The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

1937 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 229-233
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Vice President ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
History Of

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics was held at the Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, February 19–20, 1937. It was the largest meeting in the history of our organization, 836 registered and more than a thousand were in attendance. The Board of Directors met in two sessions and conducted the necessary business for the ensuing year. A trip was made to the Adler Planetarium and a lecture in the Planetarium was enjoyed on the subject, “The Determination of Time and Place.” At 8:00 p.m. the first General Meeting was called to order by President Martha Hildebrandt in the Grand Ball Room of the Palmer House. The Address of Welcome was made by James E. McDade, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Chicago, Illinois, and the response by Mrs. Florence Brooks Miller, First Vice-President, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Secretary Schreiber made the opening announcements. Professor Albert A. Bennett of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island addressed the group on the topic “Mathematics and Life.” This was followed by a series of projects in high school mathematics reported by some twenty high school students from Hyde Park High School, Chicago, Illinois, under the direction of Miss Beulah I. Shoesmith. This feature of the program was much appreciated by the audience of some seven hundred teachers.

Sobre Educação, Arte e Vídeoarte: rupturas, resiliência e práticas de ensino/aprendizagem na sala de aula

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nélia Lúcia Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Forest School ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
History Of ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study first approaches the history of the observer’s gaze, that is, as observers, we are forming or constructing our way of visualizing moving images. Secondly, it reaffirms the importance and need of resistance of the teaching / learning of Art as a compulsory curricular component for high school. Finally, the third part reports an experience with video art production in a class of first year high school students, establishing an interrelationship between theory and practice, that is, we study video art content to reach the production of videos, aiming as a final result, the art videos created by the students of the Reference Center in Environmental Education Forest School Prof. Eidorfe Moreira High School. The first and second stages of this research share a theoretical part of the Master ‘s thesis, Making films on the Island: audiovisual production as an escape line in Cotijuba, periphery of Belem, completed in 2013.

Literacy in Decline: Untangling the Evidence

2007 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne A. Jameson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Verbal Abilities ◽  
Reasoning Abilities ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
History Of

National assessments of U.S. high school students' writing and other verbal abilities do not show that literacy has declined substantially in recent years. In fact, scores have been relatively stable since the 1980s. The proportion of students with solid writing and reading abilities has held fairly steady but remained small during the past 25 years. During this period, however, the proportion of high school graduates who enter higher education has soared. Thus, more students with weak verbal abilities now enter college. Initiatives that encourage people to continue their education have succeeded, whereas initiatives to improve writing, reading, and reasoning abilities have not. The complex causes of entering college students' weak verbal abilities include social and cultural forces as well as decisions by educational institutions. By understanding the complicated history of this issue and reframing it in positive terms, business and technical communication faculty can help effect change.

Proposed changes in by-laws

1954 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-216
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Students

Since plans are under way for the National Council to publish a journal for teachers of arithmetic and also one for high-school students, a few changes in the By-Laws of the Council should be made. A committee has studied this matter and recommends the changes shown below.

Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

1935 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 388-389
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
American Association ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Vacation Period

The next annual meeting of the National Council will be held at the Coronado Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31–Jan. 1, 1935–6. The explanation of the unusual date is that after the Council voted in February to hold a program meeting in St. Louis during the holidays in connection with the American Association for the Advancement of Science the N.E.A. selected St. Louis as the place of its February meeting for 1936. The Board of Directors, after due consideration, decided it would be unwise to hold two meetings in the same locality only seven weeks apart and voted to abandon plans for the usual February meeting and hold the regular annual meeting on the dates just mentioned. It is hoped that a greater number of high school teachers will be able to attend the meeting during the vacation period than would be possible in February.

The relationship of partial syndrome eating disorders to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 1019-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. F. Dancyger ◽  
P. E. Garfinkel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Past History ◽  
School Students ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eat 26

SYNOPSISA variety of sociocultural, familial and individual features associated with the eating disorders were examined in subjects with full syndrome (FS) and partial syndrome (PS) eating disorders and in normal high school students. The EAT-26 was administered to 995 high school students. This was followed by individual interviews with those who scored in the symptomatic range. Fifty-one students with PS eating disorders, 57 students without eating disorders (normal controls) and 30 hospital patients with FS, anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa were compared on subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory, the Diagnostic Survey for Eating Disorders and the Beck Depression Inventory. The three groups displayed statistically significant differences on dimensions of EDI subscales Ineffectiveness and Interoceptive Awareness and also with respect to depression, history of being overweight and past history of emotional problems, as well as having mothers with medical illnesses. On these characteristics, the FS subjects displayed higher levels than the PS subjects, who in turn were higher than the NC subjects. The PS subjects displayed elevations on Body Dissatisfaction (EDI subscale), past medical illnesses, and mother's over-concern with eating and weight. These data support a continuum model of the eating disorders, but a continuum of multiple associated features rather than of dieting.

scholarly journals History of Concussion and Nonfatal Suicidal Behaviors in U.S. High School Students: Findings from the 2017 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Neurology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (14 Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. S14.2-S14
Author(s):  
Jacob Kay ◽  
Colt Coffman ◽  
R. Davis Moore
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Youth Risk Behavior Survey ◽  
Suicidal Behaviors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Suicidal Attempts ◽  
Youth Risk Behavior ◽  
History Of

ObjectiveTo examine the association between concussion history and suicidal behaviors in adolescents from the 2017 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).BackgroundResearch indicates that behavioral changes such as impulsivity and lack of emotional control are common following youth concussion. Additional evidence suggests that poor behavioral regulation may contribute to altered mood states that precede possible self-injury or fatality. To date, the relation between adolescent concussion and suicidal behaviors has not been explored on a national scale.Design/MethodsData from 14,765 high school students were cross-sectionally analyzed. Weighted multivariate logistic regressions were conducted to estimate adjusted odds ratios (AOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of suicidal behaviors in students with and without a history of concussion. Age, sex, and alcohol use were controlled for in the regression model.ResultsAdolscents with history of concussion were at greater odds of reporting suicidal ideation (AOR = 1.39, CI 1.16, 1.65), suicide planning (AOR = 1.34, CI 1.14, 1.57), suicidal attempts (AOR = 1.68, CI 1.36, 2.09), and injurious suicidal attempts (AOR = 2.42, CI 1.82, 3.22). In addition, females with a history of concussion demonstrated greater odds of reporting poor mental health than males with history of concussion (p’s < 0.05). Further, history of concussion among individuals aged 16 years or older was significantly associated with increased suicidal behaviors, whereas this association was not observed in younger adolescents (p’s < 0.05).ConclusionsOur findings indicate that adolescents who sustain a concussion have greater odds of suicidality than their uninjured counterparts. Further, suicidality was better predicted by concussion exposure in females than males, and in older students. Consequently, these results indicate the importance of examining mental health following youth concussion, and highlight the need for further longitudinal research.

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