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Hearing the Voices of Alternatively Certified Teachers in Texas: Narratives of Teaching English Language Learners in Urban Secondary Mainstream Classrooms
(2012-11-21)
In Texas, nearly half of all new teachers are alternatively certified (AC) whilst English language learners (ELL) are over one-third of the public school population in some districts. As this trend continues, the likelihood ...
A Drop in the Bucket: Ten Years of Government Spending on Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in Texas Colonias
(2011-02-22)
Since 1989, the United States Federal Government and the State of Texas have targeted water and wastewater infrastructure development spending in the colonias to improve access to safe, reliable and adequate water supplies ...
Analysis of the Pass Cavallo shipwreck assemblage, Matagorda Bay, Texas
(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)
A survey conducted in February of 1998 located an anomaly originally believed to be the remains of L'Aimable. L'Aimable was one of four ships utilized by Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, for his voyage to colonize ...
Developing and Testing a Trafficability Index for Planting Corn and Cotton in the Texas Blackland Prairie
(2010-07-14)
The Texas Blackland Prairie is one of the most productive agricultural regions in
Texas. This region provides a long growing season coupled with soils that have a high
water holding capacity. However, the soils also provide ...
Assessment of Charter Boat and Head Boat Angler Perception of Fishery Regulations and Stock Health in the Recreational Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) Fishery in the Upper Texas Coast
(2012-10-19)
In 1988, the red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico was declared severely overfished. Since then, the daily bag limit has been reduced from 7 to 2, the minimum size limit has increased from 13 to 16 inches, and the ...
Female community leaders in Houston, Texas: a study of the education of Ima Hogg and Christia Daniels Adair
(2009-05-15)
Houston, Texas, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States, has
several structures named after historically male leaders of the city―George R. Brown
Convention Center, Mickey Leland Federal Building, William ...
Tree Community Patterns and Soil Texture Characteristics of a Meander Bend, Lower Trinity River, Southeast Texas
(2012-02-14)
Meandering rivers and associated vegetation communities are highly dynamic systems that interact through various geomorphic and successional processes. However, much is still unknown about these interactions. Studies that ...
Tephrochronology and Stratigraphy of Eocene and Oligocene Volcanic Ashes of East and Central Texas
(2013-12-02)
Sedimentary formations of east and central Texas contain many Eocene to Oligocene volcanic ash beds, with some of the younger ash layers containing hydrated but otherwise unaltered glass shards. This study analyzed samples ...
Prevention and Management of Aquatic Invasive Plants in Texas
(2014-12-04)
Determining which non-native aquatic plants have the greatest potential to invade a new area and prohibiting those species prior to their introduction is the key to preventing future injurious invasions. Once introduced ...
The Crucible of Freedom: Reconstruction Violence in Texas, 1865-1868
(2019-05-23)
This study examines racial violence in Texas during Reconstruction between the years 1865 and 1868. All incidences of violence were extracted from the Freedmen’s Bureau records and organized into a data set by month and ...