Abstract
This paper begins by first listing the three most critical elements in a classified personnel contract with the school district. The paper then goes on to describe and explain these essential elements, professional development, evaluation terms, and disciplinary and suspension procedures in greater detail.

Vital Elements of Classified Contracts
Professional Development
Evaluation Procedure
Discipline

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"Evaluation ensure that teachers adhere to the District's mission and philosophy, objectives and goals, but also ensure that personnel are making adequate progress toward achieving their own goals and professional development. Regular evaluation enables critical review of one's performance, and provides an outlet for discussion regarding career development and growth. Disciplinary problems can also be pinpointed and addressed early on when consistent performance evaluations are utilized in the learning environment."

Tags:employee, continuing, education, enhance, performance, students, classroom, professional

Abstract
This paper examines eight questions that frequently arise when the conversation turns to Responsiveness to Instruction, or RTI. In particular the following paper looks at whether or not RTI should stand alone as the de rigueur means of classifying students perceived to have learning disabilities. Further the paper looks at the corpus of literature relating to RTI as well as the impact of the new means of classification upon the construct of Student Learning Disabilities and upon classroom pedagogy.

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"Concerns about the flagging academic fortunes of many of our children have become an increasingly pressing issue in recent years. With this in mind, the following paper will examine a number of questions that must be taken into account when assessing the merits and demerits of the controversial RTI approach to student evaluation. To wit, the paper will address the question of whether or not the "ability-achievement discrepancy" approach for identifying SLD should be replaced. The paper will also look at the question of whether or not RTI should be used as the exclusive method for the identification of SLD. Proceeding onward, the paper will review whether or not RTI possesses an adequate research base to warrant its implementation at the present time and whether or not there is a defensible, dependable way to quantify a student's RTI."

Tags:special, education, assessment

Abstract
The following paper will look briefly at the scholarly works of Dorothy E. Smith and Michel Foucault with an eye towards illuminating what can be taken from them by people designated as "deviant" by the powers-that-be. Specifically, Smith argues that the prevailing power structure is patriarchal (or has been in the past) and this phenomenon explains why women are often designated as "abnormal" by society; no attention is apparently given to the modes of oppression that make them emotionally erratic. For his part, Foucault seemingly disagrees with the notion of a society organized around certain ideologies; yet, even as he does this, he certainly believes in power and in the ability of power to be insidious and omnipresent. Leaving the confusing nature of what he is saying aside, the big difference is that he and Smith both cleave to the view that designating people as "abnormal" is a way of controlling them; the major difference is that Smith emphasizes patriarchy and Foucault does not. On a personal level, reading their material makes me suspicious of being designated anything by anybody.

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What's Happening to Me? A Comparison of What Smith and Foucault Have to Say about Classifying People as Abnormal The following paper will look briefly at the scholarly works of Dorothy E. Smith and Michel Foucault with an eye towards illuminating what can be taken from them by people designated as "deviant" by the powers-that-be. Specifically, Smith argues that the prevailing power structure is patriarchal (or has been in the past) and this phenomenon explains why women are often designated as "abnormal" by society; no attention is apparently given to the modes of oppression that make them emotionally erratic. For his part, Foucault seemingly disagrees with the notion of a

Tags:foucault, classifying, smith

Abstract
This paper delves into Native American history through the work of John Westly Powell, the Head of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology, to better understand how the current classification of Native American Tribes into cultural families evolved. Ethnology is defined in the paper as one of the four subdivisions of anthropology, which embraces the study of cultures in their traditional forms, as well as their adaptations to changing conditions in the contemporary world. The paper discusses Powell's belief that "race" evolved as a worldview, a collage of prejudgments that distort a person's perceptions about human differences, and group behavior. The researcher asserts that the work of John Wesley Powell, who, contrary to some citizens of the West, saw the Native Americans not as savages, but as people, should be heeded and taken to heart today. This paper contains illustrative photos and figures.

Outline:
Introduction
Native American Considerations
Ethnology Defined
John Wesley Powell
Life Synopsis
Native American Race
The Bureau of American Ethnology
Major Powell and Lewis Henry Morgan
Influence of Morgan's Book
Mutual Nurtured Interests
The Interior Department's Instructions
Conviction to Capture Changes
The Theory of Cultural Evolution
Stevenson's Quest towards a Holistic Positivism
Controversy over Builders of Mounds
Cyrus Thomas and Powell's Perceptions
Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Illinois
Poverty Point, Louisiana
The Moundville Site
Works Cited

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" Whitney asserted that rather than stigmatizing the Indians, those who considered themselves civilized should learn everything they could from the Indians. Whitney's words "foreshadowed the theoretical perspective that Powell would pursue later by means of the method of testing mutual intelligibility statements with lexical data". To better understand how the current classification of Native American Tribes into cultural families evolved, this paper explores John Wesley Powell's work as the Head of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology.
"Prior to the establishment of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), Secretary Joseph Henry, from the start of his tenure, encouraged/supported systematic efforts by the Smithsonian Institution to develop a linguistic classification. For Henry, language merited a vital status in constructing human history. Along with Henry R. Schoolcraft, who in 1855 wrote "A letter on the affinities of dialects in New Mexico" (In Vol. 5 of Information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States), Henry perceived comparative philology to be the key to unravel the origins of native groups. Languages, according to Henry's understanding, evolved from instinctive, mental, physical, and environmental factors, and consequently were able to proffer clues to universal, as well as these groups' particular characteristics."

Tags:Moundville, Indian, tribal

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This paper investigates the task of automatic recognition of film genres, more specifically the recognition and classification of theatrical movie trailers on the basis of genre.

Outline
Introduction
Background
Specification and Design
Shot detection
Feature Extraction
Classification
Implementation
Reading in a Movie File
Shot Boundaries Detection and Key Frame Extraction
Key Frame Feature Extraction Class Identification
Results and Evaluation Key Frames
Intensities and Standard Deviation
Overall Project Evaluation
Future Work
Conclusion
Appendices

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"The use of key frame analysis will greatly reduce the computational time spent by the system obtaining feature statistics that can be used for classification. Although the computational effort is reduced the accuracy should not be that adversely affected since using one frame from each shot in the trailer will give a fairly rounded view of the content of the clip as a whole. Throughout the project every effort will be made to reduce the computational complexity of the system since Matlab is a very resource intensive environment, and a reasonable execution time is desired."

Tags:genre, image, matlab, trailer

Abstract
This paper discusses leadership and the existence of an effective taxonomy to describe or classify leadership. The paper relates that there are a variety of methods that are used to describe, classify and group leadership in existence, and one such existing taxonomy is to categorize leadership by leadership style and the characteristic attributes that accompany each style. The paper asserts that while there are other working taxonomy styles that can be used and new ones could be developed, identifying leadership based on leadership style may be the most effective from an organizational vantage point.

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"This document discusses leadership and the existence of an effective taxonomy to describe or classify leadership. There are a variety of methods that are used to describe, classify and group leadership in existence. One such existing taxonomy is to categorize leadership by leadership style and the characteristic attributes that accompany each style. While there are other working taxonomy styles that can be used and new ones could be developed, identifying leadership based on leadership style may be the most effective from an organizational vantage point."

Tags:leadership, taxonomy, style

Abstract
This paper is a case study involving a scenario in which an individual may or may not have been properly classified as an independent contractor. This paper examines the totality of the facts and intends to make a determination about whether or not this person properly classified and not what ramifications there are for the company when her services were no longer required when the contract work she was performing was completed.

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"In my opinion, at the time of her discharge, Mary should have been classified by Little Lamb Company as an employee rather than as an independent contractor. According to Tom Willett in an essay published on the Ohio State University website, there are a series of questions that the Internal Revenue Service uses to determine whether a person working for a business should be properly classified as an independent contractor or as an employee. There are a number of answers to these questions that..."

Tags:Labor law, case study, employment at will, breach of public policy, implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, independent contractors, qualifications

Abstract
The following paper attempts to date the works of Terbrugghen according to periods in his life. The paintings that are analyzed in the early period are Crowning with Thorns in Copenhagen (1620), Execution of St. John the Baptist in Edinburgh, and Christ at Emmaus in Potsdam. The works that are classified in his middle period are: Lazarus and the Rich Man in Utrecht (1625), Gamblers in New York (1623), and Boy Lighting his Pipe (1623), and finally the works analyzed in his late period are: Jacob, Laban, and Leah in Cologne (1628), The Concert in Leningrad (1626) and Backgammon Players in Sweden (1627).

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"The chief problem one faces in confronting Terbrugghen s art is that of dating his work. The majority of his works are undated and dating them is difficult because Terbrugghen never had a set pattern. You cannot set up a chronology because he was an artist, not a thinker, and, therefore, not one to proceed step by step in his works. Terbrugghen was never outstanding as an inventor of motifs but liked to pick up ideas from others and elaborate on them. Throughout his career he used ideas from other artists. He did not use any one artist as an influence in just one period of his work, but tended to use ideas of the same artist throughout his life. An example of this is the influence of Caravaggio that can be seen in some of his works throughout his lifetime as an artist."

Tags:17th, caravaggio, century, dutch, history, motif, inventor, musician, religious

Abstract
This paper examines how recruiting, selecting, and retaining an ethically diverse, certified, and classified staff is a leadership responsibility and a priority for K-12 school administrators. There are many challenges associated with recruiting a diverse staff, but by recruiting a diverse staff, educators can assure that students will be provided ample opportunity to experience an education that is diverse in an environment that promotes diversity and a sense of global understanding. It attempts to show how implementation of a diverse recruiting campaign requires a stringent strategy.

Outline
Introduction
Management Support
Recruitment Strategies
Selecting
Retention
Certification/Classification
Conclusions

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"With regard to recruiting strategies, selection and hiring procedures must be oriented in a manner that encourages applications from a diverse pool of applicants. To do this the team must first emphasize communication (Spangler & Wixon, 2000). A communication strategy should incorporate the educational goals and philosophies plus an explicit desire to promote diversity."

Tags:communication, hiring, training, program

Abstract
The United States of America is a melting pot of various communities who have been residing in the country for generations. They feel assimilated into the American culture where many of them have been born and brought up in the U.S. and hence have remote connections with the country of their ancestors. However, there are times when these communities are in doubt over their assimilation. This paper studies the case of Wen Ho Lee - an employer of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Dr. Lee, a Taiwanese-born American was accused of tampering, altering and concealing classified information, as well as with removing secret weapons files from the Los Alamos computers. The paper describes the Asian-American community's anger against Dr. Lee's 9-month solitary confinement before he was freed in 1999 and their claims that his arrest was made on the grounds of racial prejudice.

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"Congressman Mike Honda D-San Jose also contributed by taking the petition to President George Bush. The campaign has been founded and led by Cecilia Chang of Fremont who believes that the fight is not for Wen Ho Lee alone but the entire nation that it represents which includes every American of Asian descent. She added that such organized response would guard and protect the Asian Americans against what may happen in the future. The campaign for getting as many signatures in support of Wen Ho Lee as possible extended itself to the internet where the supporters signed up online at www.wenholee.org. The petition campaign was co-sponsored by the Sacramento Chinese American Political Action Committee, East Bay Asian Voters Consortium, Association of North California Chinese Schools, South Alameda County Peace and Justice Coalition, and Joint Chinese University Alumni Association of Southern California. Endorsers included Citizens for a Better Community (Fremont), Honolulu Japanese American Citizens League and United Muslims of America (Sunnyvale) ."

Tags:nuclear, arsenal, CRD, SRD, TAR, File