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by Judy Durrant, David Frost, Michael Head, Gary Holden. 172 pgs.

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Teacher-led School Improvement
Book by David Frost, Judy Durrant, Michael Head, Gary Holden; Falmer Press, 2000
Subjects: Action Research In Education--Great Britain--Case Studies, College-School Cooperation--Great Britain--Case Studies, School Improvement Programs--Great Britain--Case Studies, Teacher Participation In Administration--Great Britain--Case Studies
...improvement/David Frost et al. . Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. School improvement programs Great Britain Case studies. 2. Teacher participation in administration Great Britain Case studies. 3. Action...
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Learning & Teaching for Business: Case Studies of Successful Innovation
Book by Roland Kaye, David Hawkridge; Kogan Page, 2003
Subjects: Business Education--Great Britain--Case Studies, Educational Innovations--Great Britain--Case Studies, Management--Study And Teaching (Higher)--Great Britain--Case Studies
...B and Paine, C (1998) Creating a faculty intranet: a case study in change, Education and Training , 40 (8), pp 340-46...uea.ac.uk/cti/conference/paperlst.html General Services Administration (GSA) (1998) An Evaluation of the Grand Design Approach...Computer-Based Application Systems , General Services Administration, Washington, DC Gibson, C F and Nolan, R...Jin, Z (2001) The learning experience of students in Middlesex University Business School (MUBS): why do they...
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Achieving Racial Balance: Case Studies of Contemporary School Desegregation
Book by Sondra Astor Stave; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: School Integration--United States--Case Studies
...comparative purposes. The case studies for Dayton, Hartford, Rochester...been established. In each case study, the investigation of...leadership; its highest level school administrators have worked...to seek desegregation and improvement to the educational experience...the Mad, Stillwater, and Great Miami Rivers, boundaries are...curriculum, summer classes and programs for the deaf and crippled...Brinkman No. 76-539, 420 . The case was returned to the Court of Appeals in 1978 and to the Supreme...math, and science and museum studies. At the same time, full-time...abolished and students and teachers in the paired schools were...community groups and community participation in general was extremely...needs, while others reported great dissatisfaction with administrative...management and decentralized administration; merit pay was being discussed...
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Sustaining Change in Universites: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts
Book by Burton R. Clark; Open University Press, 2004
Subjects: Educational Change--Case Studies, Universities And Colleges--Administration--Case Studies
...a university designation in the early 1990s, in such fields as Industrial Mathematics and Journalism Studies: and Heriot-Watt, a 1960s university near Edinburgh that Strath- clydians had long lauded, in two areas where the universities have complementary strengths, Biological Sciences and Psychology; and...merger that Strathclyde had embarked upon in the early 1990s when it absorbed Jordanhill, the largest teacher-training institution in the UK, and, on a second major campus, turned it into a fifth faculty. Although...world - would simply not had take on. State-funded teacher education, a separate messy matter at best in Britain, continued to be severely constrained and bureau- cracy ridden. Jordanhill had been funded by the Scottish...incompatible cultures and opposing priorities can be, if not devastating, difficult for all. In the Strathclyde case, the purpose of research enhancement in the education faculty counters the purpose of practical professional...governmental research councils totaled only another 4 per cent of income in the latter year, swamped by the great increase in the third, non-government stream to over 50 per cent. In the late 1990s these shares remained...head at the middle and lower levels. The more businesslike model also emphasizes professionalization of administration. Here at Strathclyde, a half-dozen or more highly capable central administrators serve under a lead administrator...
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Hands across Frontiers: Case Studies in Technical Cooperation
Book by Howard M. Teaf Jr., Peter G. Franck; Cornell University Press, 1955
Subjects: Technical Assistance--Case Studies
...Origins of a Private Village Improvement Project -- American Friends Service Committee in...WILLIAM B. SCHWAB Work Programs in International Aid -- Employment of Arab Refugees...the College undertook the preparation of a series of case studies in the field of technical assistance -leading eventually...Corporation Government of Nigeria; Colonial Office, Great Britain The Rockefeller Foundation United Nations...arrangements at the College. Andrew Towl, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, early...
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Parent-Teacher Participation in the Context of School Governance
Journal article by Patricia A. Bauch, Ellen B. Goldring; PJE. Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 73, 1998
Subjects: Education
...proved generally to be a counterproductive approach to school governance. Conversely, at schools described as having...marketplace would generate a desire for local school improvement (cf. Coons Sugarman, 1978; Friedman Friedman...educational enrichment and support (pp. 368-369). Other programs have also engaged parents more fully as partners. The...Lightfoot, 1981; Lindle Boyd, 1991). Some studies suggest that teacher professionalism is associated...through the courts ( Woods, 1993). In a study in Great Britain of continual conflict between members of school governing...Sugarman, S. D. ( 1978 ). Education by choice: The case for family control . Berkeley: University of California...
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Colonial Policies and Women's Participation in Public Life: The Case of British Southern Cameroons
Journal article by Melinda Adams; African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 8, 2006
Subjects: Black women--Economic aspects, Black women--History, Black women--Social aspects, Women in public life--Analysis, Women in public life--Natural history, Women, Black--Economic aspects, Women, Black--History, Women, Black--Social aspects
...CAMEROON Moving from general findings to a specific case, this section examines how colonial policies affected...of these initiatives can be partially gauged through school enrollment and attendance figures for girls and women...br/ In 1949, Great Britain launched a special training program to increase the...and in that year, three women from Cameroon undertook studies in Great Britain. (23) In 1950, five women from the...students used sewing and baking skills learned in these programs to earn an income or even open a small business. (32...active in the region. These include the Young Ladies Improvement Society (Victoria), the Womens Progressive Society...
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The Politics of Appointments to Protestant Theological Faculties in Germany: the Case of Professor Erich Geldbach
Journal article by Charles McDaniel, Richard V. Pierard; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 46, 2004
Subjects: Church & state, Geldbach, Erich, Germany, Political appointments, Protestantism, School faculty, Theological schools
...partnership" to be teachers of religion in the public schools provided that they would agree in writing to recognize...provided a detailed report to his employer, the Confessional Studies Institute, about what transpired. The second alleged...cult. The attorney sued him for slander but lost the case largely due to the anti-cult climate of the mid-1990s...church office from scholars and church figures in Germany, Britain, and the United States supporting Geldbachs appointment...Sorg, who had just succeeded Linnemann, expressing his "great disappointment" that the church leadership had failed...funded institutions could continue their educational programs in religious studies, as is the case in the United States...
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Biliteracy and Bilingual Development in a Second-Generation Korean Child: A Case Study
Journal article by Yeonsun Ellie Ro, Gregory A. Cheatham; Journal of Research in Childhood Education, Vol. 23, 2009
Subjects: Bilingualism--Case studies, Child communication--Case studies, Interpersonal communication in children--Case studies, Language acquisition--Case studies, Second language learning--Case studies
...Jimenez, R. T., Garcia, G. E., Pearson, P. D. (1995). Three children, two languages and strategic reading: Case studies in bilingual/ monolingual reading. American Educational Research Journal, 32, 67-97. Kenner, C. (2000). Home page...for bilingual children. Trentham Books. Kim, S. J. (2004). Early literacy practices by KunHwi: A longitudinal case study of a Korean boy. Unpublished dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. Klesius, J., Griffith, P. (1996). Interactive storybook reading for at-risk learners. The Reading Teacher, 49(7), 552-560. Koda, K. (1998). The role of phonemic awareness in second language reading. Second Language...Three generations, two languages, one family: Language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. Li, G. (2002). "East is east, west is west?" Home literacy, culture, and...Lindholm-Leary, K. (2001). Dual language education. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters. Manyak, P. (2001). Participation, hybridity, and carnivale: A situated analysis of a dynamic literacy practice in a primary-grade English immersion...
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Teacher Decision Making in Participation of Students with Disabilities in Large-Scale Assessment
Journal article by Lizanne Destefano, James G. Shriner, Claire A. Lloyd; Exceptional Children, Vol. 68, 2001
Subjects: Classroom management--Analysis, Disabled children--Education, Education--Methodology, Educational tests and measurements--Standards, Special education--Activity programs
...disabilities are excluded (Chard, 1999). Also, there exists great variability among state rules as to who participates...Morison, 1997). Nearly all states now report that improvement of the match between state standards and tests is an...greater variability. DeStefano (1998) conducted a three-school case study in Illinois over 3 years and found practice varied...first year of a 3-year, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)-funded study. The study was designed to investigate...and school reform in the United States and Britain (pp66-97). London: Routledge. Reprinted with...an access skill accommodation on the math or social studies test where the target skill is mathematics or social...
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School Safety Interventions: Best Practices and Programs
Magazine article by Ron Avi Astor, Heather Ann Meyer, Rami Benbenishty, Roxana Marachi, Michelle Rosemond; Children & Schools, Vol. 27, January 2005
Subjects: Prevention programs, School safety, School violence, Social workers, United States
...and school-community perspective. Gang Activity at School. Between 1995 and 1999, extraordinary reductions in...acknowledged positive societal change and dramatic improvements in historically oppressed groups of students. Safety...personal safety. Astor and colleagues (1997, 1998) studies suggest that social workers fear may be related to...workers should consider creating support and prevention programs for teachers and school staff. They also should have...Similar antibullying programs have been developed in Great Britain (see Sharp Smith, 1994, and Smith Sharp, 1994...continuous, cyclical basis. Monitoring and Mapping: Case Study A high school with approximately 1,000 students...
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Education Roundup
Magazine article by Larry Kuehn; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 17, Winter 2008
...million dollars to a company to develop the materials. School Students Against the War in London picketed the marketing...The military covers about half the cost of the military programs in the schools. Military education is the largest of...ability to report on what they find, that is not always the case. Some publishers demand final approval over the release...new Russian manuals for high school history and social studies teachers have been accused of creating a pro-Putin and...to completely deny successes and achievements of our great country ... Without answering the questions of who we...according to David Berliner. The education media in Britain provide some current examples. The BBC reports that...
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Education and the Common Good
Magazine article by Jocelyn Berthelot; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 18, Fall 2008
Subjects: Education, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Public good, Quebec Canada, Social justice
...and ethnic lines. Labeling students has consequences for their attitude and their self-esteem as well as for teacher expectations. Research in Britain and the US has even shown that concentrations of students with low aptitude in poor classes lead to the emergence...give to the poor. Some countries do encourage mixed classes, while others prefer streaming. In international studies of student performance, mixed classes trump streamed classes. For example, analysis of reading research concludes...spent on different subjects is a contributing factor. Claude Lessard (2006) recalls the usual requirements for participation in such selective projects: students must be performing above average, have demonstrated exemplary behaviour and, in some case, the parents have to bear a financial cost that may be considerable.9 To illustrate this, here is a very real...
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What Is Left? What Is Right? Does It Matter?
Magazine article by Andrew J. Bacevich, Jeremy Beer, Austin Bramwell, Patrick J. Buchanan; American Conservative, Vol. 5, August 28, 2006
Subjects: Conservatism, Liberalism, Political analysis, Politics, United States
...domination of the academy, and in particular Middle East studies. See, for example, Justin Raimondos diatribe against...neocon "Right" and the Old Right of yore is that, in the former, there is no allowable dissent from the...myself, ended his peroration with this: War is a great clarifier. It forces people to take sides. The paleoconservatives...opportunity for paleocon deviationists to make our case to the conservative public: the Frum-cons will close...examination. Yes, war is a great clarifier. As the Bush administration sinks deeper into the Iraqi quagmire and the neocons...Communist Party affirms its control-though this case is complicated because apparently the Communists are more pro-market than the democratic reformers. In the U.S., it means something else. So what is a...seems to like the idea of free trade-which is also great. He is a drug warrior-which is a very bad position...beyond repair. They have been so seduced by the Bush administration that they have become champions of an egregious...
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The Globalization of Capital, Critical Pedagogy, and the Aftermath of September 11: an Interview with Peter Mclaren
Magazine article by Lucia Coral Aguirre Munoz; Multicultural Education, Vol. 10, Fall 2002
Subjects: Aliens, Globalization, McLaren, Peter, Postmodernism
...Islamic groups, and the CIA worked with Pakistani intelligence to help create the Taliban. Within the Bush administration there are those, like Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, who in 1992 wrote a Pentagon memo arguing for a frontal U.S. assault on Russia in order to liberate the Baltic...famous for their genocide in Cambodia (see Elich, 2001). Only a monster like bin Laden could make such a case for terrorism. There is no justification for terrorism. Absolutely none. The point I am making is a pedagogical...factions of Osama bin Laden, are as regressive as anything done in the service of U.S. imperialism. There are a great array of crimes that can be linked to world capitalism, that go beyond the participation of the U.S. I have listed above acts of U.S. imperialism not in order to create an excuse or rationale for...major dilemma for the future of the globe. And pedagogically, it places a heavy challenge in the hands of teachers and cultural and political workers worldwide. Lucia: Why try to help young people adapt to a system that...
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Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 19, 2008
...fetal tissue into a patients brain, producing some improvement. Within two years, however, the patient developed a...and is in limitless supply, has consistently shown great promise and affected hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cures. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have produced a permanent reversal of Type I diabetes...socialism has never worked in any country - Canada, Great Britain and Sweden are good examples. Cradle-to-grave coverage...liberty, or property, without due process of law." In my case as well as Mr. Dubinskis case as well as numerous cases...a persons Constitutional rights? There are numerous studies showing smoke is bad for a persons health, yet in the...insolence of these two Congressmen. As the Republican programs of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush continue to fail...


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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...impact of the decision in the Dred Scott Case , which denied the right of Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories, or the provocation of John...possibility of fair treatment under a Republican administration, resorted to secession from the Union and...disappearance of the American frontier. Great mineral wealth was discovered and exploited...peace had already been expressed through participation in the Hague Conferences , and when World...actively with the Allies (especially with Great Britain and France), and although Britain and Germany...and the United States drew closer to Great Britain with the issuance of the Atlantic Charter . In Asian affairs the Roosevelt government had...and many young women. The creation of a great number of government war agencies to control...where various questions of the peacetime administration of Europe were settled, many on an ad interim...sensational events as the Alger Hiss case and the trial and execution of Julius and...disorders there and escalating American participation in the Vietnam War . Authorization for...


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