Visioning for the Future: What Can Educational Leaders Do to Build a Shared Commitment to Interagency Collaboration?
Interagency collaboration is being touted as a means for schools to address the increasing social, emotional and health care needs of students. In this article, we contend that if interagency collaboration is to become more than a buzzword, then school leaders must work diligently to build a shared commitment to the school's vision by engaging service providers in sustained and collective discussions and decisions about the school's direction. Two promising approaches for building this shared commitment—strategic planning and collaborative visioning—are highlighted, including a discussion of how several newly-formed collaboratives are confronting the cultural, procedural/regulatory, and personal barriers that prohibit meaningful interagency collaboration.
Urban Studies: Border and Mobility
Turmeric has been used as a spice and a medicine in traditional Thai and Indonesian medicine since ancient times. It contains antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer and anti-bacterial properties. As both Thailand and Indonesian are producers of turmeric in the world market, this makes the sharing of this resource and the creation of trade bargain possible. However, the geographical area may have an impact on the medicinal properties of this plant. Therefore, this article aims to study curcumin content and some biological properties of turmeric, including its antioxidant and anti-bacterial properties, by using in vitro experiments. Turmeric samples were collected from Madura Island, Indonesia and from Ubonratchathani Province, Thailand during May–June 2015. Curcumin content was measured by using the UV spectrum. Antioxidant activity was measured by using DPPH assay. The experimental data showed that turmeric samples collected from Indonesia and Thailand contain similar curcumin content and biological properties. From the data from this study, it can be concluded that sharing of the turmeric resource between the studied areas is possible, not only for material use but also for scientific knowledge.
Early Interventions to Reduce Intergenerational Disadvantage: The New Policy Context
Schorr considers the complex array of factors that put young children at risk. She cites numerous successful programs that have already demonstrated their potency and argues that we can deal with the large-scale problems of disadvantage only if we are willing to mount equally large-scale interventions.