Promoting an Operation Cease Fire Approach in Classrooms

This study explores the problem oriented and public health models of youth crime prevention and how to better promote it in the average classroom through strategies and interventions in order to reduce gun violence

Discourse Analysis of Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man Through a Feminist Educational Lens

This qualitative study used critical discourse analysis to highlight how educational stakeholders can examine discourses and react to power in texts using a feminist lens to problematize identity

The Framing of the Aftermath of the Chicago Teacher’s Strike

The study explores the framing of the Chicago teachers strike in the media. The study uses content analysis of text from major media sources to find major themes in frames, theorize their purpose, and explore the reaction to them of teachers as public intellectuals

Life, Social Studies, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Using Classroom-based Multicultural Democratic Education to Challenge Conservative Notions of Civic Education

Bok (2010) argues civic understanding could improve student happiness by improving perceptions of politics and government, but the state of civic education in public schools keeps this from happening. This study argues that this notion of civic education is conservative by exploring Bok’s premises, social studies, and civic education

Can the Undocumented Student Speak?

The author argues that evolving issues of immigration law, free speech, skills and values education, and the nationalization of curricula are affecting the university and silencing the voices of undocumented immigrant students. A Freirean analysis is used to examine these issues and offers solutions

Mass Incarceration: Supporting the U.S Imperial Regime

In providing an overview into Mass Incarceration, the Prison Industrial Complex, and the Military Complex; the aim of this research will be to demonstrate how the U.S is engaging in a domestic military operation from their exploitation of the U.S prison population through prison wage labor, where conveniently, is being protected under the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution. By virtue of the U.S. military's inherent mechanism to "conquer", the United States government, through its military establishment and law enforcement, has engaged in the systematic exploitation of minority populations. For example, the United States, historically, has become an imperialistic nation from the earliest ventures of the Revolutionary War to the occupation of resource-rich continents such as Africa. As such, the discriminatory and prejudicial policies enforced by law enforcement have targeted minority populations which have resulted in a repeating cycle of incarceration

Synthesis of Phenyl Carbamoylated Guanidine Functionalized Chitosan

The lack of solubility of the chitosan in organic solvents hinders its potential for chemical modifications. For this reason, it was hypothesized that the insertion of the phenyl carbamoylated guanidine moiety could lead to increased solubility in DMSO and new potential modifications and uses. This research involved the synthesis of S-methyl phenyl carbamoylated guanidine (SMPCG) starting from the commercially available S-methyl isothiourea. This was followed by the reaction of the SMPCG with chitosan to yield phenyl carbamoylated guanidine functionalized chitosan (PCGCs) with a degree of substitution of 14%. The chitosan derivative is fully soluble in DMSO and partially in DMF. This modified polymer will be used in future experiments in protein delivery, antimicrobial activity, and siRNA transfection. Future research is also planned to obtain PCGCs with different degrees of substitution