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1. [mls-digitaldivide] NEA Awards
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2a. BOOKS : PUBLICATIONS : BIOGRAPHY: AUTHORS: More About Fred R. Shapir
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2b. BOOKS : PUBLICATIONS : BIOGRAPHY: AUTHORS: More About Fred R. Shapir
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1. [mls-digitaldivide] NEA Awards
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Sat Feb 3, 2007 6:55 pm ((PST))
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 11:12:18 EST
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Subject: [mls-digitaldivide] NEA Awards
NEA Awards
The NEA Foundation supports a variety of efforts by teachers, education
support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to improve student
learning in the nation's public schools, colleges, and universities.
Drop Everything and Read Bookshelf Awards: In celebration of National Drop
Everything And Read (D.E.A.R.) Day, The NEA Foundation and the National
Education Association (NEA) offer the D.E.A.R. Bookshelf Awards. These
awards are made possible in part with support from
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks as part of the NEA's commitment to promote
children's literacy and motivate readers of all ages. This program awards
$500 to public schools for the purchase of books and reading materials
that will entice students to drop everything and read!
Learning & Leadership Grants provide opportunities for teachers, education
support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff to engage in
high-quality professional development and lead their colleagues in
professional growth. The grant amount is $2,000 for individuals and $5,000
for groups engaged in collegial study. The next application deadline is
February 1, 2007. New Guidelines! Award recipients.
Student Achievement Grants provide $5,000 to improve the academic
achievement of students by engaging in critical thinking and problem
solving that deepen knowledge of standards-based subject matter. The work
should also improve studentsâ habits of inquiry, self-directed learning,
and critical reflection. (These grants replace the foundationâs
Innovation Grants program, which has been discontinued.) The next
application deadline is February 1, 2007.
NEA Fine Arts Grants: Administered on behalf of the NEA, these grants
provide $2,000 to enable fine arts teachers to create and implement fine
arts programs that promote learning among students at risk of school
failure. The foundation is not currently accepting applications for this
program. Read about the work of the most recent grant recipients.
The NEA Foundation Grantee Awards recognize the extraordinary
accomplishments of the Foundation's grant recipients and their service to
the profession.
The NEA Foundation Awards Cash Grants For Rebuilding Gulf Coast Public
School Libraries Four school districts in Mississippi and Louisiana
received much needed financial help, courtesy of The NEA Foundation, to
aid in the rebuilding of public school libraries and computer resources
damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The cash grants, totaling $340,000, will be
used to replace books, reference materials, and technology lost as a
result of the storm.
Closing the Achievement Gap: Many economically disadvantaged and minority
students do not have the same opportunities for academic success as their
more affluent peers. With support from The NEA Foundation, partnerships
led by NEA affiliates, school districts, and community organizations will
take action to accelerate the achievement rate for disadvantaged and
minority students, while raising achievement for all groups of students.
Details. Application is by invitation only. Additional resources.
Read Across America Library Books Awards: These $5,000 awards help public
schools serving economically disadvantaged students purchase books for
school libraries. The foundation makes these awards on behalf of the
National Education Association, with generous support from Warner Bros.,
Inc. The foundation is not currently accepting applications for this
program. Award recipients.
Attracting and Retaining Accomplished Teachers: The goal of these grants
is to establish the teaching and learning conditions necessary to attract
and retain accomplished teachers (including National Board Certified
Teachers) in hard-to-staff public schools. The foundation is not currently
accepting applications for this program.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Grant Program: The NEA Foundation's [EMAIL PROTECTED] grants
encourage
public secondary school arts teachers to collaborate with expert
technology-using teachers and the business community to develop examples
of technology-integrated arts curricula that meet high standards for
student achievement. This program is supported in part by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts. The foundation is not currently
accepting applications for this program. Read about the grant recipients.
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEA Foundation Award for Technology Leadership honors one
affiliate nominee for The NEA Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence
with outstanding experience in educational technology leadership.
The NEA Foundation Award for Outstanding Service to Public Education
honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to public
education. Recipients include former President Bill Clinton; the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); The Magic
School Bus author and illustrator, Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen; former
NEA President Mary Hatwood Futrell; actor LeVar Burton; former US
Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley; and the late Fred Rogers,
creator and host of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
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2a. BOOKS : PUBLICATIONS : BIOGRAPHY: AUTHORS: More About Fred R. Shapir
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Sun Feb 4, 2007 7:07 am ((PST))
BOOKS :
PUBLICATIONS :
BIOGRAPHY: AUTHORS:
More About Fred R. Shapiro: Author of The Yale Book of Quotations
Yesterday a brief Net-Gold post introduced teh Yale Book of Quotations to
Net-Gold readers.
BOOKS :
QUOTATIONS :
REFERENCE TOOLS:
The Yale Book of Quotations
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/16936>
Regarding which, readers may view more here.
The Yale Book of Quotations
<http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/qyd/>
The Yale Book of Quotations is the most complete, up-to-date, and
authoritative quotation dictionary ever compiled. The editor, Fred R.
Shapiro, used innovative research techniques to ensure that the most
popular and eloquent quotations, especially modern and American ones often
missed by other dictionaries, were included.
The Yale book of quotations
by Fred R Shapiro
Type: English : Book Internet Resource
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0300107986 9780300107982 OCLC: 66527213
<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66527213&tab=holdings>
The author of the Yale Book of Quotations is also the author of
Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations
The Oxford dictionary of American legal quotations
by Fred R Shapiro
Type: English : Book
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
ISBN: 0195058593 9780195058598 OCLC: 26851645
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Quotations. | Derecho -- Citas |
Reference.
<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26851645&tab=holdings>
The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations
Fred R. Shapiro
<http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/25596/subject/Language/
~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTA1ODU5OA==>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yprm6v>
Quoting:
The practice of law rests heavily on the incisive, pithy, and occasionally
witty language of the best technical writing, and law-related themes are
often found at the core of works of literature, politics, and other
fields. Previous compilations of legal quotations have been limited, with
significant gaps; many quoting rarely from American sources. For example,
Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart's famous quip about
pornography ("I know it when I see it") appears in no other work. The
Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations is the most scholarly and
most complete legal quotation reference ever published. It includes a
comprehensive collection of the most famous passages of American judges
and legal commentators. This work also contains the wittiest sayings from
literature, humor, motion pictures, and even song lyrics relating to
American law. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Clarence Darrow, and Abraham
Lincoln share the pages with Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Kurt Vonnegut, Woody
Allen, and Bob Dylan.
Over 3,000 entries are presented in a subject arrangement. An author index
and an extensive "key-word" index further facilitate location of desired
quotes. Each quote has been verified from the original sources, with the
precise citations needed for legal reference.
For those needing a more extensive selection of quotation sources, this
website provides a useful collection of published books in this genre.
Nimitz Library, U. S. Naval Academy
Quotations and Concordances: A Selective Guide
<http://www.usna.edu/Library/Literature/Quotcon.html>
This website devoted to NonLegal Research includes quotation sources and
will be helpful to those using Shapiro's legal quotations source as a
place to learn of other reference tools that should help in general
research efforts.
M.G. Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington
Nonlegal Research
Legal Research Guides
Updated Aug. 30, 2004.
Prepared by Mary Whisner for Bridge the Gap.
<http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/nonlegal.htm>
Quoting:
"Lawyers research often encompasses more than "legal research."
Litigators, scholars, and policy makers need to know something about the
real world -- so they might need statistics, news stories, scholarship
from other disciplines, and information as basic as addresses and phone
numbers.
Since law touches on so many aspects of life, some legal researcher may
need to get information about almost anything -- from engineering
(technical specifications about a piece of equipment involved in
litigation, for instance) to medicine, anthropology to zoology."
This Fred R. Shapiro article in JSTOR News should be of interest to some
of our readers.
No. 10, Issue 3, JSTORNEWS, October 2006
Historic Language Usage in JSTOR
<http://www.jstor.org/news/2006.10/historiclang.html>
One benefit of a long-term archive of journal back issues ranging across
many disciplines is that it can not only provide specific topic research
but can also serve as a broader historical snapshot of past language and
cultural trends. A fascinating example of this can be found in The Yale
Book of Quotations, recently published by Yale University Press in October
2006. The author, Fred R. Shapiro, extensively searched back issues of
journals archived in JSTOR to locate the earliest usages of popular quotes
and phrases.
Fred R. Shapiro is an associate librarian and lecturer in legal research
at the Yale Law School. He is a well-known authority on quotations and the
editor of The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations. In this Q &
A with JSTOR, Fred describes how he made use of the JSTOR archive in his
project and what the implications of this research may be.
There is also this review article:
Of Dictionaries, the "Bon Mot," and the "Mot Juste"
Reviewed Work(s):
The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro
Mellinkoff's Dictionary of American Legal Usage by David Mellinkoff
Review author[s]: J. Allen Smith
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature,
Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1994), pp. 123-131
Some more information regarding Fred Shapiro
"Fred Shapiro is coeditor of Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal
Stories and editor of Stumpers!: Answers to Hundreds of Questions That
Stumped the Experts and four other books. He is a major contributor to the
Oxford English Dictionary and the Random House Historical Dictionary of
American Slang, and has published numerous articles on language, law, and
information science. He is associate librarian for public services and
lecturer in legal research at Yale Law School."
<http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/qyd/fred.html>
Shapiro, Fred R. "Prehistory of postmodern and Related Terms: Evidence
from the JSTOR Electronic Journal Archive and Other Sources"
American Speech
Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2001, pp. 331-334
Duke University Press
Collected Papers on Legal Citation Analysis
Author: Fred R. Shapiro (Compiler}
Format: Hardcover, 179 pages
Publication Date: January 2001
Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
Dimensions: 10.25"H x 7"W x 0.75"D; 1.1 lbs.
ISBN-10: 083773701X
List Price: $39.50
Find more by and about Fred R. Shapiro here
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%
22fred+r+shapiro%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yths8t>
and here as well:
<http://books.google.com/books?q=%22fred+r+shapiro%
22&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/23cwjc>
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2b. BOOKS : PUBLICATIONS : BIOGRAPHY: AUTHORS: More About Fred R. Shapir
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Sun Feb 4, 2007 7:18 am ((PST))
This Net-Gold post about the published work of Fred Shapiro may be of
interest to some of the members of this discussion group.
BOOKS :
PUBLICATIONS :
BIOGRAPHY: AUTHORS:
More About Fred R. Shapiro: Author of The Yale Book of Quotations
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/16944>
<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold/
browse_thread/thread/86fd8ad8074bfba8?hl=en>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/2encef>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
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