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Author : Brown University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book The Charter of Brown University, Granted 1764 written by Brown University and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sylvia Brown
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480844187
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Grappling with Legacy written by Sylvia Brown and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island. Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to her for it. Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, former President of Brown University A splendid work of history---an honest, clearly written, and solidly based account of the private and public lives through four centuries of one of Americas most important and fascinating families. Gordon Wood, Pulitzer Prize for History, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University What fuels a familys compulsion for philanthropy? Self-interest? A feeling of guilt? A sense of genuine altruism? Charitable giving is such an intrinsic part of American culture that its story deserves to be told, not in a dry, academic tome but through the tale of a colorful, multifaceted family. Since 1638, the Browns of Rhode Island have provided community leaders in one of the nations most idiosyncratic states. In the 18th century, they excelled at maritime commerce, were pioneers of the American industrial revolution, and adorned their hometown of Providence with public buildings, churches, and a university. In the 19th century, they pioneered the modern notion that universities can be forces for social good. And, in the 20th century, they sought to transform the human experience through great art and architecture. Over three hundred years, the Browns also wrestled with societys toughest issuesslavery, immigration, child labor, the dispossessedand with their own internal family tensions. Author Sylvia Brown tells the story of the ten generations of Browns that came before her with warmth and lucidity. Today, in an era of wealth creation and philanthropic innovation not seen since the Gilded Age, Grappling with Legacy provides fascinating insights into a unique aspect of Americas heritage.
Author : Emily Oster
Publisher : Souvenir Press
ISBN 13 : 1782837361
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Family Firm written by Emily Oster and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Chart a child's path with less stress and more optimization for healthy habits and future success' Time From age 5 to 12, parenting decisions get more complicated and have lasting consequences. What's the right kind of school? Should they play a sport? When's the right time for a phone? Making these decisions is less about finding the specific answer and more about taking the right approach. Along with these bigger questions, Oster investigates how to navigate the complexity of day-to-day family logistics. The Family Firm is a smart and winning guide to how to think more clearly - and with less ambient stress - about the key decisions of these early years.
Author : Douglas N. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669478X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Charter School City written by Douglas N. Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthinkable experiment—eliminating the traditional public education system and completely replacing it with charter schools and school choice. Fifteen years later, the results have been remarkable, and the complex lessons learned should alter the way we think about American education. New Orleans became the first US city ever to adopt a school system based on the principles of markets and economics. When the state took over all of the city’s public schools, it turned them over to non-profit charter school managers accountable under performance-based contracts. Students were no longer obligated to attend a specific school based upon their address, allowing families to act like consumers and choose schools in any neighborhood. The teacher union contract, tenure, and certification rules were eliminated, giving schools autonomy and control to hire and fire as they pleased. In Charter School City, Douglas N. Harris provides an inside look at how and why these reform decisions were made and offers many surprising findings from one of the most extensive and rigorous evaluations of a district school reform ever conducted. Through close examination of the results, Harris finds that this unprecedented experiment was a noteworthy success on almost every measurable student outcome. But, as Harris shows, New Orleans was uniquely situated for these reforms to work well and that this market-based reform still required some specific and active roles for government. Letting free markets rule on their own without government involvement will not generate the kinds of changes their advocates suggest. Combining the evidence from New Orleans with that from other cities, Harris draws out the broader lessons of this unprecedented reform effort. At a time when charter school debates are more based on ideology than data, this book is a powerful, evidence-based, and in-depth look at how we can rethink the roles for governments, markets, and nonprofit organizations in education to ensure that America’s schools fulfill their potential for all students.
Author : Reuben Aldridge Guild
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Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Brown University written by Reuben Aldridge Guild and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Cochrane Bronson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Brown University, 1764-1914 written by Walter Cochrane Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Cochrane Bronson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Brown University, 1714-1914 written by Walter Cochrane Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brown University
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Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historical Catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1914 written by Brown University and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brown University
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Total Pages : 800 pages
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Download or read book Historical Catalogue of Brown University written by Brown University and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557094640
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book A Key Into the Language of America written by Roger Williams and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
Author : Eric Rofes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484327
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools written by Eric Rofes and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens up a critical conversation among progressive educators of various generations, races, perspectives, and social locations concerning one specific school reform initiative—charter schools. Eric Rofes and Lisa M. Stulberg bring together scholars who both study and actively participate in school choice reform and charge them to be "bold in their questioning and assertive in their own ambivalence" about this complex, controversial public issue and to include issues that are underexamined in the school literature, such as the impact of school choice on race and class politics and inequalities. The editors argue that charter schools are playing a powerful role in reviving participation in public education, expanding opportunities for progressive methods in public school classrooms, and generating new energy for community-based, community-controlled school initiatives. The result is a groundbreaking volume that pushes boundaries, questions assumptions, and rocks foundations of progressive thought.
Author : Brown University
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Brown University written by Brown University and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Marginson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292847
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Dream Is Over written by Simon Marginson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed?
Author : Howell S. Baum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080145834X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book "Brown" in Baltimore written by Howell S. Baum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore's school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice and, despite the limited desegregation, continued to support the policy and never sued the board to do anything else. Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to explaining how this happened. Myrdal observed that many whites believed in equality in the abstract but considered blacks inferior and treated them unequally. School officials were classical liberals who saw the world in terms of individuals, not races. They adopted a desegregation policy that explicitly ignored students' race and asserted that all students were equal in freedom to choose schools, while their policy let whites who disliked blacks avoid integration. School officials' liberal thinking hindered them from understanding or talking about the city's history of racial segregation, continuing barriers to desegregation, and realistic change strategies. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore's distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city's history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans' preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue.
Author : Brown University
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the President to the Corporation of Brown University written by Brown University and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derrick Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198038550
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Silent Covenants written by Derrick Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down in 1954, many civil rights advocates believed that the decision, which declared public school segregation unconstitutional, would become the Holy Grail of racial justice. Fifty years later, despite its legal irrelevance and the racially separate and educationally ineffective state of public schooling for most black children, Brown is still viewed by many as the perfect precedent. Here, Derrick Bell shatters the shining image of this celebrated ruling. He notes that, despite the onerous burdens of segregation, many black schools functioned well and racial bigotry had not rendered blacks a damaged race. He maintains that, given what we now know about the pervasive nature of racism, the Court should have determined instead to rigorously enforce the "equal" component of the "separate but equal" standard. Racial policy, Bell maintains, is made through silent covenants--unspoken convergences of interest and involuntary sacrifices of rights--that ensure that policies conform to priorities set by policy-makers. Blacks and whites are the fortuitous winners or losers in these unspoken agreements. The experience with Brown, Bell urges, should teach us that meaningful progress in the quest for racial justice requires more than the assertion of harms. Strategies must recognize and utilize the interest-convergence factors that strongly influence racial policy decisions. In Silent Covenants, Bell condenses more than four decades of thought and action into a powerful and eye-opening book.
Author : Brown University. Library
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Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University written by Brown University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
