What about the Quiet Students?: Investigating Students\u27 and Teachers\u27 Perceptions of Non-Participatory Students

As a student teacher, I already have a fair idea of how classroom discussion works: some students participate but most sit quietly. If I use discussion to indicate student learning, what data do I have available to gauge the quiet students? My research will survey students about reasons they have for not participating and suggestions they have for involving everyone in discussion. Also, I will be surveying middle school teachers to compare their ideas of discussion. This research is knowledge I hope to take with me to my first teaching position to be implemented into my own classroom

The Use of Independent Reading in the Middle School Classroom

Currently, I am observing in an 8th grade language arts class, where the students I work with like to do the bare minimum to get by in school. The teacher has concerns that the students\u27 reading is not self-motivated. To address this problem, the teacher and I would like to see an independent reading plan be required for the students. The surveys I have developed will ask students, before and after they are reading independently, how prepared they feel for class each day. Also, I will be interviewing the teacher to hear her opinions about the positive and negative aspects of making students read independently

Airports are playing an important role in the remaking of UScities

Are airports becoming the ‘new downtowns’ of American cities? In new research which examines 62 airports in 51 US metropolitan areas, Stephen Appold finds that airports are important, with a large majority anchoring their own concentrations of employment, but that this employment varies compared to that of city CBDs. He writes that understanding how much employment, of what types, and for what reason locate near airports will aid in allocating land as cities continue to change

A Profile of Immigrants in Arkansas

Discusses key demographic trends, economic factors, and public policy issues associated with immigrants in Arkansas, which has the fourth-fastest-growing immigrant population in the nation

Efficient Symmetry Reduction and the Use of State Symmetries for Symbolic Model Checking

One technique to reduce the state-space explosion problem in temporal logic model checking is symmetry reduction. The combination of symmetry reduction and symbolic model checking by using BDDs suffered a long time from the prohibitively large BDD for the orbit relation. Dynamic symmetry reduction calculates representatives of equivalence classes of states dynamically and thus avoids the construction of the orbit relation. In this paper, we present a new efficient model checking algorithm based on dynamic symmetry reduction. Our experiments show that the algorithm is very fast and allows the verification of larger systems. We additionally implemented the use of state symmetries for symbolic symmetry reduction. To our knowledge we are the first who investigated state symmetries in combination with BDD based symbolic model checking

Pathways Toward Healing: The Presence of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome in Black Mother-Daughter Relationships

The United States was founded during and built through the use of American chattel slavery, a form of slavery which involved hypodescent, was usually lifelong, and was based on the concept of Black inferiority. Because of the circumstances of this country’s creation, the United States cannot exist separately from the long-term effects and legacy of enslavement, thus resulting in the condition of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS). PTSS is a theory founded by psychologist Dr. Joy DeGruy which posits that the long-term suffering of Africans and African-Americans under slavery, as well as ongoing anti-Black oppression has resulted in intergenerational trauma that exists in the present day. Because many of the symptoms of PTSS impact the relationships between Black mothers and their children, and because enslaved Black women faced abuse during slavery rooted in misogynoir, or gendered racism against Black women, my thesis presents research on the symptoms of PTSS that affect Black mother-daughter relationships in America, including but not limited to engagement in respectability politics, a culture of dissemblance, internalized misogynoir, and child abuse. Further, I identify methods of healing Black mother-daughter relationships, including establishing accountability networks, storytelling, prioritizing each other’s experiences, and committing to healthier methods of communication, problem solving, and parenting

Iceberg Demographic Workforce Barriers and Constraints: A Preliminary Assessment

Today’s working age population is beset by a host of invisible workforce and workplace barriers which are analogous to the submerged part of a freshwater iceberg. Defined as iceberg demographics, these “hidden” constraints are often misconstrued in work environments as signs of a poor work ethic rather than as manifestations of challenging real world lived experiences anchored in the nation’s ongoing and seemingly never-ending turbulence and uncertainty. U.S. Census Bureau Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) data are used to highlight the frequency of both person-level challenges (personal health, cognitive impairments, and transportation) and household-level barriers (economic, housing, and caregiving) that will require major human resource accommodations if organizations are to create workplaces where everybody want to work and nobody wants to leave. Steps necessary to become “employers of choice” and additional policy-focused research needed on workforce iceberg demographics are outlined