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Learning From Consistently High Performing And Improving Schools For English Language Learners In Boston Public Schools, Rosann Tung, Virginia Diez, Laurie Gagnon, Miren Uriarte, Pamela Stazesky, Eileen De Los Reyes, Antonieta Bolomey

Gastón Institute Publications

Against a backdrop of increasing BPS ELL enrollment, district ELL leadership transitions, state and federal policies affecting ELL education, and with the knowledge that many teachers and administrators within the Boston Public Schools are expert practitioners with ELL students, we addressed the following research questions:

• In which BPS schools were ELL students performing at a consistently high level or showing steady improvement during SY2006-SY2009?
• What were some of the practices that these schools’ staffs credited with their success with ELL students during SY2006-SY2009?
• Which of the practices identified by school staff were shared among the selected schools?

Through case study …

Fall/Winter 2011, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.

Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2011), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Beliefs About Alcohol And The College Experience, Locus Of Self, And College Undergraduates’ Drinking Patterns, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which locus of self (institutional versus impulse), measured using the Twenty Statements Test (TST), moderates the relationship between beliefs about alcohol and the college experience (BACE) and alcohol use among college undergraduates. Although the majority of our respondents listed more idiosyncratic personal characteristics and preferences than consensual social roles in response to the TST, the number of students classified as institutionals was notably higher than what has been reported within the literature. In opposition to our hypothesis that BACE would affect levels of alcohol consumption primarily among these individuals, …

From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.

The Social And Behavioral Implications Of Location-Based Services, Katina Michael, M.G. Michael

Associate Professor Katina Michael

The social and behavioral implications of location-based services (LBS) are only now beginning to come to light in advanced markets where the services have been adopted by just a little over half the market (Microsoft 2011). Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes location-based services, statistics on the level of adoption differ considerably. While it is helpful to provide as broad a list of applications as possible in what constitutes LBS (e.g. everything from in-vehicle navigation systems to downloading a map using a computer), it can also cloud the real picture forming behind this emerging technology. Emerging not in the …

Review: The Making Of Pro-Life Activists By Ziad W. Munson, Gene Deerman

Gene Deerman

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Impact Of Social Determinants On Pedestrian Injury In Clark County, Nevada, Jonathon Lavalley, Courtney Ann Coughenour, Michelle Chino

Graduate Publications & Presentations (HS)

In order to understand the social determinants which may impact pedestrian injury rates in an urban, sprawling, western community we conducted an ecologic investigation to compare pedestrian crash rates by social determinants available for census tracts in Clark County, NV.

Association Between Mental Health Disorders And Juveniles' Detention For A Personal Crime, Patricia A. Stoddard Dare, Christopher A. Mallett, Craig Boitel

Social Work Faculty Publications

Background: Youth involved with juvenile courts often suffer from mental health difficulties and disorders, and these mental health disorders have often been a factor leading to the youth’s delinquent behaviours and activities.

Method: The present study of a sample population (N= 341), randomly drawn from one urban US county’s juvenile court delinquent population, investigated which specific mental health disorders predicted detention for committing a personal crime.

Results: Youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder diagnoses were significantly less likely to commit personal crimes and experience subsequent detention, while youth with bipolar diagnoses were significantly more likely.

Conclusion: Co-ordinated youth …

Review Of The Book Gender And Globalization: Patterns Of Women’S Resistance, Erica G. Polakoff And Ligaya Lindio-Mcgovern, (Eds.)., Mantra Roy

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Torch (November/December 2011), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

“Above The American Bottom: The Bluffs And The Sinkhole Plain”, Quinta Scott

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In this photo essay, Quinta Scott examines the natural history of the Mississippi River wetland and the varied landscapes that comprise the American Bottom.

“Gambling On The Economic Future Of East St. Louis: The Casino Queen”, Anne F. Boxberger Flaherty

The Confluence (2009-2020)

When the Casino Queen opened on the riverfront at East St. Louis, it was touted as a major contributor to the city's economy. Has it been so?

“Contraband Camps In St. Louis: A Contested Path To Freedom”, Jane M. Davis

The Confluence (2009-2020)

During the Civil War, Union officers were sometimes inundated with former slaves, which the Union considered “contraband,” and refused to return them to their owners. Jane Davis examines these contraband camps in St. Louis.

“‘A New Order Of Things’: St. Louis, Chicago, And The Struggle For Western Commercial Supremacy”, Drew Vandecreek

The Confluence (2009-2020)

St. Louis leadership during the Gilded Age was nothing if not confident, even suggesting that the nation's capitol be moved to the St. Louis region. Drew VandeCreek offers some of the writings of these boosters.

“St. Louis Builds A Post Office”, David Straight

The Confluence (2009-2020)

As the city of St. Louis burgeoned in the middle of the nineteenth century, services struggled to keep up. David Straight examines the challenges presented to mail delivery in 1851.

Degrees Of Inequality: Culture, Class, And Gender In American Higher Education - Book Review, Karen Bradley

Sociology

No abstract provided.

Hyphenated Identities As A Challenge To Nation-State School Practice?, Edmund T. Hamann, William England

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This chapter concludes the edited volume Hyphenated Identities and affords a chance to juxtapose how transnational students negotiate school and identity with how school systems in turn view such students, and then it allows the examination of two different strategies -- situational ethnicity versus the assertion of hyphenated identity -- as a glimpse into the cosmology of transnationally mobile students as they come into adulthood.

Schooling, National Affinity(Ies), And Transnational Students In Mexico, Edmund T. Hamann, Víctor Zúñiga

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

An examination of responses by 346 students from Nuevo León and Zacatecas, Mexico, who had previously attended schools in the United States, found that 37% asserted a hyphenated identity as "Mexican-American," while an additional 5% identified as "American." Put another way, 42% did not identify singularly as "Mexican." Those who insisted on a hyphenated identity were not a random segment of the larger sample, but rather had distinct profiles in terms of gender, time in the United States, and more. This chapter describes these students, broaches implications of their hyphenated identities for their schooling, and considers how this example may …

Review: The Making Of Pro-Life Activists By Ziad W. Munson, Gene Deerman

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.