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UTSA College of Education and Human Development
COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, April 22, 2016 |
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Spotlight:
BBL
doctoral student received Administrator of the Year award
Claudia Garcia, doctoral student in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and Dual Language/ESL Coordinator for East Central ISD, was selected as the 2016 Administrator of the Year by the San Antonio Area Association for Bilingual Education (SAABE).
She received the award at the SAABE Annual Conference earlier this month.
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Battle
of bilingual education once again brewing in California
by LILLIAN MONGEAU., THE HECHINGER REPORT | 04/21
Neither the California Department of Education nor the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing has a record of how many bilingually certified teachers are currently employed in the public schools. Nor is there a reliable
record of bilingual certification rates prior to 1994-95 [...]
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7
Myths Nutritionists Wish You’d Stop Believing
by JULIE UPTON, Pop Sugar | 04/21
There's a lot of misinformation out there, but dietitian Julie Upton, MS, RD, of Appetite For Health, is here to shed light on seven nutritional myths that could mess with your weight-loss efforts and your health. The Internet
is like the Wild West when it comes to nutrition information: anything goes. Websites are rife with less-than-a
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Why
America’s Schools Have A Money Problem
by CORY TURNER, REEMA KHRAIS, TIM LLOYD, ALEXANDRA OLGIN, LAURA ISENSEE, BECKY VEVEA, DAN CARSEN, | 04/21
How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren't doing much to level the field for poor kids.
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What
Are Kids Learning From This Presidential Election?
by ANYA KAMENETZ, NPR Ed | 04/21
Some teachers worry the heated rhetoric is causing stress, especially among immigrant and minority students. Others are trying to channel the political interest into learning opportunities.
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school money
by NPR's Ed Team and 20 member stations, NPR Ed | 04/21
School money Is the way we pay for our nation's schools failing to meet the needs of our most vulnerable students? School Money, a nationwide collaboration between NPR's Ed Team and 20 member station reporters explores this question.
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Teacher
Group Sues Over Plan to Tie Educator Evaluations to Tests
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune | 04/21
A teacher group filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the state from implementing a controversial system that for the first time ties assessments of educators to student performance on standardized tests for the first
time.
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Lockers,
A School Staple For Generations, Are Disappearing In Texas
by EDITOR, TPR Texas Public Radio | 04/21
For generations, school kids had lockers. But in Texas, some schools are no longer assigning them. Only two students out of 2,700 at a high school in Austin asked for lockers this year. The rest were wired shut. Some students
don’t need lockers, because they rely on laptops rather than textbooks. Security concerns are another reasons lockers aren’t being used. Kate McGee from Here & Now contributor KUT reports.
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For
40 Years, One Texas Family Has Fought For Equal School Funding
by LAURA ISENSEE, TPR Texas Public Radio | 04/21
In 1973, in a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that there was no federal right to equal school funding in the Constitution. That was more than 40 years ago, and today Patty Rodriguez, a teacher in the same school district
in San Antonio where that fight started, says nothing has changed. Her father, Demetrio Rodriguez, filed the suit. It became a landmark case, a turning point when the focus around school funding shifted from the federal government to the states.
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Respiratory modulation
of human autonomic function on Earth.
Journal of Physiology
William Cooke | Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
Eckberg DL, Cooke WH, Diedrich A, Biaggioni I, Buckey JC Jr, Pawelczyk JA, Ertl AC, Cox JF, Kuusela TA, Tahvanainen KU, Mano T, Iwase S, Baisch FJ, Levine BD, Adams-Huet B, Robertson D, Blomqvist CG (2016). Respiratory modulation of human autonomic
function on Earth. Journal of Physiology. doi: 10.1113/JP271654
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Respiratory modulation
of human autonomic function. Long-term neuroplasticity in space.
Journal of Physiology
William Cooke | Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition
Eckberg DL, Diedrich A, Cooke WH, Biaggioni I, Buckey JC Jr, Pawelczyk JA, Ertl AC, Cox JF, Kuusela TA, Tahvanainen KU, Mano T, Iwase S, Baisch FJ, Levine BD, Adams-Huet B, Robertson D, Blomqvist CG (2016). Respiratory modulation of human autonomic
function. Long-term neuroplasticity in space. Journal of Physiology. doi: 10.1113/JP271656
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Research Awards & Submittals |
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Project Behave
UTSA VP for Research - GREAT
Submitted: $20,000 Educational Psychology
PI: Leslie Neely Educational Psychology
CI: Candace Gann Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching
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