Development of Boys and Young Men of Color: Implications of Developmental Science for My Brother's Keeper Initiative

This report describes the My Brother's Keeper Initiative. The report summarizes ideas gleaned from developmental science that may be useful in efforts to reach five of the six initiative's goals: school readiness; third-grade literacy; high school and college graduation; and reduction of violence. The authors discuss features of the initiative designed to promote more positive outcomes and highlight the contributions that developmental science may make to each. Policy recommendations are provided and a discussion about how developmental science may contribute to national dialogue and policy formation

Trusting the Scientific Community: The Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Trust in Science

Trust in the scientific enterprise — in science as an institution — is arguably important to individuals’ and societies’ well-being. Although some measures of public trust in science exist, the recipients of that trust are often ambiguous between trusting individual scientists and the scientific community at large. We argue that more precision would be beneficial — specifically, targeting public trust of the scientific community at large — and describe the development and validation of such an instrument: the Scientific Community Trust Index (SCTI). We show the results of initial field testing to establish instrument reliability and validity. We then demonstrate certain advantages of the SCTI against other measures of trust and deference, and present correlations between the SCTI and participant scores in two trust-in-science scenarios. Our results suggest that the SCTI is a useful and compact tool for measuring public trust in the scientific community

A gender performance indicator for irrigation: Concepts, tools and applications

Gender / Women / Irrigation management / Water management / Policy / Decision making / Performance evaluation / Indicators / Irrigated farming / Farming systems / Case studies / Water users' associations / Leadership

NACCS 33rd Annual Conference

Linking Local and Global Struggles for Social Justice: Transnational Chicana and Chicano StudiseJune 28-July 2006Hotel Fénix and Hotel Moraleshttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/naccs_programs/1023/thumbnail.jp