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Review of Original Sin and Everyday Protestants: The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety
No full textIntegrating Children's Literature into the Mathematics Classroom
No full textTeaching and Learning Department Capstone ProjectLearning mathematics can sometimes be mundane and limited when it is taught solely through a textbook. In order to engage and reach more students, mathematics in the K-5 classroom can be supplemented with an approach through the use of children’s literature. This has been proven to be quite beneficial for both learners and the learning context. Benefits can be seen in student motivation and engagement in mathematics, student sense-making, and student dispositions towards mathematics. To be effective, appropriate literature must be chosen after considering both the literary and mathematical aspects of the book. Implementing children’s literature into the classroom can vary in its approach. It can be used in whole group or small group instruction and the mathematics can be both explored and enhanced by the students. The books can create hands-on, realistic situations for students to engage in. There are multiple resources available for teachers to begin this implementation and some of these resources will be explored through this review. While these resources do exist, it is also needed that schools and administrators begin to take note of this approach and offer professional development for interested personnel.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Vanderbilt Hustler: 124th Year No. 23 April 9, 2012
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He that converseth with mariners and sailors’: Articulations of English Maritime Identity in Early Modern Voyages and Travels, 1558-1620
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, 2012. Awarded Honors.Department of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
John McClure on Pop Music and Theological Invention
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, theological librarian at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Vanderbilt Professor John McClure about his latest book, Mashup Religion: Pop Music and Theological Invention
Customizing Employment Arbitration
Get PDFAccording to the dispute resolution literature, one advantage of arbitration over litigation is that arbitration enables the parties to customize their dispute resolution procedures. For example, parties can choose the qualifications of the arbitrator(s), the governing procedural rules, the limitation period, recoverable damages, rules for discovery and the presentation of evidence and witnesses, and the specificity of required arbitrator findings. While other scholars have questioned whether parties to arbitration agreements frequently take advantage of this customization, there is little solid empirical information about the topic.
In this article, we study the arbitration clauses found in a random sample of 910 CEO employment contracts entered into during the time period 1995 to 2005 to determine how much customization actually takes place. We find only a small number of instances where fine-grained customization has occurred. Parties pay very little attention to customizing arbitral proceedings in these employment contracts, although there is a significant increase in the practice over time. We find this result surprising given that CEO contracts are heavily negotiated documents.
Unexpectedly, we find that about half of the arbitration clauses in our contracts carve out a subset of potential claims or types of relief by reserving a right for the parties to seek such relief or file such claims in court. This phenomenon of customizing the circumstances under which parties will use arbitration has received almost no attention in the academic literature to date. In particular, we find that the types of claims carved out for court resolution are those involving firm efforts to protect the value of its information, reputation, and innovation. CEOs and companies in the information technology business are not significantly more likely to carve out such claims, and the use of these carveouts is increasing over time, suggesting that such carveouts are increasingly valuable to all firms. Unfortunately, California court regulation of arbitration clauses in employment contracts has significantly dampened the use of carveouts in contracts between CEO’s and their firms located in California. Our data suggests that court efforts to protect employees by scrutinizing the specific carveouts we observe is both unnecessary and destructive
Another Look at the Tenth Commandment
No full textWhat oddities make the 10th commandment stand out from the other nine? Is the real issue intent and not action? Professor Sasson addresses these issues and more in this essay in honor of Professor Douglas A. Knight.Divinity Schoo
Vanderbilt Hustler; September 27, 2012
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Vanderbilt Hustler; Vol. 124 Iss. 45 October 18, 2012
No full textThe official student newspaper at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt Hustler; Vol. 124 Iss. 49 November 1, 2012
No full textThe official student newspaper at Vanderbilt University