Volume 18, Issue 1 (2018) Critical Issues: Defining and Debunking Misconceptions in Health, Education, Criminal Justice, and Social Work/Social Services
Implications
Mythbusting: Facing the Facts in Public Policy
Robert D. Sanborn and Angelo P. Giardino
Reflections From the Special Issue Editors
Critical Issues: Defining and Debunking Misconceptions in Health, Education, Criminal Justice, and Social Work/Social Services
Leigh G. Van Horn Dr., Nina Barbieri, Ronald Beebe, Heather H. Goltz, Bernardo E. Pohl jr, Rebecca Pfeffer Ph.D., and Jace Valcore
Articles
Stranger Danger!
Aimee Wodda
Reframing Human Trafficking: From a Criminal Justice Problem to a Social Justice Issue
Rebecca Pfeffer
Examining the Myth of Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, and the Achievement Gap
Julian Vasquez Heilig, T. Jameson Brewer, and Jimmy Ojeda Pedraza
The Myth of the Well-Known ‘Solution’ of Push-Down Academics
Burhanettin Keskin
Debunking the Myth of the Efficacy of “Push-down Academics”: How Rigid, Teacher-Centered, Academic Early Learning Environments Dis-Empower Young Children
Flora Harmon and Radhika Viruru
Original Contribution
Vaccine Myths: Setting the Record Straight
Julie A. Boom, Rachel M. Cunningham, and Lindy U. McGee
Perspectives from the Field
Stranger Danger: A Mother's Perspective
Priscilla Salas
Human Trafficking: It’s Not Just a Crime
Frances H. Recknor and Makini Chisolm-Straker