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Threat Assessment In K-12 Schools Can Detect Early Warning Signs Of Violence
No full textThreats or actual incidents of school violence have become a standard element of K-12 students’ educational experience. I have written two recent articles addressing the impact of ongoing school violence on students and school staff and statistics regarding the increasing trends in school shootings. This final third article explores organizations established to help keep K-12 schools and communities safe
El ruiseñor justiciero: El “antimenendezpelayismo” de María Rosa Lida en la filología española del medio siglo
No full textEl impacto de María Rosa Lida en la filología hispánica del medio siglo ha sido evaluado en más de una ocasión, señaladamente a raíz de su temprana muerte en 1962, a la edad de 52 años, o con motivo de efemérides tales como el centenario de su nacimiento en 2010, o el doble cincuentenario de su muerte y de la publicación póstuma de su magnum opus, La originalidad artística de La Celestina en 2012. De una manera u otra, la crítica coincide en presentarla como una rara avis, destacando casi siempre como excepcionales tres aspectos de su actuación y de su prestigio en la disciplina –“prestigio con aureola de mito,” como ha dicho Francisco Rico (2010). Es de rigor señalar, en primer lugar, su carácter extraordinariamente periférico. Jordi Gracia la considera una “extravagancia” como ejemplar hiperbólico de “una cultura mestiza de tantas cosas que no caben ni siquiera en un párrafo extenso” (2017)
Cost Shifting for E-Discovery: A Suggested Reform
Get PDFRule 54(d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure gives the district courts discretion to award the prevailing party its litigation costs (other than attorney’s fees) to the extent permitted by 28 U.S.C. § 1920 (“Section 1920”). The amounts involved are sometimes modest, and always a fraction of total litigation expenses, causing courts to candidly acknowledge the mismatch between the two. The disparity can be especially pronounced in cases involving e-discovery because courts typically construe the words “making copies” in Section 1920(4) very narrowly and allow recovery for only those e-discovery activities that are analogous to photocopying paper documents. This makes pyrrhic victory the norm, given the probability that the expense of collecting, processing, and producing electronically stored information (“ESI”) will erode the fruits of victory. Even courts that authorize modest recoveries based on a narrow construction of the relevant statutory language recognize that “there may be strong policy reasons in general, or compelling equitable circumstances in a particular case, to award the full cost of electronic discovery to the prevailing party . . . .” For these courts, however, broader cost shifting must await further guidance from Congress. The unfortunate upshot is that prevailing parties—who often must collect, process, and produce vast quantities of electronic documents using expensive processes that make fact-finding more manageable—recover less for their efforts than their counterparts in an earlier, pre-digital era. Put simply, the joy of victory is quickly muted when the prevailing party learns it can recover only pennies on the dollar for its e-discovery outlays
Living with Quadriplegia: A Journey of Personal and Professional Development
Get PDFIn this article, I provide an autoethnographic account of the discursive and narrative changes I have experienced and the agency I have found, following an accident thirty-seven years ago that resulted in permanent spinal cord injury. Initially losing my career and identity as a farmer, my hope and survival depended on adopting new frameworks of understanding – both in terms of the physical realities of living with incomplete quadriplegia and in becoming subjectively positioned quite differently than I was as an able-bodied male with farming knowledge and skills. In more recent years, as my spinal health and mobility have deteriorated, the challenge has shifted to maintaining a sense of agency when many daily activities have become increasingly difficult or no longer independently possible. Given these meaning-making shifts and associated personal and professional development I have engaged in since the spinal injury, my narrative could perhaps be described as a hero’s journey
The State of Record Clearance in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Get PDFOne in three American adults has a criminal record, which can create significant barriers to finding suitable employment and housing. In Virginia, even arrest records are public and can last a lifetime unless someone navigates the complex process of expungement. For people with criminal convictions, the outlook has been even more bleak—Virginia is one of just a handful of states where no relief is available for conviction records.
But this is all about to change. On July 1, 2025, a record sealing law passed by the General Assembly in 2021 and signed by the previous governor, Ralph Northam, will take effect after a difficult four-year wait. For the first time in Virginia’s history, a person with a misdemeanor or low-level felony conviction will be able to have their record sealed from public view. Some of this record sealing will happen automatically.
This article takes a practical look at Virginia’s expungement and record sealing laws—past, present, and future—from the perspective of a practitioner and policy advocate who wants these laws to work for the more than 2.6 million people who live with a criminal record in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Psychology and Philosophy in the Work of William James: Two Good Things
No full textAs this chapter shows, the intertwining of psychology and philosophy in [William James\u27] work-in his philosophy as much as his psychology-enriched both endeavors. Rooted in anatomy, physiology, and neurology as much as or more than in the empirical psychology and rational philosophy of old, James\u27s foundational premises, doctrines, and methods-and the versions of psychology, pragmatism, pluralism, and radical empiricism that he based upon them-have provided many provocative and valuable insights into the hum an mind, self, person, world, knowledge, mora ls, and future possibilities. Rather than spoiling two good things, the integrated nature of James\u27s work seems to have strengthened both, injecting the kind of vitality and novelty that come from grafting healthy sprigs onto related but different stock. Despite subsequent decades of epithet hurling, charges of psychologism and what I have called philosophism have diminished over time and have, in any case, failed to kill the vibrant offspring of James\u27s work. Today, in fact, more than at any point since the institutional divorce of psychology and philosophy, there are psychologists looking to philosophy, and philosophers looking to psychology, for theoretical and practical ideas-i n short, for premises, doctrines, and methods that might be useful in formulating better answers to current questions as well as better hypotheses regarding emerging problems, especially those of an interdisciplinary sort. (15) Where ver such developments lead, this state of affairs seems a good thing ... and something James him self would have approved , based on lessons learned in his own life and work
504 Plans, School Gender Policy, and Gender Dysphoria: How the Case of Kesha T. Williams May Change Education Policy
Get PDFGender dysphoria affects transgender people at significantly higher rates than other populations. In the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit case of Kesha T. Williams v. Stacey A. Kincaid, et al., 45 F.4th 759 (4th Cir. 2022), the Court found that the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, in denying Ms. Williams’ hormone replacement therapy for her gender dysphoria, had violated her right to equal treatment under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Court generally found that, despite the ADA being written with animus toward transgender people, even under that language, gender dysphoria was not excluded from protection under the law.
With gender dysphoria protected by the ADA in the states over which the Fourth Circuit has authority, any laws or protections stemming from the Americans with Disabilities Act will need to be considered in relation to the new interpretation. This includes 504 plans in schools, which provide equal educational access to students with disabilities. In states where schools are prohibited by state or gubernatorial policy from affirming transgender students’ identities, legal action due to conflicting state and federal guidelines is inevitable