Turning in the Widening Gyre: History, Corporate Accountability, and Transitional Justice in the Postcolony

This Article argues that transitional justice, by increasing efforts to include corporate accountability within its various mechanisms, may confront the global structures of rule that systematically produce conditions of violence within formerly colonized nation-states. Building on work by Giorgio Agamben and Homi Bhabha, I demonstrate that the very notion of a “transition” around which transitional justice is articulated derives from a nineteenth-century understanding of history that reflects the ideology of development which supported the colonial system. Moments of violent historical discontinuity, legally conceptualized as “states of exception,” provide the paradigmatic bases for models of transitional justice. But, in the history of the postcolony, this state of exception functioned as the generalized rule for governance. Accordingly, following scholars Achille Mbembe, Laurel Fletcher, and Harvey M. Weinstein, transitional justice must adopt an ecological approach that embraces the lived historical experience of the postcolony, including its unique structures of governance. The history of Sierra Leone provides a case study of how the legacy of colonial governmentality persists in the present global order, creating the kinds of atrocities that transitional justice aims to remediate. Specifically, the colonial model of indirect rule has become reconfigured such that the postcolonial government secures legitimacy by meditating between local populations and non-state actors, including transnational corporations. To restructure these relationships effectively, transitional justice must, therefore, engage with the ongoing work toward corporate accountability. By advocating for legally binding mechanisms addressing corporate impunity and incorporating the U.N. Guiding Principles into the work of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, transitional justice can further advance its core objectives and the movement toward corporate accountability more generally

Effective Interventions for Secondary Students with Disabilities to be Successful in Mathematics

This Starred Paper provides article summaries and data of different types of effective math interventions to secondary students with disabilities. This research is broken down into three main interventions: Concrete-Representational-Abstract, Explicit Teaching, and Cognitive Strategies

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF CARBON CAPTURE & SEQUESTRATION: WHERE WE ARE & WHERE COULD WE GO?

Carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, is a technology that has been highlighted by the IPCC (2018) as a critical technology that offers the immediate opportunity to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources and fossil fuel burning power plants. A transition away from fossils fuels cannot occur instantly, instead it must be gradual given society’s high dependency on fossil fuels, and the lack of equal and equitable access to sustainable replacement technologies. Society must utilize a variety of readily available mitigation, adaptation, and decarbonization tools used together to address climate change while recognizing that carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced but they will not be eliminated in the near term. CCS is one of these readily available technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This capstone will provide a detailed overview of the current technical and economic aspects of CCS. Followed by highlighting, four case studies that show how varying captured emission types and varying transportation distances impact project economics and compatibility with existing tax credit levels. It was found that while CCS is technically viable; the economics, specifically the capture costs, offer the greatest hurdle and uncertainty in further implementing CCS. Results from analysis suggest, in the near-term increasing the current tax credit from $50 per ton of carbon dioxide sequestered to$85 per ton of carbon dioxide sequestered would make applying CCS to emissions from bioethanol, ammonia, lime, and natural gas processing economic on a mean total project cost basis. These sectors account for 15% of the annual carbon dioxide emissions from industry and power plants. From a long-term economic standpoint, increasing the tax credit would also spur additional implementation, which in turn would result in decreasing capture costs, a trend seen in already with power plant capture costs and more broadly in other renewable technologies such as onshore wind and solar PV. Finally, from a storage component, it was found that the sedimentary basins within the United States offer an abundance of storage space

Effects of the California High School Exit Exam on Student Persistence, Achievement, and Graduation

Analyzes the impact of the exit exam requirement on student persistence, achievement, and graduation by race/ethnicity and gender and the factors behind the differential effects. Considers implications for the fairness and effectiveness of the exams

The Story of Harding College

A history of Harding College. Six of the seven chapters are adapted articles from the periodical The Minister\u27s Monthly.https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/crs_books/1548/thumbnail.jp

The Evolution Of An Institution And Student Misconduct Polices: A Study Of Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM), 1887-2007

An institution of higher education holds certain beliefs about the personal growth of students while they are enrolled. The behavior prohibited within the student misconduct policies reflect the norms within the larger society as well as the expectations specific to the learning environment within the institution. Students adhering to the expectations defined in these policies are perceived as embracing these beliefs, which enhances the character and resulting community member the student becomes upon graduation. In an opportunity to understand and resolve the concern of having an overly legalistic published policies for student misconduct, this qualitative study reviewed the content of codes of student conduct and published rules for students at Minnesota State University Moorhead from the start of the college through the span of 120 years. The evolution of the institution and student misconduct policies was studied through qualitative historical document analysis of archived student handbooks and annual catalogues and bulletins at the institution within the noted timeframe of 1887 through 2007. Using this design allowed for the holistic understanding of the data given the researcher’s professional knowledge, the setting of the college, and the evolution of the institution. The findings included evidence of the dynamic evolution of policies; an increased proportion of policies that reference criminal law, state statute, and federal law; and the changes in policies that reflect the contextual landscape changes of the institution. In the advent of “model codes”, this study provides a framework for student conduct practitioners to conduct a review of the student misconduct policies on a college or university campus

Making a Tough Choice: Teacher Target-Setting and Student Achievement in a Teacher Performance System Using Student Learning Objectives

The use of student learning objectives (SLOs) as part of teacher performance systems has gained traction quickly in the United States, yet little is known about how teachers select specific students’ learning goals. When teachers are evaluated—and sometimes compensated—based on whether their students meet the very objectives the teachers set at the start of the year, there may be an incentive to set low targets. SLO systems rely on teachers’ willingness and ability to set appropriately ambitious SLOs. We describe teachers’ SLO target-setting behavior in one school-district. We document the accuracy/ambitiousness of targets and find that teachers regularly set targets that students did not meet. We also find that, within the same year, a student’s spring test scores tend to be higher on the assessments for which they received higher targets. This raises the intriguing possibility that receiving higher targets might cause students to perform better than they otherwise would have

Title: The Misattribution of Summers in Teacher Value-Added

Abstract Body Limit 4 pages single-spaced. Background / Context. Description of prior research and its intellectual context