Labor Enforcement Issues in U.S. FTAs

[Excerpt] Labor provisions in free trade agreements (FTAs)—both in the U.S. and globally—were first included in the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), the side agreement to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Since then provisions have evolved from commitments not just to enforce a country’s own domestic labor laws, but also to adopt and enforce core labor principles of the International Labor Organization (ILO). As mandated by Congress through trade promotion authority (TPA), recent U.S. FTAs also subject labor chapters to the same dispute settlement procedures as all other obligations. Some Members view strong worker rights provisions in U.S. FTAs as an important issue and they have raised concerns over FTA partner compliance with labor commitments and the U.S. record of enforcement. These issues were a part of the debate over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and in the NAFTA renegotiation

Classroom Discussions as Distortions: Examining Discriminatory Teacher Practices

Ms. Mendez, English Department chair in a large urban high school, has noticed a persistent pattern in the practices of her colleagues. These practices tend to be racially insensitive and emphasize a noncritical view that does not attend to students’ experiences and positions students from a deficit perspective. Realizing that such practices serve as social reproductions of racist and classist orientations that reproduce the existing social order, Ms. Mendez decided school leadership should be informed. However, she worries that the school’s leadership will not work to enact change and instead will take her concerns lightly

Supporting students with learning disabilities to explore linear relationships using online learning objects

The study of linear relationships is foundational for mathematics teaching and learning. However, students’ abilities connect different representations of linear relationships have proven to be challenging. In response, a computer-based instructional sequence was designed to support students’ understanding of the connections among representations. In this paper we report on the affordances of this dynamic mode of representation specifically for students with learning disabilities. We outline four results identified by teachers as they implemented the online lessons

Mountain Laurels, 1993

Volume 1, Spring 1993. 42 pages. First published as Mountain Laurels: A Journal of Poetry by Alpha Beta Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta at North Georgia College. Editorial Committee: Catherine D. Emory, Maria Bonin, Kimberly Kohnston, Ami L. Kirk, Holli Smith Mitchell, Patricia Talton, Kelley Titlow. Faculty Advisor: James R. Sprouse. Cover Art: Scott Hallyburton.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/mountainlaurels/1000/thumbnail.jp

Week of December 14, 2020

Leader in Academic Medicine, Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H., Is Tapped to Address the Class of 2021 NYMC Unveils Pandemic Perspectives D.P.T. Class of 2022 Community Service Projects Adapt to the Virtual World 17th Annual Louis R.M. DelGuercio Research Day to Take Place Virtually on December 16 HSL Annual Faculty Author Awards Set for December 17https://touroscholar.touro.edu/in_touch/1082/thumbnail.jp

Data visualization from a feminist perspective - Interview with Catherine D´Ignazio

Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and software developer who focuses on data literacy, feminist technology and civic art. She has run breastpump hackathons, created award-winning water quality sculptures that talk and tweet, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. Her research at the intersection of gender, technology and the humanities has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Civic Media and Data Visualization at Emerson College, a faculty director of the Engagement Lab and a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Civic Media

Book Review: Data Feminism

Book review of: Data Feminism by Catherine D\u27Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, The MIT Press (2020). Data Feminism combines intersectional feminism and critical data studies to invite the reader to consider: “How can we use data to remake the world?” As non-profit organizations with a mandate to provide equitable access to non-neutral information and services, libraries and library workers are uniquely positioned to advance the principles laid out in Data Feminism

Volume 15, No. 4

Collins, Louise. “Philosophy for Children and Feminist Philosophy.” 20-­30. Hall, Darcy. “A Language is Something That People and Animals Can Talk.” 48­-49. Lipman, Matthew. “Roberta and the Master Mice.” 45­-47. Matthews, Gareth B. “Thinking in Stories: The Puddle Pail by Elisa Kleven.” 1. Palermo, James and Catherine d Erasmo. “Teaching Empathy and the Teacher’s Responsibility.” 31­-33. Shapiro, Tamar. “What is a Child?” 4­-15. Siggurthorsdottir, Ingibjorg. “Philosophy for children in Action: Iceland.” 16­-19. Wilks, Susan. “Aesthetic Education: A new Reflection in the Mirror.” 34-­4

Book Review -- Unsafe In The Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization Of College Women (B. Fisher, L. Daigle, and F. Cullen)

A book review of "Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women" (B. Fisher, L. Daigle, and F. Cullen) by Catherine D. Marcum

Value Orientation Inventory: Development, application, and contributions

This paper provides an overview of the long and vigorous efforts made in the development, applications, and contributions of the Value Orientation Inventory (VOI) by Dr. Catherine D. Ennis, her students, and her colleagues. After a brief review of the development, validation, and cross-validation of the VOI and corresponding applications, the authors describe the contributions the VOI made in pedagogy research and the impact of teachers’ value orientations on their teaching behaviors. They also discuss how a measurement tool should be developed and present Ennis’s work as a model of how a research line should be established. Finally, they reflect on the limitations in measurement tool development in kinesiology and outline future directions for VOI revision and application