Stemming the Alien Tide
Author | : John B. Regnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John B. Regnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David E. Drew |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421416956 |
Proven strategies for reforming STEM education in America’s schools, colleges, and universities. One study after another shows American students ranking behind their international counterparts in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. Businesspeople and cultural critics such as Bill Gates warn that this alarming situation puts the United States at a serious disadvantage in the high-tech global marketplace of the twenty-first century, and President Obama places improvement in these areas at the center of his educational reform. What can be done to reverse this poor performance and to unleash America’s wasted talent? David E. Drew has good news—and the tools America needs to keep competitive. Drawing on both academic literature and his own rich experience, Drew identifies proven strategies for reforming America’s schools, colleges, and universities, and his comprehensive review of STEM education in the United States offers a positive blueprint for the future. These research-based strategies include creative and successful methods for building strong programs in science and mathematics education and show how the achievement gap between majority and minority students can be closed. A crucial measure, he argues, is recruiting, educating, supporting, and respecting America’s teachers. Accessible, engaging, and hard hitting, STEM the Tide is a clarion call to policymakers, administrators, educators, and everyone else concerned about students’ participation in the STEM fields and America’s competitive global position.
Author | : Fred Kraus |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1402089465 |
Transportation of species to areas outside their native ranges has been a feature of human culture for millennia. During this time such activities have largely been viewed as beneficial or inconsequential. However, it has become increasingly clear that human-caused introductions of alien biota are an ecological disruption whose consequences rival those of better-known insults like chemical pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Indeed, the irreversible nature of most alien-species int- ductions makes them less prone to correction than many other ecological problems. Current reshuffling of species ranges is so great that the present era has been referred to by some as the “Homogocene” in an effort to reflect the unique mag- tude of the changes being made. These alien interlopers often cause considerable ecological and economic d- age where introduced. Species extinctions, food-web disruptions, community alte- tions, ecosystem conversion, changes in nutrient cycling, fisheries collapse, watershed degradation, agricultural loss, building damage, and disease epidemics are among the destructive – and frequently unpredictable – ecological and economic effects that invasive alien species can inflict. The magnitude of these damages c- tinues to grow, with virtually all environments heavily used by humans now do- nated by alien species and many “natural” areas becoming increasingly prone to alien invasion as well. Attention to this problem has increased in the past decade or so, and efforts to prevent or limit further harm are gaining wider scientific and political acceptance.
Author | : Kelly M. Mack |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1787434052 |
This book chronicles the introspective and contemplative strategies employed within a uniquely-designed professional development intervention that successfully increased the self-efficacy of STEM faculty in implementing culturally relevant pedagogies in the computer/information sciences.
Author | : Betsy Hartmann |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bioterrorism |
ISBN | : 9780742549074 |
Making Threats is designed to make students, scholars, activists and policymakers think critically about how environmental and biological fears are implicated in the construction of threats to local, national and global security. Writing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the authors contribute to scholarship on environment and security that engages with some of the more potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of the contemporary scene.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Endangered species |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey Self |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351560166 |
In many ways the history of British light music knits together the social and economic history of the country with that of its general musical heritage. Numerous 'serious' composers from Elgar to Britten composed light music, and the genre adapted itself to incorporate the changing fashions heralded by the rise and fall of music hall, the drawing room ballad, ragtime, jazz and the revue. From the 1950s the recording and broadcasting industries provided a new home for light music as an accompaniment to radio programmes and films. Geoffrey Self deftly handles a wealth of information to illustrate the immense role that light music has played in British culture over the last 130 years. His insightful assessments of the best and the most shameful examples of the genre help to pinpoint its enduring qualities; qualities which enable it to maintain a presence in the face of today's domination by commercial popular music.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1520 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1998-11 |
Genre | : Ecosystem management |
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