Evaluating Project Assessment Techniques for High-Profile Transportation Projects Development and Delivery: Case of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the United States

This report examined the stability and reliability of self-reported conflict frequency in relationships with mothers, fathers, and best friends. Participants were drawn from three independent samples in the Netherlands (n = 72, M = 15.6 years), Germany (n = 242, M = 19.7 years), and the United States (n = 250, M = 19.8 years). Participants completed both topic-based surveys and interaction-based diary assessments of conflict frequency. Within samples, comparable levels of internal consistency and temporal stability emerged in each relationship for both assessment techniques. Topic-based and interaction-based assessments of conflict frequency were moderately correlated in each relationship within samples. Daily topic-based assessments with short intervals between time points may provide the most advantageous assessment strategy for obtaining reliable measures of conflict frequency in adolescents’ close relationships.

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Fighting for the local: Americans for Prosperity and the struggle for school boards

Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447326809.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Eleni Schirmer ◽

Michael W. Apple

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

School Board ◽

State Level ◽

The United States ◽

Jefferson County ◽

Political Processes ◽

News Reports ◽

High Profile ◽

Documentary Analysis ◽

School Board Elections

Corporate-backed philanthropic groups have become increasingly involved in political processes in the past ten years. The Koch Brothers’ and their political advocacy groups, have become particularly prominent players. Their influence extends beyond high-profile state-level elections and increasingly have begun investing in municipal affairs of small cities and towns, such as school board elections like Kenosha, Wisconsin and Jefferson County, Colorado in the US. This chapter asks, why do groups like Americans for Prosperity care about small-town school board elections? This chapter highlights two particularly significant local examples in the United States: school board elections in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2014 and Jefferson County, Colorado in 2015. Through documentary analysis of school board records, news reports, and district evaluations, in both Wisconsin and Colorado, we chronicle the political contest for control of each school board. Our findings illustrate the ideological and political project of corporate, conservative influence in public education in the United States.

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Compatibility of Passenger Vehicles and Cable Median Barrier Systems

Volume 12: Transportation Systems ◽

10.1115/imece2017-70557 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Cody S. Stolle ◽

John D. Reid

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Kinetic Energy ◽

The United States ◽

Detailed Data ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Passenger Vehicles ◽

Complicating Factors ◽

Departments Of Transportation ◽

Severe Type ◽

Trajectory Angle

Cross-median crashes are one of the most severe type of highway crashes. Many state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) install median barriers, such as cable median barriers (CMBs), to reduce the rate of cross-median crashes. Nonetheless, these barriers are not always successful. Approximately 20,000 cable barrier crashes throughout the United States spanning between 1999 and 2010 were examined, and detailed data was sufficient to determine the prevailing causes of 182 penetration crashes (i.e., barrier was breached). Penetration crashes involving CMBs were affected by: (1) impact conditions; (2) barrier placement and design; and (3) vehicle factors, including geometry and inertial properties. In general, CMB crashes occur at higher CG trajectory angles than with other roadside features. The 85th percentile CG trajectory angle for cable barriers was 39 degrees, compared to 25 degrees when all roadside features are considered. Approximately 2.2% of all CMB crashes were severe, although penetrations were between two and thirteen times more likely to be severe than non-penetration crashes. Vehicle factors such as weight and geometrical profile affected the likelihood of CMB penetrations. Headlights or taillights fractured or were damaged in approximately 80% of non-penetration crashes, but were damaged or fractured in less than 60% of penetration crashes, often by additional unrelated impacts. Lastly, heavier vehicles with more kinetic energy were more likely than similar, lighter vehicles to penetrate CMBs. Through better understanding of all of the complicating factors affecting CMB performance, better designs and guidelines can be prepared to maximize CMB effectiveness.

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Challenging Scripted Curricula With Adaptive Teaching

Educational Researcher ◽

10.3102/0013189x211065752 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0013189X2110657

Author(s):

Margaret Vaughn ◽

Seth A. Parsons ◽

Melissa A. Gallagher

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Teacher Professionalism ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

High Profile ◽

Diverse Student ◽

Adaptive Teaching ◽

Instructional Needs ◽

Support Teacher ◽

Scripted Curricula

Although adaptive teaching is considered a cornerstone of effective instruction, there remains a lack of focus on teacher adaptability in policy, professional practice, and teacher education in the United States. High-profile educational reform efforts have pressured districts and states across the nation to rely on prescriptive curricula that fail to meet the linguistic, cultural, and instructional needs of the nation’s diverse student population. In this article, we describe the development of the Adaptive Teaching Inventory and present validity evidence from our administration in the United States. These findings provide insight into the potential for widespread implementation of adaptability and its focus to support teacher professionalism and decision-making. The discussion centers on moving adaptability to the forefront of policy and practice efforts to counter the prevailing emphasis on restrictive curricula that has stymied teachers in their efforts to support students for far too long. Implications for administrators, policymakers, and researchers are discussed.

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Kelsen’s Milieu

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481687.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 36-65

Author(s):

Robert Schuett

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Interwar Period ◽

Social Life ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

Philosophy And Literature ◽

High Profile ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Foreign Intelligence

Who shaped the early Kelsen’s style of thinking under the Kaiser? What were the intellectual circles in which he moved in fin-de-siècle Vienna and the interwar period before he left Austria for Cologne, Geneva, Prague, and the United States? The chapter explores ‘the other Kelsen’ by revisiting his formative years, as well as his work in the lecture halls of university and his high-profile roles in the War Ministry, Karl Renner’s state chancellery, and American foreign intelligence after escaping the fascist Continent. A reluctant jurist, Kelsen had a passion for philosophy and literature, and from Freud and the economists he learned that individual and social life was all about drives and desires, instincts and interests. Where Kelsen was, there was no land of utopia.

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Making the Body Electric: The Politics of Body-Worn Cameras and Facial Recognition in the United States

Surveillance & Society ◽

10.24908/ss.v18i2.13285 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 157-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jacob Hood

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Facial Recognition ◽

The United States ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

The Body ◽

High Profile ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

Technological Means ◽

Rapid Deployment

This paper explores the rapid deployment of police body-worn cameras (BWCs) and the subsequent push for the integration of biometric technologies (i.e., facial recognition) into these devices. To understand the political dangers of these technologies, I outline the concept of “making the body electric” to provide a critical language for cultural practices of identifying, augmenting, and fixing the body through technological means. Further, I argue how these practices reinforce normative understandings of the body and its political functionality, specifically with BWCs and facial recognition. I then analyze the rise of BWCs in a cultural moment of high-profile police violence against unarmed people of color in the United States. In addition to examining the ethics of BWCs, I examine the politics of facial recognition and the dangers that this form of biometric surveillance pose for marginalized groups, arguing against the interface of these two technologies. The pairing of BWCs with facial recognition presents a number of sociopolitical dangers that reinforce the privilege of perspective granted to police in visual understandings of law enforcement activity. It is the goal of this paper to advance critical discussion of BWCs and biometric surveillance as mechanisms for leveraging political power and racial marginalization.

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Spaces of Intentionality: Race, Class, and Horizontality at the United States Social Forum

Mobilization An International Quarterly ◽

10.17813/maiq.13.4.232j1557h7658813 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 353-372 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Jeffrey Juris

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Middle Class ◽

Open Space ◽

The United States ◽

World Social Forum ◽

High Profile ◽

Democratic Practice ◽

The World ◽

High Level

The World Social Forum process has sought to provide an "open space" for diverse movements to exchange ideas, interact, and coordinate as they build another world. Despite this inclusive impulse, many of the forums have been disproportionately white and middle class. Through an ethnographic account of the 2007 United States Social Forum (USSF) in Atlanta, I examine one high-profile attempt to overcome this lack of diversity by establishing what I refer to as an "intentional" space. I argue that the intentional strategy pursued by USSF organizers achieved a high level of diversity in racial and class terms, but de-emphasized the role of the forum as a "contact zone" for translation, sharing, and exchange among diverse movement sectors. However, given the strong desire to overcome past exclusions among participants, the privileging of intentionality over openness and horizontality was widely viewed as legitimate, which has important implications for democratic practice.

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A Critical Race Perspective of Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Males in the United States: Implications for Social Work

Urban Social Work ◽

10.1891/2474-8684.2.1.33 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 33-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Sharon E. Moore ◽

Michael A. Robinson ◽

Dewey M. Clayton ◽

A. Christson Adedoyin ◽

Daniel A. Boamah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Social Work ◽

Critical Race Theory ◽

Black Males ◽

Police Officers ◽

The United States ◽

Constitutional Rights ◽

Critical Race ◽

High Profile ◽

Work Education

Recent high-profile killings of unarmed Black males underscore a stark reality in America: though Black men have the same constitutional rights as all other citizens of the United States, in practice their rights are often violated. The negative stereotype that all Black males are criminals has created an environment that perpetuates the killing of unarmed Black males by police officers as justifiable self-defense. In this article, critical race theory (CRT) provides a theoretical lens to examine and understand the persistent racism underlying the social inequities that have been thrust upon Black males in the United States of America. The authors conclude with implications and recommendations for social work education.

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China's economy may slow again later this year

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db233655 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Activity ◽

The United States ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Gdp Growth ◽

Content Type ◽

High Profile ◽

Financial Regulations ◽

China’S Economy

Subject The macroeconomic outlook for China. Significance Despite fears of a slowdown, China has kept up GDP growth of 6.8% year-on-year for three successive quarters. However, key measures of economic activity have weakened, and tensions are escalating with the United States over trade and technology. Impacts A swathe of new financial regulations and high-profile arrests will likely continue in 2018. Negotiations are likely to alleviate the immediate pressure from Washington, but underlying concerns over the tech sector will continue. A recently announced sweeping government reorganisation will be implemented, helping to tackle financial and environmental risks.

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