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U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden announces campaign to cut government wasteful spending
No full textVice President Joseph Biden announces his new role in the Administration of holding Cabinet officials accountable for cutting waste in their respective agencies as part of the Administration's ongoing efforts to reduce wasteful spending in the government. He explains that he has taken on this assignment at the President's behest. He is introduced by OMB Director Jacob "Jack" Lew
The high cost of censorship
No full textOpinion: Vincent Lew, a high school senior, discusses the need for students to be free to read all types of literature because it reflects the world and is necessary for a free society. Allowing censorship in small areas promotes moving to broader censorship and loss of intellectual freedom in an Orwellian society
Lew Wallace's Study
No full textThis National Historic Landmark was designed and built by General Lew Wallace as a freestanding personal study. Best known as the author of Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was a Renaissance man and notable Hoosier. The glazed brick building with a copper roof features Tiffany stained-glass windows, a turquoise skylight, a tower, and a frieze which depicts the literary characters created by Wallace.Montgomery County Journe
Home of General Lew Wallace
No full textLew Wallace (1827-1905), later in his life as author, soldier, statesman, artist, violinist, and inventor, lived in this discreet frame home in Crawfordsville. Though the residence no longer stands intact, a carriage house has been restored nearby
Letter from Patty Lew, to Jim Matsuoka, National Coalition for Redress/Reparations
No full textLetter from Patty Lew, to Jim Matsuoka, National Coalition for Redress/Reparations, thanking Jim Matsuoka for sending the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations buttons for their Asian American Youth Conference at the University of Oregon.The Jim Matsuoka Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Collection includes brochures, meeting notes and agendas, publications, booklets, and other material related to the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formally known as the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations. The National Coalition for Redress/Reparations was officially formed on July 12, 1980, and included members of the Los Angeles Community Coalition for Redress/Reparations (LACCRR), Japanese Community Progressive Alliance (JCPA), Tule Lake Committee, Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, the Asian/Pacific Student Union, and other members of the community. The material was collected by Jim Matsuoka, a founding member of the organization. Matsuoka also served on the board and was the treasurer. In addition to the NCRR material, the collection also contains event flyers and Day of Remembrance material. For issues of the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress newsletter "Banner" published after 2007, visit the NCRR website at https://ncrr-la.org/
General Lew Wallace, 1886
No full textLew Wallace, Civil War general, diplomat, and author of Ben-Hur was born in Brookville, Indiana. He was the son of Indiana Governor David Wallace. David Wallace had moved to Brookville, Indiana in 1817 where he established a successful law practice. While there he married Esther French Test and they had four sons.Franklin County Journe
Nano-engineering pollination
No full textTitle: Nano-engineering pollination.
Author: Lew, Roger R.
Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3,
Canada.
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Illustration, General Lew Wallace
No full textThis black and white illustration is of General Lew Wallace, an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Wallace is depicted wearing a dark, double-breasted military uniform with star-studded shoulder boards. Wallace\u27s name is captioned beneath the illustration. The illustration is in volume eight of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-nicolay-and-hay-images/1436/thumbnail.jp
A dual detector optical heterodyne receiver for local oscillator noise suppression
No full textThesis (Elec. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERINGVita.Bibliography: leaves 54-55.by Gregory Lew Abbas.Elec.E
An analysis of the effects of traditional versus alternative educational assessment programs on student attitudes and post secondary outcomes:
No full textThis dissertation examines the effects different types of assessments play on the post secondary lives of students graduating high school in Newark, New Jersey. It is grounded in theories dealing with the impact of graduating via high-stakes versus alternative assessment programs. Analyzing two quantitative databases, this study examines the differences in post secondary outcomes, perceptions and attitudes of those students graduating via the state mandated high stakes HSPA (High School Proficiency Assessment) examination and the alternative SRA (Special Review Assessment) examination.
The data indicate that a majority of students tracked in this study graduate via the SRA as compared to the HSPA. Analysis found that blacks and Latinos graduate more often via the SRA than whites and women graduate via the HSPA assessment program slightly more often than men. The data indicate that magnet school students graduate more often via the HSPA than traditional neighborhood comprehensive schools; HSPA graduates attend college at greater rates than do SRA graduates; SRA graduates are more likely to attend 2-year community colleges compared to HSPA graduates and are more likely to attend public schools and vocational/technical schools than HSPA graduates.
Multivariate analysis found that, controlling for other factors, women are more likely to go on to post-secondary study as compared to men, blacks are more likely to go on to post-secondary study as compared to whites and Hispanic/Latinos, women, blacks and Hispanic/Latinos are more likely to graduate SRA than whites and HSPA graduates and magnet school graduates are more likely to go on to post secondary study and attend 4-year colleges/universities than SRA graduates.
Many educators and policy makers continue calls for elimination of the SRA. As a significant percentage of urban "Abbott Districts" graduates exit high school via the SRA, this study provides evidence against such a policy direction. This study suggests that eliminating the SRA might result in many students dropping out. Given that almost half of the SRA graduates studied here attended some form of postsecondary educational institution, sound policy dictates that the assessment be strengthened, not eliminated.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-233)by Vincent André Keeto
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