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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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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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Government and the Universities: The "New Mutuality" in Australian Higher Education - a National Case Study
Journal article by David Mahony; Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 65, 1994
Subjects: Australia--Schools, Education, Higher--Australia, Federal aid to higher education--Analysis, School management and organization--Analysis
...It demonstrates balanced and comprehensive array of programs designed to encourage the conduct of high quality...without -- in Australia at least and increasingly in Britain -- any form of alternative higher education system...Government . . . will look to autonomy to create an improvement in performance. There will be ex-post control of institutions...or of natural selection |15, p. 8~. In Australias case, however, there are limits upon "market" or "natural...Programmes new to academe -- such as nursing and police studies, which had been introduced into the old college system...their share of the research cake, which has imposed great pressure upon the competitive system of research grants...Public responses to the issues on teacher quality (Schools Council) -- The future of discipline assessments...
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2001-2002 Board of Directors
Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 19, December 2002
Subjects: AT and T Corp.--Public relations, Arts fund raising, Communications industry, Telecommunications services industry--Public relations, Theater companies--Finance, Theater companies--Management, Theatre Communications Group--Management, Theatre Communications Group--Membership, Theatre Communications Group--Officials and employees
...comic fairy tale set in 19th-century famine-plagued Great Britain. The grant allows for the playwright, the director...examines the "culture of hate" prevalent in many American schools. OHara will travel around the country to visit high...Kent Stephens as they investigate the MFA training programs at the Denver Center Theatre Company; the American...the major findings from the first version and used case studies to illustrate key trends in an anecdotal way for a...celebrated its 22nd anniversary in 2001-2002. Further improvements were made to our new ArtSEARCH online version, which...
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The New Linguistic Order
Magazine article by Joshua A. Fishman; Foreign Policy, Winter 1998
Subjects: English language--Usage
...faith. Navajo children in Rough Rock, Arizona, who were schooled initially in Navajo were found to have higher reading competency...practical reliance on local languages today is every bit as great as the identity roles these languages fulfill. Nevertheless...and Language Policy (New York: Routledge, 1996). For 12 case studies of efforts to assist threatened languages in the Americas...So far, Finland and the Netherlands have signed on, with Britain, Germany, and Spain expected to follow. Despite these...
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Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile
Magazine article by John J. Simon; Monthly Review, Vol. 57, May 2005
Subjects: Activism, Einstein, Albert--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Einstein, Albert--Biography, Einstein, Albert--Influence, Einstein, Albert--Political activity, Peace movements--History, Peace movements--Political aspects, Peace movements--Social aspects
...result of a bidding competition among universities in Britain, France, and Germany looking for scientific and technological...lifetime appointment from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, settling into a modest house...Shahn--famed for his paintings on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, among many others with political themes. The party...Trumans belated promises of liberal, New Deal-type social programs caused the collapse of the Wallace movement. Trumans...one in a reply to a 1953 letter from a New York City school teacher who had been fired for his refusal to discuss...pilloried or isolated during the "red scare" than Einsteins great ally from the struggle against lynching, Paul Robeson...
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The Public Square
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 1999
...government provides for commutation, pardon, and other instruments of discretion in order that men might temper their administration of law with prudence and mercy. Finally, I note that it is my friend Bill Buckley who describes himself as "inveighing...Vineyard. Carlos Fuentes was there, and so was Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who recently recounted their dinner conversation in a predictably fawning article entitled "The Mysteries of Bill Clinton." After almost four hours talking with his...150 miles north of London, bats are pretty much wherever they want to be. The same is true all over the country. Britain has sixteen species of bats and seven prefer to reside in churches. Bat-protection laws prevent their being removed...of a Nazi concentration camp. The film keeps coming back to mind, generating thoughts about how narrative (in this case a narrative that turns suffering into a "game") sustains the human in the face of unspeakable adversity. It is profound...
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While We're at It
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2003
Subjects: Bernardin, Joseph, Cardinal, Christianity--Influence, Judaism--Influence, United States--Religious aspects
...agenda," says John Saliba, S.J., Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy. "Oden has nothing positive...is no friend of the rebirth of orthodoxy. * The summer school catalogue of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley...attempting to do justice to the elegance of Tonti-Filippinis case, he recognizes the indisputably good, indeed admirable...people negotiate with infidel diplomats who represent the great Satan and settle for less when they believe their God wants...explicitly engaged by political decision-makers here and in Britain. It is hard to disagree with the observation that we have...
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...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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