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“I Am Undocumented and a New Yorker”: Affirmative City Citizenship and New York City’s IDNYC Program
The power to confer legal citizenship status is possessed solely by the federal government. Yet the courts and legal theorists have demonstrated that citizenship encompasses factors beyond legal status, including rights, inclusion, and political participation. As a result, even legal citizens can face barriers to citizenship, broadly understood, due to factors including their race, class, gender, or disability. Given this multidimensionality, the city, as the place where residents carry out the tasks of their daily lives, is a critical space for promoting elements of citizenship. This Note argues that recent city municipal identification-card programs have created a new form of citizenship for their residents. This citizenship, which this Note terms “Affirmative City Citizenship,” is significant for both marginalized populations generally, as well as undocumented immigrant city residents who, because of their noncitizen legal status, face additional hurdles to city life. Utilizing “IDNYC”—New York City’s municipal identification-card program—as a case study, this Note examines the strengths and limitations of Affirmative City Citizenship as a means for supporting undocumented immigrant city residents. It concludes that while Affirmative City Citizenship is a powerful tool for confronting barriers to citizenship, its success with the immigrant population relies in part on the city’s adoption of other proimmigrant policies that more directly conflict with federal law. Accordingly, it recommends that cities seeking to protect their undocumented immigrant city residents adopt both types of policies
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Promoting widening participation and higher education: Lessons from a four year intervention programme
Since the labour government came to power in 1997, a major policy has been to increase the participation rates of those entering higher education, particularly those from lower-socio economic backgrounds. Just over 10 years later, little has changed. The Brunel Urban Scholars programme is a 4 year long intervention programme for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds aged 12-16. It aims, through university style teaching, emersion in a university environment, and regular interaction with undergraduates, to enhance these students’ aspirations and higher education orientation. Findings from the first 2 years suggest that higher education orientation has increased. Aspirations are showing some signs of increasing, but are more gradual. This evidence supports previous findings from pilot programmes that change is slow, and justifies and suggests the need for a longer intervention programmes
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‘Are we being de-gifted, Miss?’ Primary school gifted and talented co-ordinators’ responses to the Gifted and Talented Education Policy in England
This is the accepted version of the following article: Koshy, V. and Pinheiro-Torres, C. (2013), ‘Are we being de-gifted, Miss?’ Primary school gifted and talented co-ordinators’ responses to the Gifted and Talented Education Policy in England. British Educational Research Journal, 39: 953–978. doi: 10.1002/berj.3021, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3021/abstract.Over a decade ago the UK government launched its gifted and talented education policy in England, yet there has been very little published research which considers how schools and teachers are interpreting and implementing the policy. By seeking the views of the gifted and talented co-ordinators (For ease of reference, the term gifted and talented (G&T) co-ordinator is used throughout the paper as a generic shorthand for the research participants who were either designated school gifted and talented co-ordinators or teachers or head teachers with responsibility for policy implementation) with responsibility for addressing the requirements of the policy, the study reported in this paper explored how primary schools in England responded to the policy. Drawing on data gathered using questionnaires with a national sample of primary schools as well as follow-up in-depth interviews with a sample of G&T co-ordinators, the authors report their findings. The study found that there was considerable unease about the concept of identifying and ‘labelling’ a group of pupils as ‘gifted and talented’. G&T co-ordinators found it difficult to interpret the policy requirements and were responding pragmatically to what they considered to be required by the government. Curriculum provision for the selected group of gifted and talented pupils was patchy. The paper concludes by identifying a need for further professional development for teachers and by challenging the policy's over-emphasis on identifying and labelling gifted and talented pupils. We posit whether the gifted and talented education policy would have been better introduced and enjoyed greater success by leaving the identification of pupils to one side and by placing greater emphasis on developing effective learning and teaching strategies instead
A Grassmann representation of the Hubble parameter
The Riccati equation for the Hubble parameter H of barotropic FRW cosmologies
in conformal time for \kappa \neq 0 spatial geometries and in comoving time for
the \kappa =0 geometry, respectively, is generalized to odd Grassmannian time
parameters. We obtain a system of simple differential equations for the four
supercomponents (two of even type and two of odd type) of the Hubble superfield
function {\cal H} that is explicitly solved. The second even Hubble component
does not have an evolution governed by general relativity although there are
effects of the latter upon itComment: 4 pages, no figure
Scaling properties of a ferromagnetic thin film model at the depinning transition
In this paper, we perform a detailed study of the scaling properties of a
ferromagnetic thin film model. Recently, interest has increased in the scaling
properties of the magnetic domain wall (MDW) motion in disordered media when an
external driving field is present. We consider a (1+1)-dimensional model, based
on evolution rules, able to describe the MDW avalanches. The global interface
width of this model shows Family-Vicsek scaling with roughness exponent
and growth exponent . In contrast, this
model shows scaling anomalies in the interface local properties characteristic
of other systems with depinning transition of the MDW, e.g. quenched
Edwards-Wilkinson (QEW) equation and random-field Ising model (RFIM) with
driving. We show that, at the depinning transition, the saturated average
velocity vanished very slowly (with ) when the reduced force . The simulation
results show that this model verifies all accepted scaling relations which
relate the global exponents and the correlation length (or time) exponents,
valid in systems with depinning transition. Using the interface tilting method,
we show that the model, close to the depinning transition, exhibits a
nonlinearity similar to the one included in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ)
equation. The nonlinear coefficient with , which implies that as the depinning transition is
approached, a similar qualitatively behaviour to the driven RFIM. We conclude
this work by discussing the main features of the model and the prospects opened
by it.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
Growing interfaces: A brief review on the tilt method
The tilt method applied to models of growing interfaces is a useful tool to
characterize the nonlinearities of their associated equation. Growing
interfaces with average slope , in models and equations belonging to
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class, have average saturation velocity
when .
This property is sufficient to ensure that there is a nonlinearity type square
height-gradient. Usually, the constant is considered equal to the
nonlinear coefficient of the KPZ equation. In this paper, we show
that the mean square height-gradient ,
where for the continuous KPZ equation and otherwise, e.g.
ballistic deposition (BD) and restricted-solid-on-solid (RSOS) models. In order
to find the nonlinear coefficient associated to each system, we
establish the relationship and we test it through the
discrete integration of the KPZ equation. We conclude that height-gradient
fluctuations as function of are constant for continuous KPZ equation and
increasing or decreasing in other systems, such as BD or RSOS models,
respectively.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
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