...education reform by supporting investments in innovative strategies that are most likely to lead to improved results for students, long-term gains in school and school system capacity, and increased productivity and effectiveness. The ARRA provides $4.35 billion for the Race to the Top Fund, a competitive grant program designed to encourage and reward States that are creating the conditions for education innovation and reform; achieving significant improvement in student outcomes, including making substantial gains in student achievement, closing achievement gaps, improving high school graduation rates, and ensuring student preparation for success in college and careers; and implementing ambitious plans in four core education reform areas: • Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; • Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; • Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and • Turning around our lowest-achieving schools. Race to the Top will reward States that have demonstrated success in raising student achievement and have the best plans to accelerate their reforms in the future. These States will offer models for...
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...Wicked Problem The team gathered around this theme agrees in one thing – “Race to the top”, as a topic, is both inspiring and challenging from day one. But what is behind the fancy title is actually a major economic-political issue which can be observed from many angles (not only the two major ones that would be presumed). Even the final sentence of the wicked problem was a result of couple-of-hours discussion and rephrasing. Special and sensitive challenge - is the fact that we don’t have any member in the group that, based on its cultural background, deeply understands way of thinking and can go into the head of the people which problem we are trying to resolve. That’s why understanding goals and barriers of this Far East country is especially difficult, not only for us, but for the most of businessmen around the world. First part of our research will be focused exactly to these issues. So, let’s get to the point. Globally, what does China want and what problems is it facing? We will start with the presumed assumption that China wants to beat USA and become worlds leading economy. But first, we must emphasize that Chinese government never actually said these words. The biggest reason for that is the fact that China obviously doesn’t want to accept responsibilities which they will automatically undertake from USA if they become world’s leading economy. These responsibilities include the role of world policeman and the role of being the trigger for major changes in the...
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...workforce. Maryland’s school system is a national leader in the education field, and their goal is to become world class leaders; so they must create reforms that reflect the current needs and create the largest impact for student growth. To achieve their primary goal, Maryland is focusing on five main areas to support the Race to the Top federal grant, Maryland’s Third Wave of Reform (Maryland State Department of Education, Preparing World-Class Students, 2012). Maryland has adopted the Common Core State Standards and PARCC assessments to ensure that the students will be prepared for the increasing demands of a global society. In order to meet the rising needs of 21st century students, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) developed the Maryland Common Core State Curriculum which aligns with the new national standards and assessments. These higher standards have raised the expectations for our students and are providing them with opportunities to gain a deeper understanding of the skills they need to be prepared to enter college and careers without the need for remediation (MSDE, Preparing World-Class Students, 2012). This Race to the Top strategy is universalistic because it takes the position of a reform view for the assumption, purposes of schooling (Astuto, Clark, Read, McGree, Fernandez, 1994). This strategy focuses on implementing the Common Core State Standards, a revision of the Maryland State Curriculum. These new standards are national education standards...
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...Sprint Cup Series heads to Pocono Raceway's 2.5 mile triangle for the 14th race of the 2009 season, the Pocono 500. We take a look at past performances, season trends, and talked to NASCAR contacts to predict how the field should finish on Sunday. When: Sunday, June 7, 2009; 2:16 p.m./et Weather: Mostly cloudy with a high around 71; wind out of the NW at 4 mph. Chance of precipitation 20%. The Track: Pocono Raceway Pocono Raceway is a 2.5 mile tri-oval. It has 14 degree banking in turn one, eight degree banking in turn two, and six degree banking in turn three. Key to Race: THE POCONO TOUGH TRIANGLE Pocono has three turns and three long straight-aways. This unique configuration forces engines to run at high RPM levels three times on each lap. The high RPM levels and the length of the race place a premium on a strong and even more reliable engine than at most tracks. Kasey Kahne and Carl Edwards won the 2008 races, Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch took the checker flags during the 2007 season, and Denny Hamlin won both poles and races at Pocono in 2006. All five of these drivers are great picks. Qualifying Procedures: 46 cars will attempt to qualify for 43 spots. Cars not in the top 35 in the 2009 point standings will have to qualify based on speed. Starting positions 1-43 will be determined by qualifying runs on Friday, June 5 at 3:40 pm/et. Fantasy Cheat Sheet: Top 5 No. 11 Denny Hamlin: Hamlin has been awesome at Pocono in his career...
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...To whom it may concern: I am hereby writing this letter to you to seek corporate sponsorship for the ICAR-Top Speed Modified Tour 2015 race season. Motorsports sponsorship can increase name awareness through visibility in the community, improve revenue, and employee morale. Sure, you will have your company’s name on the cars, but there are many other valuable benefits: * You get a sanctioning body that can help network and promote your business. * Provide exposure for your business. * Can be utilized to improve employee morale – it will definitely be fun for you and your employees to become involved in. Attached you will find our schedule for the 2014 season and the 2015 race season is in the works. Also you will find several pictures of the winners for the Top Speed ICAR Modified Tour. Currently we are seeking marketing partners for the 2015 and beyond. Enclosed is supporting documentation, including the history of ICAR. Please feel free to contact me further to discuss potential sponsorship opportunities and to learn more about its many benefits to you. Thank you, Dave Muzzillo ICAR-Top Speed Modified Tour 260-665-8889 About Motorsports Sponsorship | A company can benefit from motorsports sponsorship in many ways, such as: * Enhancing Image and Shaping Consumer Attitudes Companies are often looking to improve how they are perceived by a particular audience. One way of achieving this goal is by becoming affiliated with well-liked sports personalities...
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... and most importantly different types of race car drivers. IndyCar, whose name comes from the race track in Indianapolis, races an open-wheel car. This means the car is made without a roof and there is nothing covering the wheels of the race car. Unlike normal cars people drive every day, open-wheel race cars do not protect the driver. Mainly since the car is built without a roof, the driver's head sticks out of the top of the race car. This sport is a highly dangerous sport for that reason. NASCAR, whose name stand for National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, races a stock car. This means the race car is built like every day normal cars. The body of the car is made to look like a normal car but the inside of the car is built to protect the driver. The car is built around a metal roll cage that is designed for top safety. The way each of these cars, for both...
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...generated by the entertainment side of the business. If you are a racer, you support the aftermarket and the racing parts side of the business through the purchases you make to support your race team and the activities that support the team. Your role in this industry, from an economic system perspective, is to supply entertainment to the race fans. That is the value-added function that racers supply. Racers are in fact part of a much larger entertainment machine. You may not think of your individual team as a racing business, but it is-especially if you have any type of sponsor and you are providing value to that sponsor through advertising, product development, and general awareness of the sponsor's product to the race fans that may see your car. That is the chief reason that we have sponsors-to help them develop specific brand awareness. The goal is to motivate fans to purchase the product or services advertised on the car you race. You may generate other forms of revenue via prize money from winning races or by offering a good or a service to other racers that enables you to earn money. Starting a Racing Business Starting a racecar business can seem like a simple enough job for the average mechanic. They buy a car, build it to the track or sanctioning rules and specifications, and they race it. Win or lose, they did it as a hobby and they lost nothing more than a few hours in the garage and a few dollar bills. Starting a competitive racecar business is a little bit different...
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...Blackface Chic: High Fashion, Racechange and Cultural Tourism Race, Identity, and Public Culture Popular cultural representations, in particular those in the fashion industry, have recently reinvented a historically loaded image in their performances: blackface.1 In the past several years, blackface and other images of physical transformations of race have appeared in a number of high and popular fashion contexts including a “yellowface” fashion show in Shanghai sponsored by Karl Lagerfeld, supermodel Heidi Klum photographed wearing only chocolate syrup, an issue of French Vogue featuring a white model in black body paint and elaborate “African-inspired” costuming, a photograph in V Magazine of two models, one in blackface and one white, wrestling, two episodes of America’s Next Top Model involving racial and biracial transformation, and an editorial naming American Apparel and showing a woman in blackface. Blackface, though in a contemporary form more accurately described by the term “racechange,” or the performance of one race by another (Gubar 2000), far from being taboo have become an aesthetic in the fashion industry. Though popular magazines and newspapers such as Essence and a number of fashion blogs have responded to particular instances of racial transformation, there is relatively little scholarly work on the rise of racechange in contemporary fashion. This essay attempts to fill that gap in scholarship by examining racial transformation through...
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...Assumptions and details provided: 1) Finished in top 5 (12 of 24 races over seven engine failure) 2) 7 seven failure out of 24 races 3) For Pocono, Carter Racing received $40,000 and $2,000,000 if the team can finish in top 5. 4) $800,000 oil sponsor 5) Entry fee=$30,000 (halfway withdrawal get back 50% which is $15,000) 6) All the probability is based on past results. Decision Probability Exp/Rev Source Value Expected Value Race Finish in money (Top 5) 0.5 2,000,000 800,000 Goodstone Oil 2,800,000 1,400,000 Finish out money 0.125 800,000 Oil 800,000 100,000 Not Finish (Blown engine) 0.29 -50,000 -800,000 Engine Oil -850,000 -246,500 Not Finish (Others) 0.085 800,000 Oil 800,000 68,000 Total 1 1,321,500 Not Race Not Race 1 800,000 15,000 -25,000 Oil Entry Fee Payback Goodstone 790,000 790,000 Total 1 790,000 Based on above calculation and Robin Burns theory, there is no correlation between gasket failure and temperature. Hence, Carter Racing should proceed with the race because the gaining or benefits are greater than withdraw from race. On the other hand, taking Pat Edwards ‘s advise into consideration even without facts and figures, there is a high chances that Carter Racing will face engine blown because the temperature of the race is about 40 degrees. If Pat’s assumption is right, Carter Racing will face engine blown because the different expansion rate for the engine head and block will damage the gasket and lead to engine failure. Lastly...
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...fear that the Supreme Court could curtail or further restrict the use of race-conscious admissions policies at public universities. On Wednesday, all eyes will be on Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote is considered pivotal in the case brought by a white Texan who has sued the University of Texas at Austin, claiming that she was denied admission to the school in 2008 because of her race. Abigail Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University, said she was subject to unequal treatment in violation of the 14th Amendment. "I was taught from the time I was a little girl that any kind of discrimination was wrong, and for an institution of higher learning to act this way makes no sense to me," Fisher said in an interview clip posted on the website of the Project on Fair Representation, a legal defense foundation that's providing her with legal representation. On the other side are lawyers for the University of Texas, who argue that, like many other universities, UT seeks to assemble a class that is diverse in innumerable ways -- including race -- and that "race is just one of many characteristics that form the mosaic presented by an applicant's file." More than 90 friend of the court briefs have been filed in the case, with the Obama administration weighing in favor of the university. Others, who support Fisher, argue that diversity can be achieved through race-neutral programs, and that race-preferential admissions policies can do more harm than good. "What's at...
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...Rainier Motor Sports By Jack Brittain & Sim Sitkin Revised by Tom Tripp, 2009 John Wilson was not sure, but his brother and partner, Fred Wilson, was on the phone and needed a decision. Should they run in the race or not? It had been a successful NASCAR season so far, but the Pocono race was important because of the prize money and TV exposure it promised. This first year had been hard because the team was trying to make a name for itself, and so had to run in a lot of races. A successful outing could mean more sponsors, a chance to start making some profits for a change, and the luxury of racing only the major events. But if they suffered another engine failure on national television.... you have to take risks, and everybody in racing knows it. The drivers have their lives on the line, I have a career that hangs on every race, and you guys have got every dime tied up in the business. That's the thrill of it: beating the odds and winning." Last night over dinner he had added to this argument forcefully with what he called Burns’ First Law of Racing: "Nobody ever won a race sitting in the pits." "These engine failures are a pain in the butt," thought John. The team's car had failed seven times in twenty-four outings this season with various degrees of damage to the engine and car. No one could figure out why. It took a lot of sponsor money to replace a $30,000 racing engine, and the wasted entry fees were no small matter either. John and Fred had everything they owned...
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...for the big race tomorrow but all you can hear are the sniffles coming from all the the runners. Everyone shivers as a cool, fall breeze passes through the group. As coaches speech drags to an end we all thank him, and get our stuff to leave. Everyone jokes around per usual, though there is a dense fog of stress hanging in the air. Tomorrow is the biggest cross country race of the season. If the team does good then they get to stay running for another week and go to regionals, but if they have a bad race their season will end right there without states. As Sarah returns home from practice with her older brother Adam, she remembers her last race. She remembers how little water she drank and how much it affected...
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...pacing down the back stretch before a race at Talladega Superspeedway, I felt very unconfident due to a lack of experience in restrictor plate racing and a rash of bad luck including a gut-wrenching hop into the catchfence in the previous race. I reluctantly started the race in 17th place out of 23 cars, with my friend in car number 25 right in the middle of the carnage with the second starting spot. As we rounded Turn 4 waiting for the pace car to drop, my worst fears were realized. A 12 year old driving car number 99 suddenly starts screeching on the voice chat over keeping the race clean and having a good finish. I checked the starting positions of the cars, and of course, he was starting in spot number one. Despite this being a 15 lap race, I predicted he would run the field up the track on the green flag and take an easy win as the drivers behind him would wreck; I was not looking forward to this race. As the green flag drops and all 23 cars roared to...
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...Running head; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES IN AFRICA 1 HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES IN AFRICA OKECHUKWU ONYEIZUGBE DHA8013 Action Research Health Administration 1 Capella University Abstract Objective: To summarize the current literature on racial and gender disparities in critical care and the mechanisms underlying these disparities in the course of acute critical illness. Data Sources: MEDLINE search on the published literature addressing racial, ethnic, or gender disparities in acute critical illness, such as sepsis, acute lung injury, pneumonia, venous thromboembolism, and cardiac arrest. Study Selection: Clinical studies that evaluated general critically ill patient populations in the United States as well as specific critical care conditions were reviewed with a focus on studies evaluating factors and contributors to health disparities. Data Extraction: Study findings are presented according to their association with the prevalence, clinical presentation, management, and outcomes in acute critical illness. Data Synthesis: This review presents potential contributors for racial and gender disparities related to genetic susceptibility, comorbidities, preventive health services, socioeconomic factors, cultural differences, and access to care. The data are organized along the course of acute critical illness. Conclusions: The literature to date shows that disparities in critical care are most likely multifactorial...
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...happened to the racing culture. 1970 NHRA adopts and renames Pro Stock class. They are beneath the Top Fuel and Funny Cars. Pro Stock is high performance and brand identification. Season-long points competition would produce Professional Drag Racing. Season-long points competition would produce World Champions in several classes, with winners with the highest points at the end. Winners could win as much as $25,000. In 71 Catastrophic crash saw a racer hospitalized. Spectators losing interest made them add a bunch of safety features. Fire extinguishers more powerful withstanding engine blocks. Nitromethane caused motors to need rebuilt frequently so they don't explode and hurt spectators. In 72 the first five-second Top Fuel car ran. It happened in Ontario Canada. NHRA outlaws big-block Pro Stock cars. Small...
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