School-based health centers (SBHCs) have proliferated rapidly nation-wide and remain politically popular. This article explores the disconnect between the evidence and the discourse on SBHCs, drawing upon the authors' evaluation of SBHCs in Newark, New Jersey, and a critical assessment of the evaluative literature and public discourse on school clinics to argue that a number of important issues...

THIS paper reviews the Discourse of the Heart by James de Back, which was included in the English language edition of The Anatomical Exercises of William Harvey of 1653. The edition used for this review is a 1673 reprint published at London. There are no illustrations. Its contents include the anatomical exercises concerning the motion of the heart and blood by Harvey (of 1628) with the preface...

Computational linguists are a vicious warrior tribe. Unconstrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries, they invade and plunder neighboring disciplines for attractive theories to incorporate into their own. The latest victim of these attacks is sociology-in particular, a branch of ethnomethodological sociolinguistics called Conversation Analysis (hereafter, CA). The book reviewed here, Compu...

There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science...

This article uses social-movement theory to analyze how neighborhood organizations portray activism as grounded in a particular place and scale. I apply the concept of collective-action frames to a case study of four organizations in a single neighborhood inSt. Paul,Minnesota.Using organizational documents such as annual reports, comprehensive plans, and flyers, I present a discourse analysis o...

This paper draws on the concept of ideological dilemmas in order to explore how a sample of young people constructed potentially contrary themes of liberal citizenship in discussions of un/employment. The study took place in the context of recent policy developments in the UK which have sought to place a renewed emphasis upon notions of responsible citizenship in relation to both welfare and ed...

In this article, we critically examine the nature of the “consensus” reflected in educational standards used to orient high-stakes assessment programs. We analyze two complementary cases of practice in the assessment of teaching. One focuses on the discourse of standards creation and one examines how standards like these are typically used to orient assessment development and judgments about in...

We examine adaptable dialogue interface agents using meta-rules to engage in to converse with information seeking callers. For an adaptable dialogue interface agent to exhibit the intelligence required in a dialogue with a user it needs the ability to handle unanticipated user input gracefully in a proper context, that is, it can support ad hoc requests from a user, maintain the topic of discou...

The paper deals with conditional responses of the form “Not if c/Yes if c” in reply to a question “?q” in the context of information-seeking dialogues. A conditional response is triggered if the obtainability of q depends on whether c holds: The response indicates a possible need to find alternative solutions, opening a negotiation in the dialogue. The paper discusses the conditions under which...

Obesity and diabetes epidemics are a ecting about a third and tenth of US population, respectively, capturing the attention of the nation and its institutions. Social media provides an open forum for communication between individuals and health organizations, a forumwhich is easily joined by parties seeking to gain pro t from it. In this paper we examine 1.5 million tweets mentioning obesity an...