[Review of] Leslie W. Dunbar, ed. Minority Report: What Has Happened to Blacks, Hispanics. American Indians, and Other Minorities in the Eighties

Six years since President Reagan took office, public policies related to the needs of the poor have been established which set back the gains of the Civil Rights movement. Although gains have been made, at least on the surface, the current administration\u27s policies have widened the gap between those who have and those who have not. Policies such as affirmative action, education programs, and public welfare are being eroded, sacrificed in favor of escalating military budgets and constructive engagement in Central America

Análisis y diseño de materiales didácticos

El objetivo fundamental de este capítulo es establecer unas pautas generales que permiten a los profesores de español desarrollar una actitud crítica con respecto a los materiales que se emplean en la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera. Como consecuencia, ellos mismos serán capaces de seleccionar el material adecuado para el grupo meta de estudiantes y, si es necesario, adaptar los materiales ya existentes o crear sus propios materiales. Al comienzo de este capítulo se presenta un panorama de los estudios e investigaciones que se han dedicado, por una parte, al análisis y a la evaluación de materiales didácticos para la enseñanza de español como lengua extranjera de forma general (Fernández López, 2004; Lozano y Ruiz-Campillo, 2009 y Sans, 2000) y, por otra, a las investigaciones que se han ocupado de analizar los materiales teniendo en cuenta elementos específicos (Baralo, 2013; Ezeiza, 2009; Gil y León, 1998). A continuación, se incluyen las diferentes propuestas de diversos autores sobre el análisis, la evaluación de materiales y unidades didácticas y el diseño de los materiales. Finalmente, se desarrolla una plantilla general que comprende los elementos necesarios para analizar y evaluar los materiales didácticos y, consecuentemente, para guiar al docente en el diseño de materiales o en la adaptación de los materiales ya publicados

[Review of] Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. Let All of Them Take Heed : Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981

It is well known among educational researchers that pervasive segregation of blacks and underepresentation [underrepresentation] of Mexican Americans in higher education continues to this day, although these practices and policies violate federal law. A recent study by the Tomas Rivera Center for Policy Studies found that the state of Texas failed during the five years of its Equal Educational Opportunity Plan for Higher Education to eliminate the disparities in its system and improve the educational experiences of minorities. The structural dimensions of educational policy have a long and tumultuous history. Moreover, the notion that Mexican American parents care little for their children\u27s education lingers in the social attitudes of most Americans and in particular, policymakers. This factor exists today, in part, because social science has ignored the educational experiences of Mexican American students and the response to these experiences by the community

The Mexican Animal Identification System: Current Situation, Problems, and Potential

Mexico initiated a federal animal identification (ID) system (SINIIGA) in 2003. The program is administered by an agency of the federal Department of Agriculture (SAGARPA) and has been used primarily to support a federal subsidy program for livestock producers. The program is conceptually well designed, but implementation thus far falls short of the potential and needs, most importantly in animal disease management. Although substantial numbers of animals have been tagged, relatively little progress has been made in developing a usable animal ID information system. Animal health officials currently are not actively involved in the development and use of the system.Mexican animal ID system, livestock, Mexico, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Farm Management, International Development, Livestock Production/Industries, Political Economy, Q13, Q18,

[Review of] Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California

As one drives through the state of California, the legacy of Indian, Spanish, and Mexican cultures is obvious everywhere. In school, children learn how this land fell into the hands of the Spanish Crown with its mission system starting to bring Christianity to the Indians, how California became Mexican via the independence movement, and finally in the nineteenth century, how the United States came to control California. Yet little is known or understood about what the transfer of power meant or how it occurred

Socio-economic determinants of efficiency in reducing child mortality in developing countries

Efficiency issues in health investments have received increasing attention, mainly as a result of the growing amount of resources invested in developing countries and their mixed impacts on outcomes. The empirical literature has suggested that, although government spending on health care improves the health status of the population, society can potentially gain more through the more efficient assignment of health resources. In this context, this paper aims to: firstly, to analyse whether developing countries can further reduce child mortality by using the available resources more parsimoniously; and secondly, to identify the (non-discretionary) socio-economic factors that could be affecting this process. More specifically, this paper aims to explain why some countries are more efficient than others in converting inputs (physician density and relative total health expenditure) into a health outcome: the under-five mortality rate (U5MR). The database used in the estimations comprised 47 developing countries with data for the periods 2000- 2004, 2005-2009, and 2010-2012. The findings suggest that greater efficiency in the provision of immunization, better quality government, and lower income inequality are directly related to efficiency in the use of inputs to reduce the U5MR.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

La dimensión constitucional de la guerra: Conflictos armados e intervenciones militares en el extranjero

En España, como ocurre en la mayor parte de los países de nuestro entorno, la participación militar en operaciones armadas fuera del territorio nacional ha devenido en las últimas décadas una realidad cada vez más compleja y, por esta misma razón, cada vez más divergente con, y menos aprehensible para, las normas jurídicas que disciplinan las funciones de las Fuerzas Armadas, los procedimientos de autorización de las acciones bélicas, o los límites materiales de estas últimas

Changing family models in Spain: the impact of the sociodemographic factors

Abstract During the last few decades, there has been an increasing international recognition of the studies related to the analysis of the family models change, the focus being the determinants of the female employment and the problems related to the work family balance (Lewis, 2001; Petit & Hook, 2005Saraceno, Crompton & Lyonette, 20062008; Pfau-Effinger, 2012). The majority of these studies have been focused on the analysis of the work-family balance problems as well as the effectiveness of the family and gender policies in order to encourage female employment (Korpi et al., 2013). In Spain, special attention has been given to the family policies implemented, the employability of women and on the role of the father in the family (Flaquer et al., 2015; Meil, 2015); however, there has been far less emphasis on the analysis of the family cultural models (González and Jurado, 2012; Crespi and Moreno, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to present some of the first results on the influence of the socio-demographic factors on the expectations and attitudes about the family models. This study offers an analytical reflection upon the foundation of the determinants of the family ambivalence in Spain from the cultural and the institutional dimension. This study shows the Spanish family models of preferences following the Pfau-Effinger (2004) classification of the famiy living arrangements. The reason for this study is twofold; on the one hand, there is confirmed the scarcity of studies that have focused their attention on this objective in Spain; on the other hand, the studies carried out in the international context have confirmed the analytical effectiveness of researching on the attitude and value changes to explain the meaning and trends of the family changes. There is also presented some preliminary results that have been obtained from the multinomial analysis related to the influence of the socio-demographic factors on the family model chosen by the individuals in Spain (father and mother working full time; mother part-time father full-time; mother not at work father full-time; mother and father part-time). 3 The database used has been the International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles IV- ISSP 2012-. Spain is the only country of South Europe that has participated in the survey. For this reason it has been considered as a representative case study.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

“Would it be fair to say that you actively sought out material?” Mitigation and Aggravation in Police Investigative Interviews

The aim of investigative interviews is to gather comprehensive and reliable information from suspects, offenders, victims and witnesses through questioning. Research on questioning during police interviews has mainly explored question types and question approaches when interviewing adults and children. This paper is concerned with so far unexplored aspects of police interviewing, that is the employment of mitigating and aggravating linguistic devices in questions and statements and their pragmatic effects. The corpus consists of six police interviews with suspects of crime. Mitigation and aggravation strategies were extracted and a total of eighty-two instances were found, analysed and classified into a categorisation taxonomy, which was designed to ascertain the types and functions of mitigation and aggravation devices. The findings reveal that more mitigation than aggravation strategies were used in police questioning and statements during the interviews. Mitigation was found to be used not only as a device for alleviating or attenuating, but also as a strategy to build rapport between suspects and police officers