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Fostering Reading: Supporting Foster Children Through Virtual Learning, Evette Harrell, Leah Washburn-Moses Jan 2023

Fostering Reading: Supporting Foster Children Through Virtual Learning, Evette Harrell, Leah Washburn-Moses

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Professional literature presents evidence that foster care agencies, foster parents, and educators are unprepared to meet the distinctive educational needs of foster youth. Although there is a general lack of evidence on specific interventions developed for foster youth, some studies have addressed the impact of tutoring. This paper studies the impact of a pilot program that paired 15 teacher candidates with 15 foster youth for virtual reading tutoring as part of a college course. Data were collected from youth, parents, and teacher candidates through surveys and focus groups. The results of this study suggested that the tutoring relationship produced several …

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Publishing In A Peer-Reviewed Journal, Sherri Lyn Horner, Christy Galletta Horner Jan 2023

Publishing In A Peer-Reviewed Journal, Sherri Lyn Horner, Christy Galletta Horner

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

In our first installment of a series of short articles, we focus on demystifying the publishing process. We first review terminology that is important for authors to understand yet is not clearly defined in easily accessible ways. Then, we describe the publishing process, beginning with preparing and submitting a manuscript, and ending with either publication or a recommendation to submit to another outlet. We provide a visual flowchart to illustrate the steps and multiple pathways in this process. Finally, we present the advice we collected from eight individuals involved in the publication process at MWER: the two current editors and …

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Household Food Insecurity And Student Behavior: The Impact Of One School's Second Breakfast Program, Bradley S. Witzel, Elizabeth Wall-Bassett Jan 2023

Household Food Insecurity And Student Behavior: The Impact Of One School's Second Breakfast Program, Bradley S. Witzel, Elizabeth Wall-Bassett

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Household Food Insecurity (HFI) is a frequent challenge for children living in poverty that impacts social, emotional, and behavioral development. Federally assisted meal programs, such as the National School Breakfast Program, address HFI for students living in poverty through free or reduced-price breakfast. However, there are challenges for students to take advantage of this opportunity, and it is underutilized. In this research, all middle school students at a high poverty school were offered a free of charge meal alternative called Second Chance Breakfast. Since this program was started, student participation in school breakfast increased and behavior incidences in school dropped …

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Editorial, Faizan Ali Jan 2023

Editorial, Faizan Ali

Journal of Global Hospitality and Tourism

I am pleased to present the third issue of Journal of Global Hospitality and Tourism (JGHT), Volume 2, Issue 1. This issue focuses on ensuring the journal’s scope and strengthening its position in both conceptual developments and practical applications in global hospitality and tourism through publication of five quality manuscripts and 2 academic viewpoints: five full papers that underwent rigorous double-blind reviewing, an academic viewpoint, and an industry viewpoint. The present issue of JGHT contains five full papers, written by fourteen authors located in four different countries and affiliated with eight different universities.

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