A Multiple Case Study of Oregon’s K-12 Accountability Transformation: A Journey to include Outcome Mapping

This multiple case study investigated the experiences of three Oregon K-12 educational leaders and their perspectives on the potential of Outcome Mapping, through the implementation of the Student Success Act, as a catalyst for improved statewide accountability and increased academic achievement for Oregon\u27s students. Outcome Mapping is a theory-driven model developed from the black box problem in accountability that focuses its measurement on the process by which change occurs, instead of just the results of the change, attempting to ultimately link cause and effect relationships. Few previous studies have explored the use of Outcome Mapping within the context of education. Even fewer, if any, had explored Outcome Mapping as a critical lever within a statewide public K-12 schools accountability framework. Through one-on-one interviews, this study shares the stories of an Oregon Department of Education state-level leader, a school district superintendent, and a program/building administrator through narrative case reports and then highlights cross-case findings on their description of Oregon\u27s K-12 accountability transformation to include Outcome Mapping

Score for the Big Bang: The Universe as Voice

The thesis is a multimedia document, including a documentary video and audio recordings, that catalogues and unpacks the cross-disciplinary project Score for the Big Bang. On April 13, 2012, thirty-six vocalists sang the sound of the Big Bang in a historic church in downtown Richmond. For this project I worked with an astronomer, composer, choral director and organist to translate the primordial sound into musical notation. This is the universe as voice, through humans, recreating what we have come to understand was present at its birth

“The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing

This article reads Emma Donoghue's 2007 novel Landing as an intersectional romance. The novel's conflict emerges not only from the distance between the two lovers, the Irish flight attendant Síle and the Canadian curator Jude, but from several intersecting differences: gender identity, class, race, age, sexual orientation, and nationality. Specifically, this article lays out how Síle’s nationality and sexuality are compromised through invisibility, and unpacks how her race and gender contribute to this invisibility. While Jude is recognizably queer and Canadian, as a femme of colour Síle’s identity requires more explanation and affirmation. Through Landing, Emma Donoghue examines how Síle can find happiness without compromising her identity as an Irish racialized femme

Aristophanes and De Ste. Croix: The value of old comedy as evidence for Athenian popular culture

De Ste. Croix famously argued that Aristophanes had a conservative political outlook and attempted to use his comedies to win over lower-class audiences to this minority point of view. The ongoing influence of his interpretation has meant that old comedy has been largely ignored in the historiography of Athenian popular culture. This article extends earlier critiques of de Ste. Croix by systematically comparing how Aristophanes and the indisputably popular genre of fourth-century oratory represented the social classes of the Athenians and political leaders. The striking parallels between the two suggest that Aristophanes, far from advocating a minority position, exploited the rich and, at times, contradictory views of lower-class citizens for comic and ultimately competitive ends. As a consequence his plays are valuable evidence for Athenian popular culture and help to correct the markedly fourth-century bias in the writing of Athenian cultural history

Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens

This article concerns the paradox of athletics in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every class of Athenian but it had little impact on sporting participation. The city’s athletes continued to drawn predominantly from the upper class. It comes as a surprise then that lower-class Athenians actually esteemed athletes above every other group in the public eye, honoured them very generously when they won, and directed a great deal of public and private money to sporting competitions and facilities. In addition athletics escaped the otherwise persistent criticism of upper-class activities in the popular culture of the democracy. The research of social scientists on sport and aggression suggests this paradox may have been due to the cultural overlap between athletics and war under the Athenian democracy. The article concludes that the practical and ideological democratization of war by classical Athens legitimized and supported upper-class sport

“The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing

This article reads Emma Donoghue's 2007 novel Landing as an intersectional romance. The novel's conflict emerges not only from the distance between the two lovers, the Irish flight attendant Síle and the Canadian curator Jude, but from several intersecting differences: gender identity, class, race, age, sexual orientation, and nationality. Specifically, this article lays out how Síle’s nationality and sexuality are compromised through invisibility, and unpacks how her race and gender contribute to this invisibility. While Jude is recognizably queer and Canadian, as a femme of colour Síle’s identity requires more explanation and affirmation. Through Landing, Emma Donoghue examines how Síle can find happiness without compromising her identity as an Irish racialized femmeEste artículo interpreta la novela “Aterrizando” (2007), de Emma Donoghue, como un romance interseccional. El conflicto de la novela no solo surge de la distancia entre las dos amantes, la azafata de vuelo irlandesa Síle y la sanadora canadiense Jude, sino también de otros factores: la identidad de género, clase, raza, edad, orientación sexual y nacionalidad. Específicamente, este artículo se centra en cómo la nacionalidad y sexualidad de Síle se ven comprometidas por la invisibilidad, y profundiza en cómo su raza y género contribuyen a esto. Mientras Jude es reconociblemente queer y canadiense, como mujer de color la identidad de Síle requiere más explicaciones y afirmación. Mediante Aterrizando, Emma Donoghue expone cómo Síle puede encontrar la felicidad sin comprometer su identidad como mujer irlandesa racializada