A Decade of Reform
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0889368155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decade of Reform: Science and technology policy in China
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0889368155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decade of Reform: Science and technology policy in China
Author: Jeff GROGGER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0674037960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-07-31
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 0743203267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.
Author: Alexander Llewellyn
Publisher: Newton Abbot : David & Charles
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a clear and lively account of an endlessly interesting period of English history. It was outstandingly a decade of legal reforms, of lawmaking of a new order: the first Parliamentary Reform Act was passed, the Poor Law was revised, local government in the towns was reformed, slavery was abolished, the established Church was reshaped and the first steps were taken towards publicly financed primary education. This book deals with the movement of opinion behind these reforms-- Benthamite "Philosophical Radicalism," Hodgskin and the Pre-Marxian Socialists, the Tory Radicals of the north and the Evangelical philanthropists. -- Provided by publisher.
Author: Diane L. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1134125488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade. The World Bank is viewed as one of the most powerful international organizations of our time. The authors critically analyze the influence of the institution’s policy and engagement during the past decade in a variety of issue areas, including human rights, domestic reform, and the environment. The World Bank and Governance delves into the bowels of the World Bank, exploring its organizational structure, professional culture and bureaucratic procedures, illustrating how these shape its engagement with an increasingly complex, diverse and challenging operational environment. The book includes chapters on two under-researched divisions of the World Bank: the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Several illuminating country studies are also included, analyzing the World Bank's activities in Argentina, Bolivia, Lebanon, Hungary and Vietnam. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, development, politics and economics.
Author: Federico Sturzenegger
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780262194006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Federico Sturzenegger and Mariano Tommasi propose formal models to answer some of the questions raised by the recent reform experience of many Latin American and eastern European countries.
Author: Michael Y. M. Kau
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781563242786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The product of an international academic conference held at Brown U. in November 1987, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the nature, pattern, and trend of Deng Xiaoping's far-reaching developmental reforms in the decade following the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in December 1978. The volume, like the conference, is in two parts. In the first, 12 research papers are presented by Western scholars, each followed by comments from two or three participants. In the second part, a senior government official from Beijing outlines the reforms of the post-Mao period, followed by assessments of the policy implications of the reforms by officials from Tokyo, Moscow, and Washington. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: John Merrow
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1620972433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America’s misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America’s obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being “addicted to reform” but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including “Measure What Matters,” and “Embrace Teachers”—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a “big book” that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Author: Alexander Llewellyn
Publisher:
Published: 1972-03-01
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780312189709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Berends
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2002-04-03
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0833032240
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →About a decade ago, New American Schools (NAS) set out to address theperceived lagging performance of American students and the lacklusterresults of school reform efforts. As a private nonprofit organization,NAS's mission was-and is-to help schools and districts raise studentachievement levels by using whole-school designs and design team assistanceduring implementation. Since its inception, NAS has engaged in adevelopment phase (1992-1993), a demonstration phase (1993-1995), and ascale-up phase (1995-present). Over the last ten years, RAND has been monitoring the progress of the NASinitiative. This book is a retrospective on NAS and draws together thefindings from RAND research. The book underscores the significantcontributions made by NAS to comprehensive school reform but also highlightsthe challenges of trying to reform schools through whole-school designs.Divided into sections on each research phase, the book concludes with anafterword by NAS updating its own strategy for the future. This book willinterest those who want to better understand comprehensive school reform andits effects on teaching and learning within high-stakes accountabilityenvironments.