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The Breakdown of Hierarchy

The Breakdown of Hierarchy

Autor: Eugene Marlow , Patricia O' Connor Wilson , Helen Marlow

Número de Páginas: 195

The Breakdown of Hierarchy explores the changes that have taken place in the second half of the 20th century and how organizations of all sizes can harness electronic media to open the lines of dialogue and corporate conversation. Never before published case studies of Honeywell, Motorola and Raychem are discussed. Eugene Marlow has been involved with the strategic application of print and electronic media for over 25 years. He has consulted to dozens of organizations in the media, technology, healthcare, consumer products, and non-profit sectors. Dr. Marlow teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in electronic journalism and business communications at Bernard M. Baruch College (City University of New York). Patricia O'Connor Wilson works for the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), an international non-profit educational institution devoted to behavioral science research, executive development, and leadership education. Based in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Center also has educational facilities and network associates throughout the world. Ms. Wilson has also conducted research in the areas of managerial effectiveness, self-efficacy and entrepreneurialism.

Social Program Implementation

Social Program Implementation

Autor: Walter Williams , Richard F. Elmore

Número de Páginas: 318

Quantitative Studies in Social Relations: Social Program Implementation provides information pertinent to implementation problems in social policy areas. This book discusses the greatest difficulty in devising better social programs. Organized into five parts encompassing 12 chapters, this book begins with an overview of implementation problems in federally funded programs. This text then focuses on the social agency where the many bureaucratic problems in multilayered structure clearly illustrate crucial implementation issues. Other chapters consider the structure and incentive systems of public schools as they relate to the adoption of innovations and to their implementation in the schools. This book discusses as well the idea of planned variation from the perspective of a model sponsor. The final chapter deals with crucial impediment to improving complex operating programs, policy analysis, and experimentation in social policy areas. This book is a valuable resource for policy planners, administrators, and analysts. Researchers engaged in social policy studies will also find this book useful.

The Impact of Family Background and Intelligence on Tenth-grade Boys

The Impact of Family Background and Intelligence on Tenth-grade Boys

Autor: Jerald G. Bachman

Número de Páginas: 318
Shaping the Preschool Agenda

Shaping the Preschool Agenda

Autor: Anne Mcgill-franzen

Número de Páginas: 244

Making all children “ready to learn” is the first, and probably the most important, national education goal for the year 2000. What does it mean for children to be “ready to learn?” This book is about the beliefs of the people who are shaping preschool policy. McGill-Franzen tells us what key decision-makers are thinking about preschool education — what counts as school, who should pay for it, what should be taught, and especially, whether there should be reading and writing programs for four-year-olds. This book also explores the history of these beliefs. The author locates contemporary early childhood concepts about “developmental appropriateness” in the ideas of physicians and psychologists of the 1920s, 1930s, and in even earlier periods of time. She believes that these ideas no longer work within the broader framework of literacy as embedded in the interactions of cultures children know and the lives they live.

Understanding the HighScope Approach

Understanding the HighScope Approach

Autor: Monica Wiltshire

Número de Páginas: 165

Understanding the HighScope Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the HighScope Approach. It will enable the reader to analyse the essential elements of the HighScope Approach to early childhood and its relationship to quality early years practice. Exploring all areas of the curriculum including the learning environment, plan-do-review, adult child interaction and assessment this book: describes the key principles of the HighScope approach to early childhood with examples from HighScope settings; provides students and practitioners with the relevant information about a key pedagogical influence on high quality early years practice in the United Kingdom; highlights the key ideas that practitioners should consider when reviewing and reflecting on their own practice; can be used as the basis for continuing professional development and action research Written to support the work of all those in the field of early years education and childcare, this is a vital text for students, early years and childcare practitioners, teachers, early years professionals, children’s centre professionals, lecturers, advisory...

Foresight Hearings on Future Trends in Elementary and Secondary Education

Foresight Hearings on Future Trends in Elementary and Secondary Education

Autor: United States. Congress. House. Committee On Education And Labor. Subcommittee On Elementary, Secondary, And Vocational Education

Número de Páginas: 224
Do Prisons Make Us Safer?

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?

Autor: Steven Raphael , Michael A. Stoll

Número de Páginas: 365

The number of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails more than quadrupled between 1975 and 2005, reaching the unprecedented level of over two million inmates today. Annual corrections spending now exceeds 64 billion dollars, and many of the social and economic burdens resulting from mass incarceration fall disproportionately on minority communities. Yet crime rates across the country have also dropped considerably during this time period. In Do Prisons Make Us Safer? leading experts systematically examine the complex repercussions of the massive surge in our nation's prison system. Do Prisons Make Us Safer? asks whether it makes sense to maintain such a large and costly prison system. The contributors expand the scope of previous analyses to include a number of underexplored dimensions, such as the fiscal impact on states, effects on children, and employment prospects for former inmates. Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll assess the reasons behind the explosion in incarceration rates and find that criminal behavior itself accounts for only a small fraction of the prison boom. Eighty-five percent of the trend can be attributed to "get tough on crime" policies that have...

Data Compression in Digital Systems

Data Compression in Digital Systems

Autor: Roy Hoffman

Número de Páginas: 424

Data compression is now indispensable to products and services of many industries including computers, communications, healthcare, publishing and entertainment. This invaluable resource introduces this area to information system managers and others who need to understand how it is changing the world of digital systems. For those who know the technology well, it reveals what happens when data compression is used in real-world applications and provides guidance for future technology development.

Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names

Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names

Autor: Alfred J. Kolatch

Número de Páginas: 524

Modern English and Hebrew names with an analysis of their meanings and origins.

The Upswing

The Upswing

Autor: Robert D. Putnam

Número de Páginas: 480

From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger more unified nation. Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism—Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But we’ve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However as the twentieth century opened, America became—slowly, unevenly, but steadily—more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s...

Early Intervention and the Integration of Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Children

Early Intervention and the Integration of Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Children

Autor: Michael J. Guralnick

Número de Páginas: 328
The Ancestors of Claude Rankin Moser

The Ancestors of Claude Rankin Moser

Autor: James Beddingfield , Mary Moser Beddingfield

Número de Páginas: 494

Claude Rankin Moser was born in North Carolina in 1898. He married Bland Moser and they had seven children. Although he worked through out the south, he always considered North Carolina home. Material on his paternal family lines back to Leonard Moser who came to America from Germany about 1732 is given in this volume. Additional data on more current members of his family is also included. Today descendants live in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and elsewhere.

Computer Connections for Gifted Children and Youth

Computer Connections for Gifted Children and Youth

Autor: Jean N. Nazzaro

Número de Páginas: 100

Written by computer specialists, teachers, parents, and students, the 23 articles emphasize the role computers play in the development of thinking, problem solving, and creativity in gifted and talented students. Articles have the following titles and authors: "Computers and Computer Cultures" (S. Papert); "Classroom Computers--Beyond the 3 R's" (F. Bell); "Reflections of a Computer Language Nut" (S. Bloch); "It Started with Games" (C. Karnes); "Two Programs from a Young Eighth Grader" (S. Bahcall, H. Nelson); "Teaching Parents About Using Microcomputers" (T. Dwyer, M. Critchfield); "Children and Home Computers--Some Observations on the First Generation" (B. Banet); "An Apple a Day Keeps a Kid Occupied" (R. Buszta); "Microcomputers for Gifted Microtots" (A. Doorly); "Kids and Computers--The Future Is Today" (S. Larsen); "Micros 'GOTO' School" (D. Piele); "The Hampton City Schools Computer Program" (N. Harkavy); "The Paducah Tilghman High School for Gifted Students" (S. Davis, P. Frothingham); "Computers...Are All Dinosaurs Dead?" (D. Glover); "The Talcott Mountain Science Center" (D. Barstow); "Computeronics--A Course in Computer Literacy" (P. Bird); "Bringing Microcomputers into...

Educating Young Children

Educating Young Children

Autor: Mary Hohmann , David P. Weikart

Número de Páginas: 564

Divided into three parts, this book reviews the basic concepts of the High/Scope preschool curriculum and its development, implementation, and effectiveness. The introduction offers a retrospective of the program's history, describes the five basic principles that form the framework of the approach, and discusses some of the reasons for its effectiveness. Part 1 analyzes the core idea in the development of the High/Scope curriculum--active learning. The concept of active learning is discussed in several contexts: as an essential ingredient for learning, as a basis for how adults can create a supportive social climate, and as a foundation for working with the families or working as a team to make the active learning process effective in a particular setting with a particular group of children. Part 2 discusses methods for creating an environment that promotes active learning. It suggests selecting and arranging materials from which children can choose, and manipulating and developing the daily routine so children have many opportunities to initiate, plan, carry out, and discuss their actions and ideas. Part 3 introduces 58 key experiences that can guide adults while they plan...

Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000

Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000

Autor: Pat Kirkham

Número de Páginas: 469

A celebration of the many contributions of women designers to 20th-century American culture. Encompassing work in fields ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, it features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll and Donna Karan) and their less well-known sisters.

Early Childhood Curriculum

Early Childhood Curriculum

Autor: Sue Clark Wortham

Número de Páginas: 520

Appropriate for undergraduate courses on curriculum methods in early childhood and primary grade education. This text uses the most current interpretations and applications of classic theories as a basis for understanding how to develop early childhood curriculum and instruction for children ages 0-8. The author stresses the need for readers to understand the foundations of their programs prior to developing and using quality curriculum and teaching. Known for its solid theoretical focus and child-centered approach, it serves as a specific guide to implement a quality program in early childhood classrooms.

Social Programs that Work

Social Programs that Work

Autor: Jonathan Crane

Número de Páginas: 337

Many Americans seem convinced that government programs designed to help the poor have failed. Social Programs That Work shows that this is not true. Many programs have demonstrably improved the lives of people trapped at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. Social Programs That Work provides an in-depth look at some of the nation's best interventions over the past few decades, and considers their potential for national expansion. Examined here are programs designed to improve children's reading skills, curb juvenile delinquency and substance abuse, and move people off welfare into the workforce. Each contributor discusses the design and implementation of a particular program, and assesses how well particular goals were met. Among the critical issues addressed: Are good results permanent, or do they fade over time? Can they be replicated successfully under varied conditions? Are programs cost effective, and if so are the benefits seen immediately or only over the long term? How can public support be garnered for a large upfront investment whose returns may not be apparent for years? Some programs discussed in this volume were implemented only on a small, experimental...

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