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Elyssa Durant

Elyssa Durant

living in Nashville, TN
   
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TOTAL VIEWS: 3,352|PUBLISHED CONTENT: 33|FAVORITED BY: 6|CONTENT PRODUCER SINCE: 12/28/2007

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Education/Experience: Under Construction... Ed.M. 2001 Politics & Education; M.A. Sociology of Education: Columbia University/TC, B.A. Psychology: Penn State; Ph.D. Public Policy: Vanderbilt University [TBA]

Interests: Psychology, Sociology, Politics, Media, Cultutral Studies, Health Care, Public Policy, Education, Educating, Grassroots Advocacy

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Affiliations: Elyssa Durant, Elyssa Durant, Elyssa D. Durant, Ed.M.

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We live in a country that rallies together when faced with domestic and international crises. Other domestic problems tend to be chronic in nature and often slip under the radar. The battle lines hav...
In the distance, I see two police officers. I run to them believing they will help me find a way out of the madness. Believing they will bring me to safety.. Shelter from the storm. Free from the mad...
The high rate of student mobility in Metro (approximately 40% per year) is further complicated by the constant shifting of school personnel.
If MNPS truly wants a better-qualified staff, then Metro needs to take a closer look at the methods used to recruit, retain, and reward qualified teachers.
Discusses the advantages of pre natal diagnosis and the value of being aware of potential complications before birth. Examines "quality of l;ifew" issues and definitions.
Multiple fetal reduction is a medical procedure performed on women carrying multiple live fetuses after in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Obtaining a graduate degree from the Ivy League was the worst investment I ever made. Not many people are willing to work for free, but I am one of them. Mostly because I cannot find a real job. All...
Who'd a thunk it? That loneliness can become a family in it's own right? It is always there and it is always familiar. Who would have thought that solitude could become our greatest companion and that...
Given the official release of performance data by MNPS officials, will less curious readers place too much attention to such bogus data and misconstrue this information making voluntary, de-facto dese...
Testimony Given to the Governor's Roundtable on TennCare 1999 regarding sudden changes to Grier. Footnotes and signature file added on June 8, 2008 for Historical Reference.
The Nashville City Paper previously reported that African-American students were out-performed by their white counterparts on the ACT (Metro ACT scores drop; Tennessee reaches new high, 2007).
The Bell Curve Wars Savage Inequalities There Are No Children Here
Behavioral disruptions prompted school administrators to pull the most effective teachers out of the classroom to enforce school policy while their classrooms remained empty or were covered by floatin...
This document was created in response to an online forum concerning the TennCare Budget Crisis by Elyssa Durant, Welfare Recipient. Yes, ANOTHER healthcare crisis in Tennesseee- 2008.
Hoarding and Collecting is a most prevalent in people with a primary diagnosis of Obsessive Compulasive Disorder. Some collect cats; others collect newspapers-- as for me? I collect information!
What arguments can be presented for against the use of school vouchers for parochial schools? How is the issue of school vouchers for sectarian institutions different or similar from issues surroundi...
What is "real?" Something we can touch? Something we can feel? Someone we can love?
Do you really want to know what happens to children in state custody once they turn 18? This article addresses the problems associated with transitioning youth out of Child Services and into adulthoo...
What happens to my written works that I have so carefully created? Do they just float around in cyberspace forever? Are my words now immortal? Does that make me grandiose or paranoid?
Modern technology has given us the capability to correct genetic abnormalities and imperfections, yet on the other, we must ask ourselves if this capability gives us the right to manipulate the evolut...
You Know You Have OCD When...
Anyone forced to make a decision about the quality of one's life is faced with an awesome responsibility that inherently demands some sort of value judgment in when considering life's options.
An interview with Stand for Children in Nashville, Tennessee.
Added security measures in urban classrooms changes the school environment. For some students, school is a mere extension of the violent communities in which they live.
Individuals diagnosed with the AIDS virus are frequently isolated and alienated by friends and loved ones. By implementing mandatory AIDS testing to health care workers and/or patients, we would only ...
OCD, PTSD, Good Fences, Good Neighbors, Good Friends, Psychology, Sociology
Do the long term outcomes of school choice and voucher programs exacerbate the inequality between the rich and the poor?
How will the theft of ALL personal information from the Davidson County Election Commission affect voter regsitration, voter turn-out, and voter "apathy" in the upcoming election? Will people still r...
Twenty questions that keep me up at night....
Financial incentives to deny health care to beneficiaries in managed care organizations. Why this does NOT work for persons with chronic illness and diseases. HIV, AIDS, and mental illness discussed.
This paper discusses the major historical efforts to legislate organ transplantation in the United States. In addition to discussing the problems found within the current system of voluntary donation...
Why have so many people encountered so many random barriers to health care in addition to those obstacles strategically placed in the system? Medicaid is in fact an entitlement program.