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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Baltimore City"”.
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School Type and Structure as Predictors of Perceived School Climate and Student Academic Achievement among Middle School Students in Baltimore City Public Schools
<p>This study examined the impact of school type and school structure on perceived school climate and student achievement, for middle grades students in a large urban school district. The specific school types examined were charter schools, transformational schools, and traditional schools. For …
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A descriptive study of the supervisory model used in a large metropolitan school system: the triad support teacher model of Baltimore City, Maryland
Effective supervision can improve the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom. Researchers in educational theory agree that supervision exists for the primary purpose of improving instruction. Wiles defined supervision as "assistance in the development of better teaching-learning …
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B'More For Healthy Babies: A Case Study
Background: In 2009, Baltimore City had one of the worst infant mortality rates in the country: 13.5 deaths per 1,000 live births. Black babies were five times more likely to die than white babies (Baltimore City Health Department, n.d.). In response to this public health crisis, government, …
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Healing Places
… and therefore has the ability to improve them. Baltimore City, Maryland is a clear example of the dialectic relationship between a built environment and its community. Plagued by vacant and dilapidated buildings, raging crime rates, inequality and divisiveness, and poor physical and social …
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Consumer behavior and commercial linkages in a waterfront development and the adjacent downtown establishments: Baltimore's Inner Harbor
… waterfront development and districts in downtown Baltimore. Generally, visitors were tourists and downtown workers, who purchased food and spent less than $10. Females outspent males, and tourists living outside the Baltimore area outspent Baltimore city and metropolitan area residents. A …
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Vehicular Ammonia Emissions in Baltimore, Maryland
… using a mass balance on the Fort McHenry Tunnel, Baltimore, Maryland. Atmospheric concentrations of gas-phase and particulate-phase ammonium were measured during 2003-2004 using denuders and filter packs. The average vehicle (veh) emission rate for these studies was 8.1 ± 4.3 mg NH3-N veh-1 km-1. …
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Let my people grow: the diffusion of the Jewish farming movement through the Jewish community of the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area
… as it transpires through several sites in Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland. This research develops an empirically grounded theory surrounding the establishment and diffusion of the Jewish farming movement, as well as its influence on participating individuals. Research …
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The Implications for Desistance of the Developmental Course of Childhood Aggressive Behavior
… Center's school-based interventions trials in Baltimore City Schools. Participants comprise an epidemiologically defined sample of urban, primarily African-American, first grade boys and girls. Results suggest that some pathways to desistance may be identified before adulthood, thus supporting …
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Development under the burden of infrastructure : The West Baltimore MARC Station area master plan
… a highway that would have connected to 1-70 in Baltimore County to the Baltimore City Central Business District. After years of intense community opposition, the Highway was halted after a segment of the Highway ha d already been built. Thirty years later, West Baltimore is the backdrop to …
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Building towards an innovation economy : a pilot development proposal that leverages city and institutional partnership to reposition Baltimore
In the 1950s, Baltimore had reached its peak. The city's geographic location allowed it to thrive during the industrial age as a manufacturing and logistics hub for the United States. Since then, economic downturns, profound racial issues, dysfunctional leadership, and an urban exodus to the …
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Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction With Work and Tedium in a Mental Health Setting
… of 12 community mental health centers in Baltimore City and County were distributed the instrument on a voluntary basis. Analysis of the 174 protocols returned found pleasant/unpleasant events and agents, satisfaction/dissatisfaction, Protestant work ethic, and tedium related in a …
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The gift of good, vacant land : urban agriculture and redevelopment in the city of Baltimore
… agriculture to become a more permanent aspect of city life. Additionally, this era of urban agriculture has also seen the emergence of commercial urban farms that seek to engage local economies in a way not seen in prior iterations of the practice. This has allowed urban agriculture an entry into …
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'Right to the Active City': Public Recreation and Urban Governance in Baltimore
Since the inception of the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks (BCRP) in 1940, public recreation in Baltimore has continued to be restructured in relation to changing modes of urban governance, in particular in regards to the city's network of recreation centers. More recently, the …
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Aggression and Perceptions of Parenting among Urban Public Middle School Students
… 209 sixth grade early adolescents attending two Baltimore City middle schools completed questionnaires about their overt and relational aggressive behaviors at two time points. Early adolescents also reported on their perceptions of a parent or guardian's parenting style (support/behavioral …
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Innately American, Black America’s Inheritance: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Death & Identity
<p>In 2015, Baltimore city erupted after the death of Freddie Carlos Gray. He was a 25-year-old who was forcibly placed into the back of a police van and after riding in the van, sustained several injuries that resulted in his death. After the video footage was shown to the public, a tension …
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Public school privatization: the decision in Baltimore
This is a case study of the decision in Baltimore City Schools to privatize some of their schools. This study investigated the reasons why this decision was made and how it was made. The Garbage Can Model of decision making (Cohen and March, 1986) was used as a way of organizing the study. The …
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Development of a process for Maryland school districts to assess implementation of the National Education Goals and Maryland's School for Success Goals
… principals from Maryland's 23 counties and the Baltimore City school district comprised the population in this study. A questionnaire was designed and administered by the researcher to gather data on education awareness, attitudes and involvement of the National and State Goals. It also gathered …
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Three Essays on Systems Thinking and Dynamic Modeling in Obesity Prevention Interventions
… a Case Study of Food Carry-Outs in Baltimore A large number of obesity prevention interventions, from upstream (policy and environmental) to downstream (individual level), have been put forward to curb the obesity trend; however, not all those interventions have been successful. …
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Connecting the City: A Vertical Farm for Baltimore's Food Desert
The thesis analyzes Baltimore City's food network, and seeks a site which has the potential for several factors: site accessibility, renewable resources, solar exposure, and connecting the community. These factors serve as the basis in which to build a hybrid prototype that is able to expose people …