Ensuring Academic Success: The Real Issue in Educating English Language Learners

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Reflections: The Honorable Irma S. Raker – Judge, Teacher, and Role Model

This article is a sketch of Judge Irma S. Raker’s career from her days as a law student at Washington College of Law to her distinguished career as a jurist and teacher. Judge Raker’s first legal job was as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Montgomery County, Maryland, where her appointment as the first woman litigator was a milestone in the local legal community. She was appointed in 1980 to serve as a judge on the District Court for Montgomery County and, in 1982, to serve on the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Judge Raker decided a number of seminal cases, including Burning Tree Club, Inc. v. Bainum, 501 A.2d 817 (Md. 1985), which was affirmed by the Maryland Court of Appeals. Since 1982 she has participated in the WCL’s Trial Advocacy Program, and is now the Program’s senior adjunct faculty member. She has taught more than five hundred law students civil and criminal trial advocacy skills and is considered one of the WCL’s best teachers. In addition to additional WCL service, such as serving as a Moot Court judge, Judge Raker has greatly contributed to the larger legal community, including service as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Maryland State Bar Association and as Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Committee Task Force on Diversion and Special Courts. She is also the recipient of the ABA’s Margaret Brent Award for her contributions to women in the legal profession

Reflections: The Honorable Irma S. Raker – Judge, Teacher, and Role Model

This article is a sketch of Judge Irma S. Raker’s career from her days as a law student at Washington College of Law to her distinguished career as a jurist and teacher. Judge Raker’s first legal job was as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Montgomery County, Maryland, where her appointment as the first woman litigator was a milestone in the local legal community. She was appointed in 1980 to serve as a judge on the District Court for Montgomery County and, in 1982, to serve on the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Judge Raker decided a number of seminal cases, including Burning Tree Club, Inc. v. Bainum, 501 A.2d 817 (Md. 1985), which was affirmed by the Maryland Court of Appeals. Since 1982 she has participated in the WCL’s Trial Advocacy Program, and is now the Program’s senior adjunct faculty member. She has taught more than five hundred law students civil and criminal trial advocacy skills and is considered one of the WCL’s best teachers. In addition to additional WCL service, such as serving as a Moot Court judge, Judge Raker has greatly contributed to the larger legal community, including service as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Maryland State Bar Association and as Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Committee Task Force on Diversion and Special Courts. She is also the recipient of the ABA’s Margaret Brent Award for her contributions to women in the legal profession

Mrs. Venus\u27s class exploring Jim Crow

Mrs. Venus’s Class Exploring Jim Crow. This story revolves around a classroom on a different planet full of alien children who are learning about American history, specifically the Jim Crow era. The teacher and the students discuss the injustices and oppression experienced by African Americans and other non-white citizens. The next day, American student Jimmy Turner joins them, and he is faced with animosity by some of the alien children in the class. The alien teacher points to the similarities in the children’s prejudice against the human and the prejudice that was prominent during the Jim Crow era.https://scholar.utc.edu/race-and-childhood/1005/thumbnail.jp

Content Analysis of Expressive Writing Narratives About Stressful Relational Events Using Interpersonal Decentering

Article from a study completed using secondary analysis of data from two studies of expressive writing about stressful relational events to first describe the relations of word use to social-cognitive maturity of role-taking using Feffer’s Interpersonal Decentering scoring system and then to test hypotheses about active processing of relational information versus event closure. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published article

Rumination, event centrality, and perceived control as predictors of post-traumatic growth and distress: The Cognitive Growth and Stress model

Objectives: The Cognitive Growth and Stress (CGAS) model draws together cognitive processing factors previously untested in a single model. Intrusive rumination, deliberate rumination, present and future perceptions of control and event centrality were assessed as predictors of posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic stress. Method: The CGAS model is tested on a sample of survivors (N = 250) of a diverse range of adverse events using structural equation modelling techniques. Results: Overall, the best fitting model was supportive of the theorised relations between cognitive constructs, and accounted for 30% of the variance in posttraumatic growth and 68% of the variance in posttraumatic stress across the sample. Conclusions: Rumination, centrality and perceived control factors are significant determinants of positive and negative psychological change across the wide spectrum of adversarial events. In its first phase of development, the CGAS model also provides further evidence of the distinct processes of growth and distress following adversity

Longitudinal trajectories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after birth and associated risk factors

Background Although longitudinal trajectories of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are well-established in general trauma populations, very little is known about the trajectories of birth-related PTSD. This study aimed to identify trajectories of birth-related PTSD; determine factors associated with each trajectory; and identify women more likely to develop birth-related PTSD. Method 226 women who had traumatic childbirth according to DSM-IV criterion A were drawn from a community sample of 950 women. Measures were taken of PTSD, affective symptoms, fear of childbirth and social support in pregnancy, 4–6 weeks and 6-months postpartum. Information on some obstetric and psychosocial factors were also prospectively obtained. Results Four trajectories were identified: resilience (61.9%), recovery (18.5%), chronic-PTSD (13.7%) and delayed-PTSD (5.8%). Resilience was consistently distinguished from other PTSD trajectories by less affective symptoms at 4–6 weeks postpartum. Poor satisfaction with health professionals was associated with chronic-PTSD and delayed-PTSD. When affective symptoms at 4–6 weeks postpartum were removed from the model, less social support and higher fear of childbirth 4–6 weeks after birth predicted chronic and recovery trajectories; whereas experience of further trauma and low levels of satisfaction with health professionals were predictive of chronic-PTSD and delayed-PTSD, compared to resilience. Additional variables associated with different trajectories included antenatal affective symptoms, caesarean-section, preterm birth and receiving professional help. Limitations Use of self-report measures, use of DSM-IV criteria for PTSD diagnosis, and no follow-up beyond six months are the main limitations of this study. Conclusion Identified factors may inform preventive and treatment interventions for women with traumatic birth experiences