A “More Searching Judicial Inquiry”: The Justiciability of Intra-Military Sexual Assault Claims

More than seventy members of the U.S. military face abusive sexual contact, aggravated sexual assault, or rape every day, equating to three victims every hour. Congress and the Department of Defense have proposed reforms that focus on changes to the criminal justice system under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) in addition to tactical safety and informational efforts for prevention and response. Although deterrent measures and a transparent criminal justice system are both necessary components for meaningful reform, this Note argues that lasting institutional change and true individual justice can only be achieved by providing a civil remedy. To date, Article III courts deny military personnel civil remedies against both their perpetrators and the institutions charged with protecting military service members. This Note argues for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 1950 decision in Feres v. United States to comport with the text and legislative intent of the Federal Tort Claims Act, and calls upon the Court to recognize its role in protecting a discrete and insular minority—military victims of sexual assault—suffering from the traumatic personal and professional effects of a system that provides no civil redress

Art education: The learning connections derived from a creative artistic experience

ABSTRACT ART EDUCATION: THE LEARNING CONNECTIONS DERIVED FROM A CREATIVE ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE by PAMELA ANN WOODS May 2011 Advisor: Dr. Karen L. Tonso Major: Curriculum and Instruction Degree: Doctor of Education This study investigated the school experiences of art students in a Commercial Art program. This qualitative study advances an argument for recognizing arts students\u27 dismissed voices, as they seek an audience where their views, talents, and career choices are respected. This argument grows from 1) a critique of standards-based policy (when it goes too far), 2) a discussion of the importance of arts education for student success and, 3) research on the current practice of merging art education, career training, and technology. From the 29 students in the Commercial Art class at a high school serving 1400, 20 graduated students agreed to participate. A quasi-ethnographic method unpacked students\u27 sense of the contribution that arts education made in their lives and the contribution of arts education to student success and perseverance in school. Teacher journal entries, interviews, artifacts, email conversations, and focused group discussions were used to collect data from participants. A key step in the research process was to understand what makes a program successful for art students. Because few programs investigate the deeper impact of apathy on art students who are not connecting with their learning, this became a special focus of the research. Poetic analysis examined students narratives, allowing for a richer interpretation of former students\u27 perspectives on art in their lives. Participants in this study suggest the struggles of developing artists, and the importance of K-12 art education for their becoming the kinds of people they dreamed of being

Calibration of consumer and homemaking test items using the Rasch procedure

The purpose of the study was to use the Rasch procedure of item calibration to select test items in consumer and homemaking education, and to compile the items in a form usable by secondary teachers for assessing student achievement;From a pool of 230 items, five forms of a comprehensive achievement test were developed and administered to 1039 students who each responded to one form. There were 17 items deleted from the pool;The total t fit and the error impact were inspected to identify possible items for deletion. Items failing to meet the expectations of one or both criteria were submitted to additional criteria;For the Item Characteristic Curve and the department from expected Item Characteristic Curve which reflect response patterns of the ability groups, the deleted items showed irregular response patterns for the ability groups represented in the sample. Ten of the deleted items were found to be distributed above the mean ability of the sample on which the particular item was calibrated and seven items fell below the mean;Discrimination indices ranged from .02 to .49, with the expected index being 1.0. Most of the declared items had fit between, measured in standard deviations, significantly greater than the standard deviation of the group in which each item was a member;The person separability indices, equivalent to Kuder-Richardson 20 were .70, .68, .77, .73, and .68 for Forms A, B, C, D, and E, respectively in the first analysis. In the second analysis after the 17 items were deleted, they changed to .71 for Form A, .69 for Form B, .76 for Form D, .71 for Form E, and remained constant for Form C;Although some remaining items had irregularities, they were judged to fit the model. In all, 213 or 93%, of the 230 items fit the model

Anna Letitia Barabauld\u27s Poetic Vision: Community, Imagination, and the Quotidian

With the publication of her Poems in 1773, favorable reviews welcomed Anna Letitia Barbauld into the literary world. However, Barbauld has traditionally been left out of English literature anthologies, condemned to the murky depths of obscurity. Why has this talented British poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries been undeservedly marginalized? Perhaps she has never achieved the status of a major literary figure because her impulse towards community places her outside the mainstream Romantic tradition dominated by the egotistical sublime. In the poetry of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats, an ideal of empathy remains in tension with a predilection towards solitude. Believing that the Romantic quest for connection in solitude leads to self-absorption, Barbauld critiques the egotistical sublime. Barbauld offers an alternative, which involves two related aspects of an impulse towards community. Her poetic vision depicts practical involvement with the community as a vital source of creative inspiration, and it celebrates a demystified quotidian

Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers\u27s neglected short stories Sucker , Like That , and The Haunted Boy depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in the course of an already difficult stage of life. In Sucker two different stages of adolescent development collide. Pete and Sucker go through different psychological adjustments. The two boys discover the difficulties of adolescent romance, hero-worship, peer group formation and exclusion, and power reversal. The narrator in Like That struggles with her Peter-Pan complex as she witnesses her sister go through an adolescent romance. She despises - and fears - the changes that adolescence and adulthood bring to her life and her family. The Haunted Boy explores the struggles of Hugh as he deals with issues of adult imitation, lack of a strong male role model, peer loyalty, and emotional repression

Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers\u27s neglected short stories Sucker , Like That , and The Haunted Boy depict stark adolescent crises. Her character analyses dramatize important elements of many theories of adolescent psychology. Each of these stories depicts what happens when something goes horribly wrong in the course of an already difficult stage of life. In Sucker two different stages of adolescent development collide. Pete and Sucker go through different psychological adjustments. The two boys discover the difficulties of adolescent romance, hero-worship, peer group formation and exclusion, and power reversal. The narrator in Like That struggles with her Peter-Pan complex as she witnesses her sister go through an adolescent romance. She despises - and fears - the changes that adolescence and adulthood bring to her life and her family. The Haunted Boy explores the struggles of Hugh as he deals with issues of adult imitation, lack of a strong male role model, peer loyalty, and emotional repression

Interview with Erma Woods

An interview with Erma Wood regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ors/1152/thumbnail.jp

How looking only at policy diffusion "successes" between states may be misleading

Ideas often have a way of spreading. This is certainly true in the case of American states; innovative policies are often adopted by others in a process known as policy diffusion. But in trying to determine which policies spread, could we be giving too much of a focus on those that are successful? In new research which examines interstate compacts, Andrew Karch, Sean C. Nicholson-Crotty, Neal D. Woods, and Ann O’M. Bowman find that an emphasis on successful policies may be leading scholars to overestimate the importance of some factors, such as neighboring state activity, and underestimate the importance of others, like the number of previous adopters