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The professional development school (PDS) model of teacher preparation is designed to provide pre-service teachers with the opportunity to work alongside experienced educators in a real-world setting. Action research is often used to find solutions to a problem or to develop an analysis of an aspect of the community of practice surrounding the educational profession. This study examines the lasting effects of action research conducted by undergraduate teacher candidates in a PDS teacher preparation program, compared to teacher candidates who did not participate in action research in a PDS program. The study concludes that, while action research completed by teacher candidates is not always noteworthy, experiencing the action research process with the guidance of a faculty advisor and a teacher mentor has lasting effects on teachers' professional skill development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an empirical study into a specific and novel form of contemporary consumption: "yellow‐sticker shopping." This type of consumption involves the active targeting for purchase of food products that have been reduced in price because they are approaching their expiry date. Given the complexities of food provisioning in austerity Britain, that include both non‐conventional sites like markets and food banks as well as conventional "discounters" and high street supermarkets, the analysis reveals how this form of food provisioning goes far beyond the "cost‐saving" accounts that might be expected. The research uses autoethnographic material in the form of vignette, constructed around research conducted in the North of England, together with analysis of an online discussion forum. Data are thematically analysed using literature on shopping and supermarkets and then organised according to the three dimensions of social practice: materials, competences and meanings. The paper makes three key contributions in relation to the practice of yellow‐sticker shopping. First, that it has distinct spatial and temporal qualities and the role played by the space of the supermarket and its associated fixtures and technologies is important. Second, that the uncertain supply of yellow‐sticker goods results in unpredictability. Successful shopping is celebrated and characterised in ways other than the drudgery often associated with the weekly shop. Third, it reveals an assemblage of competences, skills and knowledge not only in relation to grocery shopping but that take place in the home, around food, its storage and preparation and cooking and recipe knowledge. The paper concludes by outlining further planned research associated with the practice of yellow‐sticker shopping that will contribute to ongoing study into the alternative modes of food provisioning and their spatialities that are characteristic of life in contemporary Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the list of identified strategies to address substance use disorder, none is as controversial as overdose prevention centers. Also known as supervised injection sites, these centers provide clean needles, food, basic hygiene, medical care, referrals to treatment, and overdose reversal medication to people who use drugs, all in a supervised setting. Proponents of these centers argue they save lives and money, while opponents claim they perpetuate and normalize illegal drug use. Furthermore, the very existence of overdose prevention centers in cities across the United States is a blatant violation of an existing federal law, known as the "Crack House Statute." The future of overdose prevention centers in this country is murky at best, though a decision from the Biden Administration is expected in the coming months that may offer some guidance as to whether this particular harm reduction tool will maintain the unique distinction of being both an innovative approach to tackling the opioid epidemic while at the same time violating federal law.