiromasa Akiyama

Alienated Neighbours: Interpreting the Cronulla Race Riots For Christ’s Sake

Clive Robert Pearson

Status of Modern Science and Religion

Paul S. Ramalingam

Interfaith Dialogue and Salvation: Is there one Heaven in our Future?

Leon Strieder

Trade

Central America Central Bank: Proposal of Monetary Integration of Central America

Juan Castro

Fairer Trade & the Human Right to Development—A Perfect Match or Misconceived Twins
Jianfu Chen

Consequences of Trade Liberalization in Integration Groups Created by the Russian Federation
Katarzyna Czerewacz

Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Human Rights : Economic Analysis for Poverty Reduction in LDCs—A Survey
Atsuko Matsumura

Trade and Declining Worker Rights In Nigeria’s Textile Industry: 1997-2006
Teresa Mwuese Nmadu

Trade Liberalization and Human Rights: A Case Study of a Rural Region in Atlantic Canada
Sid-Ahmed Selouani and Habib Hamam

Arts and Sciences (Two Cultures)

Language Networks as Complex Systems
Max Kueiming Lee and Sheue-Jen Ou

Bringing the Two Cultures together through A World of Light and Color
Shabbir M. Mian, Jeffrey D. Marx and Vasilis Pagonis

Mathematics and Literature: Educators’ Perspectives on Utilizing a Reformative Approach to Bridge Two Cultures
Suzanne J. Nesmith

Evolution of Priorities in Higher Education and R&D in the European Union: Case of Poland
Ida Musiałkowska

Invention, Technology, and the GI Bill
Robert E. Parkin

Dr. Benjamin Franklin—Embodiment of the Two Cultures: How His Example Continues to be Relevant in Today’s World
Viola Ruck

Everyone but Rizzo: Using the Arts to Transform Communities
W. Alan Smith

The Symbiotic Relationship between Liberal Studies and Science
Jim I. Unah

Women’s Issues

The Major Influences of the Boundless-Extended Family System on the Professional Experiences of Black Zimbabwean Women Leaders in Higher Education
Miriam Miranda Chitiga

Stepping out of the third wave: A contemporary Black feminist paradigm
Chiquita D. Howard-Bostic

Who Are the Women Who Have Broken Through the Military’s “Brass” Ceiling?
Darlene M. Iskra

Women’s Voices of Resistance: An Analysis of Process and Content in National Higher Education Policy
Penny A. Pasque

Literature And Ethos Of Public Space: Is There A Heaven Space For The Woman?
Anthonia I. Umoren and Rose Acholonu

A Consideration of Tenure and Its Effect on Women Faculty Members: A Proposal for Increasing Parity Between Men and Women on College Campuses
Patricia A. Wilson