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Entertaining, informative, up-to-date and comprehensive, an award-winning author provides a definitive guide to industrial-strength illustration techniques using Illustrator.

The new edition of this entertaining, informative guide examines in detail every tool and feature in Illustrator, providing helpful tips and hints for both novice and experienced users. Deke McClelland is a well-known author of 25 books about desktop publishing and computer graphics.

Every year, thousands of new teachers pass through hundreds of different teacher preparation programs and are hired to teach in the nation's schools. In recent years, alternative programs have expanded rapidly. Despite the expansion of these new routes into teaching, little research exists to provide guidance on the effectiveness of different teacher training strategies. This report presents the design for Mathematica's evaluation of these issues. The evaluation--the Impact Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Models--is being sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and is being conducted by Mathematica Policy Research (MPR), Decision Information Resources (DIR), Chesapeake Research Associates (CRA), and Vermont Institutes (VI). The purpose of the evaluation is to rigorously test whether the extent or content of teacher preparation is related to teacher practice or to the effectiveness of teachers, as measured by student academic achievement. The following are appended: (1) Self-Administered Teacher Survey; and (2) Context Study Protocols. (Contains 6 tables and 2 figures.) [This report was submitted to U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Evaluation, Institute of Education Sciences by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.].

This study addresses two questions related to teacher preparation and certification: (1) What are the relative effects on student achievement of teachers who chose to be trained through different routes to certification and how do observed teacher practices vary by chosen route to certification?; and (2) What aspects of certification programs (such as the amount of coursework, the timing of coursework relative to being the lead teacher in the classroom, the core coursework content) are associated with teacher effectiveness? In 63 study schools, every grade that contained at least one eligible alternatively certified (AC) and one eligible traditionally certified (TC) teacher was included. Students in these study grades were randomly assigned to be in the class of an AC or a TC teacher. Students were tested at the beginning of the school year as a baseline measure and at the end of the year as an outcome. Classroom instruction was observed at one point during the year as an outcome. Reported findings include: (1) Both the AC and the TC programs with teachers in the study were diverse in the total instruction they required for their candidates; (2) While teachers trained in TC programs receive all their instruction (and participate in student teaching) prior to becoming regular full-time teachers, AC teachers do not necessarily begin teaching without having received any formal instruction; (3) There were no statistically significant differences between the AC and TC teachers in this study in their average scores on college entrance exams, the selectivity of the college that awarded their bachelor's degree, or their level of educational attainment; (4) There was no statistically significant difference in performance between students of AC teachers and those of TC teachers; (5) There is no evidence from this study that greater levels of teacher training coursework were associated with the effectiveness of AC teachers in the classroom; and (6) There is no evidence that the content of coursework is correlated with teacher effectiveness. Supplementary Technical Information on Data Collection, Response Rates, and Analyses is appended. (Contains 90 footnotes and 28 exhibits.).

This collection includes letters written to Dodge, touching upon events and people in Baptist churches in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Also included are letters to Letitia Dodge, his second wife, on personal matters. The papers of Jacob Brandt (mostly accounts and receipts) are also included, although no connection between Brandt and Dodge can be determined.