Papers & Articles
South & Central America Today Update & Personal Protest
This web page is technically under construction as a personal protest and will remain so for the following reasons: The Maduro dictatorship and its continuance of repressive and failed Chavez policies must give up and / or share power before total national collapse....
Geography: 1998 Dunwoody Tornado & Reconstruction
Five Themes of Geography – Iceland
Five Themes of Geography – South Africa
Regions: Atlantic Provinces of Canada
Regions: Great Plains & Prairie Provinces
IBP / ACTCo Key Components & Program Evolution
It is arguable that the Atlanta Caribbean Trading Company – ACTCo – as an educational and entrepreneurial tool, was the most successful student run business in educational history. A review of the research lists school-located companies that were larger in scale or...
Super – Exchange V: Part 2
Super-Exchange V: The Greatest Student Exchange in History – Part 2: More information about the greatest international event in APS History. Official Atlanta Public Schools Press Release: 2000-2001 ACTCo / Warrior Warehouse Monthly Sales & Expenditures – SE V...
Super-Exchange V: The Greatest Student Exchange in History
The Global Catalyst Foundation (GCF): The Global Catalyst Foundation (GCF) was founded by the business group that developed and sold Priceline. The foundation’s mission has been to utilize education and technology to empower young people to improve their lives. The...
First IBP ACTCo Catalog
The First Atlanta – Caribbean Trading Company (ACTCo) Catalog – a Student Run Enterprise (1994-1995) The North Atlanta High School International Business Program provided its students with a tax exempt corporation for hands on lessons in entrepreneurship. The first...
Doctoral Dissertation: Appendices A – F & Bibliography
Doctoral Dissertation: Ch. 5: Summary & Implications for Further Research
Doctoral Dissertation: Ch. IV: Analysis, Interpretation, Conclusions
Doctoral Dissertation: Ch. 3 – Methodolgies & Procedures
Doctoral Dissertation: Ch. 2: Historical & Conceptual Background
Doctoral Dissertation: Ch. 1 Introduction
Doctoral Dissertation: Background, Abstract, Tables
A Study of the Atlanta Public Schools Ethnic Heritage Studies Project’s Staff Development Processes, Multiethnic Student Resources, Multicultural Press Introduction: Celebrating Ethnic Groups Contributions to America: The United States celebrated its Bi-Centennial on...
ARSCC 8: We Have Done Our Best Under the Circumstances
Starting up a sister city program should not be taken lightly – to make it work is a big undertaking that takes a decade or two to institutionalize. And then some still fail. So when a person asks a city to twin with another in a foreign country, that is a huge...
ARSCC 7: Two Strengths – Education & Economic Development
My original assessment of perceived strengths of the relationship were education and economic development as two prime areas for success. At the outset, I would have predicted that education would have been the ARSCC’s core area, Economic Development would have...
ARSCC 6: Two Objectives: 1- Building on the Momentum of a Great Start, Expand Economic Development & Cooperation
The ARSCC has experienced an identity problem since inception and the media has been inconsistent in covering us. The Atlanta Jewish Times (AJT), the main news source for information about the Atlanta Jewish community, has ranged from terrific attention to neglect....
ARSCC 5: Acting on Mission, Goal, and Strategic Plan to Become a Model Sister City Committee
The new sister city committee generated a lot of enthusiasm for the idea / concept and that had to be applied in a constructive and focused manner. The new committee established outreach programs to work with community organizations, leadership groups, synagogues and...
ARSCC 4: Two Mayors Make it Official at SCI Conference July 25 – 28, 2001
ARSCC 4: Two Mayors Make it Official at SCI Convention July 25 - 28, 2001 The second signing ceremony was scheduled as a centerpiece of the Atlanta Sister Cities Commission’s hosting of the 2001 Sister Cities International Convention. The two mayors were to sign the...
ARSCC 3: Signing Ceremony #1 – Ra’anana Welcomes the Mayoral Delegation from Atlanta May 11 – 17, 2001
ARSCC 3: Signing Ceremony #1 – Ra’anana Welcomes the Mayoral Delegation from Atlanta May 11 – 17, 2001 Pressing city business prevented Mayor Bill Campbell from leading the twinning delegation – Councilwoman Cleta Winslow, a strong supporter of sister cities,...
ARSCC 2: From Idea to Process – Ferrying Creation of a New Sister City Committee to Official Status
From Idea to Process: Ferrying Creation of a New Sister City Committee to Official Status Building on the Ostrovsky – North Atlanta exchange to expand city to city / people to people connection: Given the success of the Ovstrovsky – North Atlanta student exchange, and...
ARSCC History 1: North Atlanta – Ostrovsky H. S. Exchange Births Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister City Twinning Initiative
As the International Business Program (IBP) expansion marched across the Caribbean from Jamaica to Trinidad to the Dominican Republic, and south to Brazil and Nicaragua, and across Europe from England to Estonia, Latvia and Germany, I wondered; “Isn’t it about time...
Mainor School of Economics, Tallinn, Estonia – USIA Grant
U.S. Information Agency / Samantha Smith Grant – Mainor School of Economics, Tallinn, Estonia & North Atlanta H. S. Introduction: 1990 – A dream year of teachable moments for the Social Studies: 1990 was a social studies teacher’s dream year. My traveling through...
Fulbright ACIE Teacher Exchange to Karagonda, Kazakhstan
New Independent States Teachers Group Photo: Pre-Exchange Preparation Conference / Symposium Radik Shaihudtinov’s circle of pretty friends Radik Shaihutdinov was my host teacher in Karagonda and he opened his home and world up to me. Mr. Shaihutdinov, a...
Changes in Teaching U. S. – Japan Trade Relations, 1990 – 2000: A Retrospective
Note to reader: This article, originally published by the Keizai Koho Center (KKC) - Japan Institute for Social & Economic Affairs – was a requirement for participation in the 1999 Study Tour of Japan. The article has since been edited and updated for...
When Dr. Harriss Canceled the Critical Issues Seminar on South Africa
When Dr. Harriss Canceled the Critical Issues Seminar on South Africa Note: This report was first submitted to Northside High School Principal William Rudolph on May 14, 1990. The report, which documented an extraordinary week at Northside during the Principal’s...
IBO Vocational Education Conference Report
IBPHS Report: Vocational Education and the IBO An Exploratory Seminar IBCA, Cardiff, 10 – 11 May 2004 The seminar was divided into three segments: Day 1 – Full discussion of the first six agenda items: Rationale Current issues in vocational education Working IBO...
International Baccalaureate Organization Presentation
Arnold Heller – International Business Program for High Schools (IBPHS), Atlanta, GA Vocational Education and the IBO IBPHS Presentation to the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), Cardiff, Wales, May 10 – 11, 2004: Develop vocational education courses with...
Bridging the Gap between Academic and Vocational Education: Applications for the Social Studies
Dr. Jana S. Eaton and Dr. Arnold Heller Introduction Vocational education’s historic role of training workers for large-scale industrial enterprises and the unionized trades linked it to the “blue collar” working classes, resulting in a form of...
International Business Program Guide
International Business Program (IBP) International Business Program for High Schools (IBPHS) “Global Business Education for the 21st Century” Program Description, Expectations and Regulations Guide March 2013 © International Business Program for High Schools 2013 Dr....
Five Step Plan of Implementation
Five Step Implementation Process for Establishing & Developing Sister Cities Commissions, Programs and Committees Introduction Today’s connected world influences even smaller cities to compete in the global economy through pursuit of international commerce and...
Model International Business Program
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Sister Cities Development: Ways, Means, Tools
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International Business Program Mission
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2012 Atlanta – Ra’anana (Israel) Sister City Committee (ARSCC) Annual Report
The major achievement of the Atlanta – Ra’anana Sister City Committee during 2012 was the June 9, 2012 concert that introduced Mr. Tamir Akta to Atlanta music lovers. The concert was held at the beautiful home of noted Roswell architect Mr. Ari Kohn, an...
Sister Cities
The mission and purpose of sister cities is to foster friendship and trade between two cities; the means is by facilitating joint projects such as economic development initiatives, people to people exchanges, cultural and religious endeavors. Dr. Heller,...