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After the lodge incident, the survivors are trying to get their lives back to normal,but that may be harder than they think. Someone don't want life to return to normal. For the newlywed Washington's a new ally surfaces to help with an old enemy, but are they what they seem? Washington's old partner is in an unexpected life or death situation. Will this new ally be their saving grace? And the new ally makes a revelation that will stun everyone.

This study explored the lived experience of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence) arising within the context of bereavement. The research question asked was: What is the essence of experiencing a personally meaningful coincidence while coping with the death of a loved one? Participants were over the age of 18 and bereaved no less than 6 months. The study utilized phenomenological methods to arrive at a description of the essence of participants' experience of meaningful coincidences related to dead loved ones.

This thesis analyzes the interrelationship of measures of ability and education on earnings differentials by using a standard human capital earnings function. The data used are from the 1983 and 1984 panels of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth aged 14 to 21 in 1979. The Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) and Coding Speed (a subtest of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Form 8A) were examined and compared for their relative utilities in measuring ability. The results showed that both AFQT and Coding Speed performed as measures of ability by refining the estimates returns to education. Their relative utilities varied according to an individuals occupation and level of education.

Buffalo State College Master's project in Exceptional Education, 1993.

A wide and rich body of literature has identified the family as the key context influencing children's development. In response, school districts and policymakers have sought to engage parents in children's learning, particularly low-income families. Meta-analyses conclude that efforts to engage low-income parents do improve students' academic achievement. Such research has prompted developers of some school-based preventive interventions to integrate programming components targeted at students' parents. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs are one such type of school-based preventive intervention. SEL programs aim to improve children's social-emotional competencies (behavioral regulation, attentional skills, problem-solving, social skills), in order to support their academic development. This paper examines the parenting component of INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament, an SEL program that includes a manualized curriculum for teachers, students, and parents. Results from a randomized trial revealed that INSIGHTS improved students' achievement and sustained attention, and reduced their disruptive behaviors. The current study tests whether program impacts on low-income urban kindergarten and first grade students' academic, social-emotional, and behavioral outcomes differed by levels of parent participation. This study took place in 22 low-income urban public elementary schools. Ninety-one percent of participating children were age five or six when they enrolled in the study. Eleven schools were randomized to INSIGHTS; the remaining eleven schools were assigned to the attention-control condition. Previous research on school-based preventive interventions has typically found that more program dosage--at multiple levels--is associated with larger gains for students. Yet, the results of this study suggest that the dosage story in the INSIGHTS evaluation may be more nuanced than has been previously understood in literature on school-based interventions. Tables and figures are appended.