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Author : Heather Rose
Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN 13 : 9781582130774
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book High Expectations, Modest Means written by Heather Rose and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefan Vogenauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509910700
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book General Principles of Law written by Stefan Vogenauer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining general principles of law provides one of the most instructive examples of the intersection between EU law and comparative law. This collection draws on the expertise of high-profile and distinguished scholars to provide a critical examination of this interaction. It shows how general principles of EU law need to be responsive to national laws. In addition, it is clear that the laws of the Member States have no choice but to be responsive to the general principles which are developed through EU law. Viewed through the perspective of proportionality, legal certainty, and fundamental rights, the dynamic relationship between the ingenuity of the Court of Justice, the legislative process and the process of Treaty revision is comprehensively illustrated.
Author : Peter Schrag
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931823
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book California written by Peter Schrag and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Schrag takes on the big issues—immigration, globalization, and the impact of California’s politics on its quality of life—in this dynamic account of the Golden State’s struggle to recapture the American dream. In the past half-century, California has been both model and anti-model for the nation and often the world, first in its high level of government and public services—schools, universities, highways—more lately for its dysfunctional government, deteriorating services, and sometimes regressive public policies. Schrag’s incisive analysis of the state’s political, demographic, and fiscal realities vividly demonstrates that it has been struggling with a range of problems for a generation. The author deftly shows that California’s ability to forge its culturally and ethnically diverse population into a successful democracy will be of crucial importance not only to America, but to the world. He also explains how many current "solutions" exacerbate the very problems they're supposed to solve and analyzes a variety of possible state and federal policy alternatives to restore accountable government and a vital democracy to the nation's largest state and world's fifth largest economy. Among the issues that Schrag tackles: * The impact of Latino and Asian immigration and the emergence of California as the first large majority minority state * The globalization of California’s economy and culture * The growing reliance of voters on the initiative, referendum, and recall processes * The increasing instability of elected government * California as cultural avant-garde, from hippies to gay marriage
Author : Helen F. Ladd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135863881
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy written by Helen F. Ladd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), this groundbreaking new handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, thereby helping to define this evolving field of research and practice. It provides a readily available resource for anyone seriously involved in education finance and policy in the United States and around the world. The Handbook traces the evolution of the field from its initial focus on school inputs and the revenue sources used to finance these inputs to a focus on educational outcomes and the larger policies used to achieve them. It shows how the current decision-making context in school finance inevitably interacts with those of governance, accountability, equity, privatization, and other areas of education policy. Because a full understanding of the important contemporary issues requires input from a variety of perspectives, the Handbook draws on contributors from a variety of disciplines. While many of the chapters cover complex state-of-the-art empirical research, the authors explain key concepts in language that non-specialists can understand.
Author : Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461645220
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Power of Community written by Concha Delgado-Gaitan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, Concha Delgado-Gaitan began literacy research in Carpinteria, California. At that time, Mexican immigrants who labored in nurseries, factories, and housekeeping, had almost no voice in how their children were educated. Committed to participative research, Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community. Regular community gatherings gave birth to the Comité de Padres Latinos. Refusing the role of the victim, the Comité paticipants organized to reach out to everyone in the community, not just other Latino families. Bound by their language, cultural history, hard work, respect, pain, and hope, they created possibilities that supported the learning of Latino students, who until then had too often dropped out or shown scant interest in school. In a society that accentuates individualism and independence, these men and women look to their community for leadership, support, and resources for children. The Power of Community is a critical work that shows how communities that pull together and offer caring ears, eyes, and hands, can ensure that their children thrive—academically, socially, and personally. It offers a fresh approach and workable solution to the problems that face schools today.
Author : Jo Storm
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1554903017
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Frak You! written by Jo Storm and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the life of the series'from the1970s original, through theinternet "webisodes," andup tothe end of thecurrent series' third season'this guideis the ultimate resource forBattlestar Galactica. Featuring an interview with producer Ron Moore a
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Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book At Issue written by and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 196? with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garrett Delavan
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592138950
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Teacher's Attention written by Garrett Delavan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Teacher’s Attention is a fresh take on relationships in schools. Looking beyond our obsession with raising test scores, this book recognizes that education is a key partner in raising children. Garrett Delavan contends that allowing students, educators and parents to navigate a smaller number of relationships—a concept he calls "relationship load"—provides many benefits, including a better chance at achieving equal access to a good education for all children. Delavan shows how class size, school size, and longer-term student-teacher relationships are all equally critical components for educating our children ethically and successfully. After examining these proposed reforms in detail, Delavan also considers counterarguments and provides a detailed projection of costs and savings, putting to rest the assumption that smaller classes and smaller schools are necessarily more expensive. Finally, the book discusses possible steps toward implementation, showing how the author's proposed reforms are remarkably practical.
Author : Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351236962
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Protean Literacy written by Concha Delgado-Gaitan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996. During the author's decade of critical ethnography in Carpinteria, California, she has illuminated the intricate relationships between Latino families as together they build a sociopolitical community to bridge family and school alliances. How they extend their learning from the social networks to the family arena and to the personal, and in reverse, represents their protean responses to the diversity and adversity in their lives. This life-story captures the collective and individual texts of the Latino children, their parents and educators used to empower themselves to transform discontinuity in an age where continuity is increasingly foreign.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1995 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Grant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674264037
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Hope and Despair in the American City written by Gerald Grant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 verdict in Milliken v. Bradley, thereby blocking the state of Michigan from merging the Detroit public school system with those of the surrounding suburbs. This decision effectively walled off underprivileged students in many American cities, condemning them to a system of racial and class segregation and destroying their chances of obtaining a decent education.In Hope and Despair in the American City, Gerald Grant compares two cities—his hometown of Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina—in order to examine the consequences of the nation’s ongoing educational inequities. The school system in Syracuse is a slough of despair, the one in Raleigh a beacon of hope. Grant argues that the chief reason for Raleigh’s educational success is the integration by social class that occurred when the city voluntarily merged with the surrounding suburbs in 1976 to create the Wake County Public School System. By contrast, the primary cause of Syracuse’s decline has been the growing class and racial segregation of its metropolitan schools, which has left the city mired in poverty.Hope and Despair in the American City is a compelling study of urban social policy that combines field research and historical narrative in lucid and engaging prose. The result is an ambitious portrait—sometimes disturbing, often inspiring—of two cities that exemplify our nation’s greatest educational challenges, as well as a passionate exploration of the potential for school reform that exists for our urban schools today.
Author : Joe Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268520
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book California Crackup written by Joe Mathews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "California Crackup is brilliant. It cuts through the familiar tangle of diagnoses and quick-fix solutions to provide a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of California's dysfunctional governmental system. Paul and Mathews have coolly laid out a complicated story, made it readable, sometimes even comedic. It is the best discussion of the issue I've seen in over three decades."--Peter Schrag, author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment "I know of no other work that combines so succinctly and enjoyably a historical summary of California's existing problems with such a sweeping and provocative program of reform."--Ethan Rarick, University of California, Berkeley "Mark Paul and Joe Mathews have produced an indispensable guide to California's crisis of governance--and they have done so with humor, scholarship, fairness and storytelling verve. Every Californian should read this book."--Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars "Mark Paul... has a talent for presenting California Big Think stuff in an easily accessible and always readable way...[offering] clear and creative insights on the subject of California's collapse."--CalBuzz "Joe Mathews has done an artful, fascinating, and convincing job of connecting the California of today's Schwarzenegger era to the long history that made his rise possible.--James Fallows,The Atlantic Monthly on Mathews' book, The People's Machine
Author : Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385688962
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book A Great Country written by Shilpi Somaya Gowda and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police. Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested. The fallout from that event will shake each family member's perception of themselves as individuals, as community members, as Americans, and will lead each to consider: how do we define success? At what cost comes ambition? And what is our role and responsibility in the cultural mosaic of modern America? For readers of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, A Great Country explores themes of immigration, generational conflict, social class and privilege as it reconsiders the myth of the model minority and questions the price of the American dream.
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Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book At Issue: School Finance Reform written by and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Yinger
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811201625
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Poverty And Proficiency: The Cost Of And Demand For Local Public Education (A Textbook In Education Finance) written by John Yinger and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers a wide range of topics in education finance. It is designed to introduce the literature on education finance to scholars and prospective scholars and can be used as a textbook for a graduate-level education finance class. The topics in the book include the incidence of the property tax as a source of revenue for elementary and secondary education, how much more it costs to reach a state's education targets in a high-poverty school district than in a rich district, the design of state education aid programs, the impact of school quality on house values, the cost implications of school district consolidations, and the impact of state aid on school infrastructure.
Author : Morgan Polikoff
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 9781682536124
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Beyond Standards written by Morgan Polikoff and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Standards highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence. Morgan Polikoff applies a wide array of quantitative and qualitative data to provide a pointed critique of the US educational system. He addresses why standards have failed, whether standards-based reform can be salvaged, and what we can do to improve teaching and learning at scale across America's 13,000 school districts. Polikoff argues that no amount of tinkering can fix standards. Rather, we need to tackle the big, structural issues, such as decentralization. The author identifies curriculum reform as a high-leverage strategy for making meaningful progress at scale and emphasizes that states need to play a greater role in evaluating and recommending high-quality curriculum materials. Beyond Standards proposes a new, progressive vision that emphasizes the central role of states in challenging the antiquated, segregating structures that have thwarted educational improvement.
Author : Mary C. Waters
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950186
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Coming of Age in America written by Mary C. Waters and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places—New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota—to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives.
