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UTSA College of Education and Human Development
Week of Fri, January 15, 2016 |
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BBL professor
receives AERA award
American Educational Research Association
Kathryn Henderson | Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Dr. Kathryn Henderson, assistant professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, received first place in the 2015-2016 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Dissertation Award competition for her dissertation, "Dual Language
Bilingual Education Program Implementation, Teacher Language Ideologies and Local Language Policy."
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You
Won the Powerball. How Many of Higher Ed’s Problems Can You Solve?
by Rio Fernandes, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 01/15
If you missed the Great Lottery Craze of 2016, news broke overnight that three Powerball winning tickets for the $1.568-billion prize were sold to some very lucky people. We’re assuming you didn’t buy one of those tickets (shouldn’t
you be shopping for a private island?), but let’s assume that you did and wanted to use all of that money in higher education. Which, if any, of the following problems could you fix single-handedly?
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The History of Martin
Luther King Day
by Shmuel Ross and David Johnson, InfoPlease | 01/14
It took 15 years to create the federal Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. Congressman John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan, first introduced legislation for a commemorative holiday four days after King was assassinated in 1968.
After the bill became stalled, petitions endorsing the holiday containing six million names were submitted to Congress.
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Teen
Sports Faces a Nutritional-Supplement Debate
by RACHEL BACHMAN Biography @Bachscore Rachel.Bachman@wsj.com, The Wall Street Journal | 01/14
Concern is growing in the world of high school sports about nutritional supplement companies’ increasingly aggressive marketing of their products to teen athletes. Among the tactics: One company sponsors a national high school
sports association and another a 16-year-old swimmer.
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Reasons
and Research – Why Schools Need Collaborative Learning Spaces
by KELLY WALSH, Emerging EdTech | 01/14
We’ve converted a few classrooms to more collaborative spaces over the last few years at The College of Westchester, and faculty reaction has generally been quite positive. These initial room changes have revolved around modifying
the layout of a few classrooms from the row-by-row footprint of the traditional lecture room to a more interactive, group-oriented layout of round tables.
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Pretty
Girls Make (Higher) Grades
by ANYA KAMENETZ, NPR Ed | 01/14
In a study of students at a Colorado university, attractiveness in women was linked to better grades. But, the difference disappeared for online classes.
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Why Kindergarten
Is The New First Grade
by ELISSA NADWORNY , Texas Public Radio (TPR) | 01/14
"What are some of the things that the monsters like to eat in this story?" teacher Marisa McGee asks a trio of girls sitting at her table. McGee teaches kindergarten at Walker Jones Elementary in Washington, D.C. Today's lesson:
a close reading of the book What Do Monsters Eat?
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Mental
Health of College Athletes
by Jake New, Inside Higher Education | 01/14
National Collegiate Athletic Association releases new guidelines on dealing with the mental health of college athletes, an issue that remains a top concern for the association's chief medical officer.
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Alamo
Heights Mourns a Teen Lost to Cyberbullying
by Edmond Ortiz, The Rivard Report | 01/11
The family of 16-year-old David Molak is mourning his death, and thousands of others in the Alamo Heights Independent School District and community are mourning with them, many of whom turned out for Friday morning’s funeral service...Dr.
Thelma Duffey chairs the counseling department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She’s also the new president of the American Counseling Association (ACA), which is helping to lead a national initiative aimed at combating bullying and interpersonal
violence.
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Appearances can
be deceiving: Risks interpreting data in online ethnographic research
Perspectives on Qualitative Research
M. Sidury Christiansen | Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
Christiansen, M. S. (2015). Appearances can be deceiving: Risks interpreting data in online ethnographic research (pp. 437-456). In M. Lengeling & I. Mora Pablo (eds.), Perspectives on Qualitative Research. Guanajuato, Mexico: Universidad de Guanajuato Press.
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Research Awards & Submittals |
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