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Collective Unravelings of the Hegemonic Web -- CONTENTS -- THE JAMES T. SEARS AWARD -- ON HEGEMONY: PERIL OR PROMISE? -- OUR GRACIOUS NOD TO NEW ORLEANS -- BAD COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- "THE BLACK ATLANTIC" -- SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND TEACHER EDUCATION -- WRITING STUDENT AFFAIRS -- WHY EXPERIENCE MATTERS -- A CURRICULAR EXPLORATION OF -- FOR ART EDUCATION -- EXPLORING COMPLEX LEARNING SYSTEMS THROUGH THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -- THE HAUNTED CURRICULUM -- UNRAVELING THE TANGLED THREADS OF MEMORY AS PRAXIS -- TROUBLING "FAMILY" -- CREATING SPACE FOR STUDENTS

The persistent reports and video evidence of the brutality against people of color, the swell of protest and community organizing in response, and also the noxious swell of white supremacy in the current political climate all amount to a desperate reminder that we must not only continually interrogate our public institutions but thoughtfully pursue the many fronts necessary to dismantle the structural forms of oppression that most U.S. institutions have been built upon. Catherine Marshall, Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin, and Mark Johnson provide an analysis of the political arenas making up the public education system—what they explain as the micro, district, state, federal, and global realms. In Educational Politics for Social Justice, the authors argue that an understanding of these arenas can help guide the efforts of those who care about education such that they might better "center justice" in their effort to work toward greater equity in the public schools. This review explores some of the merits and applicability of their ideas and provides a few suggestions about where else we might look for hope and guidance amid the chaos of this current political experience.

Recognizing the need for education that addresses social emotional and mental health issues faced by adults, Extension developed two different types of programs. Michigan State University (MSU) Extension developed the RELAX: Alternatives to Anger program (RELAX) to address anger management, and West Virginia University (WVU) Extension created Stress Less with Mindfulness (SLM) to build stress management skills among adults. At a national conference, the two states independently shared their programs' objectives and delivery implementation and then later cross-trained each other's Extension team. The research reported here shares the designs of both stress-reduction health programs and the results of a combined two-state SLM evaluation with 1,304 participants. The benefits of SLM included skill learning and practice. Recommendations for practice include state Extension services sharing curricula resources, training teams from each other's states, and jointly implementing evaluation protocols. Extension professionals looking for established programs that help people gain skills to promote emotional health and stress-reduction may consider implementing one of these community-based programs in their states.

AbstractPurpose/aimAgeism negatively affects health care. This paper presents an extended validation of a novel scale assessing ageism among dental students.Method and materialsA previously pilot‐tested 27‐question scale applied to a larger sample (n = 315) from two U.S. dental schools with Principal Component Analysis used to assess internal structure of the measure. Questions whose deletion increased the overall α loading on >1 factor or those unexpectedly grouped in another factor were thoroughly examined.ResultsThe scale resulted in five statements (grouped in two factors), which explained 63% of the overall variance with a substantially higher reliability value than other solutions (0.76). Two factors highly correlated were grouped together in a single scale. The five statements are "Elderly people do not take good care of their teeth" (0.62), "Elderly patients do not usually comply with dental advice" (0.93), "The Elderly patient does not live long enough to make it worthwhile to invest time and effort in complex dental treatment" (0.81), "The elderly patient does not live long enough to make it worthwhile to invest money in expensive dental treatment" (0.95), and "Dental treatment of elderly patients is too time‐consuming" (0.57).ConclusionsFive items achieved high reliability toward the validity of this scale.

ABSTRACTPurpose/aimThis work presents the preliminary validation of a novel scale assessing ageism attitudes among dental students.Method and materialsA 27‐question scale was created based on existing ageism scales. The new ageism scale was applied to 144 dental students. Content validity was achieved by experts' consensus. Questions whose deletion increased the overall α, loading < 0.40, loading on more than one factors, or those unexpectedly grouped in another factor were thoroughly examined. Principal Component Analysis assessed internal structure of the measure.ResultsThe final ageism scale included four items in a single factor that explained 58.5% of the overall variance with substantially higher reliability than other factors. The Cronbach's α for this single four‐items factor was 0.75.ConclusionsThis preliminary analysis of a novel ageism scale for dental professionals pointed to four items achieving high reliability, providing guidance for a future definitive validation study with a larger sample.