CONTENTS

Museums as Educational and Socio-cultural Curriculum
Patricia D. Ainsa, University of Texas at El Paso

1

Instructional Leadership and Changing School Cultures: Voices of Principals
E. Warren Aller, Western Washington University
E. Jane Irons, Nancy Leffel Carlson, Lamar Universit

4

The Necessity of Cultural Responsive Assessment
Yukari Takimoto Amos, Gory Gann, Don Woodcock, Central Washington University

11

Interest Group Strategies in the State Judiciary: Evidence from Alabama
Christopher Baxter, The University of Tennessee at Martin

19

Breaking Down Barriers to Student Success in Content Area Text
Benita G Bruster, Austin Peay State University

26

Deaf Education: Delivered the Friendly Way
Nancy Leffel Carlson, E. Jane Irons, Melissa M. Rusher, Mary Anne Gentry,
Lamar University

31

Alternative Assessment Involving the use of Cooperative Learning
Beverly A. Doyle, Creighton University
Jennifer Ortman, Liberty Elementary School

40

The Impact of Selected Professional Services on Job Satisfaction of New Kentucky
Community and Technical College Faculty
H. Steve Freeman, Deborah J. Pape, West Kentucky Community and Technical College

46

Curriculum Change: An Intuitional Critique of Internalist and Resource and Resource Dependence Theories
Mazen Hashem, California State University, Northridge

56

The Chinese: American Fascination
Ronald G. Helms, Wright State University

69

Biting the Bullet: and The Veto Power
Samuel B. Hoff, Delaware State University

77

Introducing a Holistic Framework of Organizational Health
Laura Holyoke, University of Idaho

92

Implementing Processed Evaluation in a School Violence Prevention Grant
Praphul Joshi, Susan Lyman, Charles Duncan, Lisa LeBlanc, Phil Cailouet,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

102

Secondary School Students and Freedom of Speech
Larry L. Kraus, The University of Texas at Tyler

113

Implementing Processed Evaluation in a School Violence Prevention Grant
H.R. Mahood, Ramona M. Mahood, The University of Memphis

120

Childhood in the United States: The Assumptions and Actualities
Molly Minkkinen, University of Minnesota Duluth

127

Sociopolitical Resistance to an Equal Education Constitutional Amendment
Richard Neumann, San Diego State University

134

Lesson Plans and the Teaching Candidate: Is the Internet Helping or Hindering?
Barba Aldis Patton, University of Houston-Victoria

146

Investment Decisions by Latin American Immigrants in Their Countries of Origin
Magdalena Rappl, Tennessee Tech University

149

Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of the use of Scholastic Corporal Punishment
in Indian Schools
Mark A. Seals, Alma College

162

S.D. Meyers v. Canada: Assessing the Application of NAFTA’s Environmental
Provisions to Protect the Application of Domestic Environmental Law in the
Face of NAFTA’s Article 11 Investor Protection Provisions
Christina T. Sherman, University of Puget Sound

170

Community Engagement and Coping with Stress among College Students:
An Exploratory Study
Mojisola F. Tiamiyu, Meghan L. Marsac, University of Toledo

182