Longitudinal Evaluation of a Teenage Pregnancy Case Management Program in Oklahoma

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a school-based case management intervention in reducing teen-pregnancy. A nonrandomized intervention/comparison schools mixed-method evaluation design was employed. Participants included 203 pregnant and parenting teens with annual follow-up over a 3-year period. The results indicated that the time to repeat pregnancy was delayed among pregnant teens, high school drop-out rates were reduced among parenting teens, and pregnant teens were less likely to deliver before 36 weeks in the intervention versus the comparison school. Case management at a school setting is a promising approach to decrease repeat teen pregnancy.     

Dialogue as Resistance to Western Metaphysics

Behind all its cultural, political and ethnic variety, I argue, the ‘West’ is founded on a single account of Being, according to which any being is composed of ‘form’ and ‘matter’, with matter dominating form. The West is thus founded on a writing of domination into the nature of being itself. One way to combat that is through various kinds of dialogue that are orientated, not merely to truth, but to freedom. I sketch out the basic forms of such dialogue and suggest that there is some hope that it will come to be employed by both Westerners and non-Westerners.     

Managerial entrenchment and corporate social responsibility engagement: the role of economic policy uncertainty

Journal of Management and Governance - The behavioral theory of corporate governance is employed to investigate the relationship between managerial entrenchment and corporate social responsibility...