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The Case for Summer Learning: Effects of Literacy-Based Summer Program on Reading Achievement
Full text linkSummer learning loss impacts all children differently, particularly students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, who face barriers to accessing educational resources during the summer months. Through a mixed-methods approach, this study measures the impact that evidence-based literacy instruction focusing on phonological awareness and phonics, social-emotional development, and positive behavioral management strategies has on 100 students from 1st and 2nd grade in the Southeastern US. Data to evaluate the program’s impact is provided by the school district. All data was compared and analyzed through repeated ANOVA measures with four time periods for Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) readings and mathematics scores, respectively, to examine whether there are any mean differences for MAP performances across four time periods. Results show the short-term effectiveness of the Fast Start program by contributing positively to maintaining students\u27 performance consistently over the summer break, closing the students’ learning gap, and preventing them from experiencing the summer slide. Results also show the program\u27s long-term effectiveness by boosting their learning, as shown by higher scores later in the school year. Furthermore, findings suggest that reading interventions can also have a positive influence on mathematics performance
\u3ci\u3eExplorations in Music and Esotericism\u3c/i\u3e, edited by Marjorie Roth and Leonard George. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2023 [review].
Full text link\u3ci\u3eVoyage d’hiver: Franz Schubert/Wilhelm Müller, Winterreise, op. 89, D. 911.\u3c/i\u3e B Records LBM057, 2024 [review].
No full textWinning Hearts, Changing Minds: A Data-Driven Approach to Measure China\u27s Influence in Latin America
Full text linkBetween 2000 and 2021, China provided US) in development finance to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). China’s expanding footprint in LAC through development finance poses strategic challenges to U.S. influence in the region. By coupling financial investments with public diplomacy efforts, Beijing has sought to improve its favorability among recipient countries, often bypassing the governance and transparency requirements typical of Western aid. This approach raises questions about the long-term implications for democratic governance and U.S. strategic interests. Yet, the extent to which this engagement influences recipient countries remains an open question.
This paper argues that while greater China’s development financing will increase the public approval of Beijing’s leadership in LAC, this relationship is moderated by (1) domestic government approval, and (2) media freedom. Greater approval for a citizen-won government will bolster the positive relationship between China’s development funding and perceptions of China’s leadership. At the same time, respondents in more open and freer media environments where the media can criticize the government could diminish this positive effect. An ancillary analysis examines how switching diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing influences development financing from China in Panama, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/jgi_research/1073/thumbnail.jp
Thoughts upon Richard Taruskin’s Yahrzeit
Full text linkTeaching portions of Richard Taruskin’s The Oxford History of Western Music to non-music majors at Columbia University (in the early 2000s) offered special opportunities and challenges. Taruskin’s musical ethics, central to that book, are clearly embodied in his writings about John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer. The Princeton School of composer-theorists is a litmus test of Taruskin’s thinking: in particular, Taruskin’s emphasis on music criticism can aid in an analysis of Roger Sessions’s 1958 String Quintet. David Lewin’s unpublished 1959 analysis of that same piece (by his teacher) shows a very different approach; Lewin’s analysis is a vivid but rarely discussed instantiation of the meanings of musical high modernism as set forth by Milton Babbitt’s abstract, conceptual aesthetics
Richard Taruskin: Tender-Hearted or Tough-Minded?
Full text linkOur tribute to Richard belongs with JFK’s tribute to Thomas Jefferson sitting alone at his dining room table. Relentless in argument with intellectual opponents, impatient with pieties past and present, gentle with colleagues in need, and unstintingly generous to students and junior colleagues, he encompassed so many poles in so many worlds that it will take us lifetimes to measure his stature and accomplishments. Recalling AMS/Oakland 1990, an exchange precipitated by my search for a copy of the Norton Critical Edition of the Symphonie Fantastique, Richard\u27s take on Theory, and his paper Shall We Change the Subject, I try to scratch the surface
Richard Taruskin: \u3cem\u3eIn memoriam\u3c/em\u3e
Full text linkWhat was it like to be a student of Richard Taruskin? What was the most important lesson his students learned from him? In her short memorial essay, the present author considers the imperative of intellectual independence—freedom from methods, schools, political or scholarly agendas—the most lasting lesson she learned from Taruskin