Equity Partnerships: A Culturally Proficient Guide to Family, School, and Community Engagement

Equity Partnerships: A Culturally Proficient Guide to Family, School, and Community Engagement book revie

CoopeTárcoles, Costa Rica. Equator Initiative Case Study Series

The artisanal fishers of the community of Tárcoles, located in the Gulf of Nicoya on the Pacific coast of North America (Central America)-Costa Rica; faced declining fish stocks due to a combination of overharvesting by commercial shrimp boats and unsustainable local fishing practices. At the same time, development of the tourism sector along the coast threatened to restrict access to the shore and to marginalize their work. The local fishing cooperative Coope Tárcoles R.L. was founded in 1985 to confront these twin threats. At the forefront of these efforts has been the development of fishing bylaws that stress sustainable practices, enshrined in the community's 'Code of Responsible Fishing'. In partnership with CoopeSolidar R.L., the initiative launched a sustainable and community-based ecotourism venture in 2007 to provide an alternative source of income for local residents. In 2009, meanwhile, the group was successful in gaining approval of a community-managed marine area

Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention

Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention offers a new way to think about and interact with cancer patients. The projectconsists of an illustrated memoir, poster, birthday cards and a zine, offering an autobiographical perspective of a cancer survivor. Fine/Not Fine helps cancer patients by educating the people in their lives. Readers learn about healthy interactions with cancer patients. They are discouraged from using toxic language,and from citing conspiracy theories and alleged magical cures not rooted in science when interacting with cancer patients

A Literature Review of Black Women’s Portrayal in Media and Its Effects on Their Treatment in Society

Black women are often discriminated against by members of society based on the relationship between their race and their gender. They are often left out of women’s rights movements because of their Blackness and out of Black rights movements because of their womanhood. Thus, what consistent advancements can be made while they are wedged in a gap that most members of society are not aware exists? This crossroads at which Black women are mistreated is known as intersectionality and is at this intersection where their struggles for advancement are not based solely on their race or gender but a combination of both. These unique experiences that Black women face because of their intersectionality can often be attributed to stereotypical representations in media that cast Black women as either, ill-tempered, increasingly sexual, or incredibly caregiving. Such stereotypes are rooted in negative views created about Black women during the slavery era as justification for mistreatment. The main stereotypes in which Black women are often casted as are the Sapphire, the Jezebel, and the Mammy. Though these stereotypes have evolved over time, with these as well as numerous other variations being present in modern media, they all contribute to the same issue of Black women of all ages facing discrimination in educational and professional workspaces, as well as everyday life. This literature review discusses the concept of intersectionality as well as the historical and media origins of the main stereotypes. Furthermore, it discusses how depiction in media may impact mistreatment of Black women in society. The purpose of this literature review is to discuss how the treatment Black women face in society may be influenced by media portrayal. The study serves to compile bodies of literature that not only inform members of society about the concept of intersectionality and Black women’s caricatures of Blackness, but also speak to how they relate to each other and Influence discrimination.Bachelor of Arts in Educatio

Why Did the Bear Cross the Road? Comparing the Performance of Multiple Resistance Surfaces and Connectivity Modeling Methods

There have been few assessments of the performance of alternative resistance surfaces, and little is known about how connectivity modeling approaches differ in their ability to predict organism movements. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of four connectivity modeling approaches applied to two resistance surfaces in predicting the locations of highway crossings by American black bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA. We found that a resistance surface derived directly from movement data greatly outperformed a resistance surface produced from analysis of genetic differentiation, despite their heuristic similarities. Our analysis also suggested differences in the performance of different connectivity modeling approaches. Factorial least cost paths appeared to slightly outperform other methods on the movement-derived resistance surface, but had very poor performance on the resistance surface obtained from multi-model landscape genetic analysis. Cumulative resistant kernels appeared to offer the best combination of high predictive performance and sensitivity to differences in resistance surface parameterization. Our analysis highlights that even when two resistance surfaces include the same variables and have a high spatial correlation of resistance values, they may perform very differently in predicting animal movement and population connectivity

Prospectus, February 9, 2005

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Strategies for Successful College Transitions for High School Students in Urban Schools

Students in the U.S. are underachieving in math and reading, which negatively affects transitions to postsecondary education (NAEP, 2015). Research shows that students exposure to college coursework in high school can increase academic outcomes for students and lead to successful transitions to college. However, many studies promote the use of early college programs that foster college readiness, without considering schools that may not be equipped to provide those opportunities for students. This article offers insight about the lack of college readiness for students, specifically students that attend urban schools, and the role that high schools play in combating these limitations. This article concludes with recommendations on ways to creatively immerse students from urban schools with college experiences

Prospectus, February 2, 2005

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Prospectus, January 19, 2005

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Stroke Quality Measures in Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites

Mexican Americans (MAs) have been shown to have worse outcomes after stroke than non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs), but it is unknown if ethnic differences in stroke quality of care may contribute to these worse outcomes. We investigated ethnic differences in the quality of inpatient stroke care between MAs and NHWs within the population-based prospective Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) Project (February 2009- June 2012). Quality measures for inpatient stroke care, based on the 2008 Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center definitions were assessed from the medical record by a trained abstractor. Two summary measure of overall quality were also created (binary measure of defect-free care and the proportion of measures achieved for which the patient was eligible). 757 individuals were included (480 MAs and 277 NHWs). MAs were younger, more likely to have hypertension and diabetes, and less likely to have atrial fibrillation than NHWs. MAs were less likely than NHWs to receive tPA (RR: 0.72, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.52, 0.98), and MAs with atrial fibrillation were less likely to receive anticoagulant medications at discharge than NHWs (RR 0.73, 95% CI 0.58, 0.94). There were no ethnic differences in the other individual quality measures, or in the two summary measures assessing overall quality. In conclusion, there were no ethnic differences in the overall quality of stroke care between MAs and NHWs, though ethnic differences were seen in the proportion of patients who received tPA and anticoagulant at discharge for atrial fibrillation