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Finding Our Harmonies: Why and How Music Should Be Licensed For Use As AI Training Material
No full textAssessment: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for English Learner Research, Policy, and Practice
No full textAssessment: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for English Learner Research, Policy, and Practice is comprised of 18 annotations from recent and seminal literature regarding the assessment of English Learners and Multilingual Learners. These annotations build on the annotations regarding assessment in CEEL’s 2022 annotated bibliography, Ensuring Equity and Excellence for English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography for Research, Policy, and Practice (Center for Equity for English Learners, 2022) to include publications from 2022-2025. This selected annotated bibliography serves as a resource for researchers, policymakers, educators, and advocates who are working for equity and excellence for ELs.
The contributors provide a comprehensive selection of works focused on research, practice, and theory. The annotations include a broad range of sources, including empirical and theoretical research articles, books, book chapters, governmental documents, professional magazines, monographs, and technical reports.
In order to provide additional information for readers, each annotation includes: (1) the source description (e.g., book, journal article, report), (2) type of source (e.g., empirical, guidance, theoretical), and (3) keywords.https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ceel_annotatedbibliographies/1007/thumbnail.jp
Outreach & DNA-based monitoring facilitate 3-fold reduction in seafood mislabeling in Los Angeles over 10 years
No full textAwareness and intervention can reduce fraudulent labeling in seafood. Using a 10-year longitudinal study approach, DNA-based monitoring data reveals a lower sushi mislabeling in Los Angeles restaurants over time. This is in part attributed to implemented recommendations by restaurants of a local academia-industry-government outreach initiative launched in 2018, The Los Angeles Seafood Monitoring Project. We found mislabeling was 3-fold lower among project-partnering restaurants than other restaurants. This difference was statistically significant, illustrating the combination of project partnering and implementation of recommendations was most impactful on reducing mislabeling rates. Lastly, the study period includes the COVID19 global pandemic, which additional monitoring effort between 2019 and 2021 did not reveal any significant change in mislabeling rates
Community Voices on Digital Tools for Owens Valley Paiute
No full textThis report presents findings from a two-week online survey of Owens Valley Paiute community members and affiliates on their perspectives toward digital tools for language revitalization. A total of 36 respondents participated, most identifying as beginners in the Owens Valley Paiute language. The survey explored barriers to learning, such as limited time, insufficient materials, and uncertainty about where to begin, alongside community interest in digital support. Respondents expressed strong enthusiasm for language games, sentence-building guidance, self-paced courses, and translation tools. Qualitative feedback highlighted the importance of trust, privacy, cultural oversight, and community control in the development of digital resources. The report concludes with implications for community-led, culturally grounded approaches to leveraging technology in language revitalization
“The Point is to Transform the Hood” Learning from the Past to Build a School that Affirms the Humanity of Black and Brown Children
No full textThis paper draws from a critical ethnographic case study of the Roses in Concrete Community School (RiC) in East Oakland, California to explore their approach to repurposing a traditional school into a community responsive learning institution by operationalizing a critical humanist vision of education in a marginalized, urban community. The educator activists who founded RiC envisioned a school that would not only meet the needs of students and families, but act as an intervention and a catalyst for healing and transformation. Historiographic methods are used to examine how the founders conceived and implemented the design of RiC and to demonstrate how they drew upon the history of social movements in the Bay Area to design a school that they believed could meet the needs of poor and working-class Black and Brown children, and in doing so contributed to a longer, intergenerational struggle for justice
Evolving Ontology and the Case Against Predictive Algorithms in the U.S. Justice System
No full textIn the United States today, predictive algorithms, a particular form of artificial intelligence (AI), permeate all segments of society, including the criminal justice system. With the help of AI, judges are able to “plug” defendants into algorithms and generate outputs that produce a deterministic and homogenous view of defendants. Proponents of predictive algorithms cite accuracy, neutrality, fairness, and efficiency, but what is missing from their calculus is the human person, the central figure who shapes and is shaped by algorithms. Using the story of defendant Darnell Gates as a case study, this article seeks to contribute to the development of AI as a topic of theological ethics, offering a moral reflection on AI in the American justice system and its implications for theological ontology. Heeding Alexander Filipović’s call to employ a social-ethical perspective of “justice to people as persons,” I will explicate what I call the theory and praxis of “evolving ontology,” building upon (1) Roberto DellʾOro’s vision of the human person; (2) Darlene Fozard Weaver’s discussion of human dignity; and (3) Pope Francis’ notion of a “culture of encounter.” This paradigm captures the conflux of potentiality, relationality, and dignity that is human existence, illumining the power of human agency and the enduring promise of human redemption that God creates, gives, and sustains. AI is a urgent matter of justice, and it is only by seeing and encountering one another in our humanity that we will be able to redeem our mechanized world
Fatalism and Interest in Cancer Screening Among African American Individuals
No full textAfrican American individuals experience disproportionately high cancer mortality compared to White individuals,1 partly due to reduced access to high-quality care, including at early stages of the care continuum (eg, screening).1 These structural barriers may be perceived as beyond individuals’ control and contribute to fatalistic beliefs about cancer, shaping attitudes toward screening. Cancer fatalism is a multidimensional construct that includes cancer mortality salience (associating cancer with death) and occurrence fatalism (perceiving cancer risk as uncontrollable).2,3 Evidence linking fatalism and screening is mixed,3-5 suggesting a need to analyze its distinct components separately.3 Therefore, we used a national dataset to assess how cancer mortality salience and occurrence fatalism are associated with cancer screening interest among African American individuals at a population level in the US
Does My Candy Cross Your Mind, Anytime? : The Whimsical, Mundane, Afrofuturist Place-Making of Philadelphia\u27s Singing Candy Lady
No full textLynette D. Morrison, the Singing Candy Lady (SCL), is a beloved folk icon in Philadelphia, especially among Black working-class residents. She roams the city with her yellow box of popular candies, singing, joking, and encouraging folks to buy her candy. Her presence and personality inspire a sense of place for those who reside in dispossession. However, when identifying the needs of the ‘hood, figures such as the SCL may seem trivial when compared to other more “serious” efforts and actors. Responding to artist Martine Syms’ call for Mundane Afrofuturists, I recognize the SCL’s role as a whimsical mundane Afrofuturist place-maker. She charts the city with her myth-making aesthetic, clownin’, and audacious possession of the streets, building alternate spaces where Black people can derive rebellious comfort and pleasure in acting silly and indulging in sweets, in plain view of everyone. These encounters are shared on social media, documenting SCL’s affective labor in guiding Black people to take up space and time, attesting to the abundance of their Black lives. I argue that the SCL’s rebellious hospitality and whimsical cartography overlays normativizing maps of both anti-Black violence and Black resistance with counter-maps and counter-narratives that anticipate geographies of Black frivolity and belonging
Computational Investigation of the Structural and Electronic Effects of Phenyl, Alkyl, and Halogen Fully Substituted Acenes
No full textAcenes are a class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that may hold promise as organic semiconductors (OSCs) in solar cells and electronic devices. Their instability and poor solubility present challenges that may be improved by replacing the hydrogens with phenyl, halogen or alkyl substituents to sterically induce a helical twist to these otherwise planar molecules. This twisted structure also impacts the optical properties of these molecules. We employ time-dependent density functional theory (TD DFT) to investigate acenes spanning from naphthalene to heptacene. We focus on the structural and electronic effects of fully substituting these molecular backbones to create seven distinct substituent series, many of which have been previously synthesized. The end-to-end intramolecular twist increases linearly with acene length for all series, however the degree of twist varies significantly depending on the specific substituent. All series display similar trends of increasing red shifts in the estimated highest occupied molecular orbital−lowest-unoccupied molecular orbital (HOMO−LUMO), fundamental, and optical gaps as the number of fused rings along the polycyclic backbone increases. Despite the similarity of measured gaps, features distinguishing the series from one another are more apparent in their near ultraviolet−visible-near infrared (UV−vis-NIR) absorption spectra. Furthermore, halogen and alkyl substituents display local minima for two other structural configurations in addition to the twisted structure. Gibbs free energy calculations show these three distinct configurations are likely energetically competitive at room temperature. One novel nonhelical geometry shows significant reductions in excitation energies, while the other displays similar values to the twisted acene structures. The structural and electronic trends of these series offer insights that can guide the use of these and similar acenes as functional materials
Have You Met My Lawyer? and Making Lists of What Was Lost
No full textThe theme of what justice looks like for those experiencing homelessness finds expression in two poems by social justice lawyer and poet Kirsten Anderson. Based on her nearly two decades of representing clients experiencing homelessness, she explores the nature of the client-lawyer relationship in a society where lawyers are usually only available to persons with wealth and power. Both poems explore the consequences of housing not being recognized as a human right—given visible expression in a humanitarian crisis of homelessness in a country where the rent is unaffordable for more than half the population.
The first poem, “Have you met my lawyer?” describes the power dynamics inherent in retaining and having a lawyer in our justice system. The poem never names specifically the legal issue, or the outcome, but instead focuses on the power of the lawyer-client relationship to upend the power dynamics of a legal system where justice usually is equated with the ability to pay for a lawyer. The second poem, “Making lists of what was lost,” contrasts the privilege of a lawyer who is housed with the experience of clients who are unhoused. This poem centers on street sweeps, a common experience of persons experiencing homelessness who are constantly threatened with loss of liberty and property in a misguided and cruel attempt to reduce the visibility of homelessness in our communities. These efforts do not solve homelessness, but simply provide comfort for those in houses who would prefer not to be reminded that housing is a privilege, not a recognized right.
Suggested Citations:
Anderson, Kirsten (2025) Have You Met My Lawyer? Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Anderson, Kirsten (2025) Making Lists of What Was Lost, Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 3