Arie Crown Hebrew Day School

Crowned by the word “Allah,” a piece of Arabic calligraphy carved of stainless steel wraps around an embellished center. The text is the ayat al-kursī, a portion of the Qur’an often recited before sleep or travel. While the Illinois-based company Modern Wall Art produces the above “Ayat Al Kursi Round,” at least six other businesses manufacture their own ayat al-kursī pieces in the same visual style. By attending to the specific production method and branding of the “Ayat Al Kursi Round,” we can identify how the materialization of God’s words in wall art entangles Islamic ethics and the aesthetics of class formation.

Students and teachers from high schools near Chicago measured the rate of cosmic ray muons 100 meters underground in the Fermilab MINOS neutrino tunnel. The effect of the overburden was studied as a function of distance away from the access tunnel. A surface detector provided normalization over time and a third detector monitored possible background from the neutrino beam.

The development of waste minimized and clean synthetic methodologies to afford polymeric semiconductors is essential for the successful commercialization of opto-electronic devices.

We studied three n-type polymers of the naphthalenediimide-bithiophene family as electron extraction layers (EELs) in hybrid perovskite solar cells.

Careful selection of the donor in PMIs provides the best trade-off between luminescence and Stokes shifts.

These activities are designed to appeal directly to students. Students may work on the activities individually or in small groups. No solutions are suggested so that students will look to themselves as the mathematical authority, thereby developing the confidence to validate their work.

A descriptive study correlated depression in children with parental perceptions and with teacher report card ratings of school achievement and adjustment. Two hundred and twenty children, age six-to-12 years, and parents of approximately half the sample, were interviewed using the Children's Depression Rating Scale (CDRS). Symptoms of depression were discovered in 10% of the children. Sixty-eight percent of parents were unaware of their child's depression. Parents were most aware of sleeping problems, physical complaints, and academic achievement and least aware of social withdrawal, tiredness, depressed feelings, and suicidal ideations. Most depressed students achieved at grade level in reading and math, but they received lower grades for effort than nondepressed students. Depression was associated significantly with inability to work and play, both alone and in a group.

What follows is a response to an article published in the May 1979 Bulletin which, this writer feels, "accentuated literature with a capital 'L'." Presented here is the opposing case for the systematic development of language skills.