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Christian Burge

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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  • My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • zjackson1
      zjackson1 on 22 Feb 12
       
      The author describes Colby Hall as a naysayer. Because Colby says his friends from Kansas are sweet people but says nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.
    • Paige Colman
      Paige Colman on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author decides Colby Hall as a naysayer. This is predominately due to Hall's opinion towards the use of "Farmville" as communication.
  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.”
    • zjackson1
      zjackson1 on 22 Feb 12
       
      Pam Houston is considered a naysayer. Pam says that theres that one person that pops up on the People You May Know box on Facebook and the suggestion of that person changes her whole day. She says its essential to her well being to just think the person doesnt exist. 
    • Loghan Hastings
      Loghan Hastings on 23 Feb 12
       
      I agree with Zach, Pam Houston is a naysayer, it becomes very apparent especially when it comes to her sentence,"There's one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day." However she is just one of the many naysayers in this article.
    • Paige Colman
      Paige Colman on 23 Feb 12
       
      Houston is a naysayer because of her opinions on the "People You May Know" feature on Facebook.
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
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    • Christian Burge
      Christian Burge on 23 Feb 12
       
      In this case, I think the author is the naysayer. They are openly disagreeing with the Google spokesman.
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • Loghan Hastings
      Loghan Hastings on 23 Feb 12
       
      I also agree that Crosley is the naysayer here, but she has very flawed logic. If you don't want to hear about people then why get on Facebook? That's like going to a resterant and not wanting to see people eating.
    • Christian Burge
      Christian Burge on 23 Feb 12
       
      Ms. Crosley is the naysayer here. She believes that even if you try to ignore people online or take steps to remove them from your page, you will still end up finding them anyway, so really there is no way to avoid people online.
    • Paige Colman
      Paige Colman on 23 Feb 12
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer do to her concept of inevitable social media interaction that she presents.
Juan Mayen

The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands « Sigm... - 6 views

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  • Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world.
  • Certain colleges, specifically “work colleges” like Warren Wilson College, Deep Springs College, and the College of the Ozarks, have long-established curricula that blend manual skills with a liberal-arts education.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad?
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  • but you can’t assume that the Bell Curve is out of operation here, that all workers are creative, or that they curl up with Kant and Thomas Mann in the evenings.
  • Learning how to grow tomatoes does not really prepare you for managing a farm so that it can survive a year or two of poor crops. Carving a wooden spoon might be a step on the way to saying, I can do it, but it sure won’t supply a kitchen with all the needed tools.
  • “Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry,” writes Philip Ackerman-Leist, an associate professor of environmental studies who founded the college farm, in Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader, a book about building his home and farm in Vermont. But “few actually challenge and support students to embrace the ecological questions and immediately begin living the possible solutions—not later but in the midst of the educational experience itself.”…
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer, the author introduces the lawyers as a negative voice, and expands upon it.
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      There is a "But" right after "liberal-arts education". This but is prone to indicate that a counter argument has been made. And that is that there are Colleges who already try to be "practical work colleges".
  • Ebonee Laws on 27 Feb 12
     
    Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world
Lauren Shelton

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 6 views

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  • Greg Graham on 25 Feb 12
     
    Lauren, all I see is this bookmark. I don't see any annotations. Can you double-check the way you did it?
  • Lauren Shelton on 27 Feb 12
     
    Yeah, I wasn't sure if I did it right. How do you share it? haha. Sorry, I'm technologically challenged.
Constance Critchlow

Tools for Living - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 4 views

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  • Instead his students see themselves as designers, divorced from the dirty work of making.
    • Christian Burge
      Christian Burge on 28 Feb 12
       
      Students don't want to learn practical skills.
  • I can't help being reminded of that story when in my daily work as a Chronicle writer I hear the chorus of complaints about the state of higher education. You've heard them, too: Higher education is broken; it needs reinvigoration and reinvention to get students out the door and on their own as soon as possible. Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world. In that cultural and economic climate, liberal-arts colleges have been at pains to articulate their usefulness. They have emphasized that they teach students how to think, how to be engaged, world citizens—not merely how to do a job.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad? With some imagination, couldn't these colleges use their campuses and rural settings to train students in valuable hands-on skills?
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  • The professors there routinely tie the skills taught on the farm to the sustainability lessons in the classroom. "Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry,"
  • People are quite aware that they are out of touch with the things that make their lives go, and as a result, you see a resurgence of interest in practical skills: Home gardening and raising chickens, for example, have become trendy again in the last few years, perhaps helped by the economic collapse and the embrace of local food.
  • Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad?
  • "Many educational institutions pride themselves on preparing students to lead a life of inquiry," writes Philip Ackerman-Leist, an associate professor of environmental studies who founded the college farm, in Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader, a book about building his home and farm in Vermont. But "few actually challenge and support students to embrace the ecological questions and immediately begin living the possible solutions—not later but in the midst of the educational experience itself."
  • "And they don't make the distinction between the liberal arts and skills," he says. "If you become a master electrician in Germany, you will probably read the great classics of German literature as part of your education. ... The notion is that the better educated you are, the better you will be as a worker, the more self-respect you'll have, and so on."
  • "Can you imagine Harvard requiring shop class?" he says, chuckling. "To me the real issue is that neglected zone of what happens in junior colleges, community colleges, and trade schools—how to raise the game there, how to make that a more productive site for craftsmanship."
  • "Somehow we have this notion that we are going to be this country that has all the idea people—that all the Steve Jobses of the world will live in the United States," Forrant says. "From my vantage point, looking at history, that's rubbish. ... To somehow think that you can dream something up without really understanding what it takes to make it flies in the face of reality."
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      "Can you imagine Harvard requiring shop class?" - The author makes emphasis on how crazy would it sound if this truly happened. Clearly opposing the author's argument and using this as a base to later on support his argument. In other words he uses the counter argument as support for his argument.
  • Oberlin's environmental-studies program introduced him to the problems of fossil fuels and the notion of alternative fuels
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 28 Feb 12
       
      The author points out that it might be true that people's educational program might lead(with or without learning practical skills in the process) them to some of the same aspects such as alternative fuels. But without having practical skills (or experience) their knowledge is useless.
  • Although most people imagine that the future depends on sci-fi technologies, most of the technologies that make our lives possible today are fundamentally very old.
  • The Germans, on the other hand, had excellent engineering and specialization, but the run-of-the-mill German did not know how to fix the equipment
  • Compare that with the American system, which is "geared up for a service economy, where the idea is that people are going to prosper by getting farther and farther away from the world of skilled craftsmanship," he says. The higher-education elite doesn't value it.
nakins

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Colby Hall, as the naysayer, is objecting to the overload of too much information that comes from old friends in Kansas. This naysaying points agrees with the overall argument that Paul is making about there just being too much unnecessary information shared.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author, Paul, is the naysayer. Here she makes an informal objection to the idea the Google spokesman presented, believing the Web already has enough "faces" in "the faceless Web," and not much of what Google Plus members can add will attribute to the Web productively. 
  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer here, disagreeing with the idea that you can hide out online from the people that you are trying to ignore. Instead of just ignoring them, she argues that you can end up searching to find the information that you try so hard to avoid. Because you know that it is still there online.
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  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.” Even if we like a person, we don’t necessarily like — or even “like” — what we find out about them online.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Here, the author and Pam Houston are both naysayers. Houston disagrees in needing to friend the suggest person she could know, because she knows how that person messes with her mood. While the author feels that even when you might actually like a person in reality, the person they are online may not be a person you like, because of what you find out online.
Kevin Gardner

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 23 Feb 12
       
      Here, Pamela Paul is positioning the google spokesperson (who is a proponent of the new type of google search) as a naysayer to her argument that that our ever increasing connectedness to past relationships by way of social media is a curse and not a blessing. She deals with this opposition by mocking the notion of "the faceless web" and asserts that we have the exact opposite problem. She obviously does not take the google spokespersons position seriously because she twists it in her summary with the yellow bikini anecdote.
Constance Critchlow

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  • The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,” said Jaron Lanier, author of “You Are Not a Gadget,” and the change is less dramatic. Who would Bob Dylan end up as, he wondered, if Zimmerman were there with him the whole time?
    • kandice miller
      kandice miller on 23 Feb 12
       
      Jaron Lanier is a naysayer, who makes a very valid point. Social media getting into our heads, and not in a good way. It's slowly but surely turning our world into self conscience creeps. Lanier's comment about Bob Dylan makes me think that the reason for his success had to do with the fact that, "he did him." His unique style made him who he was as an artist. Could we be just as unique without the constant thought of what our "friends" on facebook or twitter would think?
  • What does this mean for our own data spills? “Honestly, I’m more worried about people finding out stuff about me,” said Jill Soloway, a comedian and TV writer and producer. “A lot of times I’ll post things like, ‘Let’s organize a hipster Jewish Shabbat!’ and then I think, what if businesspeople think I’m this religious Jewish person now? Something that seems fun and silly to me might seem really weird to a co-worker.
Lauren Shelton

Tools for Living - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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  • Lauren Shelton on 28 Feb 12
     
    Caleb Kenna for The Chronicle Review A friend of mine who works at Saint John's University and the College of Saint Benedict, in Minnesota, recently told me a story: Her book group read Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet, one of many recent books to focus on the vulnerabilities of the industrial food system and the threats posed by climate change.
Greg Graham

Class tomorrow (2/28) - 1 views

If you have a laptop, please bring it to class tomorrow.

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jared lambeth

Diigo Naysayers - 1 views

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Juan Mayen

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    • Chris Melendez
      Chris Melendez on 23 Feb 12
       
      Here from the very beginning, Pamela is a naysayer. She introduces the fact that people seem to believe that others want to know what is going on in their lives. Social media, or even communication itself is full of information that she and I wouldn't want to hear. Pamela implies that people do think that people care and this is to say that people don't care or need to know about everything going on in their lives. 
  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • Chris Melendez
      Chris Melendez on 23 Feb 12
       
      Colby Hall is a naysayer in this part of the article but in a yes but sense. She states that the people she knows in Kansas are dear sweet people but sees them depressed when she gets a notification on facebook. This is saying that she likes the way we are all connected through social media and have the power to just use a click send to stay connected but the send button is being misused at too much unnecessary information is being sent such as farmville requests. I know I get annoyed when a notification is just a request to cut my neighbors grass. She is naysaying about how we need to share even the smallest changes in our lives as though people care. 
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    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Pamela also takes lightly the comment the google spokesman said by jumping with her phrase "The faceless Web, seriously?" In my opinion that is considered informal and briefly mocks what has been stated.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • Chris Melendez
      Chris Melendez on 23 Feb 12
       
      Pamela is naysayer in this part since the claim is that in the web, we are too hidden in a sense. However, Pamela claims that we are too connected in the web.
  • Even if we like a person, we don’t necessarily like — or even “like” — what we find out about them online.
  • “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer! Pamela is quoting somebody and by that she is also pointing out what somebody might speak against. Which in this case the perceived argument from anyone can be "Hey at least you can block them out of your fb, twitter, etc"
  • Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
     
    A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat "the faceless Web." - Here Pamela is pointing at a naysayer because what the google spoke's women goes in the exact opposite direction Pamela is trying to lear her article too. Pamela previously states that there is too much internet interactivity and that people continuously see other people's lives(and therefore faces too), she gives it a tone in a way that it seem that this social media is going to drive her crazy.
nakins

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  • “I had to go on a vacation-photo diet,” admitted Laura Zigman, a novelist. “I had this bizarre, voyeuristic habit of scrolling through people’s travel photos online and then feeling like, ‘Why haven’t I walked the Great Wall of China?’ And guilt: ‘I should be taking my son to Spain.’ I don’t even like to travel!”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Zigman, a naysayer, who doesn't even like travelling makes a concession, saying that she was roped into wanting to vacation like many of her online friends, because her friends had done it. 
  • Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and author of “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other,” spoke of the effects. “People pay a psychological price for seeing information about former friends and spouses and colleagues that they really shouldn’t be seeing,” she said. It’s not good for our emotional health and, she said, “it makes people feel bad because they know they shouldn’t look at this stuff — but they can’t help it!”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Turkle is a naysayer, believing that people should not be lookning at other peoples information in the way that they do. She finds that people often have a negative emotional feedback from "creeping" on other's online life because they know that they shouldn't, but she also points out that people just can't help looking at it.
  • “People will post things on my Facebook walls — political statements that are just strange — religious rants that don’t reflect my values,” said Adam Werbach, chief sustainability officer at Saatchi & Saatchi. “I feel like I’ve got to scrub it off like a graffiti squeegee man.” But while other peoples’ unsolicited information can be amusing or annoying, it can also be hurtful.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author seems to be kind of disagreeing with Werbach by making the argument that while in some cases you are able to just remove little things from your online profile, the kind of things you find amusing at the time, there are some pieces of your information that aren't so easily removed online. Therefore, those pieces of information can really hurt someone in some way.
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  • “For most of my life, I’d encounter people and then they’d be gone,” said Caitlin Flanagan, the cultural critic. “You’d have to go to a major library and pore through phone books or hire a private detective to track them down.” Now it’s way too easy. “You can get this instant download and find out their whole life story and download all their pictures,” she said. “But then you’re like, ‘That’s enough of that person.’ ”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Flanagan is a naysayer here. She begins by making the point that before online profiles you would have had to literally search for a person, but now you're able to find them online and instantly get tired of that person. She feels that is "too easy" to find them now and get so much of their life so fast.
kevin buchan

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  • The coach is an important role model and influences values and attitudes. (Sabock, 1981)
  • Today's trends of hiring non-educators to coach and requiring limited professional preparation of coaches has raised concern over the educational value of interscholastic athletics as well as liability factors. These trends cause concern regarding the safety and welfare of the participant.
  • Certification of coaches is no guarantee that the problems will disappear or discontinue, but the problems can be reduced substantially if coaches can be certified in programs that approach those established for the education program.
nakins

The American Scholar: The Decline of the English Department - William M. Chace - 0 views

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  • The number of young men and women majoring in English has dropped dramatically
  • hile the study of English has become less popular among undergraduates, the study of business has risen to become the most popular major in the nation’s colleges and universities.
  • There are several, but at the root is the failure of departments of English across the country to champion, with passion, the books they teach and to make a strong case to undergraduates that the knowledge of those books and the tradition in which they exist is a human good in and of itself.
    • nakins
      nakins on 01 Mar 12
       
      This seems to sound like the author's opinion here. This appears to be one of his reasons for the decline of the number of students in the English major field.
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  • Here is how the numbers have changed from 1970/71 to 2003/04 (the last academic year with available figures): English: from 7.6 percent of the majors to 3.9 percent Foreign languages and literatures: from 2.5 percent to 1.3 percent Philosophy and religious studies: from 0.9 percent to 0.7 percent History: from 18.5 percent to 10.7 percent Business: from 13.7 percent to 21.9 percent
  • Increasingly into public, not private, schools.
  • Students in public schools tended toward majors in managerial, technical, and pre-professional fields while students in private schools pursued more traditional and less practical academic subjects.
  • By contrast, private schools have until now been the most secure home of the humanities. But today even some liberal arts colleges are offering fewer courses in the liberal arts and more courses that are “practical.”
  • Yet the “glory years” of English and American literature turn out to have been brief. Before we regret the decline of the literary humanities, then, we must acknowledge how fleeting their place in the sun was.
  • Finding pleasure in such reading, and indeed in majoring in English, was a declaration at the time that education was not at all about getting a job or securing one’s future.
  • Studying English taught us how to write and think better, and to make articulate many of the inchoate impulses and confusions of our post-adolescent minds. We began to see, as we had not before,
  • however: it is responsible for teaching composition. While this duty is always advertised as an activity central to higher education, it is one devoid of dignity. Its instructors are among the lowest paid of any who hold forth in a classroom; most, though possessing doctoral degrees, are ineligible for tenure or promotion; their offices are often small and crowded; their scholarship is rarely considered worthy of comparison with “literary” scholarship. Their work, while crucial, is demeaned.
  • rise of public education; the relative youth and instability (despite its apparent mature solidity) of English as a discipline; the impact of money; and the pressures upon departments within the modern university to attract financial resources rather than simply use them up. On all these scores, English has suffered. But the deeper explanation resides not in something that has happened to it, but in what it has done to itself.
  • English has become less and less coherent as a discipline and, worse, has come near exhaustion as a scholarly pursuit. English departments have not responded energetically and resourcefully to the situation surrounding them. While aware of their increasing marginality, English professors do not, on the whole, accept it. Reluctant to take a clear view of their circumstances—some of which are not under their control—they react by asserting grandiose claims while pursuing self-centered ends.
Chris Melendez

The Future of American Colleges May Lie, Literally, in Students' Hands NaySayers - 0 views

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Juan Mayen

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    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      Underneath the "what oxfam is doing"  there is a point: that states that they are also assisting communities to prevent this from happening in the future.
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      Oxfam compound is currently receiving 1400 people a day and half of them are kids
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      shock and disbelief at these people's conditions
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 01 Mar 12
       
      this people need support and oxfam providing clean water and support is essential to the survival of the people.
  • than 80% of people liv
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  • As a result they've been unable to grow food to earn an income and are therefore dependent on food ai
  • d for survival.
  • three regions: Somali, Oromiya and Tigray, and are aiming to reach around 1 million people with clean water, basic sanitation, and veterinary support.
  • We're helping communities look for more sustainable sources of water, by drilling boreholes, developing motorised water schemes and improving traditional water harvesting systems
  • we're ensuring that 500,000 heads of cattle have access to water, pasture, vaccinations and medical treatment.
  • Disease can spread quickly among animals too, particularly as they get weaker due to the impact of the drought. Most people in these areas depend on their livestock, and
  • We're also providing “cash-for-work” projects for locals to help clean local reservoirs and  build latrines, and have trained community officers on efficient management of water sources.
  • Somalia remains the epicentre of the emergency: UNHCR estimates about a quarter of the population (1.8 million) have been displaced
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zjackson1

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kevin buchan

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  • Currently, less than 8% of school coaches receive a specific education to coach (Martens, Flannery, and Roetert, 2003). Only 13 states specify that coaches must have a teaching certificate, and all of these states allow exceptions to this rule (NASBE, 2003
  • By 2000, 40% of the states required coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, and 34% required coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • As a result of the lack of the states' initiative of requiring or recommending CPR and first-aid certification for all coaches, in 2003, the NFHS recommended that all coaches (experienced and non-experienced): (1) possess a current and valid CPR and first aid certification and (2) complete a planned systematic coaching education curriculum by 2006 (NASBE, 2003). In addition, the NFHS recommended that even certified teachers serving as head coaches maintain their professional development by completing a minimum of one coaching education course per year during their coaching tenure (NASBE, 2003).
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  • Among the co-ed middle/junior and senior high schools that offered co-ed interscholastic sports (99.2%), 51.7% required their head coaches to complete a coaches' training course (Burgeson et al., 2001). In addition, 51.3% and 45.6% of these secondary schools required head coaches to be certified in first aid and CPR, respectively (Burgeson et al., 2001).
  • Currently, there are 40 states that have adopted, recommended, or required one of two national certification programs (ASEP or PACE) for their respective head coaches (Jackowiak, 2003). Currently, ASEP continues to work with 40 state high school associations to provide coaching educational information for more than 25,000 coaches per year (ASEP, 2006)
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