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NREA Policy and Advocacy: An Interview With Outgoing Executive Director Dr. Allen Pratt
No full textIn December 2024, Dr. Allen Pratt stepped down as Executive Director of the National Rural Education Association (NREA). During his eight years as executive director, the membership of NREA grew, and the organization became increasingly visible in state and national rural education policy. Policy Brief editor Devon Brenner sat down with Dr. Pratt to learn more about the advocacy work of NREA and key issues facing rural schools. Below is an excerpted transcript of that conversation
Policy Brief: An Interview with U. S. Department of Education Director of Rural Engagement Julia Cunningham
No full textJulia Cunningham joined the Department of Education in March 2023 as Director, Rural Engagement in the Office of Communications and Outreach. Recently, Julia sat down with Devon Brenner, editor of The Rural Educator, to talk about her role and resources at the U.S. Department of Education for rural education
An Interview with Education Advocates Juliane Baron and Michele McLaughlin
No full textTRE Editor Devon Brenner recently sat down with experts to learn more about how to communicate with members of congress to advocate for rural education policy and funding. Juliane Baron is the Director of Government Relations at the American Educational Research Association. AERA, a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good. Michele McLaughlin is the President of Knowledge Alliance, an association that focuses on the federal role in education research, technical assistance and innovation
Cannady and Brenner at READ-OUT
No full textRachel Cannady, MSU Libraries looks on as Dr. Devon Brenner, Professor and Head Department of Curriculum, Instruction & Special Education reads from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for READ-OU
Radical change in the genre of the detective novel: Raymond Chandler and Paul Auster
No full textThis thesis will examine the careers of authors Raymond Chandler and Paul Auster. The paper will define and examine "hard-boiled" and postmodern literary genres in which Raymond Chandler and Paul Auster have written their crime novels. Topics of discussion in this thesis will include Chandler‘s and Auster‘s biographical backgrounds and the influences on their fiction, the literary genres of detective fiction and mystery fiction, and the narrative structures of Chandler‘s and Auster‘s novels. Raymond Chandler‘s novel, The Big Sleep and Paul Auster‘s novel, City of Glass will also be discussed.M.A.L.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Devon L. Alle
Get Connected Now: A Conversation with School Leaders and Policy Makers about Expanding Rural Broadband Access
No full textAt the most recent National Forum to Advance Rural Education in November of 2020, editor Devon Brenner led a panel discussion about current and future efforts to expand broadband access for rural schools and communities with Brandon Presley, Public Service Commissioner for the Northern District of Mississippi; John Conradi, executive director of Connect Americans Now; and two Mississippi school leaders, Wayne Rodolfich, superintendent of the Pascagoula-Gautier School District, and Tyler Hansford, superintendent of Union City School District and chair of the Mississippi Rural Education Association. Their conversation is excerpted here. Some portions have been edited for cohesiveness and clarity
Buckfast Abbey Archaeological Projects 1982-2016 Photographic Archive
No full textThis photographic archive is intended to augment the two publications on the abbey's archaeology by S.W. Brown (Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society 46, 1988, 13-89; and Devon Archaeological Society Occasional Paper 21, 2018) and the series of more detailed interim archive reports appearing on the ADS website (unpublished grey literature, accessible via author Stewart Brown)
Helping new teachers stay and thrive in rural schools
No full textAmong the many challenges facing rural administrators, recruiting and retaining teachers is often at the top of the list. Given the time and energy they must invest to successfully attract, recruit, and hire a new teacher, there is a significant need to adopt strategies that will help to retain those new teachers. Rural administrators can support new teachers so that they stay — and thrive — in rural districts by connecting teachers with the community, supporting place-based practices in the classroom, and helping new teachers build relationships both in and out of school. Devon Brenner et al, Helping new teachers stay and thrive in rural schools, Phi Delta Kappan (103, 4) pp. . Copyright © 2021. DOI: 10.1177/00317217211065821. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission. Deposited by shareyourpaper.org and openaccessbutton.org. We've taken reasonable steps to ensure this content doesn't violate copyright. However, if you think it does you can request a takedown by emailing [email protected]
supplementary_table2_online_supp – Supplemental material for Probabilistic Graphical Modeling for Estimating Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Applications of a Flexible Machine-Learning Method
No full textSupplemental material, supplementary_table2_online_supp for Probabilistic Graphical Modeling for Estimating Risk of Coronary Artery Disease: Applications of a Flexible Machine-Learning Method by Alind Gupta, Justin J. Slater, Devon Boyne, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Audrey Béliveau, Marek J. Druzdzel, Darren R. Brenner, Selena Hussain and Paul Arora in Medical Decision Making</p
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