Successful California Schools in the Context of Educational Adequacy

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Perez ◽  
Priyanka Anand ◽  
Cecilia Speroni ◽  
Tom Parrish ◽  
Phil Esra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Adequacy ◽  
California Schools

Lifting the Veil

2014 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-55
Author(s):  
Scott Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
State Government ◽  
The State ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Hiring And Firing ◽  
And Control ◽  
California Schools

The story of anti-communism in California schools is a tale well and often told. But few scholars have appreciated the important role played by private surveillance networks. This article examines how privately funded and run investigations shaped the state government’s pursuit of leftist educators. The previously-secret papers of Major General Ralph H. Van Deman, which were opened to researchers at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., only a few years ago, show that the general operated a private spy network out of San Diego and fed information to military, federal, and state government agencies. Moreover, he taught the state government’s chief anti-communist bureaucrat, Richard E. Combs, how to recruit informants and monitor and control subversives. The case of the suspicious death of one University of California, Los Angeles student – a student that the anti-communists claimed had been “scared to death” by the Reds – shows the extent of the collaboration between Combs and Van Deman. It further illustrates how they conspired to promote fear of communism, influence hiring and firing of University of California faculty, and punish those educators who did not support their project. Although it was rarely successful, Combs’ and Van Deman’s coordinated campaign reveals a story of public-private anticommunist collaboration in California that has been largely forgotten. Because Van Deman’s files are now finally open to researchers, Californians can gain a much more complete understanding of their state bureaucracy’s role in the Red Scare purges of California educators.

scholarly journals Enhancement and Standardization of a Universal Social-Emotional Health Measure for Students’ Psychological Strengths

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Furlong ◽  
Erin Dowdy ◽  
Karen Nylund-Gibson ◽  
Rhea Wagle ◽  
Delwin Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Health ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Validation Sample ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Criterion Validation ◽  
Adolescent Sample ◽  
Structural Validation ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
California Schools

AbstractRobust evidence links students’ positive mental health with academic achievement and provides a compelling rationale for developing and refining strength-based assessments. The Social Emotional Health Survey–Secondary (SEHS-S) assesses adolescents’ social and emotional skills and positive psychological dispositions. Previous studies provide reliability and validity evidence; nonetheless, there is a need for continued refinement and validation across diverse groups. The current study revised and standardized the updated SEHS-S-2020 to validate further its use in secondary schools (Grades 9–12) with a large, diverse adolescent sample. Study participants included 72,740 from 113 California schools (structural validation sample), 10,757 students from 15 randomly selected California schools (criterion validation sample), and 707 students from four additional California schools (test-retest sample). Data analyses examined structural validity, measurement invariance, criterion validity, internal consistency, and response stability. Results supported the SEHS-S-2020 validity across diverse groups of youth in various contexts. The discussion focuses on implications for assessing students’ psychosocial assets and universal school-based screening.

CANCER INCIDENCE AMONG TEACHERS BY WIRING CONFIGURATION PATTERNS OF CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS

Epidemiology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S126
Author(s):  
P. Reynolds ◽  
M. Layefsky ◽  
S. Hurley ◽  
E. Elkin ◽  
G. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
California Schools

School Choice and the Burdens of Justice

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Clayton ◽  
David Stevens
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Educational Justice ◽  
Educational Adequacy ◽  
Private Schooling ◽  
Parental Partiality

This paper takes issue with Swift’s argument for the claim that parents who affirm equality of opportunity can justifiably buy advantageous private schooling if it is necessary to ensure educational adequacy for their children. We advance a number of reasons of justice and morality that support the view that egalitarian parents ought to accept a degree of educational inadequacy: parents have a pro tanto reason to share the burdens of injustice; it is not obvious that the legitimacy of parental partiality is as extensive in unjust circumstances as it is under just arrangements; we have some duty of justice to accept inadequacy for our children in the fight for the realization of educational justice; and we might be morally required to accept more than a fair share of the burden of establishing just educational institutions.

scholarly journals Effect of the Healthy Schools Program on Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in California Schools, 2006–2012

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine A. Madsen ◽  
Carolyn Cotterman ◽  
Pat Crawford ◽  
JoAnn Stevelos ◽  
Abbie Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Healthy Schools ◽  
California Schools

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Relationship between AcademicPerformance and Physical Fitness Measures in California Schools

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Singh ◽  
Shari McMahan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
California Standards Test ◽  
Science Scores ◽  
Fitness Measures ◽  
California Schools ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between academic achievement and physical fitness in California schools. Data from the academic year 2004-2005 Fitnessgram were compared to reading, mathematics and science scores on the California Standards test (CST) of 253 elementary schools in the Orange County School District. Physical education teachers from the 10 lowest scoring and 10 highest scoring schools were interviewed regarding content of the physical education classes in their school. Simple correlation coefficients revealed a positive linear relationship between academic scores and physical fitness scores. The interview with the teachers revealed that most of the 10 lowest scoring schools did not have a designated physical education teacher. All of the 10 highest scoring schools had designated physical education teachers and followed the physical education guidelines recommended by the California Education Board.

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