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Assessing Online Viewing Practices Among College Students
(National Association for Media Literacy Education, 2019)This article focuses on media literacy education for college students. First, we conducted psychometric analyses to verify the properties of the Critical Evaluation and Analysis of Media (CEAM) scale. CEAM measures college ... -
Learning from the Experiences and Development of Latina School Leaders
(SAGE, 2019-08)Purpose: With the rise of the Latinx student population in the United States and the urgency to meet the needs of this diverse community, there has been an increased concern and interest in preparing more Latinx educators ... -
(Re)considering the Role Familismo Plays in Latina/o High School Students’ College Choices
(2013)This qualitative study examines the role familismo (Marín & Marín, 1991) played in 20 Latina/o high school seniors’ college choices. Familismo is the tendency to hold the wants and needs of family in higher regard than ... -
Fostering a College-going Culture for Historically Underserved Students: One Principal’s Role
(SAGE Publications, 2017-03)Current scholarship focused on a college-going culture and college readiness in schools often underestimates or gives little attention to the role of the school leader. This study draws on qualitative data from a larger ... -
Helping Latina/o Students Navigate the College Choice Process: Considerations for Secondary School Counselors
(Montana State University, 2013)This qualitative study utilized interviews with 20 Latina/o high school seniors and five secondary school counselors in South Texas to further understand how counselors help Latina/o students navigate their college choice ... -
Ternura y Tenacidad: Testimonios of Latina School Leaders
(Association of Mexican American Educators, 2016)This study utilized testimonio as method to unearth the voices of four Latina school leaders from the southern region of the U.S. to shed light on their experiences, including triumphs and struggles, in navigating their ... -
Wealth, Stereotypes, and Issues of Prestige: The College Choice Experience of
(Elsevier, 2012-01)Utilizing the notion of community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005), this study focuses on the various forms of capital that Mexican American students from the South Texas Border draw upon within their community to navigate ... -
Engaging Aspiring Educational Leaders in Self-reflection Regarding Race and Privilege
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11)Self-reflection is a vital tool that can be used in the preparation of aspiring school leaders to ensure they can equitably serve the increasingly racially, culturally, linguistically and economically diverse students in ... -
College Access for Undocumented Students and Law
(New Prairie Press, 2019)There are over 32 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and of this population, over 1.5 million are children (Palmer & Davidson, 2011). These children grow up in the US, achieve primary and secondary ... -
Network Alterations in Comorbid Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction: An Exploratory Approach
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019)The comorbidity of chronic pain and opioid addiction is a serious problem that has been growing with the practice of prescribing opioids for chronic pain. Neuroimaging research has shown that chronic pain and opioid ... -
A Novel Medical Device that Relieves Anxiety, Depression and Pain While Improving Sleep in a Population of Teachers
(Longdom, 2019)Objectives: This study was conducted to confirm the benefits of Alpha-Stim ® cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) technology as an effective non-drug treatment for anxiety, mood, sleep, and pain in ... -
A Novel Method for Expediting the Development of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and an Evaluation Across Several Populations.
(Sage, 2016)Item response theory (IRT) models provide an appropriate alternative to the classical ordinal confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) during the development of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). Current literature has ... -
Bilingüismo en Inmigrantes Adultos: Conceptos Fundamentales y Experiencias Pedagógicas
(Editorial Kinesis, 2018-12-28)This book presents an overview of theoretical issues, foundational concepts, and pedagogical experiences fostering the bilingual education of adult immigrants within the context of the United States, more specifically South ... -
The Methodological Benefits of Social Media:“Studying up” in Brazil in the Facebook age.
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-09)While conducting research on the organizational cultures of elite nonprofit organizations in Rio de Janeiro, the author encountered many access issues identified in the current literature: in particular, difficulty in ... -
Who Joins Teach For America and Why? Insights into the “Typical” Recruit in an Urban School District
(Sage, 2014-07-13)Building upon previous research on how personal and demographic characteristics of teachers are correlated with larger issues in teacher recruitment and retention, this study contributes unique insight into the personal ... -
Public Representations of the Collective Memory of Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra
(Sage, 2015-02-18)A textual analysis of editorials in the Revista Sem Terra, an official publication of the Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Workers’ Movement—MST), shows that the movement leadership ... -
Constructing a Relevant Contemporary Philosophy of Education: Explorations of a Freirean Scholar
(University of New Mexico, 2019)Using Paulo Freire’s (2005) theoretical construct of generative themes, this essay discusses the necessary elements of a relevant contemporary philosophy of education, drawing on dominant themes in the work of several ... -
The Social Construction of Latino Childhood in the New South
(Sage, 2017)Childhood in the United States, and in the American South more particularly, has several well-known and popularized constructions, typically divided by social class and ethnic identity. More specifically, Southern childhood ... -
Theorizing and Documenting the Spread of Teach For All and its Impact on Global Education Reform
(Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015-04-20)Within global education policy, the role of multilateral agencies in pushing crossnational policy borrowing is increasingly being complemented by efforts from private international networks within civil society, such as ... -
Teaching for America Across Two Hemispheres: Comparing the Ideological Appeal of the Teach for All Teacher Education Model in the United States and Brazil.
(Sage, 2019-04-29)The last several decades have seen significant growth among private options in alternative teacher education and certification. In this article, I draw on two parallel ethnographic studies of the experiences of participants ...
