Miami Dade College (Miami Dade, MDC or Dade) is a public college in Miami, Florida. Founded in 1959, it has a total of eight campuses and twenty-one outreach centers throughout Miami-Dade County. It is the largest college in the Florida College System with more than 100,000 students and is the second-largest college or university in the United States. The college enrolls a significantly larger amount of Hispanic students, compared to other colleges and universities in the state of Florida.
This study presents a collective of auto-testimonios authored by multilingual, multicultural, and multiply marginalized (M4) individuals who self-identify or were identified as gifted, twice/thrice-exceptional, and/or Spanish-first-language speakers. Framed by Gifted Critical Race Theory, Latino/a/x/& eacute; Critical Race Theory, and Anzald & uacute;a's Borderlands, the inquiry centers the voices of M4 individuals navigating gifted education through systemic exclusion, cultural mismatch, and linguistic resistance. Co-authors engage in collaborative truth-making, rejecting traditional researcher/participant binaries. Translanguaging is intentionally embraced, affirming Spanish as an equal academic language. Auto-testimonios serve as both data and praxis, illuminating the emotional labor of navigating elite educational spaces and the resilience required to persist. Findings urge reimagining gifted education through justice-centered, culturally sustaining frameworks and call for shifts in policy, practice, and research to better serve M4 learners.
BACKGROUND:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. Racial-, ethnic-, and sex-specific mechanisms of OSA and AD risk were examined. METHODS:We analyzed data from 3978 polysomnography patients without cognitive decline aged ≥ 60 including 663 OSA+ patients (284 non-Hispanic White, 207 Black, 172 Hispanic) matched to OSA- cohorts (1:1, n = 663; 1:4, n = 2652) and followed for AD through 2013. RESULTS:During the 8.5 (standard deviation 1.4) year period, 358 patients developed AD. AD risk was higher for Black (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] 2.24 [1.24-2.71]), Hispanic (aHR 1.73, [1.38-3.51]), White (aHR 1.83, [1.21-3.37]), male (aHR 2.38, [1.31-3.47]), and female (aHR 1.37, [1.14-2.41]) patients. Hypoxia, sleep fragmentation, and sleep duration (p < 0.01) were associated with increased risk. Black and Hispanic, and female patients showed stronger effects for hypoxia and duration, and fragmentation, respectively. DISCUSSION:Hypoxia, fragmentation, and duration may underlie racial-, ethnic-, and sex-specific effects of AD risk.
Abstract Do economists and policymakers understand the nature of inequality in the Global South? Most research and discussion on inequality focused on wealthy countries, leaving limited knowledge on the impact of inequality in developing countries. The authors take a step forward by exploring the dynamics of inequality in the Global South, focusing on the Jamaican context. The authors use micro data from the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions (JSLC) covering three periods: 2002, 2012 and 2021. Overall, the authors find that inequality in Jamaica has declined. The authors also find that over time, the level of education plays an increasing role in explaining across-group inequality. Additionally, while there are minor differences in inequality between male-headed and female-headed households, male-headed households enjoy higher levels of consumption.
As science continues to advance, many psychotherapeutic approaches have updated their theories and practices accordingly. However, existentialism has remained ambivalent to these developments, leading it to appear less effective, rigorous, or valid, despite ample evidence to the contrary. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it is an invitation for natural-scientifically trained psychologists and psychotherapists to recognize the substantive benefits of grounding their thinking and practice in human-scientific philosophical reflection. Second, to encourage existentially oriented psychologists and psychotherapists to appreciate the added value of natural-scientific perspectives, particularly those that focus on the body and the brain. In short, the overriding aim is to contribute to a more unified epistemological discourse across the disciplines devoted to studying and caring for human beings.
In plain terms: if we are going to let AI write personalized versions of tests for every student, those versions have to be more than surface paraphrase. They have to look genuinely different on the outside while still measuring the same underlying skill on the inside. This paper asks whether today's frontier AI models can actually do that, and offers a way to measure it. AI-Integrated Authentic Assessment (AIAA) frameworks propose to replace surveillance-based proctoring with per-student task variation: each examinee receives a unique-yet-equivalent performance task, making answer copying useless without invasive monitoring. The framework's no-surveillance integrity guarantee is conditional on a presumed but unverified capability: that large language models can generate parallel variants of an assessment blueprint that are simultaneously surface-distinct, construct-equivalent, rubric-applicable, and difficulty-matched. We introduce VARIA, a benchmark that operationalizes this presumption as four measurable properties of a generated variant set. VARIA evaluates three frontier model families (Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI GPT-5.5, Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview) across four prompting strategies (zero-shot, few-shot with anchor examples, structured chain-of-thought, dimension-preserving constrained generation) on three competency-based blueprints drawn from applied AI and data analytics, alongside two non-frontier reference systems (a small open instruction-tuned model and GPT-2 small) and two targeted ablations. A pilot of 600 generated variants across 60 condition cells reveals that frontier strategies cluster tightly on a composite integrity score (joint J between 0.81 and 0.88) while the non-frontier references collapse to J between 0.50 and 0.55, a forty-percentage-point gap that establishes the benchmark's discrimination. Within the frontier band, structured chain-of-thought and zero-shot prompting maximize construct equivalence; dimension-preserving constrained generation and few-shot anchoring maximize surface diversity; and the two regimes trade against each other on readability parity. We release VARIA, recommend a generation protocol keyed to the deploying institution's threat profile, and pre-register a follow-up that will measure rubric stability and behavioral copy-resistance.
