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School Reform in the Deep South: A Critical Appraisal

Book by David J. Vold, Joseph L. Devitis; University of Alabama Press, 1991

Subjects:

Educational Change--Alabama, Educational Change--Southern States, Public Schools--Southern States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...have a role to play in reforming our schools and our society. Reforming...are to bring about reform in our schools, we must restore a...Characteristics of Effective Schools: The "first wave" of reform in Arkansas, implementation...
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A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920

Book by William A. Link; University of North Carolina Press, 1986

Subjects:

Community And School--Virginia--History--19th Century, Community And School--Virginia--History--20th Century, Education, Rural--Virginia--History--19th Century, Education, Rural--Virginia--History--20th Century, Rural Schools--Virginia--History--19th Century, Rural Schools--Virginia--History--20th Century, Virginia--Rural Conditions

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...of American schools. In a misplaced...view regards reform, system building...diversity in Catholic...foreign-language schools, an issue reformers deferred until...public health reformer, wrote that...the rural schools in a Piedmont...
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Legal Reform in Korea

Book by Tom Ginsburg; RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

Subjects:

Law Reform--Korea (South)

Collections: Entire Library

Law in Korea has historically been viewed as merely a tool of authoritarian rule, but since the transition to democracy in 1987 it has served a more important & visible role, as a force for social change. The volume explores this response to domestic & international pressures.
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Politics, Power & Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s

Book by Mark E. Rushefsky, Kant Patel; M. E. Sharpe, 1998

Subjects:

Health Care Reform--United States

Collections: Entire Library

Tracking the issue of health care reform through the tumultuous 1990s, Politics, Power, and Policy Making opens a window on the changing dynamics of American politics from the Clinton inauguration in January 1993 through the Republican revolution of 1995 and the 1996 presidential race. The book ...
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Tracking the issue of health care reform through the tumultuous 1990s, Politics, Power, and Policy Making opens a window on the changing dynamics of American politics from the Clinton inauguration in January 1993 through the Republican revolution of 1995 and the 1996 presidential race. The book brings the legislative process to life by tracking a single controversial policy issue through the system, effectively linking public policy studies with the study of American political institutions.
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Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954

Book by Jim Handy; University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Subjects:

Government, Resistance To--Guatemala--History, Guatemala--Politics And Government--1945-1985, Guatemala--Rural Conditions, Land Reform--Guatemala--History, Peasantry--Guatemala--History, Social Conflict--Guatemala--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...social studies that helped pave the way for the Agrarian Reform Law in 1952. Despite the rhetoric of the institute, however...observations of these teachers in the development of rural schools. Besides recommending that the school serve such social...

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What Makes a Good School? Identifying Excellent Middle Schools: Most of Us Have Been in Schools That We Know Are Good. but What Is It about Such Schools That Makes Them the Successful Places That They Are? and How Can Other Schools Learn from Their Successes? the Authors Share the Experience of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform in Rolling out a Vision for Excellent Schools across the Country

Journal article by Joan Lipsitz, Teri West; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 88, 2006

Subjects:

Middle schools--Evaluation, Middle schools--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform in Rolling out a Vision for Excellent Schools across the Country...Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, as well as the Schools to Watch initiative. She...nonprofit research organization in Chapel Hill, N.C, that...
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Chicago's Renaissance 2010: Building on School Reform in the Age of Accountability: In Response to Mr. Ayers and Mr. Klonsky, Mr. Duncan Argues That Chicago's Renaissance 2010 Initiative Is Holding Adults Accountable by Closing Low-Performing Schools Rather Than Trapping Children in a Failing Educational Environment

Journal article by Arne Duncan; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, 2006

Subjects:

Educational reform--Analysis, Public schools--Management, School administration, School management and organization

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...advance school reform and the small schools movement...pioneers in small school...students in failing schools. That is...of school reform as it has...diversity in terms of...charters, small schools, and other...advanced school reforms earliest...
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Statistics Education and the Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business Conferences

Journal article by Thomas E. Love, David K. Hildebrand; The American Statistician, Vol. 56, 2002

Subjects:

Business schools--Curricula, Making Statistics More Effective in Schools of Business--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., Statistics--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...MSMESB and for statistics in business and business schools. 2. SETTING THE AGENDA In June 1986 at the University of Chicago, George Easton...intense discussions. Much of the agenda for the reform movement in business statistics education was set...
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Thomas D. Curran. Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation

Journal article by Judith Liu; China Review International, Vol. 13, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation, Chinese Studies, vol. 40 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...irrational was the reformers own expectation...vocational schools, to generate...alterations in national...Western-style, modern schools did not do...that the reformers had in regard to...educators in trying to...educational reformers. Missionary schools, too, were...
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The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930

Journal article by Deborah L. Blackwell; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 73, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Education, Entire Library

...white club women to reform rural public schools, establish extension...build kindergartens in urban areas. In...like-minded women in order to create...improvements to rural schools. She also considers...influenced white womens reform efforts; though...

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Empowering Parents with School Choice Will Pave the Road for Educational Reform in Public Schools

Magazine article by Philip Vassallo; Insight on the News, Vol. 16, November 27, 2000

Subjects:

Parents--Conduct of life, School, Choice of--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Road for Educational Reform in Public Schools by Philip Vassallo...activities, volunteer more in their childrens schools, communicate more with...have to improve their schools through the healthy...competition that would evolve in a choice system. More...
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The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China

Magazine article by William Hinton; Monthly Review, Vol. 50, July 1998

Subjects:

Agriculture--Social aspects, China, Food industry--Social aspects, Land reform--China, Reconstruction (1914-1939)

Collections: Entire Library

...standard - political, economic, social, or cultural, land reform in China must be judged an outstanding success. The goal...Stevens asked: How can republican institutions, free schools, free churches, free social intercourse, exist in a mingled...
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Seeking a Higher Intelligence; Will Congress Push for Real Reform in the CIA and FBI

Magazine article by Laura Rozen; The American Prospect, Vol. 13, July 1, 2002

Subjects:

Administrative agencies--Management, Covert operations--Management, Political reform--Planning, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Management, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...Congress push for real reform in the CIA and FBI...in U.S. aviation schools last July, members...lack of new blood in the agencies...toward serious reform are going to do...needs to be on real reform. The two agencies...find a way to work in concert--and to...
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Old Traps, New Twists: Why Welfare Is So Hard to Reform in 1994

Magazine article by Kent Weaver; Brookings Review, Vol. 12, Summer 1994

Subjects:

United States--Social policy, Welfare reform--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...financially strapped states lack the resources to make them work well. The American experience in running programs ranging from mental hospitals to reform schools to foster care suggests that such "orphanages" would more closely resemble Bleak House than...
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Divide and Conquer: How Breaking Up Big High Schools Can Be the Key to Successful Education Reform

Magazine article by Thomas Toch; Washington Monthly, Vol. 35, May 2003

Subjects:

Educational reform, High schools--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...education reform. by...HIGH SCHOOLS DONT PRODUCE...headlines in the national...among school reformers who argue...excellence in Americas high schools and breaking...Essential Schools, a national school reform network, in 1992 sought...

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Blair Jumps on Jamie's Dinners Bandwagon; School Food Reform in 'Children's Charter'

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 21, 2005

Subjects:

Oliver, Jamie

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Bandwagon; School Food Reform in Childrens Charter...children. A promise that schools inspectors will publish...on the quality of meals in schools will be at the heart of...on the quality of meals in schools and highlight those with...
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Leave No Child Behind; Capitalist Reform in Education

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 27, 2004

Subjects:

Friedman, Milton

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Capitalist Reform in Education...bravely tag public schools as "government...publishes School Reform News and heads...monopolization of schools and so revitalize...voucher concept in an article and...sex education in government schools. Mr. Walberg...
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Gays: The Great Debate - Section 28: Hands off Our Schools; Head Attacks Gay Propaganda the Moral Well-Being of Our Children Has Become the Debating Ground of Peers, Politicians and Teachers over Controversial Plans to Change the Law Governing the Promotion of Homosexuality in Schools. Mail Education Correspondent TONY COLLINS Examines the Issues and Speaks to People at the Cutting Edge of the Controversy

Newspaper article by Tony Collins; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), February 9, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ready to flood into schools if section 28 is...repeal section 28 in the Lords. Ministers...upper hand and the reform would be dead in...place a legal duty on schools to promote marriage...option is to bring in rules prohibiting...is not reached the reform will probably be...
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Bills Aim to Dilute SOL Role in Schools

Newspaper article by Vaishali Honawar; The Washington Times, January 19, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...accreditation. If that requirement were currently in place, only 22 percent of the states schools would be fully accredited. Critics of the SOLs...000-member group Parents Across Virginia United to Reform SOLs. Delegate Phillip A. Hamilton, Newport...
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Should a Referendum Be Held on EU Treaty? the Debate Support for a Vote on Reform in Europe Is Growing. Liza Williams Reports

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 9, 2007

Subjects:

Brown, Gordon (British politician)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ministers Thatcher, Major and Blair. The Reform Treaty confirms we will continue to control...pick and choose when it wants to take part in EU co-operation on policing and criminal...immigration, and public services like schools and hospitals. More and more decisions...

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Barnard, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...better supervision of the common schools. Horace Mann had carried through a similar reform in Massachusetts in 1837, and the two men became leaders in the movement to reform the common schools of the country. Barnard was...
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Cluniac Order

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and through provincial synods were thus able to spread reform in church life throughout Europe. Churches were built, the liturgy was beautified, and schools were opened. Cluny stoutly supported the popes (and was...
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Chang Chih-Tung

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...provs. (1889 1907). In that position he...academies, and schools of mining, agriculture...encouraged the early reform movement between...technical knowledge. In the end, however...the Hundred Days Reform (1898), convinced...and Educational Reform in China (1971...
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Burton, Harold Hitz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...31) in the Ohio state assembly and as a reform mayor (1935 40) of Cleveland. As U.S. Senator...vigorously pressed for U.S. participation in the United Nations. Appointed by President...decisions overturning racial segregation in schools and public transportation...
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Roman Catholic Church

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...nonparish activities, and schools; they frequently...four to six years) in seminaries maintained...movement spread to reform Christian life (see...seeking some social reform. In some countries Catholic...initiated broad reforms in the areas of public...

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