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Presents an inventory on three volumes of the archives of Renaissance painter Giorgio Vasari at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Highlights of the archives; Document on the work of Vasari on the decoration of the cupola of Florence Cathedral in Italy; Insights on account books in the archives.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, every aspect of daily life is being altered in response to the virus. The pandemic has altered secondary education. Classes online, teachers struggling to learn Zoom and make lessons meaningful and relevant to students. Students struggling to make sense of this moment, struggling with mental health issues due to the loss of routine and in many cases contact with adult role models. Unfortunately, in times of crisis such as these some of the most disenfranchized people in society are completely overlooked and forgotten, such as refugees. However, if more teachers were to leverage the social studies potential of current events such as the Coronavirus, greater empathy would be felt for marginalized people more starkly impacted by the pandemic, leading ultimately to a heightened sense of civic engagement among the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to assist teachers in guiding their students through analyzing current events, such as COVID-19's impact on refugees, toward developing civic mindedness. In addition to this, the paper will discuss some of the broader societal impacts the virus is having within the United States, as well as ways in which this event may be viewed as a historical subject in the future. The paper will begin by building the content knowledge of high school social studies teachers through addressing the following question: "What is the difference between a refugee entering the United States now versus one year ago before the COVID-19 pandemic?" Following this, the authors will present an inquiry-based learning segment designed to teach the History correlated to the COVID-19 pandemic to a classroom of secondary education students. The inquiry template follows the standard C3 format utilized by the State of Connecticut. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Housing projects in the USA have suffered from stigma and a negative image ever since the first projects were built. An examination of the history of American housing policy can help us to understand this on one level. The strength of the dominant discourse, of housing projects as the last resort for those who fail to be part of mainstream society, is reflected in the fact that the mental geography among residents and outsiders of "The Ghetto", a small housing project in an otherwise mixed neighbourhood in New Haven, CT, USA, is one of a "fucking depressing" place one would rather not be. This paper discusses how this stigma developed, why residents incorporate this image and the low status of their neighbourhood into their accounts of what the place where they live is like, and what problems this causes. In particular, it addresses the issues of the absence of neighbourhood attachment as place attachment, even though residents "do community" all the time, and the consequences of the lack of place attachments for bringing neighbours together to get things done. It uses Charles Tilly's theory of durable inequality, especially his concept of "emulation", to reflect theoretically on the connection between place attachment, stigma and wider social structures in which people's life projects are embedded. The paper shows that, in contrast to what urban policy-makers might like to see, residents refuse to engage with their neighbourhood, as attaching themselves through neighbourhood action to "the community" would imply a recognition that they are in fact the type of person the projects are "meant" for in the dominant discourse of subsidized housing; losers with whom no-one wants to identify or be identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper will examine the dimensions of rurality in southeastern Connecticut to understand whether the area is truly threatened by the continued existence of Foxwoods Casino Resort (a major tourist attraction), as the white residents of the area assert. Antagonism towards the casino and its alleged environmental threats are a response to the new economic muscle of the Pequots, owners of Foxwoods, who should have 'disappeared' following the Pequot War of 1637. The paper will demonstrate that the non-Indian residents of southeastern Connec ticut appreciate only an abstract aesthetic notion of 'rural' and that they are using this 'quality of life' narrative in an attempt to recover control over all land use in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to model the development of children's reading skills using the negative exponential curve with mixed effects model. The model describes the nature of growth in children's reading skills and accounts for intra-individual and inter-individual variations. In addition, we propose methods including cross-validation, regression, and graphing to determine an appropriate curve for the data, to find good initial values for parameters, and to select potential covariates. We illustrate with an example that motivated this research: a longitudinal study of academic reading skills from grade 1 to grade 12 in Connecticut public schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]