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    Race, Power, and (In)equity Within Two-way Immersion Settings

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    Two-way immersion schools provide a promising model for service delivery to students who are English language learners. With the goals of bilingualism, academic excellence, and cross cultural appreciation, these schools are designed to build bridges across linguistically heterogeneous student bodies. Yet while empirical evidence demonstrates that the two-way immersion model can be effective in these regards, we know little about how such schools address other dimensions of diversity, including race, ethnicity, class, and disability. This study contributes to filling this gap by critically analyzing these dimensions in the areas of recruitment and retention in two two-way immersion schools

    Chilean and transnational performances of disobedience: LasTesis and the phenomenon of ā€˜Un violador en tu caminoā€™

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    This article analyses the performance Un violador en tu camino created by Chilean feminist theatre collective LasTesis, shared by millions and reā€staged across the globe. It explores the relationship between the original piece and theorist Rita Segato's insights on rape culture, and how it counters aspects of this culture. It examines how the transnational spread of Un violador counters tendencies of MeToo, and examines four cases of the performance's reā€staging in Latin America and beyond, showing how they make manifest the pervasiveness of rape culture as well as how groups have adapted them to speak to local issues

    Is tax policy hurting venture capital?

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    Venture capital ; Taxation

    Delivering effective nursing care to children and young people outside of a hospital setting

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    This report may be reproduced for the purposes of private research and study; in addition, excerpts may be included in professional journals or conference presentations as long as acknowledgement is given and there is no association with advertisingOver the course of the last fifty years, there has been a reduction of approximately 75 per cent in the total number of childrenā€™s hospital beds in the United Kingdom [UK]; at the same time, there has been an increase in the amount and range of care now being provided in other environments that are located within outside of hospital settings. This shift in terms of the location and provision of care has meant that there has been an impact on the preparation and training that healthcare staff require. The Health Outcomes Forum specifically recommended: ā€œThat HEE [Health Education England] address the workforce education, training and development requirements (including capacity and capability) to refocus service provision at home or closer to homeā€ (Department of Health, 2012: 52). This scoping project was financed and commissioned by Health Education North Central and East London Local Education and Training Board [HE NCEL LETB] in January 2014 and was undertaken by the University of Hertfordshire between February 2014 - August 2014. The project was funded to facilitate the consideration of the educational needs of the nursing workforce in relation to out of hospital care for children and young people, thus enabling the future potential development of out of hospital services to meet the health needs of the children and young people living in the HE NCEL geographical are

    Temporary Protection: Towards a New Regional and Domestic Framework

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    During the past thirty-five years, the United States has seen the direct influx of thousands of individuals leaving politically unstable countries. While some seeking entry have proved themselves to be refugees and obtained permanent protection in the United States, far more, including a large number of people fleeing civil war, natural disasters, or comparable forms of upheaval in their home countries, have failed to demonstrate that they would be targets of persecution. Yet, their return to their home countries has been complicated by the very circumstances that led to their flight: conflict, violence, and repression. Over time, the United States developed a series of ad hoc responses that protected such individuals, culminating in the Immigration Act of 1990 (ā€œIMMACTā€), which provided legislative authority for Temporary Protected Status (ā€œTPSā€). Nevertheless, after eight years, many problems remain in the application of the law. Solving these problems will contribute both to better immigration control and more humane responses to future crises. Current policies fail on two accounts. First, the temporary protection provision in the law generally has failed to protect the vast majority of those in danger as a crisis develops and unfolds. If the United States government protects significant numbers at all, protection is provided outside the confines of the United States. Even so, the mechanisms for responding extraterritorially are not well developed. Second, current policies regarding protection in the United States do not provide the control mechanisms to ensure that protection is not abused and that return, when appropriate, is effected. The choice to admit people for temporary protection has been a difficult one for the United States for two main reasons: the lack of control over entry; and the inability to implement a fair but firm end game. These constraints together with the fear of litigation challenging domestic protection regimes have led policymakers to keep protection seekers offshore, such as on Guantanamo, or to return them directly to countries they fled without providing an opportunity for them to present requests for protection. But not having a fully developed regional or domestic capability for addressing these complex movements comes at a considerable cost. Estimates for the agency costs of handling the 1994 Cuban exodus through the use of offshore safe havens were more than $500 million. Further, an immigration system that cannot fairly and efficiently process protection seekers lacks credibility for which it pays a significant public cost

    Taxpayer risk in mortgage policy

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    Government-sponsored enterprises ; Federal National Mortgage Association ; Mortgages ; Asset-backed financing

    The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

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    What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ā€˜street childā€™ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the childā€™s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema

    Ownership is a Habit of Mind: How Community Land Trusts Expose Key Consensual Fictions of Urban Property

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    Community land trusts (ā€œCLTsā€) have garnered attention as a novel,non-state organizational mechanism for enabling permanentlyaffordable homeownership. In canonical form, they separatea home from the land upon which it sits, holding the land in trustand selling the home for its value without the land. Additionally,CLTs use ground lease restrictions to constrain the resale processand enforce long-term reproduction of affordability. Herein, weargue that given the ā€œactually existingā€ character of CLT practices,the legal vocabulary CLTs use is not most directly nor most accu-rately descriptive. The nature of the present intervention is empha-tically not to say that CLTs have acted in bad faith; rather, weidentify a set of fictions about land and rights encoded into thelaw regarding real property. Our intervention highlights how thenature of these fictions theoretically constrains the power of cano-nical community land trusts to transform society and forces criticalreflection on specific financial strategies CLTs may attempt

    ā€˜A Kind of Bliss, a Closing Eyelid, a Tiny Fainting Spellā€™: Zama and the Lapse Into Colour

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    Lucrecia Martel has made only four feature films to date, but has nonetheless become one of the worldā€™s most admired directors. Her work is extraordinarily sensitive to the limits of sensory perception, the limits imposed by gender roles, and the limits of empathy and affect across social divisions. This edited collection broadens the critical conversation around Martelā€™s work by integrating analyses of her features with the less frequently studied short films and her other artistic projects. This volumeā€™s fresh, holistic approach to Martelā€™s career includes contributions from scholars in Latin America, Europe and the United States, and ends with a new interview with Martel herself

    Effective nursing care of children and young people outside hospital

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    THIS ARTICLE presents an exploratory study that was financed and commissioned by Health Education, North Central and East London (NCEL), and the local education and training board (LETB); it was undertaken by the University of Hertfordshire between February and August 2014. The research was funded to explore the educational needs of the nursing workforce in relation to out-of-hospital care for children and young people in the UK. The data will be used to inform the development of service provision. Read More: http://journals.rcni.com/doi/10.7748/ncyp.27.5.28.e610 Open Access with Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0). Copyright Ā© 2017 RCN Publishing Company Ltd.Aim To assess the preparation required to ensure a workforce of nurses who can provide high quality out-of-hospital services for children and young people. Methods Using mixed methods, questionnaires were sent to young people and community childrenā€™s nursing teams, interviews were conducted with academic staff and clinical nurses, and focus groups were undertaken with pre-registration childrenā€™s nursing students. Findings Nursesā€™ communication skills and clinical abilities were most important to young people. There is a range of opinions about optimum out-of-hospital clinical experience. Pre- and post-qualification education and recruitment in this area, therefore, need attention. Conclusion Out-of-hospital care presents problems, but is developing rapidly. Adequate, updated training, supervision and resources are needed.Peer reviewe
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