Offering behavioral assistance to Latino students demonstrating challenging behaviors

Challenging behaviors can significantly alter the learning environment of any classroom. Traditionally, schools have implemented practices that remove the offending student from the classroom, deliver punitive disciplinary actions, or refer the student to special education evaluation. Unfortunately, such practices have demonstrated little longitudinal effectiveness, with detrimental outcomes for the referred student, particularly students from Latino backgrounds. With enrollment projections indicating Latinos will become the majority in U.S. schools, educators are presented with the opportunity to shift away from past practices and implement evidence-based practices that concurrently assist students while addressing challenging behaviors. In this paper, the authors discuss past disciplinary practices, the adverse effects on Latino students, and offer recommendations on implementing functional behavioral assessment as a means to better meet the needs of Latino students demonstrating challenging behaviors.peer-reviewe

LOS ORÍGENES CONTEMPORÁNEOS DEL CENTRALISMO FISCAL EN LAS RELACIONES INTERGUBERNAMENTALES EN MÉXICO (1970-1990)

El presente trabajo analiza la consolidación del centralismo fiscal en México a partir de las reformas fiscales que se instrumentaron entre 1970 y 1990, en contradicción con la estructura federal de la República Mexicana. El centralismo fiscal surgido de este proceso de reformas institucionales deter - minó dos rasgos fundamentales de las relaciones fiscales intergubernamentales contemporáneas en México, por un lado, la centralización del poder de decisión sobre el sistema fiscal en el Gobierno federal y, por el otro, la conformación de unos gobiernos locales dependientes de la política fiscal y las transferencias de recursos federales. Ambos han sido factores cruciales en la debilidad fiscal del Estado mexicano

Moving away from zero tolerance policies : examination of Illinois educator preparedness in addressing student behavior

In August 2016, Illinois Senate Bill 100 (SB 100) restricted the use of zero tolerance disciplinary practices within public schools when addressing student behavior. In efforts to make school discipline less exclusionary and more effective, SB 100 mandated educators exhaust all means of interventions prior to suspending or expelling a student. Additionally, SB 100 recommended faculty professional development on effective classroom management, which is critical considering the majority of exclusionary discipline cases resulted from referrals by classroom educators for subjective deportment concerns and not from student possession of contraband. Using an online survey instrument, a sample of licensed educators in northeastern Illinois were asked to self-rate their preparedness in classroom management and indicate their awareness of zero tolerance policies. Results demonstrated significant difference of self-rated preparedness between general and special educators when addressing classroom deportment behaviors, while there was no difference in more intense behaviors (e.g., verbal threats, possession of contraband). Discussion on results and suggestions for future research are offered.peer-reviewe

PROGRAMACIÓN GENERAL CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE HISTORIA AMBIENTAL Y ECONOMÍA ECOLÓGICA

El objetivo en este trabajo, consiste en efectuar una reflexión conceptual sobre el concepto sustentabilidad y su relación con la idea de esquizofrenia. Se traza así el umbral y despegue, para la construcción de un marco de referencia, que permita una mirada crítica del concepto de sustentabilidad en su asociación con referentes hegemónicos globales, que inmovilizan acciones y enunciaciones de posibilidades fuera de las perfiles del sistema. Así, el problema del desgaste ambiental y social, se puede mirar como producto de concepciones convencionales, tanto globales, como del Estado mexicano, respecto de la idea de “desarrollo”; de igual forma que lo son las políticas impulzadas hoy institucionalmente, para el uso del trabajo humano, así como de las políticas económicas en general. En la misma tesitura, el deterioro ambiental global, implica una relación directa entre el capitalismo como sistema y el fenómeno de la esquizofrenia, entendida como forma de desequilibrio de la razón, la cual funciona como táctica de evasión de los elementos primordiales de la realidad, la cual deviene altamente contradictoria

Autonomía y centralismo fiscal en los municipios de la Zona Metropolitana de Cuernavaca 1981 y 2010

The fiscal capacity of the city halls in Mexico is determined by the taxable wealth that is located in their jurisdictions, but mostly for intergovernmental fiscal relationships characterized by a keen fiscal centralism. The municipalities of metropolitan areas (ZM) in the country have a higher fiscal capacity than the municipal average, however, despite its importance in the economic growth and the well-being of the population there are few studies of the fiscal capacity of the city halls. This article aims to increase awareness of the fiscal conditions of the metropolitan areas using the technique of hierarchical conglomerates.La capacidad fiscal de los municipios en México está determinada por la riqueza gravable que se localiza en sus jurisdicciones, pero, sobre todo, por unas relaciones fiscales intergubernamentales caracterizadas por un aguzado centralismo fiscal. Los municipios de las zonas metropolitanas (ZM) del país tienen una capacidad fiscal mayor que el promedio municipal, sin embargo, pese a su importancia en el crecimiento económico y el bienestar de la población, son pocos los estudios de la capacidad fiscal de los municipios que la componen. Este artículo tiene como finalidad aumentar el conocimiento de las condiciones fiscales de las zonas metropolitanas mediante la técnica de conglomerados jerárquicos

Wind Power Cogeneration to Reduce Peak Electricity Demand in Mexican States Along the Gulf of Mexico

The Energetic Transition Law in Mexico has established that in the next years, the country has to produce at least 35% of its energy from clean sources in 2024. Based on this, a proposal in this study is the cogeneration between the principal thermal power plants along the Mexican states of the Gulf of Mexico with modeled wind farms near to these thermal plants with the objective to reduce peak electricity demand. These microscale models were done with hourly MERRA-2 data that included wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and atmospheric pressure with records from 1980–2018 and taking into account roughness, orography, and climatology of the site. Wind speed daily profile for each model was compared to electricity demand trajectory, and it was seen that wind speed has a peak at the same time. The amount of power delivered to the electric grid with this cogeneration in Rio Bravo and Altamira (Northeast region) is 2657.02 MW and for Tuxpan and Dos Bocas from the Eastern region is 3196.18 MW. This implies a reduction at the peak demand. In the Northeast region, the power demand at the peak is 8000 MW, and for Eastern region 7200 MW. If wind farms and thermal power plants work at the same time in Northeast and Eastern regions, the amount of power delivered by other sources of energy at this moment will be 5342.98 MW and 4003.82 MW, respectively