Are You My Brother\u27s Keeper: Challenging the Systemic Racism That Fosters Low Expectations for Black Males in Public Schools

This dissertation in practice investigates the problem of systemic racism fostering a culture of low expectations for Black males in public schools. This work frames this problem as a matter of social justice and utilizes Critical Race Theory to examine how it robs Black males of their academic potential. This work argues that to address this problem, educators must engage in learning opportunities that help to identify and challenge their race-based assumptions and stereotypes, develop their racial consciousness, cultural competencies, and professional practices, and recognize, interrupt, and address systemic racism. Provided is a working agenda that offers recommendations for how to implement designs for action at a district level that will build networked improvement communities to work toward the improvement of the quality of education offered to Black males

Maestro Stu Saves the Zoo

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The Impact of Maternal Depression on Adolescent Adjustment: The Role of Expressed Emotion

The present study evaluated the role of expressed emotion (EE) as a predictor of child symptomatology and functional impairment in a sample of nearly 800 adolescent children of mothers with varying histories of depression or who were nondepressed. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized associations in half of the sample, and all models were cross-validated on the other half of the study sample. Results indicated that EE criticism and degree of maternal depression both had independent predictive associations with youths' externalizing symptoms and functional impairment. In addition, high EE criticism served as an intervening variable between maternal depression and child functioning (externalizing symptoms and functional impairment). Results are discussed in terms of the mutual effects of depressed mothers and dysfunctional youths on each other

Online Student Ratings: Increasing Response Rates

Supervisor: Tom JonesMost institutions offering distance education can identify with the problem of low response rates of online evaluation, but few have systematically investigated the issue. The purpose of this two-phase, sequential mixed method study was to first explore and generate themes about student online evaluation response motivation and practice using interviews conducted via email. Based on these themes, Phase 2 used a Web-based cross-sectional survey of undergraduate and graduate online nursing students to identify preferred strategies to maximize response rates. Perceived value represented the key theme that emerged from the qualitative narrative. Faculty members tend to value online student completed course evaluations and use student feedback for their ongoing course revisions. Students want evidence that the faculty and institution value their feedback. They expect to receive feedback from their institution regarding course changes and improvements. Survey results confirm and extend literature findings. Respondents identified rewards, risk and trust as general means to increase response rates. In particular, participants rated the relative effectiveness of administrative factors (i.e., reminders, motivators, best time for completing, and best location for posting results) and the face validity of course evaluations to measure important aspects of instruction. Online nursing student respondents rated the following reminders to complete the online course evaluation form: email message, faculty facilitator, course schedule, WebCT course calendar, Campus Pipeline homepage, and welcome letter. With a mean response level of 1.29, the Email Message reflected the most effective reminder with nearly three fourths of students ranking it as very effective. Faculty Facilitator and Course Schedule reminders also reflected very strong positive responses. The students also responded positively to factors motivating them to complete the course evaluation form. Briefly, the motivators included bonus mark for evaluation, draw for a prize, improvement/change from feedback, faculty facilitator encouragement, requirement to receive grade and comparison with other student ratings. The Bonus Mark for each course evaluated with a mean response level of 1.48 reflected an extremely effective motivator with approximately 70% of students ranking it as very effective. Further, Draw for a Prize and Notice of Course Improvement or Change resulting from Feedback also reflected very strong positive responses. Respondents clearly indicated the best time to complete course evaluations, the location for posting the results, and whether or not course evaluation addresses the important aspects of instruction. The best time to complete the online course evaluation forms seemed to be the end of the course with a mean response level of 1.29 with 78% of students ranking it as very effective. Most respondents (88.8%) indicated that results should be posted on Campus Pipeline (Intranet) rather than the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) Web site (Internet). In their open-ended responses, students asserted the need for SIAST to post course evaluation to show value for student feedback and institutional accountability and quality assurance. Finally, students confirmed that the course evaluation addresses the most important aspects of instruction (83.6% of respondents). This study has implications for educational institutions striving to maximize student response rates. First, it is fundamental that institutions show value for the student feedback by reporting evaluation results including course changes/improvements. Second, institutions should take advantage of incorporating motivators and reminders, appropriate for their organizational culture, to maximize response rates to online course evaluation. Finally, the researcher achieved a 70% response rate to the Web-based survey by employing strategies identified in the literature to maximize response rates

Dis/orientating the early childhood sensorium: A palate making menu for public pedagogy

This paper shares a multilayered retrospective story of an international exhibit curated for the Climate Action Childhood Network Colloquium as part of a commitment among exhibit curators to reveal the complexities of unpalatable climate futures. In the format of a tasting menu, we offer a sampling of the exhibit installations as a menu of potential alterpolitics in the making. Facing intensifying inequitable climate presents and futures, our intention is that this invitation might create openings for the intersection of local and global concerns. We gesture toward collective but tentative responses for thinking climate action pedagogies through the metaphor of a troubling meal

Theology, News and Notes - Vol. 53, No. 03

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Chest diameter ratios for detecting static hyperinflation in children using photogrammetry

OBJECTIVES: To develop a photogrammetric method capable of identifying increases in anteroposterior chest diameters suggestive of pulmonary hyperinflation, and to test it with both asthmatic and asthma-free children. METHODS: Two distinct study designs were used to achieve these two objectives. The first was a descriptive analysis of diameters measured at the height of the axilla and of the xiphoid on digital images of 56 children aged 8 to 12 years photographed in the orthostatic position. The second was a case-control study of (a) 19 asthmatic children in treatment for at least 12 months; and (b) 37 children free from asthma with no prior history of complaints of respiratory/allergic disease. Diameters were measured on images of the front and left side views using CorelDRAW®, and the ratio between the front and side diameters was calculated for the axillary and xiphoid measurements, providing the diameter ratios. Diameter ratios close to or greater than 1 represent geometry tending towards a cylindrical shape, typical of hyperinflation on radiographs. RESULTS: Analysis with the t test for independent samples revealed a mean diameter ratio at the sternum that was significantly greater in the group of asthmatic children (p < 0.01) than the mean for the whole sample and also than the mean for the children without asthma. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the existence of disagreement on the best instruments, methods and times for identifying hyperinflation, results indicate that a system using diameter ratios obtained by photogrammetry is a promising tool for the identification of a kinesiopathological manifestation that is known to determine air entrapment in asthma patients. Research that combines clinical data with longitudinal intrapatient follow-up will be necessary to establish the strength of the evidence found in this study.OBJETIVOS: Desenvolver um método fotogramétrico capaz de identificar aumento do diâmetro torácico anteroposterior sugestivo de hiperinsuflação pulmonar e testá-lo em crianças asmáticas e não asmáticas. MÉTODOS: Foram conduzidos dois perfis de estudos, sendo um deles a análise descritiva dos diâmetros medidos no nível axilar e xifóideo em imagens fotográficas digitais de 56 crianças, com idade entre 8 e 12 anos, na posição ortostática, e o outro, um estudo caso-controle entre: (a) 19 crianças asmáticas em tratamento há mais de 12 meses; (b) 37 crianças não asmáticas, sem histórico pregresso ou queixas de doenças respiratórias/alérgicas. Os diâmetros foram medidos nas imagens da vista anterior e lateral esquerda pelo uso do programa CorelDraw®, e a esses diâmetros aplicou-se a razão matemática de vista anterior por lateral esquerda para cada nível, gerando o índice denominado razão diametral. A razão diametral próxima ou superior à unidade expressou uma configuração geométrica tendendo ao formato cilíndrico, típico de hiperinsuflação nas imagens radiológicas. RESULTADOS: A análise pelo teste t para amostras independentes mostrou uma média significativamente maior para razão diametral do osso esterno no grupo de crianças asmáticas (p < 0,01) que no grupo como um todo e no grupo de crianças não asmáticas. CONCLUSÕES: Apesar das controvérsias sobre instrumentos, formas e momentos de identificação da presença de hiperinsuflação, os resultados são favoráveis ao sistema de razão diametral pela biofotogrametria como ferramenta promissora na identificação de uma expressão cinesiopatológica conhecida como determinante da retenção aérea na asma. Pesquisas que agreguem informações clínicas e acompanhamento longitudinal intrapacientes serão necessárias antes de estabelecer a força das evidências encontradas neste estudo.Grupo de Apoio ao Programa de Educacao Respiratoria (GAPER)Universidade Federal do Paraná Departamento de PediatriaUFPR Departamento de Pediatria Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde da Criança e do AdolescenteUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Escola Paulista de Medicina Departamento de OtorrinolaringologiaUNIFESP, EPM, Depto. de OtorrinolaringologiaSciEL

Leslie Matrices and Women Population in the United States of America

This research tests the accuracy of the Leslie matrix, which is a discrete age-structured method that uses fertility and survival rates, as a tool for predicting women population. Based on available data for the year 2000, we have constructed a Leslie matrix that predicts female population in the United States for every five years from the years 2000 to 2020. To test the accuracy of this method, we compare the aforementioned obtained projected data for the year 2010 with the actual data for women population in the United States obtained by the 2010 U.S. Census