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The Boston Renaissance

Author : Barry Bluestone
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610440714
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Renaissance written by Barry Bluestone and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries. Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality

The Boston Renaissance

Author : Barry Bluestone
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780871541253
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Renaissance written by Barry Bluestone and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2000-06-29 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a large-scale survey of households and employers in the Atlanta region, the authors show how labor market disadvantage, residential segregation, and ingrained racial antipathies reinforce one another to hold back many minority residents. African American workers have done better in Atlanta's booming job market than elsewhere in the country, but they continue to lose ground to white Atlantans.

Overview of Charter Schools

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overview of Charter Schools written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning from School Choice

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815791638
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Learning from School Choice written by Paul E. Peterson and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country. This book examines the evidence from these early school choice programs and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. Paul Peterson makes a strong case for school choice in central cities, and coeditor Bryan Hassel offers the case for charter schools. John E. Brandl offers his vision of school governance in the next century. The book's other contributors--economists, political scientists, and education specialists--provide case studies of the experience with voucher programs in Indianapolis, San Antonio, Cleveland, and Milwaukee; survey charter schools; analyze public school choice; discuss constitutional issues; and study the effects of private education on democratic values. Contributors include David J. Armor, George Mason University; Chester E. Finn Jr. and Bruno V. Manno, Hudson Institute; Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University; Brett M. Peiser, Partnerships in Learning; and Joseph P. Viteritti, New York University.

Struggles for Equal Voice

Author : Yuya Kiuchi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143844480X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Struggles for Equal Voice written by Yuya Kiuchi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous scholarship on African Americans and the media has largely focused on issues such as stereotypes and program content, Struggles for Equal Voice reveals how African Americans have utilized access to cable television production and viewership as a significant step toward achieving empowerment during the post–Civil Rights and Black Power era. In this pioneering study of two metropolitan districts—Boston and Detroit—Yuya Kiuchi paints a rich and fascinating historical account of African Americans working with municipal offices, local politicians, cable service providers, and other interested parties to realize fair African American representation and media ownership. Their success provides a useful lesson of community organizing, image production, education, and grassroots political action that remains relevant and applicable even today.

The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader

Author : Shawn Anthony Christian
Publisher : Studies in Print Culture and t
ISBN 13 : 9781625342010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader written by Shawn Anthony Christian and published by Studies in Print Culture and t. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. The New Negro is reading -- Creating critical frameworks: three models for the New Negro Reader -- In search of Black writers (and readers): Crisis's and Opportunity's literary contests -- Beyond the New Negro: artistry, audience, and the Harlem Renaissance literary anthology -- Pedagogy for critical readership: James Weldon Johnson's English 123 -- Epilogue. On African American writers and readers

The Edison Schools

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113593004X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Edison Schools written by Kenneth J. Saltman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time? Revealing how American McEducation went from glory to crisis, The Edison Schools tracks entrepreneur Christopher Whittle's plan to introduce a standardized nationwide curriculum and cut administrative waste. Education specialist Kenneth J. Saltman finds that the critics' predictions came true in Edison schools across the country: Experienced teachers left in droves, students were virtually given answers to standardized tests to drive up scores, and difficult students were "counselored" out.

Charter Schools in Action

Author : Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823412
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Charter Schools in Action written by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty of heat over charter schools and their implications, but, until now, not much light. This important new book supplies plenty of illumination. Charter schools--independently operated public schools of choice--have existed in the United States only since 1992, yet there are already over 1,500 of them. How are they doing? Here prominent education analysts Chester Finn, Bruno Manno, and Gregg Vanourek offer the richest data available on the successes and failures of this exciting but controversial approach to education reform. After studying one hundred schools, interviewing hundreds of participants, surveying thousands more, and analyzing the most current data, they have compiled today's most authoritative, comprehensive explanation and appraisal of the charter phenomenon. Fact-filled, clear-eyed, and hard-hitting, this is the book for anyone concerned about public education and interested in the role of charter schools in its renewal. Can charter schools boost student achievement, drive educational innovation, and develop a new model of accountability for public schools? Where did the idea of charter schools come from? What would the future hold if this phenomenon spreads? These are some of the questions that this book answers. It addresses pupil performance, enrollment patterns, school start-up problems, charges of inequity, and smoldering political battles. It features close-up looks at five real--and very different--charter schools and two school districts that have been deeply affected by the charter movement, including their setbacks and triumphs. After outlining a new model of education accountability and describing how charter schools often lead to community renewal, the authors take the reader on an imaginary tour of a charter-based school system. Charter schools are the most vibrant force in education today. This book suggests that their legacy will consist not only of helping millions of families obtain a better education for their children but also in renewing American public education itself.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465442383
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston will lead you straight to the best attractions Boston has to offer. You'll find detailed background information on the best things to do in Boston, from visiting historic Harvard University and taking one of many walking tours to watching a Boston Red Sox game. This best-selling travel guide is packed with beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all Boston's major sights, as well as 3-D aerial views of its most interesting districts. Features include the itinerary planner, Four Great Days Out in Boston, Street Finder mapping throughout, and useful transportation information. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston is fully updated and expanded with dozens of reviews for hotels in Boston, recommended restaurants, and tips for shopping, entertainment, and where to go for a beer at the end of the day. Don't miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Travel guidebook to Boston.

Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States

Author : Domenic Vitiello
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293959
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States written by Domenic Vitiello and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization. Poverty, violence, and distressed schools still make headlines, but central cities and older suburbs are attracting new residents and substantial capital investment. In most accounts, native-born empty nesters, their twentysomething children, and other educated professionals are credited as the agents of change. Yet in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States. Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States is the first book to document immigrant-led revitalization, with contributions by leading scholars across the social sciences. Offering radically new perspectives on both immigration and urban revitalization and examining how immigrants have transformed big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as well as newer destinations such as Nashville and the suburbs of Boston and New Jersey, the volume's contributors challenge traditional notions of revitalization, often looking at working-class communities. They explore the politics of immigration and neighborhood change, demolishing simplistic assumptions that dominate popular debates about immigration. They also show how immigrants have remade cities and regions in Latin America, Africa, and other places from which they come, linking urbanization in the United States and other parts of the world. Contributors: Kenneth Ginsburg, Marilynn S. Johnson, Michael B. Katz, Gary Painter, Robert J. Sampson, Gerardo Francisco Sandoval, A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, Thomas J. Sugrue, Rachel Van Tosh, Jacob L. Vigdor, Domenic Vitiello, Jamie Winders.

Beyond Words

Author : Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892850263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Words written by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, Beyond Words provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. With over 150 manuscripts on display, Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety at the McMullen Museum focuses on lay readership and the place of books in medieval society. The High Middle Ages witnessed an affirmation of the visual and, with it, empirical experience. There was an explosion of illumination. Various types of images, whether in prayer or professional books, attest to the newfound importance of visual demonstration in matters of faith and science alike."--

The Boston Raphael

Author : Belinda Rathbone
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567925405
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Raphael written by Belinda Rathbone and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of a museum director caught in a web of local and international intrigue while secretly pursuing a forgotten Renaissance painting-the Boston Raphael. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in 1969, the Boston MFA announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the painting's export from Italy, challenging the museum's ownership. Simultaneously, experts on both sides of the Atlantic lined up to debate its very authenticity. The museums charismatic director, Perry T. Rathbone, faced the most challenging crossroads of his career. The Boston Raphael was a media sensation in its time, but the full story of the forces that converged on the museum and how they intersected with the challenges of the Sixties is now revealed in full detail by the director's daughter.

The Last Days of the Renaissance

Author : Theodore K. Rabb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465008623
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of the Renaissance written by Theodore K. Rabb and published by . This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pin down. Here, for the first time, renowned classicist Theodore Rabb defines the changes that marked the shift away from the Renaissance to Modernity, and explains why these changes took place. The European Renaissance is usually characterized by the belief that a distinct antique civilization represented the ideal for all human endeavors. But there were other unities that defined the era: a shift in the role of the aristocracy from a warrior class to a cultural elite, a growth in education, a more thoughtful probing into the sciences, and the use of the arts for nonreligious purposes.By the dawn of the seventeenth century, four developments had swept over the world, altering these unities and ending the Renaissance: a break with the period's obsession with the past, which invited openness to innovation; a quest for central political control to cure increasing instability; a change in direction of people's passion and enthusiasm; and a new commitment to reason. With thoughtful, wide-lens scholarship and close, detailed looks throughout at the significant moments of change, Rabb offers us a radically new understanding of one of the most pivotal shifts in modern history.

The Boston Homegrown Cookbook

Author : Leigh Belanger
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 1610585615
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Homegrown Cookbook written by Leigh Belanger and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boston Homegrown Cookbook features mouth-watering recipes from 28 chefs and restaurants in the Boston area who subscribe to the philosophy that locally grown, sustainable foods taste best. The recipes are lavishly illustrated with colorful photos of the dishes, chefs, and local farmers who are dedicated to growing the best local foods. Featured restaurants and growers: 606 Congress, Chef Rich Garcia, Blackbird FarmBondir, Chef Jason Bond, Pete and Jen’s Backyard Birds and FarmyardClover Food Lab, Chef Rolando Rebledo, Farm Fresh Rhode Island’s Market MobileCuisine en Locale, Chef JJ Gonson, Stillman’s at the Turkey FarmEat Boston, Chef Will Gilson, The Herb LyceumErbaluce, Chef Charles Draghi, Ben’s MushroomsHamersley’s Bistro, Chef Gordon Hamersley, Blue Heron FarmHenrietta’s Table, Chef Peter Davis, Sparrow Arc FarmHungry Mother, Chef Barry Maiden, Woodbury ShellfishL’Espalier, Chef/Owner Frank McClelland, Apple Street FarmLineage, Island Creek Oyster Bar, Chef Jeremy Sewall and Pastry Chef Lisa Sewall, Island Creek OystersLumiere, Chef Michael Leviton, Frizzell Hill FarmMeritage, Boston Harbor Hotel, Chef Daniel Bruce, City GrowersNourish, Chef Karen Masterson, New England Cranberry CompanyOleana, Chef Ana Sortun, Siena FarmsParsons Table, Chef Chris Parsons, Lane’s LobsterRedd’s in Rozzie, Chef Charlie Redd, Shack FoodsRendezvous, Chef Steve Johnson, Eva’s GardenRialto, Chef Jody Adams, Captain Marden’s SeafoodRussell House Tavern, Chef Michael Scelfo, Fiore di NonnoSummer Shack, Chef Jasper White, Verrill FarmTastings Wine Bar and Bistro, Chef Matt Maue, Brambly FarmsTavolo, Chef Nuno Alves, Seafood SpecialtiesThe Gallows, Chef Seth Morrison, Snappy LobsterTen Tables, Proprietor Krista Kranyak, Allandale FarmToro and Coppa, Chef Jamie Bissonnette, Round the Bend FarmTosca, Chef Kevin Long, Weir River FarmTW Food, Chef Tim Wiechmann, Drumlin Farm

Producing Prosperity

Author : Gary P. Pisano
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422187543
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Producing Prosperity written by Gary P. Pisano and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing’s central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today’s undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow’s innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the US industrial sector. Only by reviving this “industrial commons” can the world’s largest economy build the expertise and manufacturing muscle to regain competitive advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance—for restoring itself, and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of industries and economies, and they provide business leaders with a framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research, and promote collaboration between business and academia. For executives, policymakers, academics, and innovators alike, Producing Prosperity provides the clearest and most compelling account yet of how the American economy lost its competitive edge—and how to get it back.

The Massachusetts register

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Massachusetts register written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Engaging Strangers

Author : Daniel J. Monti, Jr.
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611475929
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Strangers written by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. explores how the people of Boston have learned to practice a more congenial and respectful set of civic virtues. Monti provides a model for civic conduct for the rest of America to study and follow, showing how the cultural ideals we share and the civic-minded practices we follow in and out of the business world reflect a mix of liberal and conservative values that work for all of us.